Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for March 25, 2022

From Wiseguy: Vinnie Terranova is working underground at Milford High School to bust the gambling operation. I can hear him speaking to Frank McPike: “Frank, Mike Knape got expelled last year for buttering his bagel. This Pranit Smith kid is running an illegal gambling operation and tries to bring in an enforcer to collect the debts. What happens? Dr Pearl let’s him off with a 5 day suspension, Thorp lets him stay on the team, and Smith’s brother enabled him!”

SWIRLIE TIME!

Pranit’s a magician too. He made that jump ball in P2 come out of thin air.

In all reality , come on Rubin & Whigham you can do better than this !

P4 As Pran…errrr….Jami awakens to the unmistakable smell of ocean air, an aroma he will never forget inside a dark, humid cargo hold of a ship enroute to Souteast Asia, he suddenly realizes he has been shanghaied by his supposed friends and teammates at the behest of his evil father, Gil Thorp, who was informed of Jami’s plot for revenge on his parents and uses the situation to rid Milford of his competing gambling syndicate and making a gesture of goodwill to Vito from Goshen, ensuring Milford remains his exclusive territory

Except for the part about not being allowed back in school unless they paid it, it was a heck of a good threat. “I’ve kept quiet to protect your sorry a**, but if you don’t give me the money I’ve had to pay to cover your losses I’ll be telling your parents and the school who still owes me.”

Gordo and Tevin “shake down’ Pranit for complimentary Bucket burgers and frosty mugs of Hoo.

Let’s be consistent, please. If a butter knife for bagels is enough to get you expelled from Milford, I expect these two to at least be suspended for bullying and violent behavior.

P 4.5 (from Austin Powers): “…who’s number two?…who’s number two?…”

Now we know how he got Gil to pay up.

P4: My favorite Diana Ross song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIAtE6ywgwA

End scene

I sure hope the baseball “tease” panels tomorrow do not have Pranit as a previously undiscovered fireball pitcher who puts illegal substances on the ball.

A rare 4 panel strip. Shadow people, giant hand drawings, nostril shots, a close-up and alien possession. We have it all today

Yeah, okay. “The school said I can come back once I list every person that owes me money.” Does that make any lick of sense that someone would believe? All he had to do was say, “I am going to tell the school you placed bets through me, unless you pay me back right now.”

And while I appreciate the farcical P3 (although how they grabbed his legs and flipped him up in the air so easily is a bit bizarre), that kind of final panel is what normally you see at the very end of a plot. But we still have to wrap up the girls’ story. WAIT. This means the girls’ story is already wrapped up? THAT WAS THE ENDING? So help me, if tomorrow is a change of scenery introducing the new baseball/softball protagonist, I’ll scream.

And speaking of screaming, I scream, you scream, we all scream for Mopped Up Thorp – https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

P 2: “…dude!…don’t you use toilet paper?…”

Rare P4 – The action freezes as the audiences roars with laughter and the credits roll. New episode (story) tomorrow.

Shadow Tevin really beefed up today