Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 19, 2022

Some people consider it good sportsmanship to allow the opposing team to attempt to play the ball before declaring victory over them, but that kind of attitude isn’t what retroactively wins you 50 Coach of the Year awards in a row.

UGH! WACK! POP! POW! Milford Beats Gotham City! Next opponent — Metropolis, coached by Lois Lane.

Remember the CALVIN & HOBBES episode where they were playing volleyball with a tennis net?

Wait! What about The Bucket? This makes no sense! Can we finish a story line, please? Or stick with one for more than three days? It’s just skipping around. Good grief. I’ve read Gil Thorp for a long time, but I’m ready to give up.

Wasn’t there a football team?

Wow. HJB and Hot Rod really earned their bread today. Neal Rubin has to be beaming with pride.

Has Gil stopped coaching football? Maybe Toby can try out as the kicker.

Meanwhile , Vito calls Moose and Rocco in and says I want you to pay the new guy Hank Barajas a visit .In all reality be nice , but explain my customers want Football ,NOW !

Be sure to pick up a box of Milford Krispies, the cereal that goes “Spike, Wack, Pop!”

Looks like Batman to me. Bang Ooof crash

No. 11 must grunt like all those tennis players who have made the sport unwatchable.

Mimi still sitting in the booth fuming

Coaches Held Hostage yesterday: Would you believe Coach Kaz hasn’t been seen in 86 days? I think he might just be stuck inside the Cone of Silence and couldn’t call us on his shoe phone. When you stop and think about Get Smart, the show beat the Jetsons in predicting technology for the future. (For anyone who doesn’t know, Maxwell Smart, brilliantly played by the great Don Adams, was Agent 86 on that show, which coincidentally premiered 57 years to the day that the Kaz count reached 86).

Coaches Held Hostage today: Coach Kaz, 87. Growing up a Bears fan, I loved watching Ed O’Bradavich, No. 87, play defensive end for the team. He went to Proviso East High School, University of Illinois, and spent his entire NFL career with the Bears, pulling off a rare trifecta of doing that all in one state — although he did play one season in the CFL before joining the Bears. Ed played himself in the movie Brian’s Song and another TV movie, Coach of the Year.

Something’s going on with the comment section. Every time I sign in, it’s a different selection, not “all” comments.

The opposing player tries to cheat in Panel 3 by going through the hole in the net!

Obviously HJB doesn’t get paid by the word.

P3- That is an impressive clam digger Keri uses to spike for the win. No one has mentioned clam digger in who knows when. Think how useful she was to Mimi by excavating dinner when Mimi visited her poor spiteful Mother.

Are we witnessing a new phenomenon, EVBS (Exploding VolleyBall Syndrome? Are the balls spontaneously speaking in comic-ese as they detonate?

Milford just may win the JV conference! Which odds are they don’t even keep standings anyway. But I do say, I am very impressed that Keri can spike so effectively considering she’s probably 5’4" at the most. And speaking of most, what do you most want to see? Oh yeah, it’s today’s Mopped Up Thorp!

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Well, this ought to satisfy the people who want nothing more than sports.

I don’t think it would be a very interesting strip if every single day was like this one, but to each their own.

We haven’t seen them, but the Varsity team must be loaded with All State players, judging by the athleticism we’re seeing from the JV team! These gals couldn’t make Varsity. On the other hand, you have to assume the Varsity coaches are paying attention, that may be a big assumption.