Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for May 25, 2023

What I do like is the character has a handicap and doesn’t take life for granted. Millions and millions of us are in the same boat. I have a place in my heart for Hamm who has a handicap and I know its a cartoon. I always pull for the underdogs. Like all you crazy and courageous snarkers and readers who have read Gil Thorp some for 40 years and more. Bless all you readers. I’m pulling for you. On a sad note. Tina Turner died today at the age of 83. She was an incredible singer and had songs like “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” “Proud Mary” River Deep Mountain High"…also a little late Jim Brown at 87 years old R.I.P. Jim.

“Dorothy, Pitch”. “Lay Down”. “Roll Over.”

He was an almost blind pitcher who lost the little eyesight he had… So now he’ll catch blind?

P 4: they start makin out and movin their hands to sensitive places and rolling around on top of each other ( Leo)…. “… don’t worry… he can’t see us…”

The blind guy is now the catcher? Hope he’s wearing his cup. The blind leading the blind……this must be some type of social experiment.

What is worse than “jumping the shark”? Whatever it is Barajas has done it.

I’m having a little trouble making the connection between his dad apologizing for being a plagiarist and the next pitch could be your last.

P 2.5: “…no ….my dad is a polygamist…”

Stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball. OR Gregggg Hammm, a man barely with sight. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.

This story has gotten far sillier than any comment I could make at this time!!

Dorothy will need to set up the overhead projector, connect her laptop and get the whiteboard ready to make her pitch.

P1- Hank is educating all of the new readers explaining the meaning of HBP. Or, Hammmster’s Bad Plagiarism.

P 4 (Leo): “…hey Dorothy….can you guess what this is?…”…P 5 (Dorothy): “…yeah…it feels like a p***s, only smaller….”

P4: Leo – “Can you believe this $hit?”

Dorothy – “Kiss me you fool.”

YOOO

P-1: I used Baseball to vent my psychosis.

P-2: So, how’s it feel to have a Plagiarist for a father? Oops, sorry, kid.

P-3: Sorry about the spelling error.

Is Greg setting up behind home plate??

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Look, I’m not going to say that Milford High is weird, exactly, but I don’t think it’s quite normal for teens to be extremely supportive of a classmate who’s secretly going blind but then cruelly turn on him when the learn that his dad got caught up in a print media plagiarism scandal years earlier. How much could these kids care about journalism ethics? The media figure they have the most contact with is Marty Moon!

P3: Two fastballs to the head means the next pitch may be HIS last. Are they using beeper balls so that he can catch without seeing them?

Didn’t he tell them both to pitch in yesterdays strip?

P2- Is that Rocky Balboa talking? “Yooo, Adrian!”

Will this strip ever make sense again?

Where’s the end quote in P2? Tomorrow’s strip?

Hopefully, that’s “his fourth hit-by-pitch” for up to that point in the season and not just in that game.

Looks like our illustrious duo has tuned out Gregggg and are getting really tuned in to each other. And speaking of other, you should be reading the other version of this strip, Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/getting-distracted/