Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 17, 2011

Since last season, Kayla has grown into a young woman, while Parker remains fixed in a state of permanent adolesence. This much-maligned comic is clever the way it handles things like this.

Does Gil have a new assistant in P1? Senor Wences?

How much for an upper torso tatoo of my Milford letter jacket?

sdebarr….LMAO!

Cortez looking more like Abdul Jabbar circa 1985 every day!

Parker intends to spend $30 each week until his whole body looks like Robert DeNiro’s in “Cape Fear.”

It’s sad. Parker wants to get a “Kayla” tatoo in a forlorn attempt to win her back.Meanwhile, didn’t the chick on the poster’s tat migrate from her lower back to her thigh?

Oh, and note the pill bottle in the foreground. Foreshadowing of more problems to come? Yes, DB, for all the ribbing we give Gil, we really do love it.

This BBall season’s crisis is a mass outbreak of Hepatitis from improperly disinfected tatoo needles. Look for the school being locked down by the CDC until the source of the contagion is identified.

I don’t like this Ransom dude – never trust a tattoo shop owner with no ink on his own arms, it’s like buying bacon from a skinny butcher.

I can’t imagine how Gil manages to contort his gnarled hand and arm that way.

for $30 you get GIL on your forehead.