Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 08, 2024

The reporter looks familiar?

Oh. Yeah. Chapter Five.

College basketball season ends tonight. Time for some baseball, or more likely half a dozen spring sports at once.

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna Rock ‘n Roll.

P2.5 “Yas. We’ll have them on their hands and knees barking like dogs at loofah drills. Heh!“

Chapter Five: It’s Lonely at the Top. (It’s even more lonely when you don’t get there and nobody cares.)

P3- John Lennon makes a hologram cameo. Whatever gets you through the night Hot Rod. It’s better than starting over.

Alex, I will take “Things that NEVER will happen for $1 000”.

So, I guess this “Rod going pro” thing is really gonna happen. GT really is one of those slapstick comedy strips.

P 4: “… oh… and by the way, we’re from America’s Funniest Home Videos…”

There are implausible plot lines and then there are hallucinatory ones.

it looks like someones been eating those mushrooms they dont put on your pizza

rod going pro ill see someone wearing a eddie trunk t shirt first

rod and luke what imaginations they have

Wait…the Misdirect is over? What was misdirected?!?!

If Chapter 5 is true, this writer will never have to worry about being lonely. So he’s got that going for him.

Coach Nonads, Inma and Aimee Mann win the mixed six-man tag match and take home the Stanley Cup.

Ah Geez, i was just getting into the Aimee Mann story!!! And they have to mess it up with this sports junk!

I didn’t learn anything when Chapter 4 ended. Maybe this chapter will be different.

P3- At the top of this pile of bs there’s only flies.

Can we review Chapters 1 through 4 please?

Why???

Forgive me, I am but a simple man and I need some help. November 28 began Chapter 4 “The Misdirect”. (Announced at the end of Nov. 27.) Now that Chapter 5 is beginning, I (painfully) flipped through all the strips between then and now and I was wondering if someone could answer some questions:

1. What was the misdirect? “THE” is a definite article, so what activity, event, etc constitutes “the” misdirect? Or did the writer [cough, cough] mean “the misdirect” as a concept that connects the numerous [eye roll] plot lines together? If the latter, then again, what activities, events, etc constitutes those misdirects?

2. In light of Question 1, why was “The Misdirect” even the title of the chapter anyway if the reason for the title isn’t obvious?

3. Why does this comic strip even have chapters in the first place? There are natural breaks in the narrative flow, commonly called “high school sports seasons”. Why are these artificial chapters even being used?

4. Since July 2022, can anyone tell me how the Milford sports teams actually finished when the season was over? Since this is one of the points of the strip, (Henry, are you paying attention? Suggestion: Read that last part over and over until it sinks in.) it would be nice to know how the teams did. Or do I need to just assume they finished second in the Valley?

Thanks!

Eloquent your plea is.

If Rod doesn’t go pro, I’m guessing he can at least earn a lot of NIL dough when he graduates. Then he can afford some sleeves. And speaking of affording, you can’t afford to miss today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

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He thinks he is good enought to go pro, yet wants to go to college but can’t afford it. There should be a dozen schools ready to give him a full ride.