Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for April 20, 2012

Kayla continues to grow into adulthood, while Parker remains resentful of his inability to leave adolescence behind him.One of the strengths of this much-ridiculed comic is tbe changes in its young characters, season by season.

I Wonder if she brought the small fry out for fries.

Parker, “why must you be such an angry young man….?”

Parker thinks, “To much time on my hands” and, “I’m gonna be a blue collar man.”

Parker, you’re only fooling yourself! This looks like no softball team I’ve ever seen.

There is just no getting around it. Those “M” tattoos are ugly. (And I’ve heard Parker really gets upset if you tickle his tattoo)

Light(en) Up, Parker. Come and join the celebration.

How are they looking when two of the three of them’s eyes are closed?

Wow, even the girls are hot for Darby.

P4 – “With her little brother!”

“OMG, our pitcher is tattooed from head to toe!”

@davidblack, I’ve sort of lost track of what Kayla looks like, but if she’s the one talking in panel 3, she doesn’t seem very adult — she seems very adolescent in a Mean Girls sort of way.

I hate that lying tattoo shop!

I think Jaxon is going to make an appearance at the Buxet. I am enjoying the lingering resentment from Parker, how is it going to play out on the diamond?