Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for January 15, 2025

OK…What is up with these uniform numbers?

Ignorance or trolling?

With the Invisible Coach!

And the numbering style looks different on everyone.

High school basketball numbering does not allow jersey numbers above 55 and no numbers between 6 – 9 due to hand signaling constraints of the refs. Of course, that would require you to know something about high school sports or at least do some research.

We don’t get a redo on 2024. Sorry.

None of these characters will look the same tomorrow…

Check it out. It’s Henry’s day off.

What’s with all the lines on the court? Looks like an indoor football facility…

What do I see with numbers 40, 12, 9 and 5? 20 fouls. Gil’s Goon Squad.

89 put his jersey on backwards.

How come all the shirts are designed different

what does this do to carry forth the story line. Waste of a strip

Are we able to get this autographed?

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY IN THIS WORLD, WOULD YOU DO SOME BASIC RESEARCH, BARAJAS!!!!!!!

Here, I’ll help: google (or DuckDuckGo): legal numbers in basketball

This strip is hemorrhaging to death with all the easily avoided absurdities.

Why are you showing us LAST year’s varsity team?

This strip is an op. The back row are GPS coordinates for a spot on the fringes of the Taklamakan Desert, and the front row is, um, tonight’s Powerball numbers.

Hello?! Milford Elementary School? One of your 4th grade students left art class and is now illustrating Gil Thorp comics. PLEEZE take them back

White Shadow team picture vibes.

Which one is Salami?

For team photos everyone is usually shoulder to shoulder, must be a contagious skin condition at Milford

which ones TORCH ?

is gil the only person in milford who can get a decent haircut ? or does he fly somewhere to get it cut

Guy next to ToBe doesn’t have a number, it’s Henry’s face. Yeet!

#Day917ofGilThorpFansHeldHostagebyBadWriting

#Day107ofGilThorpFansForcedToEndureKindergartenLevelArtwork (and that is starting to be insulting to the kindergarteners).

Hey, now we know where the missing football yard lines went to.

Worth Repeating:#Day917ofGilThorpFansHeldHostagebyBadWriting

#Day107ofGilThorpFansForcedToEndureKindergartenLevelArtwork (and that is starting to be insulting to the kindergarteners).

I’ve seen only 3 of these 13 — Leo, Barnes and Toby — mentioned by name. More to come?

Did Marty take a second job at Milford and do the lining on the Gym Floor after a Night out?

Hmm, Leo was #7 a few days ago, now he’s #4. Oh that Gil, always messing with the opponents’ heads by having his players swap jerseys at random. And speaking of random, here’s a random thought. You should read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/not-gonna-find-anything/

Okay , for Henry AGAIN:1. The number on the front shall be at least 4 inches high, not lessthan ¾ inch wide (excluding the border) and centered vertically andhorizontally on the portion of the visible part of the jersey.2. Numbers shall be plain Arabic numerals and must be the same styleand color as the number on the back of the jersey.3. Legal numbers are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 00, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22,23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53,54, 55. A team member list shall not have both numbers 0 and 00.4. No more than three colors may be used in the number. The stylemust be clearly visible and conform to one of the following: a. A solid contrasting color with no more than two solid color1/4-inch borders around the entire number. If a team color isused as a border, it must be counted as one of the allowed colors. b. A solid contrasting color with a “shadow” trim of a contrastingcolor on part of the number not to exceed ½ inch in width andmay be used with one ¼-inch border.

TMI