Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for February 16, 2023

(Insert “West Side Story” rumble lyric here.)

Man…Sign Man was clearly not hired for any of these signs, except maybe the TACOS sign.

Wouldn’t you think Martinez would want the Taco joint?

P1 Darius and Leo racially slur Coach Lukey by setting up shop in front of a local taco stand in response to the VT candy sales operation squatting on their prime location. Coincidence? Talk among yourselves.

Meanwhile, Rod and ToBe cruise by in the Vape-mobile to scope out how their competition is faring, as they violate their cardinal rule and get high on their own supply.

P2 Mr. Spock opines that, “it sucks, but your response was logical Darius and Leo. Live long and good luck prospering selling chocolate bars.”

P3 After several futile attempts at returning Spock’s split finger greeting, the boys and the Vulcan go to the sure-fire “all hands in” gesture to emphasize their mutual feeling.

Last panel: “And we will call ourselves the Fantastic Three!”

I wouldn’t eat a taco from a joint run by Rudy. Maybe a pastrami sandwich but not a taco or a burrito.

How much further will Henry go down this rabbit hole? At this rate nobody will care when Milford ends the basketball season at .500 and striving for 4th in the Valley.

Doyle Dane should be consulting this fund raising endeavor. Wouldn’t a chocolate bar go great with a cup at the Copywrite Cafe? How about a Shamrock Shake?

HB is just setting up a scenario where Gil & Tays cause Luke to have a grabber in their next game, and even though it’s a VT win, Gil & Tays laugh it off as they ‘welcome failure’. Gil also causes extreme frustration for Luke because he laughs it off when Luke outlifts him by double in the lift-a-thon. Gil quits laughing though, when Keri shows up with a baby Pedro bump.

Great, now I’m wanting a taco. I wonder what time the Taco Bell three blocks south of here opens at.

Check out p2. Toby’s going to need a six finger glove come baseball season.

P-3: Hey guys, we forgot the baseball bat! You can’t do eagle claws without a bat!

Please make it stop. #FireHank

I remember one of the old impersonator’s doing John Wayne as Hamlet:Tuby, or not Tuby,…that’s about the size of it.

(Sorry, but there just never seemed an opportunity to slide that one in.)

I thought scarfman was selling the vapes

P 2.5 (Darius): “….even after he slapped your ear and said ‘did you hear me boy?’…”

Maybe the MHS squad should buy up Rudy’s cut-rate tacos from Taco Tuesday and sell them in front of Rudy’s for almost full price on Wednesday!

They should just call Moose and Rocco to help Luke find his wallet.

Some of my best work, and best paying. Those huge signs look awesome, yes? Now the window signs and the Coconut-A-Rama shop were not done by me.

P-1: In a stroke of Business Genius, Rudy builds his first three franchises on Milford’s three Round-A-Bouts!

P-2: Evidence the kid transferred Indian Reservations from some place in a Nevada Desert.

Does anyone else think Rudy’s marketing strategy is a bit lame? I know that Mopped Up Thorp does.

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