OK, so what did I miss over the last two days? Saturday, the players discussed the state of this blog, while wearing their crazy glowing number jerseys:
Yeah, I wouldn’t count on it either. This thing has legs.
Monday brought us two gripping panels of football ACTION!:
…accentuated by lots of ACTION! lines and LIGHTS! Not to mention the introduction of 1980s TV (ACTION!) star Dino Cannon!
Which brings us up to today:
Yeah, so as a surprise to everyone, Sean plays defense! What’s going on here? I have a number of likely theories:
- The author has forgotten the name of all othe other characters he introduced, so he decided from now on, all players will just be called “Sean” or “Stormy.”
- Gil is building a clone army of Sean Pettibones modelled after his own rugged (albeit square-headed) good looks and smug sense of righteousness.
- Increasingly students in the region are unable to find Milford on their map, leading to dropping attendance rates. In order to keep all the school’s traditional varsity sports alive, the same eleven guys must now play offense, defense, special teams, basketball, baseball, jai alai and chess.
Now to answer some other good reader questions:
What’s going on in the last panel?
Varsity arm-wrestling. It’s another sport Stormy must compete in, but he only has time to do it in between downs.
What kind of name is ‘Dino Cannon’?
A very awesome one. Don’t you wish that was your name? It would be an great alter-ego for posting comments on this blog, wouldn’t it?…Just sayin’, is all.
Is there any way to describe football players playing on both offense and defense that doesn’t sound kinda gay?
No.
Dino Cannon is truly an awesome name. Perfect for a lounge singer or maybe an action hero. How do I go about filing a petition for a name change?
Comment by Tim Goral — October 24, 2006 @ 11:25 am
Dino likes your praise. Dino runs the ball up the field, down the field, through the red zone, into the end zone. Dino scores, the team is happy. Dino likes Ricky!
Comment by Dina Cannon — October 24, 2006 @ 11:36 am
By the way, the Detroit News is running an online game featuring Neal Rubin, News columnist and “Gil Thorp” writer. It’s a sort of a takeoff on “Where’s Waldo,” with photos of World Series crowds. Rubin is somewhere in each crowd shot. Here’s the link…
http://info.detnews.com/tigers/games/index.cfm
Of course, depending on your opinion of the GT scriptwriting, you may prefer not to find Neal. Just imagine: he’s getting paid to attend the World Series so they can take pictures of him standing in the beer line. Life’s tough.
Comment by johnw — October 24, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
I thought we had already established that everyone on the Milford team plays both offense and defense.
Comment by Scott de B. — October 24, 2006 @ 3:40 pm
Oh my God, in the 10/25 strip, Stormy actually does something wrong! He falls prey to the sin of pride, and may cost his team the big game! The Vatican might have to postpone his canonization.
Comment by johnw — October 25, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
johnw–I thought so, too, but I’ve a sliver of doubt about what’s going on because of the herky-jerky pace of the strip.
Monday: kickoff, Pettibone scores TD, but Madison drives back.
Tuesday: Madison (still?) driving, Dino arm-wrestles Stormy.
Wednesday: Madison still driving in panel 1, Moon tells us they’ve scored a TD in panel 2, but, in panel 3, it’s now the 4th quarter of a shootout that is coming down to the last play. Huh? Has Stormy been out of it all game? Has the O-line finally gelled for Pettibone to run? Has Pearse overcome deficiencies of both?
Comment by Flyby Reader — October 25, 2006 @ 1:36 pm