Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 08, 2022

KABOOM

First she has divorce papers drawn up and then is considering joining the LPGA tour? No one puts Mimi in a corner!

Anyone else think it’s odd that Mimi’s mom is pushing Mimi to divorce Gil after all these years? Did she never like him to begin with? At least by this point, especially considering her grandkids, you would think she would be supporting reconciliation. And what kind of chronology is in that photo album that has a picture of Mimi on Santa’s lap and then one of her and Gil together?

Gil’s trying to work things out. I don’t know about Mimi.

P4: “Have you met the center’s pool boy? His name is Hernandez Martinez.”

In all reality , the issue of divorce is too sensitive and complex to be handled in a comic strip. Get back to the old format of this strip being based on high school sports.

Telling Santa your daughter only deserves lumps of coal? Only half-joking about the state of your daughters marital bliss? Assuming she’s served her husband with divorce papers? You’re a real piece of work, “mom”.

Another two weeks until football? Oy vey!

.“..serve the papers, serve the papers…”

P 3 (Mimi): “…just like Daddy did to you when he ran off with his secretary…”

Mom got to get her meddling in. She only has 6 months left to break up a marriage. Probably why she wanted to get inside. She had the photo album set up.

“Served Gil the papers”? I understood Emily was a golf pro, not a tennis pro.

What a creepy look on Mom’s face in p3. They can’t get divorced fast enough to suit her.

We’re trying to work things out? You mean YOU Emily! Haven’t you learned? Don’t ask The Gilfather about his business of affairs. Carbone Cave and the road hole bunker are richer in calcium than a milk truck.

Vito from Goshen told me “Mom” reminded him of Tony Soprano’s mother. Sweet woman, huh.

P-1: Yes, he knew if I was Bad or good! So I fessed up. I was @$%ing 3rd graders in Kindergarten.

P-2: OK, I’m only half joking. Look at when Gil was happy.

P-3: Promise him a cut of your hooker take to leave you the &^% alone and keep those &%‘d kids away, too. I’m makin’ a killing, here at Silver Hair City.

Isn’t this old bat dying? Why does she need to meddle?

Hey Mom! Didn’t you ever wonder why your little girl back then was “afraid of Santa?”

I’ve seen kids who were afraid of Santa. That’s not what they look like.

I guess in the new Gil Thorp, Marty Moon took the photo of the two of them sharing a soda.

Mom looks like she’s identifying as a guy today.

In many/most papers, Gil Thorp runs in the sports pages. I’m sure the fans are going to love this turn into soap opera/telenovela country, and share their enthusiasm with Tribune.

God Save the Queen.

I keep popping over to my email to see if Mopped Up Thorp has shown up. I can’t wait to see what Mop Man posts today and on this arc.

Who the heck took that picture of their private date? Was Marty Moon spying on them back then, trying to get some potential blackmail photos? And speaking of potential, today’s Mopped Up Thorp has potential to be compared to something halfway decent.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Coaches Held Hostage: Coach Kaz, Day 76 of 95. 76 = number of trombones that led the big parade. It’s part of the name of Philly’s NBA team. It’s my all-time low golf score on a par 72 course (earlier this summer).

OK, in this reality, Gil and Mimi have been together ~20 years, right? Well, there were no malt shops in the early 2000s. (Mimi’s actual first appearance was in 1974…and there were no malt shops then either, except on “Happy Days”, which premiered that year.)