Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 14, 2023

What the heck does the P2 conversation mean?

What’s up with all the brown? Does Milford have uniforms or just a lot of security personnel?

Second panel — Conversation balloons don’t make collective sense …. as usual.

So does Miss Frances now teach at Milford High School?

Actor John Turturro loves coffee. If you Google his name and “coffee,” several images and clips from his dozens of film roles will populate the screen. You can buy a coffee mug with his face on it. He has stated a desire to be cast as a chef. (Pay attention, Spike Lee.) Maestro is an honorific often used to refer to a Master Chef. He and his wife, Katherine Borowitz, love to create feasts for their friends. All the brown colors today? Turturro and Borowitz live in a Park Slope Brownstone in Brooklyn. John Turturro and Pete Davidson appear in a sequel to “The Big Lebowski.” Lots of coffee references in “Lebowski,” including a coffee cup thrown at The Dude.

Pete Davidson?!?

Always good to have a cliffhanger over the weekend only to switch stories (yet again).

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So Gil is showing our ‘new coach’ around his new school on the 1st day of school? doesn’t staff orientation come before the kids go back? oooo, did someone say coffee?

P1: Amid mounting budget cuts, MHS celebrates the hiring of Miss Francis.

P2: Welcome to the Crazy World of Artrhur Brown.

P3: At least MOP did a bang-up job on the locker room floor.

Pete Davidson… haha… does Bill Barr go there too?

Whigs loves drawing feet too

…and away we go with another incomprehensible subplot. After a handful of sorta-competent strips, l almost forgot what strip I was reading.

Mimi never answered Gil’s question

I’ve read Gil Thorp for over 40 years. Today I am unsubscribing out of principle. There hasn’t been one story arc that I have found intriguing or interesting in the past year.

Gil Thorp is no longer a strip about High School Sports, and when sports makes a cameo in the strip it is remarkably bad or inaccurate.

I have a Google Alert set for when Henry is (finally) fired or moves on to greener pastures, then I’ll give it another try.

Ok, it’s another comic that seems to be random sentences strung together.

Henry played us all… we all woke up at a ungodly hour to get Mimi’s answer, got pulled into a new school year, couldn’t figure out panel 2, and didn’t understand it until we grabbed some coffee. Well played, Henry!

“Pull your pants up”??? Ding Dong is right? Wait…. what happened to ‘Are you two in love?’ Which, btw, was asked as if asking the time.

No Milford Town Park City Lake beach time this Summer. Little fun and intrigue at MCC. No HVB and JaQuan The Don doing stupid things. Like a whiny fart, we wobble into a new school year, earliest in GT history.

P3- Lukey is welcomed by Fist Pump Family members. He will be consecrated with the bonds of obedience.

Whaaaaaaat?

Also, did we get an answer to the “are you two…in love” question?

Is that supposed to be Luke? If so, how does he already know a kids name well enough to scold him about his pants on first day of class?

Pete Davidson won’t be the only SNL alum to appear in Gil Thorp this year. Look for guest appearances from Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri as the new cheerleading coaches, Molly Shannon as the Pedro’s new love interest Mary Katherine, and Bill Murray as Mopman’s rival, the groundskeeper.

I just don’t get this strip. it just seems like it’s a long stream of non-sequiturs. I give up. Leaving.

I believe the witch is dead in Milford

P1 Ring out the old, ring in the new / Ring out the old, ring in the new / Ring out the false, ring in the true / Ring out the old, ring in the new

P2 Who cares about brewing coffee, Dick?

P3 “The loofah drill is the most treasured tradition in this locker room, Luke. Do you know what BOHICA means?”

Meanwhile the ants eagerly fall in for the first day of school loofah distribution.

Day one of the new school year and Henry shows up at school wearing his TCFS (Too Cool For Snark) button.

Aside from all the other unanswered questions, what are all these UPS drivers doing at Milford HS?

P 2.5 (Luke): “…maestro what?… this school is weird…”

ball of confusion that’s what this strip is

Where’s the continuity?

So, a wrestling coach automatically becomes a full year job??

Well, it actually beats my home at home, the doghouse Franny put me in

Yes.

At first I thought Luke was being put in a room that had some vending machine leaking oil. That’s what he deserves! And speaking of deserving, you deserve a break today, so get up and get away, to Mopped Up Thorp!

This is like reading Ullysses.

Who knows what evil lurks in your new home away from home?

The Shadow do.