Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 06, 2018

“Hi, I’m Kelly.” “Um, Where’s Joan, you know, ‘Joan Anderson Travel??’” “Oh, that. It’s just a catchy name…NOT!” “Um, is that someone yelling from the back room?” “No. That’s nothing. All the mice here say, “Help! Untie me!!” “Oh, OK. I’m still thinking about Italy.”

Isn’t this Kaz’s significant other? You can tell from her fingers she’s used to tapping a lot of keys. And just wait until these two start talking movies. Instant love.

P4 Kelly: Italy? Is that why you have a salami in your pants?Joe: Oh uh excuse me

Prediction: Tomorrow’s strip will mention of either “La Dolce Vita” or “The Bicycle Thieves”.

No way, Bitsy. More Fellini!!! ;)

P3 Why is she holding her hands that way?

In all reality ,Kelly says great ever see the movie Three Coins in a Fountain ? I love movies but my boyfriend Kaz who teaches at Milford hates them .Now when do you want to go to Italy ?

P1, No football practice? Does that mean basketball is on the horizon? It’s not even Christmas yet.

P2, Um, wouldn’t he just tap a few keys to make arrangements?

P3, Joe turns down pizza to plan a trip to Italy. Perfect!

Joe has it figured out. Since Kelly is obviously the person who’s been giving Kaz the film titles to drop into his conversation, she’s also obviously the person who gives him the questions and answers for his World Geography quizzes. “I’m interested in Italy, but Machu Picchu sounds interesting, too! Do you happen to know much about it?”

Hope you are enjoying the denouement, as we like to call it in comic biz. See how fearsome Milford would have been with its secondary intact and showing up on time, plus a punter! And now the film guy will find his (platonic) soulmate at the country’s last remaining travel agency! Then basketball next week, with either some new characters as fascinating as these two, or maybe some old characters in new situations!

Why go all the way to Italy when the pizza is served in town?

At first glance, it looked like John Anderson Travel. The way Kelly Kapowski is mentally undressing the film artist, I anticipate some “Swingin’.”

She just told him her name is Kelly and he calls her Joe? What a moron.

So the family could afford to move to Milford?

This storyline is starting to remind me of how James Brown used to collapse with exhaustion during a show and be ushered off the stage, only to break free and do another song.

Maybe he wants to crash Bertolucci’s funeral.

P4: “….and you & me on a topless beach somewhere on the Tyrrhenian sea….so, why don’t you ditch that freakin’ goofball lunkhead boyfriend of yours and come with me?…”

He just finished John Grisham’s book, “Playing For Pizza”.

Wait, do travel agencies still exist? Is this part of the time warp that Gil seems to be in?

…no one is going to give Mop kudos for the gleaming floors in P1?

In all reality , you know what Kelly ,in all reality I’d like to book my sister on the slow boat to China .

Italy? Is that where guys can engage in kinky sex practices with chicks who have 6 fingers on their left hand? Because that’s clearly what Joe is thinking about, right now.

Of course you’re Kelly. You couldn’t be anyone else but Kelly.