Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 26, 2022

Any relation to Chinua Achebe?

Why do so many of these characters have sore necks?

P1.5 “Oh my, where are your pants?”

Don’t flatter yourself Gordon, if it were really important for Gilpa to talk with you, he would have had you pulled from class

Good Answer. Gil to adopt “muscle ball” strategy.

Call Vito from Goshen, he’ll provide all the muscle you need

Clever twist by R&W, that’s why they’re pros at this. This season’s star transfer student isn’t a transfer student at all.

P1- Either Gil’s got rhythm or that Dr. Pearl bobble head thing going on. You know. Katherine Hepburn in “On Golden Pond.”

Gil is looking for a Jim Loscutoff or Gene Tormohlen.

Just how big is Milford supposed to be? Must be a yuge school if the coach has a big office. But only the smallest schools have 1 coach for all sports. Gilpa doesn’t appear to be a teacher, neither does Kaz or Mimi. And such lame story arcs.

In all reality , you’ve heard all the guys are getting into sports betting ? Look Coach I’m not a snitch but yeah so? None of these goofs have the dough to cover their losses and Vito wants his money . I’m recruiting muscle like you protect your class mates from any harm .You’ll get paid because I’m charging the chumps for our protection services. You’ll be a bodyguard. Damn Coach ,No wonder they call you the Gilfarther !

If he’s big, maybe he can make things happen.

“Yeah Coach, I watched some of those old Bulls-Pistons games on the internet. I can do that stuff.”

Gil’s puttin’ together a goon squad to do some on-court enforcing to protect his skinny, pipsqueak guards

P 1.5: “….you heard wrong…”

P-1: Good to see you but, too.

P-2: (Singing) I am a Lineman for the Defense, and in Paint, I am a load.

P-3: His elbow thinks it has what it takes. Now, we have a story.

So in other words, his contribution is going to be 5 free fouls in the paint.

Hey Gordo, I knew Big Ken Brown, Big Ken Brown was a friend of mine and you’re no Big Ken Brown. Bill Lambeer maybe.

I would be surprised if Gil remembered someone from the football team. Didn’t that season end around Christmas

No stereotyping here. Please move on.

1: Gil looking startled as he is interrupted during his “computer time”.

How does Gil manage to have a free recruitment network that helps him do his job? Wouldn’t want him to break a sweat doing his work

So will he be known as Mr. Big?

Okay, ignoring Gil’s weirdly shaped and inflamed head, what happened to the emblem on his shirt? How did it enlarge, move down, and move towards the center? And speaking of moving down, move your cursor down to the link below, copy, paste, and go to the latest issue of Mopped Up Thorp.

P 1.5: “… go find Hollis and Cathy and work on cuts and screens….”