Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 24, 2021

P3: Under cover of daybreak, they share their nefarious plan….

I like how they have to mention her by her full name….must have been several Heathers that applied for the job.

I didn’t realize Heather was so short….her feet are dangling off the couch. And that is the shortest couch I’ve seen….they must have bought it from Hervé Villechaize.

“I don’t mind coming in early. But why aren’t the nights turned on?”

“There’s too much detail in the panel for the colorist to manage. We’re on a budget here.”

P3: So early its still dark. And total BS about office coffee (at least at the places I’ve worked) being good.

P3 goes to dark??? OK, somebody splain me the color changes used by these so called artists (?) The subtlety is lost on me.

P3.5 here’s the deal: you want to start early and end your day by 3 correct? We need someone to open up in the morning, turn the lights on, take the garbage out and fire up the presses, what’d Thorp offer you to work for him? I will double – no, I’ll triple it, glad you like the coffee, get used to making it.

Marjie will help you settle in (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), if you know what I mean

P3 the chief – (sniff, sniff), it smells like booze in here, you didn’t happen to spend the night at the Thorps did you Heather?

There’s no sign of the editor’s goatee in P3, even when I looked at it on a site that enlarges the strip. Quick shave.

Zzzzzz…..

Wow, an internship with no pay! Do I have to pay for this great coffee?

We’ll hire her as an unpaid intern! Win-win!

P1, You, Marjie! That way I don’t have to hire anyone!

P2, Marjie sure wants some hot Heather action.

P3, She came in so early the automatic lights haven’t come on yet.

Does the Milford Star have State Champ Coach Gil coffee mugs or personalizes Dale and Marjie mugs? Heather mug is the generic INTERN variety.

old joke punch line: “and suddenly it dawned on her”.

Shouldn’t Gil be having the idea?? It is his strip

Heather automatically says “my pleasure” despite no longer working at Chick-Fil-A.

“Okay… here’s another idea. Heather can take over my job of giving you nooners, and I can go back to spending my lunch hours, y’know, actually eating lunch.”

P 4: “…speaking of pleasure…Marjie…please shut the blinds and lock the door so the three of us can get down to business…”

“Occasional personal accounts of being a female football coach for 5 cents per word? I’m in!”

P2- Yes, I know. With two years in the newsroom. I heard you the first time.

Newsrooms are known nationwide for their excellent coffee!

P1 – Oh yes, her ability to Google is an obvious display of unlimited potential.

P3 – Heather is excited to come in for the coffee? Now we see why she’s so eager to work as an assistant to the assistant to the assistant line coach for the pay of a weenie and a Diet Coke.

And speaking of weenies, your head janitorial weenie has just published another edition of Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Here’s my prediction. They offer Heather a job providing the “inside scoop” for a season of Mudlark football. A poor imitation of ESPN’s Hard Knocks,not on TV, but in a series of articles in the paper. There will be tension when some of the players are pissed about stuff she is sharing. Everyone will be all buddy-buddy by the end of the (disappointing) season. Heather will last throughout football, then will land some real job outside Milford. She’ll leave, and we’ll never see her again.

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(However, if I am WAY OFF, expect this comment to somehow be deleted.)