Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 14, 2017

Panel 2: Friar Tuck led all scorers and gets the congrats from his team!

Wait until Gil finds out Aaron’s mom was an actuary and now is kind of, sort of an actuary. What a bombshell!

Apparently the home life of a second string centre is the key element to this team getting to the playdowns.

Once again, Big Ken Brown made nothing happen.

Sign Man should take over the printing of Jefferson’s jerseys. These things look like somebody hand wrote them with a Magic Marker.

A Quad is so invisible the Jefferson center b!tch slaps his shot away in P1.

P2, DUTCHPUPPY beat me to it.

Gil’s coaching style is more Alfred E. Neuman than Vince Lombardi.

At least the GIL mug is back.

Milford lost because Big Ken Brown made things happen for Jefferson. Now he is back talking to Gil. Know wonder these story lines are so difficult to follow!

In all reality , in one of the boldest moves of his coaching career Gil calls a Parents Meeting in which he will discuss the importance of parents giving their student athlete the proper diet ,making sure they get enough sleep and supporting them by attending their games. Unfortunately for Gil only 3 will show up.

Is BKB some sort of superhero, having dual identities? Jefferson 32 looks an awful lot like BKB’s doppelganger

Gil’s definition of worry is about as serious as PFC Gomer Pyle. Why do all the standout athletes like Cortez Beecher and BKB not play football? They must think they can get a basketball scholly playing GilPa’s ball control hoops.

So what are Dork and Dorkier going to tell Gil?

“His mom had a good paying job as an actuary, but now she’s only kind of an actuary!”

“And?”

“Isn’t that important?”

“Well it depends, mainly on WHAT THE HELL YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!”

It looks like the “I” in “TEAM” stands for A-Quad (take a few seconds to figure that out). It’s not clear why the entire team banks on him to lead them when there’s the other starters and the bench players.

P-3: See Coach, I’ve been sexting her and this is what she sent back…

P-1: I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone get stuffed by a backhand before.

I’ve heard of ‘speaking from the heart’ before but this ‘speaking from the gall bladder’ in panel three is a new one for me.

Still waiting for the BIG REVEAL to why Aaaaron’s play is only ever good all game or he sucks. It better be that he’s getting chemo treatments on Monday nights and that’s why he plays poorly on Tuesdays, but is fine on Fridays, or something like that. Otherwise I can guarantee you that it will not be realistic. Even if it’s “he’s tired from taking his mom to her MS therapy the night before some games.” (I’m still hoping to have called the mom having MS angle, despite the remote odds.) And speaking of remote odds, the odds are very remote that you’ll resist reading today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

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So he says “But this is about his mom” while making that hand motion? And Gil just smiiiiiiiles away!

The window in Gil’s office is getting larger with every appearance. He must have a 12-foot ceiling in there.

As the Milford HS Japanese exchange student would put it: “she actuary a stay home mom”.

Gil: didn’t I tell you to let me worry about it? Guys: But you’re never here, so we figured you would never know about it.