Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 02, 2018

Like I didn’t see that coming.

On-the-air meltdown!!! Haha! Well done, Moon!! …and here I thought the plywood press box was a tough punishment. Where will they let Marty sit, now? In the parking lot I would guess!

Blue Moon!

Technical foul for Marty!

Is it just me, or in most places wouldn’t a kid trying to interfere in a live radio broadcast be kicked out of the gym? Or an adult, for that matter? Suppose you were angry at one of the newspaper reporters covering the game — could you scream in his ear as he was trying to interview the coach?

I think it’s way past time for this butt pirate to walk the plank.

P1, Still looks like a seagull to me, Donkey.

P2, Oh-oh, hot mike meltdown.

P3, Pull yourself together, Marty. Grab your sippy cup and ignore these nitwits.

This is no place to start crying in your beer, Marty!

Maybe its time to write Moon out of the strip and find another nemesis for Thorp.

P3 Is Marty going to cry???? WDIG will give him a major time out. Forget about that Mexican Restaurant ad buy. I bet the switchboard (they probably still have one) is lit up like a Christmas tree. Big drinking binge for Marty starts right after the game.

The #$%! just hit the fan for Marty

After recently experiencing multiple panels of EES, it’s discovered Marty suffers from Turret’s Syndrome.

Referee blows whistle, technical foul,FCC violation on Moon…one more and you are tossed from the game venue!

Last backup announcer for Marty was Von Haney when Marty got busted for not doing his community service for a DUI about 15 years ago. Wonder if WDIG will hired the Pirate Radio guy to take over, then Marty does his own Pirate radio thing to heckle the youngster.

Uh-oh, Marty’s gone and done it now! Good luck finding another job!

Marty with some serious PMSing.

And so, as Marty Moon’s career sinks slowly into the west… but don’t fret! Thanks to the Milford Pirate Network, you can see his final outburst anytime you like, as often as you like… forever!

How unrealistic! I cannot believe a professional like Marty would have lost it like this. Covered that mic too late, didn’t he.

Seriously, if my choice is Moon or this kid, I’ve already moved to Central City or New Thayer.

They should have done the last panel like in this PEANUTS episode! http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2013/02/08

Marty will need to personally apologize to the seven people listening to his broadcast.

Marty can do what CBS did when the F-bombs flew from a coach post-game in this year’s NCAA tourney. Greg Gumble started laughing and said, “we apologize for the colorful language.” As if CBS has never heard a coach cuss before. If CBS gets a pass WDIG should as well.

Have to give credit for the depiction of Marty’s despair in p3. Very good drawing.

Not a fan of MOON, he deserves the protests and heckling and with this outburst, an unpaid vacation but MPN getting in his face like that time and again crossed the line into harassment.

Put that video on YouTube and it will hit 1,000,000 views in no time! They’ve hit the big time!

The only time I saw Marty sadder than that was the time he knocked over his last bottle of Johnny Walker Red after all the stores were closed.

Poor Marty…doesn’t get the girl…can’t get under Gil’s skin…not allowed to sit high in the booth so he can drink alone…can’t close on the burrito account…and finally ruined by a high school kid in a pirate costume.

Marty has almost as much shoe polish on his cheeks as his goatee. His sippy cup is MIA, the constant besmirching has made him ultra sensitive and he set to take that parrot and toss it up into the huge ceiling fans in the rafters. Masterpiece Theatre, a Quinn Martin production. Tomorrow’s episode: Polly Goes Poof!

Who wants to bet there will be some mysterious mic problem in the next strip that saves Moons Butt? ;)