Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 17, 2021

P1: "Want to write about coaches? We can do an “in-depth” interview, if you know what I mean…" Gil is the mater of subtlety, if not of his domain.

What happened to Gil’s face?!? P1 he’s got the hot-cha-cha Durante nose, in P2 he’s got a chin that would make Jay Leno envious. They need to take some lessons from Dick Tracy…that artwork is great.

P1: Heather tells Gil that she is deep in debt, has no job, and is worried about her life.

P2: Gil shows Heather just how much he cares.

P2: Isn’t Gil going to send the camera crew over to P3 to rough this guy up for ruining his scene?

Apparently Mr. Purple didn’t pay up….Vito’s guys worked him over pretty good. Next time they send Carl Spangler to see him…“I’ll cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He’ll never play golf again, because his weight displacement goes back, all his weight is on his right foot, and he’ll push everything off to the right. He’ll never come through on anything. He’ll quit the game.”

P2: I don’t think that gesture is going to get Heather interested, even though it is likely accurate.

Will the irresistible temptation of fast payouts in the high stakes MCC golf racket lure the debt-ridden Heather into the depths of the Milford criminal underworld?

P2 Yeah GilPa she prefers them just a little bigger than that!!!

P3 Some Dandy outfits there, let’s get a look inside the Pro Shop and see what other great stuff they have that is obviously on sale.

P3: Eddie Felson III setting up his next pigeons. Welcome to Ames.

Did the band-aid just materialize between panels 2 and 3?

Who’s going to play the role of The Flamingo Kid and expose this hustler? Not Marjie, I hope.

I’m over this blowhard in P3 (Hendricks?) already. I’m secretly hoping CK decides to try for a golf scholarship to Whatsamatta U. and comes to MCC to teach this guy a lesson.

P1, Gil wants her to ghostwrite his autobiography, State Champion!

P2, I’m almost positive that is not the approach Pedro used when he first came on to Mimi, Gil. Keep your size a surprise until you score the prize.

P3, Sit on it and spin, Hendricks!

Lame story line

Is Gil playing the world’s smallest violin in P2 to show that he thinks she’s whining about having debts to pay?

This strip is going down the pooper . No band-aid in P1; no band-aid in P2. MAGIC ! Band-aid in P3.Who is yelling “C’mon guys!” in P2 ? The “guys”?How about “C’mon, Gil” ? It’s like a really bad movie. I keep following it just to see how bad it can get .

P1- Heather and Gil switched sides from yesterday’s P3. Drinks and doh-si-doh?

P2- The Gilfather channels has inner Maxwell Smart, telling Heather how close the baseball team got to 2nd in The Valley. Missed it by that much.

In all reality , We ll give your 3 strokes if you play with snow shoes on . Ok fellas your on .

2 strokes? I only see one

This tuna finger now you don’t see it now you do has got me confused.

Gils doppelgänger is hustling again

Hendrix and Gil must use the same barber. Same sideburns and hair dye. Same shirt color again.

Maybe related??

Vito from Goshen asked a favor of Gil, and sent Heather to MCC so she can hustle these mopes and pay off her student loans.

P2: “C’mon guys, Heather said the first offer wins!”

I haven’t known any college graduates in recent years who could be the least bit choosy.

“I want to blow the lid off a major scandal about coaches at Milford High that I heard about. Of course, I could just forget all about it for the right price.” “Uh, you’re going to need to go a little higher, Gil.” Gil’s long lost son Hendricks pretends he hasn’t been using these suckers’ Zane bucks to dine nightly on caviar.

The juniors he was teaching yesterday grew up real fast. One of them might have changed genders too.

question: is todays strip supposed to be the same day that we saw on 7/12? Because looks like a new day and a new game with red shirt guy trying to hustle another game with the same 3 guys he took on 7/12.

Note all 3 of them are wearing different clothes in Panel #3 today than they were wearing on 7/12, 7/13, 7/14 when he was collecting his bet While red shirt guy was wearing a red shirt in the 7/12 strip, his shirt changed to light blue on 7/13 and then lilac on 7/14. Which is why I am assuming that time has passed since the 7/14 strip and we are now on a different day or week with the red shirt guy trying to hustle the same 3 guys he did before.

P2 Believe me I remember Zane from loofah time

Gil has brown hair now but at 93 he’s just happy that he’s got hair.

P-1: Gil re-enacts the scene from Airplane "He has a drinking problem.

P-2: Hey, Heather let’s pay Policeman and I’ll pinch you.

P-3: I’d give him 2 strokes to find out where he got a 3" wide Band Aid.

Gil and Hendricks are morphing into the same person. I bet the colorist assumed they were, which is why he gave Hendricks a red shirt in P3. Of course, my money is on his shirt being blue or something else non-red on Monday.

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P3.5- Hendricks SHOULD be giving strokes to (L to R) an aging Jim Rome, Lex Luther and a stiff Hunter S. Thompson. They all need a V8 spiked with Geritol.

You know, they’ll forgive some of your loans if you go into teaching.