Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 22, 2022

P1: Is he reaching for his pearls to clutch?

P3: The Hammburglar softens as Gil gives him a toast.

Huh. GilPa put it right down the plate, for a change.

The real name of the Copyright Cafe is “Mr. Bean”? Did we know this?

Everyone hoisting coffee & no one on a laptop? It is getting hard for me to accept this strip is truly reflecting reality!

P1- Adrian Brody, fresh off the first season of Winning Time- The rise of the Lakers dynasty, make a barely there cameo.

Panel 2.5 – “And you’re a piece of sh*t in a high school health class”.

What have you been doing with my son Thorp and the others you Coach ? In all reality reality , you’re nothing but a pervert !

Gil is enjoying his Ovaltine.

P 4: “…. Your son has a future in the circus as a ‘blind man pitching’ sideshow attraction…”

P 1 (thought balloon on background guy): “….all that I have when I come here is these double chocolate lattes but I can’t ever seem to lose weight…”

Enough of this stupidity already, Rubin. It’s almost July 4 and still no hint of a summer story.

“Your son is remarkable.” Huh?? Is that Kool-Aid the Gilfather is sipping? Unless he’s talking about loofah drills.

“Your son is remarkable. Everyone thought that the story arc about the captain of the girls’ basketball team would be the low point of the year, but Greggg was able to come up with something even dumber.”

I can’t wait for the next riveting tale about a kid who uses his paper route money to pay for his grandmother’s Tae Kwon Do classes, so she won’t be afraid to shop in Central City.

Is he “Lightsaber Kid” all grown up? “David at the Dentist?”

P 2: Gil is partially correct. He’s old news too

Look at that guy on the right, in the first panel. “Ah, I likes me some good coffee!”

“meanwhile your son is remarkable, there are college scouts looking at him already”-because of course, every Div 1 college has a scholarship for a blind pitcher

“Anyway, I won’t out you if you agree to join the Milford Star and write fake puff pieces about me full time. I can have the current reporter taken care of…”

P1- They’ve been there so long they both changed their shirts.

P1 Is dude in the pale green shirt on the right drinking coffee, did he abscond with the girls softball team can of Hoo hard seltzer and using Mr. Bean’s place to hide, relax and guzzle a third of the can?

Throw the cup in his face Gil, liven this up!

It would be cool if what’s his name hauled off and popped a good one on 90 year old Thorp. I would love to see that in this strip.

Who would pay $329 for a bikini bottom? Or even $88, the sale price?

Keith Hernandez is not impressed. And who else is that in the scene, is that Lumpy? Remember him? Wonder what he’s been up to since graduating?

Wow, the Copyright Café© is really jumping on a school night. Do coffee shops really get that much late night activity? Looks more like a bar scene. And speaking of scenes, I hope nobody made a scene waiting for the late arrive of today’s issue of Mopped Up Thorp.

Is that the Patterson boy over there? Who’s that with him?