Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for October 04, 2024

Since when is high school track a fall sport?

Oh, yeah. In Henry’s peyote infested world.

And I thought Keri was too fat to hurdle?

P2: Omigod…Keri lost her leg below the knee! Oh, the humanity…

POW?!? Is that supposed to be the starting gun going off? The new team of writer and artist isn’t getting better.

Too bad the second and third place runners have no names.

Fourth place is you’re fired.

Are those the Thorp spawn in P3? Oy…any resemblance to the characters from the prior artist are purely coincidental.

First, doesn’t the Goshen girl have a name? Second, is this Bubba Joe Tidwell’s daughter (or granddaughter)? Finally, anyone else think that too many of the characters’ faces now look like bad Halloween masks?

I forgot being snarky is the thing

Keri takes to hurdles like ducks to water

Never heard of a HS Track meet being broadcast on radio.

P3: Jami, Mimi, and Ericka? Nice.

Keri was told to go out there and win one for the Gil-per.

P1- POW! Scared the crap out of Keri as she shot out of the blocks.

P2- Tilden not Tidwell Hanky.

P3- Cameo by absentee Mom. 10/4 good buddy.

Great race Keri. Fist pumps all around!

The new artist’s rendition of E(MeMe)ly more closely resembles her trashy persona and behavior in recent years. Nice!

P2: I must have missed the storyline where Keri lost her right leg?!? Nice to see her pick it up as a para-Olympian.

P1: False start on the entire field unless the gun was sounded off in Tidwell and we’re hearing it now.

the artist can give you a justin bieber hairstyle jami but we still dont want you around

inma was in the race too but her hibjib blew off thats why you dont seeher

i wonder if that girl from tilden smells pretty go check keri then go puke up your chili dog

Looks like the entire field false started, since they’re already at the first set of hurdles when the starter’s pistol goes off.

Fist-Pump Family returns! Now where’s Sign-Man?

Yay, good to know Milford has a track & field team. 2nd place, I’m stepping on up in my old age. Bunch of white ribbons in a box, still, for 3rd. Or, cross-country, mustard yellow, pink, green…

Calm down family, she just won a semifinal heat. No medal yet. And speaking of yet, why haven’t you read Mopped Up Thorp yet?

moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/hollow-victory/

MiMi looks as if Charlie Brown got introduced to China White.

“Keri Thorp is going to finish first……unless she misses a hurdle or falls down or slows down, then she won’t.”

So I never dreamed the artwork would ever be this terrible. Coupled the poor writing skills we have all suffered for a couple of years I am close to walking away from the strip Gil Thorp. Story arcs that change after only a couple of days filled with endless one of a kind type one day dramas that are never explained are awful. If the enough papers drop the strip perhaps the syndicators would also stop distribution. Perhaps this could force a sale to a capable writer and artist? Can anyone name a strip this terrible anywhere else?

It looks like the new artist sh!tcanned sign man too.

P4: Marty: “A student has just given me the names of the other finishers. Second place is Hugh Janus and third place is Phil McCracken.”

Sign man has defected over to crankshaft to make signs for the jerk offs protesting in front of old lady store.