Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 20, 2023

Keri’s going by “Sue” now? The basketball team is selling vapes instead of $1 chocolate bars? What happened to used cars, WNBA prospects, and lesbian threesomes in Arizona? Sheesh!

Meanwhile, back on skid row …

Do we know these characters? Is vaping going to be the next issue storyline that will get three or four strips and no resolution? (And seriously regular smokers aren’t going to start vaping via the black market even if they are underage…)

Isn’t the bald guy from the basketball game the other day? How did Keri (Sue) hook up with him?? How did Toby get his product? So many questions

P1 Nancy and Sluggo are found after being missing for decades.

P2 “Got any AB positive?”

P3 “Oh, yeah, we bad!”

Barajas must have been a juggler in an earlier life.

Cortez Beecher is uncover as skid row Ian, infiltrating the underbelly of deviant Milford and Metro Valley yutes.

“Sue” is not Keri. Even she would have recognized To Be and his red-scarfed, candy selling accomplice in their Clark Kent disguises as street punks.

Today, it’s vapes, tomorrow, it’s weed, and after that, Tobe and the gang will be movin’ “H”, molly, meth, crack, and anything else they can move, until they get in hot water for selling on the wrong turf. Now that would be an interesting story.

Now who’s going to argue with my suggestion yesterday to do one panel of Arizona, one of the car lot video shoot and one of the VT game?

I believe this strip has developed ADHD.

How about kumquat catastrophe?

This is painful.

Next season, Keri is torn between having an abortion or having the infant’s sex changed at birth.

I’m so confused why is he calling Keri, Sue? And what happened to the lesbian threesome from a couple weeks ago?

who would buy vapes from two dopey kids when they have stores for that ? maybe george santos should write this strip

Could this strip just go ahead and close out while there are still some good memories of it?

The second vape is $1 and it comes with a chocolate bar from the genius.

They will give you the first vape for free, so that they can then hook you into buying the really hard stuff (1/3 cans of hard seltzer).

I get that this is meant to imitate the way people get addicted to more serious drugs, but that doesn’t work, since vaping doesn’t work like those drugs do. Vaping is not heroin, chemically or legalization-wise.

Hmm, I don’t know about this. Unless they’re going to sell the cartridges to minors, who is going to buy them from these two clowns at a higher price than what they’d get just going to the shop? And speaking of shops, you don’t have to shop around for the best humor. You just need to go to Mopped Up Thorp:

Regular drug dealers! the first one is free!