Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 21, 2016

Incest is best!

“You Goof – Ball!” The perils of comic strip hyphenation.

Yikes!! This looks painful. Another pea-cock storyline?

Conk out? Drunk already? …or is it the strange time practice is going on? I’m confused.

A Quad certainly didn’t get his height from Mom. And is that his Mom or his wife? In some areas of the country they are one and the same, of course.

So, do we have yet another broken home in Milford? This one with the drunken Mom that A Quad has to care for. This should be another uplifting story.

No woner Mom’s ready to conk out, all day at MILFord Pen visiting Del Bader, comming home, knocking off a jumbo box of Kirkland wine with dreams of Sugerland Fairies dancin in her head……

Now that the writers of this strip agree with Mop Man, that it has indeed been BKB we’ve been watching, didn’t he also make it all happen on the football field last year? We didn’t see him out there this year. Maybe he was still recovering from all the injuries he had in his redshirt season.

In all reality , teenager taking care of an ill probably terminally ill parent . A Quad acting as the team clown to hide his sorrow .

Mom pulls 3rd shift at Milford Sprockets to make ends meet. Aaron working that Flock of Seagulls do. Ken Brown chose to forgo boarding school to complete his 13th school year year playing for a legend and to be student shower supervisor.

What year do you suppose it was the last time a high school kid made an “I Love Lucy” reference? I put the over-under line at 1996. Way to stay current, Rubin!

Aaron’s the one who should be ready to conk out. He was just up all night at a rave. Guess his mother was at work on the night shift, which is how he got away from it. As usual, no second parent.

Why is his mom/wife/maiden aunt cowering behind the door frame when he walks in the room? Who is she? Why is she exhausted? Do they own a peakcock? Do they need bread and milk? Does A-aron like the Mystic Pranks? Can Heather coach hoops? So many questions. So little interest.

“You goof-ball” “ready to conk out”… does his mom attend these raves too?

P1 – Wait a minute, so Aaaaaaron just blew off classes today? If you recall, it was a rare early morning practice. Since everyone spotted him in the gym, I smell detention and suspension from the team.

P2 – Mom is hiding something in her right hand behind the wall. Must be the vodka bottle.

P3 – Mr Reality may have already nailed it. Mom is ill and Aaaaaaaron jokes to cover up his sorrow. Besides that, I just noticed Aaaaaaaron’s jacket is covered with ants. Dammit, he must have gotten them from the gym as The Brown Starfish pointed out yesterday. Now where’s that damn pesticide barrel?

“I dunked on Ken Brown, and the guy loved it. I promised him that tomorrow I’ll block his shot so hard the ball will smash him in the face.”

Yes, there is a strong suggestion that Mrs. Aagard is incapacitated in some way. Another effort by R&W to challenge our snarking skills?

I thought practice was at 6 am. P1 shows “after practice” so it must be around 8 am. So Goofball skips classes? And Lucy is ready to conk out? Ok, she is an alcoholic or cancer patient doing chemotherapy or some other disease keeping her lethargic. So Goofball is so caring he raves all night and does not come home all night to see how mom is doing? Ok so she not sick or he could care less. Wow so many forks in this story don’t know what is going to happen. And who calls their mom by her first name? Step mom? Don’t know, don’t care.

“Goofball”….haha…several years ago, I once saws two dad coaches almost get in a fistfight during our Little League draft because one called the other an effin’ goofball….

Wow! R&W’s subtle humor appears again. Now we know why AA is in his first and last name. First game he’ll turn the ball over for taking 12 steps.

Then he’ll double dribble, twice. It will all be forgiven when he drunks the ball to win the game.

CJ is a plethora of info on Mrs. Lark. She did not discriminate. She preferred anything wet for lunch. Or breakfast or dinner. Pogo, Aaron should play close attention to Moonpie. He is the local expert on multiple dibbles and is never neat. After all,, when Holly gave him a smooch good bye, he had an immediate date with Johnnie Walker.

@bearwku: That’s funny, I thought he often had his bartender serve him “neat”.

Ooooh, maybe this story is a Marty Moon redemption piece as he sponsors “L-u-u-u-u-cy” (Did anyone notice Quad A used 4 U’s?)

Do these two by any chance run a motel? Anyone seen Anthony Perkins lurking around?