Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 12, 2024

Who are these people?

I guess he’s not going pro.

That may in fact be the reason that you’re being benched, Martin.

Umm… WTF?

Ah yes, Coach Thil Gorp.

P4 “Sit yer @ss down, son. Yer playing even less now.”

Misdirected or misguided?

I wonder how Inma Pants’ is doing with her wrestling career and parental units.

SQUIRREL!

A GQ Verizon of Kaz sans the magnificent sideburns. That perm makes a younger Doug Collins envious.

What the hell has happened to this strip? Aren’t the editors or the syndicate even remotely concerned about how ridiculous this has become?

Take a seat, Draymond.

I think it’s the Milford opponent and when Martin finally gets back in, someone on Milford is gonna feel the brunt of his anger, like maybe Tobe (giggle)…..

Don’t give Kaz no jazz.

Paging Player Howard, Player Martin, Player Howard!!

is this another MISDIRECT !!!!

failed 90210 actor ian ziering says if gil thorp can coach hoops maybe i can

if you barely played martin why are you sweating so much vape withdrawl ?

Tough decision by coach Sid Eudy/ Sid Vicious/ Sid Justice/ Psycho Sid etc.

I’m having troubled finding a story here. Maybe if the player hits the coach…

time to get some chips dips and menthols to watch this game

I thought the game was over yesterday.

Actually, I’d like to hear from the 5 readers who gave this installment a “like”. Please.

I think even half of the snarkers today are confused. And we are regular readers. What about the dozen or so casual readers.

That coach looks like the guy that coached Bradley U in the 1980’s

Hey Martin, if you’re not getting much playing time on the basketball team, quit it and join the ice hockey team instead. But first, brush up on your nursery rhymes.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Now that Coach Hernandez has been tamed into friendship with Gil, we need a new bad guy, at least for this basketball season. Should it be this guy, a basketball coach with a perm? Yes, absolutely, 100%. Even during the brief heyday of perms on men in the ’80s, an NBA coach getting a perm was a pretty automatic indication that he was leaning into his role as a sinister villain. A bepermèd high school coach? In the year of our lord 2024? This guy’s a monster, a maniac. You’re making a deal with the devil, Howard!

I’m assuming Mr. Martin is going to go full Latrelle Sprewell on Coach Perm in less than a minute. HvB will beat the assault case, saying Mr. Martin was overcome with chemical poisoning from hair gel.

Not only does it appear that the game from yesterday is today being played in reverse but us old-timers have already seen Doug Collins when he did a second tour with Air Jordan with the Wizards when the latter took off a tie(ill-advised, IMO) and went back out on the court “to show how it’s done”. Two thoughts come to mind

1) Michael, as much as you’re always GOAT with me, if you weren’t willing to motivate in street clothes, the alternative was pointless. Trying to make a Pippen or a Kukoc out of a roster that was mediocre might have been a struggle when you were the Sharp Dressed Man, but you had nothing more to prove while in any NBA gym shorts.

2) It’s bad enough we’re getting jerk-chained from plot to plot but this (possible) Benjamin Buttons approach to basketball plot development is asinine. I’m only criticizing Michael reluctantly cuz the dude at least had rings on his fingers. This train wreck to perdition wouldn’t get a cutie ring out of a gumball machine.

BTW, Doug Collins can still go get his Silver Medal. He also accomplished something and didn’t do it backing up a train wreck into No Man’s Land. Common sense does apply occasionally.

Kaz’z evil brother?

No need for any exposition as to whether or not this is a Milford home or away game. Just look at that floor, it’s obvious! And speaking of obvious, since I’m commenting it’s obvious that another Mopped Up Thorp has just been uploaded.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/01/12/painful-ringer/

why did he grab his throat when he said howard in hmmmm

martin threatens the coach you know my uncle is freddy boom boom washington retread

where did coach get that perm lemontree with a coupon ?

Not sure if the coach is Ric Flair or Dee Snyder.