Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 09, 2015

If she’s so tight with her Dad why didn’t she call him to come fix her tires, since he was right there in Central City? This is making no sense.

Good to see that sometime between panels 1 and 2, Ma Radley shaved off that goatee.

Well, Tru, we were screaming at each other like an episode of Jerry Springer and then, she started smiling at me! That really pissed me off so I ripped her goatee out and strangled her. Can you help me with the body?

Oh, and thanks for the shout out yesterday MOP. It’s always an honor to make it to Mopped Up Thorpe.

Boo has a special talent for non sequiturs. Ma Radley says Boo’s father worries about her, and Boo responds, “You don’t know the first thing about me.” Mom never claimed to be worried about Boo.

In all reality , after leaving True , Boo takes the shortut thru the cemetary home . The 2 punks from Central City attack her. Grandpa Boo appears and slices them to pieces with his K Bar knife. " Thanks Grampy , Anytime Honey ." “Enjoy your golf lessons tomorrow .”

Oddity in Milford. Radley women have no moustache. Mrs. Rad is a pussycat today. Like Boo extracted her sabertooth fangs.

I’m hoping Boo’s response in P3 is something like, “Mom said I have to take golf lessons at the Milford Country Club this summer.” Pending something like that, I’m not sure how we get Gil to the links before two-a-days start up.

The “Official GIL THORP Comic” obligatory hand (PATENT PENDING) appears in panel three today

So what do you think? Maybe Boo told her mom every horrible thing she’s done in the last 10 years and her mom had a stroke. And speaking of strokes, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is a stroke of genius mediocrity.

That’s not a goatee. Mom’s morphing today. When she first showed up, she qualified as a MILF. Yesterday she was just another middle aged mom. Today in P-1 she turned into her own mother, a sixty something. When that didn’t get sympathy from Boo, she went for a person recovering from a stroke in P-2. Mom is one of those UFO aliens we’ve been following through the football season. That means Boo is also one of them and explains why this storyline is alien to anything close to entertainment.

Thanks for the mention MOP. It’s an honor to be listed with such great sarcasm persona.

This has been a strange episode. Boo’s personality disorders really overly drawn out. And why is Tru(e) more interested in straightening out her brain than getting some acton. Can’t be high school.

Jon Jawor and his peacock have been waiting in the Men’s grill room shower at Milford CC for over a month!

Let’s go, Neil and Rod!

Okay, since MUT was done early and it’s raining and I have nothing better to do (sad) I did something I wanted to do for a while. I went through the 2015 strips to count the gratuitous hand drawings. The artist loves to prominently feature hands, so I did a subjective count of prominent hands in the strip. Not just any time a hand was seen, but when they were big, in your face, a point of focus.For instance, nothing today qualified, but yesterday we had the famous finger point. And July 6th had the “talk to the hand” pose. It’s not very scientific, and your count may differ.Anyway, so far for 2015 here are the totals:One Hand Out – 18Dramatic Finger Point – 8Two Hands Up – 7Random Hand Gestures – 5One Hand Stop (Talk to the Hand) – 3

One more and I promise this it. Read ‘BIG TOP’ today. The second panel hits close to home for Thorpians.

P1- Playing Mama Radley today in Milford Masterpiece Theatre is Leo Dicaprio.

Might also be interesting to get an EES (or other exploding) count too.

Maybe Boo told her mom where her nickname came from.