Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 19, 2024

Technically, when you were kids I didn’t think two females could be married.

Who is that with the spiked hair in P1? That can’t be Keri, can it?!?

the extra bonus panel today is…more hands. wah wahhhhh

How old was Jami as the priest, 2?!? That wasn’t holy water…

And Tobe in P1 & 2 are the same person?

Oh no. It’s getting difficult for me to tell Leo and Tobe apart, more senior moments. Are they sitting in the bleachers?

Jami. A priest. JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!

Keri at confession: “Bless me father, for I have sinned. I’m a Ho.”

Today, instead of Hraak!, it’s Hurrrrlll!

ToBe becomes GT’s Mark Ratner and Keri as Stacy Hamilton. A passionate relationship but they haven’t gone all the way. Welcome to Bronco Burger.

Am I supposed to remember all these people? It was easier when they were in numbered uniforms.

P2: There’s your profile pic ToBe.

It’s not a pick!

And no IUD needed… win win!

P 1.5 (Tobe): “..it is!…even though the scuttlebutt in the school is that you’re ‘damaged goods’, I don’t care….I’ll try you out anyway…”

And…puck to the face. WHAK!

So now Keri’s going to try clam digging too?

Remember when this strip used to be about sports? I miss those days.

P-1: Keri declares “misdirection”.

P-2: Danger, Danger: asking for one date & she’s already talking commitment.

P-3: Sherlock for Henry’s fantasy obsession: “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”. What is the current term for a Non-Binary relationship with a Non-committed girl: Oh, I know…Nonsense!

Focus the camera back on the game, please.

What? No sound effects today?

its not gonna last tobe when peanut sees your peanut

tobe did i tell you besides pedro the hockey team did a hat trick on me

keri wants to get it on with tobe under the bleachers buts scared meemaw might be there

Will Dorothy become a jealous bad girl again?

So technically, your fling with Pedro was adultery.

Complementing what I wrote yesterday, I really like Barajas’ writing. It’s simple and solid. It suits a daily strip for nowadays: if you read any vintage strip, you’ll see that they had a LOT of words. Not that we can’t have that, but we live in a different era where everything is supposed to be fast. If a strip has multiple word balloons, I think most of the readers skip it.

And that’s why I said I agreed with the user that mentioned too much going on. A daily strip needs to be carefully written in order to make the reader (a) want to come back on the following day to see what else is gonna happen and (b) feel confortable enough to not forget what happened yesterday or the day before.

It’s risky to have multiple storylines going on since not all readers have access to previous strips and stories. I’d love to reach Barajas and see what he thinks of this.

P3- Technically, the marriage was never consummated.

I guess Keri getting knocked up won’t be a story arc for a while… unless ToBe and Rod share everything.

Marty Feldman’s son in P2, or Cross-Eyed Mary.

Whew, already 75 comments. What can I add? Um, looks like the hockey team has a big a fan base as JV volleyball. Attendance may have hit double digits if they’re lucky. And speaking of lucky, you’re lucky that a new episode of Mopped Up Thorp is online.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/01/19/grabby-hands/