Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 15, 2021

CARTER!

CHEVY!

Did anyone else read the P1 narration box as saying that Milford was getting “a pile of loss”? Foreshadowing!

What date will Kianna implode? I’m guessing October 14th. Too optimistic?

P1 Me thinks that dump truck was overloaded and those logs must be balsa wood

When it comes to football rally bonfires, Milford has to be first in the valley as all the local luminaries like Signman, fist pump family make appearances and are welcomed back by the ants whose stirring speech is melting Chance’s face off

In all reality , an strong gust of wind blows a wall of flames into Milford High School setting it on fire. Unfortunately as the Milford Volunteer Fire Department tries to put the fire out students and fans chant The Roof The Roof is on Fire ,We Don’t Need No Roof, Let the ( come on snarkers you know the words ) !

P3: That’s quite an inferno. Has the gang moved to California?

Vito from Goshen is seeing enormous money coming in for the Milford opener. Most are willing to take a chance on Chance. Many bettors are getting in on the long-odds Milford Undefeated or Milford Winless pool.

Was it a coincidence that known firebug Luhm had all that wood piled by the building? All done to make the Signman family become human sacrifices for illegible writing? He really has tough standards. He must have completed his probation and gotten his lighter back from CK’s mom(“Hotlips”).

OK, panel#2, Kianna shrank or Mr QB had a yuge growth spurt

Bonfire!? That’s a raging riot! SAVE THE EXPOS!

uh…hu,huh,huhuhuh….‘wood’…huh, uh huuuh…

Meanwhile, half the student body is there smokin’ weed since the bonfire smoke will cover up the skunk smell

The grass under the bonfire must look great when it’s over.

“I came to see Fearless Freep, and I’m a goin to see Fearless Freep!!!”

P-1: an apparent explosion (anybody seen Alice Cooper) has blown out all the HS windows and caused a passing dump truck to malfunction.

P-2: Screw you and your team’s Bonfire!

P-3: “Fire Walk With Me”

P3 offers sooo much today. Tevin borrows Marty’s Mr. Microphone and completes his Mass Media class project interviewing Chance. Woodstock assists Sign Man with the high demand for, well, signs. And our reluctant hero Chance dons the the first mask of a new season of Milford Masterpiece Theatre, a Quinn Martin Production.

Beat Oakwood!

Is he interviewing people; shouldn’t that be Vic’s job??

Wow—Kianna’s club burns well!

P 3.5: “…and it looks like Corina came back here with her mom for a visit…”

There is something foretelling about Tevin number choice

Is this one of those magic tricks? Like the tiny car where 12 clowns come out? This truck can hold 300 logs but when it empties its load, 30,000 come out.

So Ford is a sponsor of this strip now? They must really be hurting. I do like whoever is holding that sign at the bottom, telling our two “heroes” to GO AWAY!

And speaking of going away, hurry up and visit Mopped Up Thorp to read today’s strip before it goes away. (Well, it actually won’t go away, but it fit into my segue.)

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