Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 08, 2016

I’m pleasantly stunned—Gil is actually coaching and counseling!

Eh, Gilfather got that out of the Big Little Book Of Baseball Coaching. (1949 edition, written by William Hilton.)

In all reality , isn’t today’s strip and it’s message what we read Gil Thorp for in the newspaper when we were kids ? Kudos to the writers .

P1, Of course it doesn’t matter to Boo. She dead.

P2, Gee coach, I never thought of it that way. Before I met Boo, I wanted to drive to Hawaii!

Tru(e) to Gil in P3, Thanks coach, I needed that. Oh and by the way, it’s the middle of July and we’ve only played 3 games. I have to leave for orientation at Wake Forest next week so I won’t be wrecking my arm here at Milford. It’s been great, really coach, but I have bigger and better things to do.

Gil, But Tru(e), I’ve treated you like I should have treated the son you never knew I had. You can’t just up and leave without one last shower!

Wow, two days in a row Yoda Gil has gone deep for us. Next he’ll break it to Tru(dat) that Tru’s dad was driving the pickup truck.

Gil’s intensity is melting the rear window of the car in P3.

With the disappearance of Keri and Jami Thorp, friends like Brent Raptor wasted their potential.

P2 – “My arm’s already wrecked, Gil. Can’t you see half of it is missing!”

P-1: Oh, the possibilities. The places I’ll go, the things that I’ll see. We’ve been studying that n AP English.P-2: Just as we’ve suspected; the Milford syle men’s/boy’s jeans have flies in the back as wellP-3: Just remember Tru: “Don’t Worry, Be happy!” (everybody sing!!)

Wrong question, True. Try this: Who was driving that pickup truck that killed Boo?

And a valuable lesson was learned by all. Storyline wrap up and one panel intro to next subject coming up Saturday?

I agree with many of you, good writing!!

Holy crap, Tru(e) is tiny! When I enter a school bus I have to duck and I fill most of the entranceway despite being slender. Based on that drawing Tru(e) must be about 5’6" and 125 pounds. Wake Forest is nuts to be giving someone that small a scholarship to play quarterback. And speaking of nuts, you’d be nuts not to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

I don’t think this storyline is over until they revisit young Master Bader. Last we saw he was locked in his room in a depressed funk. Gil needs to bring some of his coachly wisdom to him.

@JerryPulver: Yeah, like: “C’mon Barry, everyone knows you can handle it.”

@Ellisburkes: Barry’s dad just had heart surgery so he called his band Barry and the Pacemakers

@Ellisburkes: I thought it was Oscar Wilde.