Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 12, 2017

Sometimes I get here first, read the strip, shake my head, and just close the window.

Bad news DD, even with a Pulitzer Prize on a direct route to your mailbox, no one wants to date a girl whose hand is bigger than her head.

The big question is, which story will sink into irrelevance and hardly be referred to — the softball player’s big scoop or the pitcher on Gil’s team with the history of temper problems? They often start out with twin stories and let one of them just fade away.

Shouldn’t that be phake news?

Panel one: I thought was twisted-off-thumb hand from yesterday was bad. I think that animal claw hand here, too many high fives or not, is really in need of repair. Should we take up a collection for hand-drawing lessons?

Journalism Matters! Is that some kind of political statement. I take it she’s the editor.

Double D continues to high five herself. She lives for the recognition.

More evidence that R&W read the comments as they took my fake news post yesterday and ran with it.

I can guarantee, that the celebration in the Post newsroom in those days was of the liquid variety, not chili cheese fries from The Bucket.

Speaking of chili cheese fries at The Bucket, wasn’t that Boo’s last official act before her fateful trip to the Swifty Mart?

In all reality , emboldened by her initial FOIA success , Double D files another one requesting the official time sheets submitted by the Thorps .

With her Derek “Slim” Chance hairdo and a sore hand that would make Barry Bader proud, Dafne’s next endeavor will be an expose’ on the loofah shortage at the Milford Food King.

Looks like another softball lobbed over the plate for MUT in P1……

Heenan’s going to run some damage control by dispatching his Press Secretary.

Topically edgy…I like it.

I hate to ruin your summers but the Great Carnac predicts: DD will next target the new kid in town (cue the music). The result will be that all his anger management therapy will go down the tube, Gil appears in two consecutive strips, and they end up dating. Van Auken and DD, not Van Auken and Gil. I hope Mimi has a new swim suit.

What will the Heenan Family think?

Wait, how can a 2010’s era cultural reference (fake news) be used in a 1950’s era town?

So I am to assume that this is a HS paper. Which means that the school board member will now be after the school paper to shut down the journalism class.I did the sports for my HS paper. Which was 1 page of our towns weekly paper.This was the 60s so we did not doing anything like looking into the school board

P1- Take it from Madge. Try Palmolive dishwashing liquid. Softens your hands while you do the dishes.

P2 – “You there, the one reading this strip. Do you really think that this time the story will be fresh, believable, and not stupid?” And speaking of stupid, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is ready.

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