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

P3: Today’s readers.

Did someone write MILFORD on the bus while it was moving?

P2: …that’s why I wear this mask, to hide my sadness at Kaz leaving.

The trees, stars in sky and bus headlights in P1 are all nice touches. Well played. As a 50+ year reader, I’m also hopeful for our strip’s future.

One bus crash coming up.

Gut punch? Yeah. Someone needs to.

Most coaches ride in the front seats, but GilPa is not like most coaches. After forever and a day, can that be Heather Burns masking up with the Dean of Valley Coaches?

Wait… From a taco stand to (what I’m guessing is the Daytona 500, given the time frame) to a school bus. So are these all the same group of kids and did they take a school bus from Milford to Daytona? I’m seriously confused.

Get a room, you two

Mr. Reality! LOOK OUT!!!

Wow, I thought Kaz had more class than that. He slugged Gil in the stomach when he quit? And speaking of quitting, it’s pretty tough to quit reading Mopped Up Thorp.

Does a High School Basketball team in a budget crunch need 2 assistant coaches? No, but they’re soooo cute when they can’t stay up to 10 O’Clock.

Shifted to what? 2nd gear?

P 2.5 (Gil): “…because now I actually gotta’ show up and these two nitwits that I hired to replace him can’t even stay awake…”

Again Gil doesn’t answer the question, oddly phrased as it is. How has the team shifted?

emmet tays trying to get some action already ?

Marjie sees P3 and now has the clickbait headline for her next article: “Milford Assistant Coaches Caught Sleeping Together!”

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

“Kaz leaving was a gut punch for me. Devastating. Something I’ll never get over. My best friend, gone, leaving a hole that can never be filled. Oh, wait, you’re asking about the team? They don’t really give a [spit]. They’re teenagers! I honestly don’t think they can tell most adults apart.”

Let’s be thankful that unlike the old days if you threw the newspaper away and missed that day’s strip, now you can just go back and find it. This is the perfect example of how missing just one day can screw up the whole plot line…which I don’t have a clue is

P3- “Because those who live in the past are cowards and losers.”

Someone remind me where Kaz went?

JV art project

I love the commentary here! It reminds me of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Google it).

How has the team shifted? Is the dialogue being produced by AI or am I so old now that I haven’t kept up with the trends in the English language? (It’s probably the latter…..sigh…)

P 4 (Gil): “…speaking of the future… what are you doing later?… I think Mimi and the kids aren’t home, so maybe you want to stop over for a night cap…”