Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 19, 2020

Mop called it.

P1: The case of Red Bull and dozen double espressos kick in.

P2: “I play for this school because I have problems with authority, and there ain’t none of that here.”

She’s left a string of maimed or dead umpires in her wake.

In all reality , Mayor I don’t like authority I burned down down the Sport’s Authority . I love to dominate people , now get down on your knees and lick my cleats clean, you miserable excuse for a person !

P3 should pay royalties to Rebel Without a Cause. P4: “Let’s see how you handle my woo pitch — Want to take a Knappe together after practice?”

P1, Looks like Corina is pretty good with a softball but can she hit a baseball?

P2, She could ask you the same thing Mr. Mayor.

P3, The kind you don’t have, Mayor.

But will she hit Jamila’s ankle-weakened fast ball? (Clark and Manfred agreed girls should pitch to girls.)

Rebel Without A Pause, my kinda girl.

O.K.. Corinna (Phoebe’s clone) saddles up in the tools of ignorance. The Misfits play the Mudlarks in a tightly contested sandlot affair. The Milford boys have last at bat, tied up, Hiawatha James on second. A sharp single up the middle, Hiawatha rounds third and heads for home, the throw…….and Kapow!!!! James does his best Peter Edward Rose into Ray Fosse imitation. "larks win! ’larks win!

As usual this strip has confused me…where does Corina go to school? He asks why aren’t you playing for “another” school as if you can choose what school you play for.

I fight authority, authority always wins

Well, I fight authority, authority always wins

Well, I been doing it, since I was a young kid

I’ve come out grinnin’

She has a problem with other girls too. Knuckle sandwiches will be dished up to ‘Pheebs and possibly Alexa in the near future when they hug the mayor

My real name is Ann Teefa.

Mike will lose his street cred and his team once they find out the real reason he got the boot from Milford

She needs a teardrop tattoo.

The mayor is going to show her where to hide the razor-sharp butter (kitchen!) knife in her chest protector. They both went to the tattoo parlor (was that Kiwi guy run out of town, or put up on a billboard?) and got matching KILL GIL! on their knuckles.

Corina Karenna, gal where you been so long?

As far as I can tell from P1, she’s amazing because she can catch the ball and throw it back to the pitcher. Seems like that would make her average at best.

Wow, I was right. How stunning that she’s an all-star. Not. Mayor McDumb isn’t impressing anyone with his logic. “Why aren’t you playing for another school?” Um, for the same reason you’re not playing for another school. SHE’S STUCK IN THIS ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL!

And speaking of alternatives, the best alternative to reading Gil Thorp is reading Mopped Up Thorp: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/