Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 19, 2023

Where’s all the hair shedding? Oh, right, wrong version.

Is that a cheer? Rhombus, Rhombus, rectangle, square! We are VT, our coach is shedding hair! YAY!

Wait…. weren’t we doing a commercial yesterday? Now we’re at a game that has nothing to do with Milford? 4 Days/4 different story arcs. Maybe HB has attention deficit dis… “Oh look. A new Putt Putt golf course.”

Rhombus? Martinez’s new dimension to the triangle offense. Wait till he runs into Mimi’s “pentagon” defense.

Once again, the final scores will be out of sight. This has all gotten so stupid. I may be done.

Is El Stupido the Athletic Director at VT, and Coach Kim the girl’s basketball coach? And if so, why is Luke shouting the directions from the side, and Coach Kim saying his player has learned a lot from Luke? Feeling lost. Again.

Oh, the suspense! How will Joy Rhombus interact with Gil and his family?!?!

HEEEEE’SSSSS BAAAAAAACCCKKKK!!!!

P1 Coach Luke BHH Martinez films his appearance for a round of Manning family Caesar’s charades to raise funds for Valley Tech sports programs.

P2 Valley Tech uniforms are as equally confusing as the gender identities in the HJB Gil Thorp world, changing from lavender to teal to orange and black to…I lost track…pale yellow now.

P3 “That’s Master Luke to you, coach Kim.”

Who is Luke? Who is Coach Kim? Who is Joy?

This strip is terrible.

Parallelogram! Parallelogram!

Better hope she checks her CBD oils if she plans to travel to Russia.

Rhombus? So early in the game? Dean Smith would be proud.

I’m just waiting on Mimi’s lesbian threesome.

Coach Kim is what’s called in office politics a “survivor”…with that kind of a$$-kissy attitude, he’s figuring that he won’t factor into any budget cutbacks.

I wonder if Gil ‘welcomes failure’ with his basketball teams too

How about one panel each of Arizona, the used car video shoot and the VT game tomorrow?

ZERO chance a girls high school game is 24-23, 1st quarter

“She is learning so much from you?” WTF? Like how to shed hair? The art of screaming senseless directions to the team in the middle of the game? How to be a total a$$hat?

P-1: Apparently, Luke believes, due to the public school system, the West Falls players will be confused by his obscure coded call.

P-2: Yes, fans, Joy gets the VT Uniforms not only clean, but bright, and odor free.

P-3: Luke is of the opinion, that WNBA players all know what a Rhombus is.

Too many balls in the air

I would have used trapezoid, but this is likely why I don’t coach.

Due to budget cuts, Luke is teaching his geometry class during the game.

I heard milford is getting a curling team this year .

The Rhombus is at Princeton, of course. Ask Phish

Dodecahedron, you morons! Rhombus is so ’90s.

Boom? Good work Joy? Who’s Joy and what good work did she do. The ball is still in the hands of the player and nothing special is happening……… Which, when I think of it, perfectly describes the strip.

2:42 PM Eastern and not one RICOLA! reference…what in the wide world of sports is going on in the snark-o-sphere?

Little does Luke realize West Falls was waiting for his call and is going into their Axiom Defense to SHUT THEM DOWN!

Luke calls out the defensive scheme for West Falls, leading WNBA-bound Joy to get her sh*t swatted!

Find someone who looks at you like Coach Kim looks at Coach Luke…

Wow, VT is packing them in for the girls games too. Or are they at West Falls? Whoever is home must have the top team in the state. And speaking of the top, you can’t top Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Boom?!? Why?

Unfortunately, the writers refuse to lay off the hallucinogenics. There is no more story line, just a daily comic strip. Like Garfield, only worse.