Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 02, 2022

I have no idea what this bored game is — HELP!

The plan for the new shower room is unveiled.

P2 – Oh boy, Magic Blast? Is that what they call it these days? We had many other names for it.

This column sucks now. Barajas has ruined it.

dUnJiNs An dRaGiNs iZ wOke!

I came here looking for “Gil Thorp” comic strip…

Sigh. Now I have to be a grown up and be productive today.

P2 Jami demonstrates the newly discovered technique for giving himself a “Magic Blast” to the Martinez boys(?) and invites them to join him.

It seems there’s a checklist of “hot high school topics” to cover, and Barajas is trying to cover them all.

Finally some sports action

How about they just revert to classic Gil Thorp and get rid of this new nonesense.

Roman showed up to a sword fight with a butter knife.

P 2 In all reality , Did you have the sloppy Joe’s at lunch today ? Take your Magic Blast out of here , our bathroom is down the hall on the right. Open a window in there and use the lavender spray air freshener when you’re done . Hurry up I feel a bowl buster coming on.

Finally! Sports action!….Nerd sports action!

is this like the tenth different storyline in two weeks

Didn’t this strip used to be about high school sports?

Since Barajas has arrived, this has gone to crap. I’m gone!

I’ve been reading Gil Thorp for years. For the 1st time ever, I don’t have a clue what the heck is going on……

KIds Week

D&D doesn’t use a board.

These last couple of weeks have been GREAT! Perfect for the thousands of 14-24 year-olds who read this strip.

What does this have to do with football????

Will the die stop? Will it roll off the table? Is there a penalty if it does? Tune in a week before Thanksgiving and we’ll get back to the game.

Only one semi-closeup hand action today, and it’s just Jami’s wimpy fist. And speaking of action, the board game action is much better today at Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Some of you must be great fun to sit next to at the movies. There are multiple interconnected characters in a story. The main character is named “Gil Thorp”. He’s a high school coach. Your job, if you so choose, is to spend 30 seconds a day, 6 days a week watching the story unfold. This isn’t “Inception” or “Mulholland Drive”. Showing a scene with Keri one day and Jami the next (captioned “meanwhile…”) isn’t inherently confusing. You’re not supposed to know in advance where the story is headed or how all of the parts are connected. If the credits roll and plot lines are left unresolved, that is the time to complain.

Such as, “Hey, what ever happened to the girl’s tennis team?” “Did Scooter end up leading the league in ‘perfect bunts’”? And my favorite, “Why was Addison ‘Boo’ Radley’s nickname ‘Boo’?” And yes, I know Boo Radley is a character in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, that doesn’t explain it!

there is no story line anymore, its all over the place going nowhere

12th strip in a row without anything even resembling sports.

Can we all agree that the new ultra-w*ke, down-with-the-kidz “Gil Thorp” is just as worthy of snark as the stodgy old “Gil Thorp”?

… Letting the days go by, every day the story changes… ……Letting the days go by, the plot is flowing underground… ……And you may ask yourself, “How do I follow this?”……And you may ask yourself, “What the heck is going on?”……And you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful comic”

I think you all missed a huge clue. Way back when "Keri"listed her likes, she mentioned Mr. Kool-Aid Acid Test, himself, Kurt Von eee gut.