Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 24, 2022

I’m tired of the Linda Lindas, too.

P1.5 “Grab your sh*t, open the door and roll out onto the sidewalk. If anyone asks, you don’t know me.

P2.5 “your sorry *ss. There, I said It.”

P3.5 “Well helllooooo Betty!”

What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight?O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.

This was a great strip. It sucks now with the new writer.

It has gotten worse than terrible

“Linda lindas”? “Bad Bunny”? Put on some Captain Beefheart, like real teenagers.

Mimi and GilPa want to avoid conflict and send little Miss Punk Rocker to to play taxi for Junior, errr Toe Jami. Seems Lupe the brain surgeon has a massive student loan to pay off so the Martinez family doesn’t live in a gated community. To add to the Keri playing JV volleyball assumption, she could be a Junior or I like the notion she could have been “redshirted” by Ma and Pa. I knew a HS football coach who implemented that strategy.

If Henry manages to tie all of these disjointed story arcs together AND get through a second in the Valley football season, he’s a genius. Move over James Joyce.

It’s the green sidewalls that are so exotic

“Only 17” Pedro has EES for Keri!

Luke Jr. and Jami are in junior high. How old is Pedro? And it’s still not clear how old Keri is, or just what grade she’s in. I still think she’s a freshman (in spite of her having a driver’s license?), since we know that the trans kid (whose name I can’t remember) just enrolled at MHS, and he seems to be Keri’s age. By the time this is all straightened out, it will be time for the big showdown with Valley Tech, probably.

Stop stops playing the Linda Lindas and play some Phillip Phillips.

Gil Thorp was never great regarding continuity, but it now seems to be random, one-day little stories that have no real meaning.

She’s my….I mean it’s my….let’s say THEY’RE my sister?….I mean my…..hmmm…….They’re my non-binary sibling, yes that’s about right, whew it’s tough being a little brother these days

I guess Jami is too young and dumb to know that the Linda Lindas are such a BOP.

Ooh, BHHL’s house address is 17! That is code for….something? Hmm, what evil thing is associated with 17? And speaking of 17, you should wait 17 seconds after eating before reading Mopped Up Thorp. Why? Who knows?

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Man, I totally forgot about Pedro. At first I thought it was Luke Sr., based on him looking older than a Junior High kid – except there was no facial hair. So I was assuming it was supposed to be Luke Jr. Except he looked too old. Thank you comment section.

Maybe Rubin was right when he abandoned the Thorp kids in 2008.

They’re fired up in Milford, OH after the Eagles won big 42-17 at Little Miami last night. The flames of optimism are burning bright as Milford is tied for third in the Valley (aka Eastern Cincinnati Conference) with a big showdown at home with state ranked Winton Woods next week for a piece of second in the Valley and big state playoff points on the line. Hope is burning eternal that the Eagles can win next week then run the table, that Winton Woods then defeats Kings Mills for (gasp!) A three team Valley co-championship. Big picture, if Milford can take care of business next week, they will all but assure securing a playoff seed somewhere between four and seven and a coveted first round home playoff game in the ultra-competitive Division 1, Region 4.

P4 “Hey kids, why are you standing there staring at each other? Who’s ready for some Kool-Aid?”

Oh yeah!

It’s rather late, so I’ll repeat this tomorrow morning. It’s a very special post on Mopped Up Thorp, the debut of Sign Man and Fistpump Man!

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