Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 21, 2024

At first, I thought he was saying “Yuk, yuk, hut!”

The inconsistency is amazing. Line markers and jersey numbers continually show up and then disappear from day-to-day.

Y2K?!? Geez…

Hey, Coach…why the long face?

P1: At least the scores couldn’t be in the wrong order today…

Ah, the super secret 3-4 defense that they would be playing all game…Henry is learning fast.

Would a real side-line conversation be that wordy? “Pass to Banner? Really” (The coach knows Banner’s nickname.) “Pass to Butter-fingers?” (The coach knows that’s what they call Paul Banner.) Of course the point of the dialog is to inform the readers – not the fictional characters in the comic strip. But it could be done in a slightly more naturalistic fashion.

Shouldn’t a high school have play numbers? Something more than “pass it to the tight end”? What kind of route? Protection scheme? And why does Butterfingers even play tight end? He must be a good blocker — why not move him to tackle or guard?

This game has been going on for so long that Coach Kim switched from an orange jacket to a yellow one.

P1 – Ball carrier spans over two yard lines (ostensibly) five yards apart. He must be over 15 feet tall!

That Austin Fields, some motivator, telling ToBe not to fumble yesterday.

Ever notice obesity doesn’t exist in The Valley? Where are the Brent Raptors and Wally Lambs? Even the linemen look underweight. We need a Larry Mondello like character to liven up this former Quinn Martin Production.

I know each team gets to use their own ball on offense. Clever of Milford to choose a ball so small that VT can’t see it. But why has VT chosen to use a clothes iron instead of a ball? Gonna make the passing game awful tough.

#Day863ofGilFansHeldHostagebyBadWriting

No wonder Gil won’t return, everybody now looks like they’re made of straw.

You have to use a football to make a touchdown, not a small dinner roll!

P1.5: “But they are going down … I mean, c’mon.”

did pedro go to the tanning booth between panals 2 and 3

everyone has to float into the end zone in milford no one scores standing up

No one would expect the 3-4 defense to defend the tight end. Not even on Y2K.

P1: ToBe now identifies as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float

That’s a good reminder for me to ask the clerk at Radio Shack if my vcr will still record Later with Bob Costas in January.

Whatever happened to Omaha, Omaha

P 2.5 (Pedro): “….why does that matter, you doofus?….my dad isn’t in the game…”

This is an important moment in the strip. Tights ends actually are the Achilles heel of the 3-4. HB has incorporated actual football knowledge and I want to encourage him, even as the artwork goes down the long angular tubes.

That won’t fool Luke. He can read lips and he knows < Korean > .

At first I thought this was a drug hallucination, Thorp was having, then it was an experiment printing, the rough sketches, before AI fixed things up. The sad truth, is this guy makes DRABBLE look like Milton Caniff.

everyone hear posts amusing stuff not like over in crankshaft where someone is trying to write a novel everyday or the oldhag club who thinks you can never say nothing bad about the strip

Why is Pedro’s lower hand touching the knee of the center? Is he trying to fumble the exchange to throw the game?

What is that in P1 failing to make the tackle? Looks like Winnie the Pooh’s head. And speaking of head, you should be heading over to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/pedro-gets-thrown/

Rod’s awesome peptalk did the trick!

I finally see how Rachel got the gig. She’s the ‘artist’ on Henry’s “I’m begging you, please pay me on KickStarter to get my work published” graphic novel.

My son plays HS football. Just like college and NFL, they call in play from sidelines. No run to sidelines for a dialogue. So lame.

Is that a football or a toy boat?