Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for October 18, 2011

Azal, the kicker who took a hike.

I thought Gil was wearing a cashmere Armani suit, but it must be Gortex.

Gil looks like he’s dressed to hit the MILFord disco. Leisure suit Larry is saving a stool for him.

Guess we’ll be going for two on those extra point attempts for the rest of the game.

Don’t worry. Azal redeems himself and gets the girl when he captains the school chess team to the state championship!

Good thing it’s the home opener … he won’t have as far to walk

Gil lets him walk off! Gil, show a little mentoring and make him stay with the team at least until game end. Not one player to tell him to hang in there, either. Nice team. All losers.

Wait a minute—I have a weeks full of Argo Impenary material. Bring him back. Maybe Argo can prevent Azal’s suicide.

Argo Impenary is the finest creation of writer Lean Inrub.

Don’t they have football tryouts at Milford?

You would think that it would have been obvious that Azal couldn’t kick worth a f**k prior to three or four games into the season.

Way to have your boss’ back, Kaz. The Gifather missed a great teaching opportunity here. “You can start by acting like a man!!”

He hasn’t even attempted a kick yet! The first attempt was the fault of the snapper/holder and he didn’t even kick it. How does he know he’s terrible yet?

I predict Marty Moon will see this and launch into a tirade about Gil kicking him off the team.

Oh great … I guess I’ll just put my Jaddou jersey on eBay …..

Our local hs team doesn’t have a kicker and goes for 2 after every td. It works, they’re having a good year.

Azal’s no fool. Mimi is waiting behind the bleachers to “console” him.

Yeah that’s a first. No one has ever quit a football team before.

Garo Yepremian.

Exactly! That last one was the snapper’s fault. Gil needs to move “My Bobby” to deep snapper! Or eliminate the holder and let “My Bobby” drop kick those XPs and FGs like they did back in Wildcat’s day.

Is that David Byrne in P1 ?

NEXT THE KID WILL END UP ON DR.PHIL