Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 28, 2017

I think we’ve established that AQuad is inconsistent, has up and down periods, good days and bad days etc etc.

Jazz hand or broken wrist?

Don’t know who that first teacher is, but he should be standing in front of an Iowa farmhouse holding a pitchfork.

Maybe Aaron has some sort of medical condition that causes him to be lethargic if he doesn’t take his very expensive medication that Mrs. AA can only afford to buy sporadically. (I guessed the medical condition long ago but not the ridiculous buying a few pills at a time angle. This strip has always been sort of a hate-read for me, but lately it’s more of an apathy-read.)

So Gil gets paid to wander the halls with his Gil mug and bother the real teachers? Nice gig if you can get it.

So is that first guy with Gil teaching Party Planning or maybe Sleep Studies. Both would be useful in A Quad’s future occupation as a rave DJ.

The gal in P3 must be teaching a magician course.

In all reality , meanwhile the undefeated Milford girls basketball team travels tonight to Central City for their showdown game against the Central City Lady Commandos . The game has been moved to the Central City Olympia Arena to accommodate the expected standing room crowd. Tip at 7 Pm.

Gill’s next stop is to go to the Boo Radley Memorial Library and boot up the Dewey Decimal System and scour the My Little Pony series on how to deal with jumbo moody teenagers. Also, it’s obvious to all that Gil is freaken out about the impending playdowns which commence in the next 2 days!

WHY DON’T YOU ASK 4A WHY HE IS GOOD SOME DAYS AND NOT OTHERS AND HAS EVEN TOLD YOU WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN???

Maybe they got the envelopes mixed up and the good plot is in the other one.

P1- Books and shelves in the Teacher’s lounge? Where are the ashtrays and the liquor miniatures? Not that was like my high school. Afterall, I did get an “A” on my Chem II project. We all made moonshine as a project in class. Our field trip was viewing the first Star Wars movie. The shine made the trip and did not make it back to school as I gave it to a National Honor Society student whose mother was an English teacher. Let’s say he and a classmate soared to new heights that day.

Oh goody, we’ll have 5 days of Gil walking around and having teachers tell him what he already knows. And what you should already know is that you can read today’s Mopped Up Thorp right here:

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Inconsistent, Life of the Party then overly tired, occasionally seems to disappear. OMG, he’s got a chronic case of Teenager! Hurry up and help him Gil; before he moves into his Mother’s basement and is eligible to vote!

It’s obvious that when he parties at the raves, he parties hard and has nothing left until he charges back up the next week.

I wonder if it has something to do with when he gets to see his father? Does that make him play better?

I like the tour of “Life Around Milford High” thing going on. Nice to get a chance to see something other than the gym.

I just had a thought: We know about Milford’s “Flash” dance mobs. Now, we have AQ and his favorite pastime. Put them both together and we get “a Raving Maniac”.

For those who found that too obscure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5×1K5UH2nek

On the color version that first teacher changes from gray hair and a white shirt to brown hair and green shirt from panel one to panel two. (assuming that’s the same guy since the dialog seems to follow from one panel to the other)

Serious comment…………. to Chip in St. Louis and all of you guys (plus Bitsy) in Chicago… stay safe and praying this stuff is not as bad as I heard it may be.