Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 23, 2021

A Star is Born. Mudlarks answer to Bad Boys undersized frontcourt defensive wizard Dennis “ROD——man.” Anyone else think P2 was plucked from the old Batman series? ZAM! POW! SWISH!

P1 Are you sure that Central Player is a “girl”? Let’s get rid of all this gender identity for goodness sake-we live in a new modern world-not!!!

Who cares who won or lost? How many points did Tessi have?

CK came out bruised. #21 needed stitches. And the referees are frantically consulting the books to check CK’s claim that the rules don’t specifically forbid taking a weapon onto the court.

CK came out bruised. #21 needed stitches. And the referees are frantically consulting the books to check CK’s claim that the rules don’t specifically forbid taking a weapon onto the court.

P 4, Thanks Hon, I like it rough any way I can get it ,in all reality .

Wait, I thought Awful Girl™ was a volleyball player…she plays basketball, too? (And I’m assuming we’ll see her on the softball team this spring…unless she tries out for baseball, of course!)

Brian Bigger girls???? Brian Bigger might be the mayor of Sudbury, where the women are sometimes larger. I’m still recovering from my daily bout with amnesia. I can never remember what I was doing when I was sleeping.

P4 Thanks, kiss it and make it feel better for me?

That was brilliant strategy Mimi implemented yesterday as she resembled a facsimile of herself from 2009. Oh wait. CK took over in game strategy as Mimi daydreamed about the post game interlude with Pedro. The more important question after her game point total is Tessi a Pantene or Breck girl?

No followup on CK calling Tessi by her last name? Was that just a random thought bubble or is there something yet to come?

P1, And the star forward goes upside CK’s head.

P2, And then Corina and her Mom light her up.

P3, Thanks! You should see the other guy.

Another brilliant coaching move by a Thorpe

Corina: “You should see the other girl. She won’t be able to wear a bra for a week!”

A couple of minor quibbles. As always. First of all, how the hell did Central get away with changing their uniforms during the game? In yesterday’s strip they were black with red striping, today they are dark blue with light blue striping. Seems like that would be a technical foul at least.

Second, Mimi has been coaching a while, right? She supposedly has been running practices and knows her players. So you’d think she’d be aware that CK is her best defender. And she has her guarding one of the non-scorers? Leaving Ms. “Flowing Golden Locks Concerned With the Stats Sheet” to play defense on the other team’s star with about the same effectiveness as a cardboard cutout?

Third, whoever in P3 (Becky? I’m too lazy to check) was giving CK the evil eye yesterday when she had the audacity to refer to Tessi by her last name. Now she’s all buddy-buddy with her. And, one of my favorite clichés for comics/tv shows/movies; someone gets hit in the eye and INSTANTLY develops a black eye. It doesn’t work that way. The only thing missing is CK holding a raw steak against it to…..you know, nobody ever explains what that is supposed to do. Cure it? Prevent it from getting worse?

And speaking of things getting worse, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is ready: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Sure that bruise didn’t come from a teamate.

Didn’t even notice claw on player in P1 until I read Mopped Up.

Milford would lose to Richard NJOKU’s team by a lot more than 5.