Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 14, 2022

Nice to see Mimi has returned from her travels “up north” at the Milford Adult Care facility. She will be dearly missed the next time she journeys to the far off uncharted lands of across town.

So will Mimi take over coaching the JV volleyball team? Will she also coach varsity volleyball, or will Gil take that one? Will he introduce them to the Delaware Wing-T?

Hey “Y’All”, from a NON-binary guy — Barajas is lucky to have us as readers and posters.

Too bad they’re not at the Diner. Mimi could have Mo serve Gil the papers along with a fresh slice of pie and a steaming cup ‘o joe.

Does it seems like the first two word balloons are out of order in P2?

P3- Gil has a look on his face that his pie hole is full of graham crackers. Whose ready for two a days, amazing sloppy Joe’s and a epic bonfire?

In all reality , You two where so good to me .When Mimi ,I mean Birth Mom had me at 15 you realized you couldn’t raise me , so you gave me up for adoption . I was adopted by a wonderful loving family . I just want to say Thanks and Gil order another piece of pie for yourself . I’ll get the check.

Mel gets to show off more of her 80s heavy metal wardrobe, What’s next? Slayer? Anthrax? Iron Maiden? I wonder if they’re all in that same lavender/teal hue?

Should we read anything more into his mom’s AC/DC shirt?

You have a bigger transition ahead, Gil, when Mimi serves the papers.

Oh, yay! A transgender storyline. I guess it was only a matter of time before wokeness struck.

Get back to sports!

P 1 (left side): …said no one ever

P 1.5: “..uh, I mean them, no! ..them’s!…uh they, umm those, uh, it’s, ….forget it…, I give up…”

“Ha, ha, remember the time I came onto you, Gil? Fun times!”

I don’t know if it is the writing, the artwork or the abrupt changes of scene and people. But I get confused and have to read more than once and go back to prior days strips to try and make sense of what is going on.

i’ve been reading this strip since the beginning in the chicago tribune…very sad what’s been done to it. i’m out.

Non-binary?

There have been some big changes, but Ellisburkes is still lobbing comments. It’s down right PUNishing!

P 2: “… I am SO sorry, but I just don’t care…”

Wait! Is Keri non binary or transgender? Proper noun for non binary is they. Use gender term for transgender people.

Has Mel been living down South, and now has an accent and uses terms like “y’all”? Is that a lame comment to wrap up the day? Yes, yes it is. And speaking of yes, yes, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is finally published.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/