Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for March 09, 2024

P3: He was humming Baa Baa Black Sheep.

Does anyone ask you if you got a haircut? In any event, a rather odd non sequitur.

P4: So are we to assume that Gil smiles as the announcer says “He scores” because he’s proud of his night with Beth? Perhaps the official scorer was there…

No haircut, just some trim…

The Pat Riley wet look

What the hell is our hero doing in a sports thingy? Confusing the defender? This is confusing me

Check the gym roof for a crashed Cessna.

Fly back tonight- whatever happened to Gil works well on court for the team.

Looks like both the coach and his team are scoring much better.

P4- Warm up my ride Tays. Time to hit the Playas Lounge.

What is this strange thing they’re doing, with that round object?? Whatever it is, it’s only going to confuse this story line even more.

I feel for the defender. I’m confused by this strip as well.

“…Gordon confuses the defender when his shorts fall off…”

P4 (Gil thought bubble): “Yas! Yas I did!”

Moon: “… and what is going on with coach thorp today… he continues to sit on the bench with a towel on his lap…”

P1: “Barnes hangs in the rafters after his latest three, folks! He’s really feeling it tonight and putting on a show. Too bad there aren’t any pro scouts here watching tonight.”

P2 “Nope, no haircut. I got manscaped.”

P3: (Pueblo defender): “I blow my nose in your general direction!”

P4 (Gil thought bubble): “Yas! Yas I did!”

P-1: Now, why would he do that? Threes need to be free, not stored in bags or boxes. They do tend to turn quickly, so he might also be refrigerating them.

P-2: When you’re hot, you’re hot. Now, Luke thinks Gil’s looking good.

P-3: Gordon confuses the defender by going to the wrong basket.

P-4: Gil is proud of helping Pueblo learn to lose with dignity.

The moral of the story here is all that you need to get your manhood back is some eager beaver. Coach No-nads needs to take note of what Gil did.

“He shoots. He SCORES!”

For Gil, it was the other way around!

gil thinks maybe ill let luke smell my finger and guess what I was up to

thorp gave tays another day off to get a table dance ? luke should be making Irma do windsprints or something not watching basketball

did pueblo coach chief jay strongbow protest this game too where still waiting for the commissioners report

I guess from here on out, Gil needs to get laid before every game so his team will play better.

I checked in today to see if Gil and Beth are developing deeper feelings for each other and all we get is a basketball game. WTF?

P 3: … said no announcer ever

P1- Hot Rod goes off ballin’. Gil did so also.

P2- So many good vibrations in Milford, worth a double Fist Pump. Gil is stylin’ and profilin’.

P3- 3 and 9 Pueblo is the victim of Apache basketball and EMS, Exploding Mouth Syndrome.

P4- Gil channels Phil Jackson and has a soulpatch working. I would say Beth has knocked the rust off.

P 2.5 (Gil): “… but I did get some trim…”

P 4 (Gil thought bubble): “…. This worked out pretty good…. I still didn’t have to do any real coaching… “

P2- (Gil): “Nope….Did you get a new hairpiece?”

Sports? Why is today’s strip about sports?

This is what happens when you clean out the coal furnace, your ashes get hauled.

Pueblo…so much for Milford being in the Northeast or Midwest.

Vito, Is Gil working for you now, Black Shirt etc?

That is the worst ‘writing’ I’ve seen out of Henry yet. Awful!

Gordon out there, breaking ankles. He’s surely moving up the NBA draft boards. Lottery pick potential? And speaking of potential, today’s Mopped Up Thorp has potential to be a top ten. Or a bottom ten, it can go either way, as with all of them.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/03/09/too-many-gils/

Pueblo? They’re in Colorado?

Know it sounds picky, but it looks like Tobi is carrying the Basketball in Panel 3 by the placement of his hand, which is against the rules.

Ooh, nice shot of me in P2. But I’m slightly embarrassed. I was caught abandoning fist pumping for just a second when I tried to start The Wave.

So this is the “sports” our esteemed [cough, cough] writer told us would return 3/9. Hmm..

Speaking of him, for those interested, he and I are having a conversation from my 3/2 post. He claims that “I love this strip”. I guess he does in the way someone loves a Big Mac but only if you replace the special sauce with ranch dressing, the American cheese for Swiss cheese, and the sesame seed bun for a brioche bun.

He also said “but this is the direction I’m taking the character and strip”. My response is too long to repost here. To quote a character from a different comic, “Some people just want to watch the world burn.”

Gil be pimpin’

Nope but he certainly got IT.