Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 12, 2021

P1: Yeah, about 3 weeks ago, Gil! Oh, right, they’re on MBT…Milford Behind Time.

P2: Talk to the hand…I SAID NO COFFEE!

P1: Whoa…is Mimi about to pull a Fatal Attraction?!?

P3: So how old are these guys?!? The one on the left with the hastily receding hairline about 30, the guy standing up about 20, and the guy in the Gilligan hat and the cargo shorts, 11, at least style-wise?

Are we moving from eating pie at the Milford Library Board to drinking water and coffee at the Milford Star? How can we cope with such constant non-stop action?

Gil, you had just one line to kick off the summer story arc, and you blew it. It’s supposed to be “Sunshine, you, me, lemonade, and Pedro.”

Ah, Summer’s Here. P1 is the cradle of all summer stories, Gil’s front porch. Right up there with “Once upon a time”, “In the beginning there was darkness”, and “Call me Ishmael”.

P3 Awesome, we have already arrived at MCC. Let the “games” begin.P4 Let’s get over to the pool and see how the MILF’s look!!!

How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all?

Which one of those Jaboneys at MCC will become the star of the summer story line (as reported on in the Milford Star) and, coincidentally, the football stud that will lead the Mudlarks to 2nd in the Valley? Vito from Goshen says the smart money is on the guy in the red shirt who looks suspiciously like a certain former state champ coach. I wonder if he has a twin sister?

In all reality Mimi , Sunshine for you skin cancer to follow .

P1 1M1/Mimi chilling on the deck in her clam diggers digging watching Pedro work poolside while her gopher GilPa fetches her Hoo-spiked lemonade – ahhhh summer!

P2 Heather Burns interviewing for a position at the Milford Star? Aren’t there already one too many reporters in town already?

P3 Whatever Hendricks is buying, I hope it cures (purple?) shirt dude’s measles, rash, acne or whatever he has on his face

Next story line is the dangers of drinking. Which will it be:

A: Lemonade with the Thorps?

B: Bad coffee at the newspaper office?

C: Many rounds of beer with the lushes at the 19th hole?

Three story lines in one day!

P1, Just as the storm clouds roll in.

P2, Can I get you some water, Heather? A cup of coffee? Me? Heather Burns returns as a summer intern at the Milford Star and Mr. Dadbod makes his move as we have our first sexual harassment story in Milford to celebrate Bill Cosby’s release from prison. I thought Double D was the journalism student.

P3, These dudes must be challengers for Gil’s club championship, and I’m sure one of them must be Kaylie’s father.

Heather, I’ve got a couple hot tips that about a young girl abandoned on a golf course, and that Marty Moon may have a drinking problem. But we gotta move fast!

Who is Thorps new love interest in panel#1? Doesn’t look like previous drawings of MiMi

P1- Mimi thought bubble. When will that doofus leave so I can chase Pedro around the pool with my riding crop? He’s more annoying than those kids and dog we allegedly had.

P1. P-Whipped! P2. Sexual harassment suit coming. P3. Hendricks Ghin?

What’s in those ice cubes that keeps them from floating?

So bored from the previous plot, Heather needs five cups of coffee to remain awake!

The Thorps deserve some down time after months of tedious busy-body-ness

Milford Star the only paper in North America hiring.May see a lot of Chicago Tribune columnists applying.

P1- Fabio drops by to work on his tan.

P1: Is Mimi about to pull a Sharon Stone?!?

Okay, those of you saying that’s Gil? No. Based on the riveting exposition boxes, these three exciting events are all happening simultaneously. Hendricks will be the person that pisses us off the most this summer. And I’m thinking he’s not a student. But I could (and often have been) wrong.

P1 – What happened to Mimi’s legs? They look pretty cut up and bruised.

P2 – I’m thinking, no that’s not Heather Burns. She’s been gone too long. But on the other hand, Hadley V. Baxendale was gone a decade or more and she came back.

P3 – I’m thinking these are all adults. So, potential new coach? Parent of the new star athlete that just moved into town? Someone with an axe to grind against the Thorps?

And speaking of grinds, Mopped Up Thorp is back to the old grind with this new story arc.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

If that’s Mimi, I’m beginning to think she’s some sort of chameleon shapeshifter or perhaps a mutant like Mystique. These days she doesn’t look the same panel to panel let alone day to day.

P3, in the Gilligan hat: Cinderella story, he’s about 200 yards from the hole…It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!

Jimi?