Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 05, 2024

I would pay at least $4.57 to see Don Cherry react to this.

So they’ve given up on winning the hockey game and instead are rehearsing to join the Ice Capades.

This comic is becoming Zippy the Pinhead.

WTF?? Seriously. WTF? First growling at the other football team, and now…

P4: No one likes it.

This thread is BAAd — but East Hampton is about to get sheared.

If you can’t beat ’em, confuse ’em.

Short sleeved hockey sweaters? WTF!

Six skaters on the ice in P-2. Pulled the goalie?

P1 Whigs signals his unspoken support of the “Rebellious 21” gang of snarkers vocally critical of the writing with the Milford players casting skeptical glances out to the reading audience.

P2 A circle jerk if there ever was one. ‘Nuff said.

P3 Any doubt about Whigs’s sentiment about the writing are erased as the East Hampton player has an EES (the first of 2024 by the way) episode while watching his teammate grip his shaft.

The opposing players’ comments in P3 would fit perfectly as comments about this strip lately.

Meanwhile, out of panel, Jami Thorp feverishly fumbles with the door handle in a desperate attempt to get on the ice to join the Mudlarks and sing along.

Fweet! This strip, 2 minutes for unsportsmanlike inanity

Speaking of Black Sheep, Robert Conrad shows up with his battery. I dare you to knock it off.

This strip just overloaded and burned out the stupid meter.

I keep thinking about a panel earlier this week where Ima Hottie, Keri and a linebacker legged blonde were doing sprints under the watchful eye of Luke. Has Dotty Dubbs bulked up to wrestle in the 171 lb class?

A Bing Crosby Bob Hope kinda bit.

Once OT achieved, kumbayah assures the W.

Coach Cami is that much closer to a Jack Adams Trophy.

What the literal hell.

I’m now convinced this writer enjoys the snark as much or more than we enjoy giving it. Otherwise, why would he keep serving up this trash that makes it so easy?

While they’re standing there singing the other team scores 1,2,3 goals????

Why did the one player attach his cell phone to the end of his stick? Are they recording this for TikTok? And speaking of recording, Milford will be recording another victory if the scheme being hatched in Mopped Up Thorp is successful.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/01/05/more-dirty-tricks/

What the hell is happening?

Tomorrow Taylor Swift will show up to lead the singalong.

In real life, there’s no way these players would go along with this and no way Cami would be the coach once the players parents saw this happen

I feel so misdirected I can’t snark. This tripe is simply not worth my efforts.

And, wasn’t this originally a girls hockey team? These skaters look more like guys to me. But then again, I’m misdirected.

“Save the hand holding for the locker room!”

Un coachable. Not holding hands.

it would have been better for the team to lay on the ice like seals then when east hampton came to club them they would all get ejected and milford wins by forfeit

i think cami has had three bags full of gin not wool

henry gets these ideas riding his bicycle in north hollywood

Ooh, is this one of those Disney on Ice things? Yay, I hope they do Frozen next!

Somewhere Mary Worth, Crankshaft, Mark Trail are reading todays comic. and laughing their a$ses off.

Those are some realistic sticks and uniforms!

In the Milford huddle, Cami barking out final instructions

“Okay, Harry, you know what you have to do.”

Minutes later

“All right, East Hampton, lemme hear ya, good and loud!!!!!!

Take me out to the balllllll game

Take me out to the crowwwwwddddd

etc. etc. etc.”

Finally

All right, East Hampton, say it with me LET’S!!!!!! GET!!!!!!! SOME!!!!!!! RUNS!!!!!!!!”

Milford will win in a walk, bet on it. The East Hampton Hardheads will get confused and take their puck and go home. This plot will right itself as a result. All will be right with the world and we will finally know Batman’s identity in the bargain. Life is good.

Another great coaching strategy by Cami “Toe” Ochoa