Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 07, 2018

Chicks dig it when you call them “big people”.

Dafne did an amazing job in P2 managing to avoid an Exploding Eye Syndrome reaction to the little guy

“Hey, Barry, lend me five bucks. I’m a little short this week.”

Like I said, slack and sympathy totaly wasted on BADER. REALLY hoping Tru hears how he’s putting Boo down…

He thinks short-tempered is a crack about his height. So he has the personality of a jerk and the intellect of a moron.

What a sympathetic character.

P1 What is Double D planning to do with that finger??? P3 Still trying to work out the math, I think we need to know his actual height as a starting point and then the standard by which we measure “goodness”. May be too complicated but worth a stab.

In all reality , when does Barry attack Double D ? Trumpet headline blares , BADER SNAPS ATTACKS REPORTER .

Daphnie to Barry…. "one more outburst from you and I’ll put you in timeout and suspend your juice box privileges!

Headline for DD’s story: “Dealing with Barry Bader could drive one to drink”

Napoleon complex…classic case

Barry Bader, future school shooter.

Young Master wins the exploding anatomy parts syndrome this week. If Barry wore a collar he’d be hot under it. That new Randy Newman song “Short People” is playing on the Zenith.

Where this could lead: a) Double D writes a story about Bader having a “David vs. Goliath” struggle, to which the team will absolutely catch on to and torment Barry to no end. b) The paper is so nervous about the story they won’t run it, but Marty Moon gives Bader an open mic on his show.

Quality, not quantity.

Hmmm….I think Huskie may be on to something…R & W, reacting to our relentless pummeling about crappy story lines decides to do a “ripped from the headlines” piece and goes Parkland on us!

It is part of their push for a Pulitzer in comics…

I keep rereading P2 and wondering just who in the world would take “short-sighted” as a joke about their height? DUMB

P4: “I can see you’re a little upset, you need to calm down!”

“Oh, making fun of my height again?”

“Um, I can see you’re a big upset? Is that better?”

Trumpet headline: “Not Barry sorry – Bader stops short of apologizing for sot Pop”.

I’ll show them all!

Fire the Milford English teachers! All of them! This kid is a junior and he still says “big people”? Next week on “Sesame Thorp” Barry discusses the difference between soft and hard.

Just guessing, but probably not a good come back to say: Oh, grow up.

Are you smoking more now but enjoying it less?

I wonder if his voice sounds like one of the chipmunks too

P1, How is that even possible?

P2, I’ve called him a midget on more than one occasion. He seems to be a bit sensitive about that.

P3, Well, you are half the size!

One of my younger brother’s friends was exactly like this guy. He was a pretty good athlete, even went to the Kansas City Royals baseball academy. Anybody remember that experiment? He came out for a couple of practices years later with my softball team and he never once shut up. That didn’t go over real well with my buddies. I did like playing basketball against him though. I’m 5’11" and I towered over this guy. He never quite figured out why I’d just let him drive by me in the lane and then all I’d have to do is turn around and block his shot. Every time. He made me feel like one of the big people.

He’s angry at the world. She’s cunning & manipulative. He may outgrow it. She won’t

Now DD sounds like Dr. Phil….“so, Barry, how does that make you feel?..Do you blame your father for your lack of height?”

In P1, she is preparing for the finger-wave prostate exam, and in P2 she is making him cough while holding his man parts.

Too late by now for any one to see this but in panel three today the character of Barry Bader is apparently being played by Martin Short.