This week’s posts brought to you by KAZ-BOT!
Being devoid of human emotions, KAZ-BOT has no feelings regarding Valentine’s Day. Well, except KAZ-BOT does have a mild affinity towards some of the mysterious technological items that sit on Gil’s desk. Like check out the one on the left in the third panel! Wow, I’d like to reformat that hard drive.
Oh and feel free to discuss the comic above. Personally I find it trite and demeaning towards eskimos.
Okay, he’s obviously got a concussion. Not report a mugging because you didn’t see your attacker? Now, that’s idiotic. Especially in peaceful little Milford, where this qualifies as a crime wave. What’s really going on is that he’s covering for Brynna; if the cops get involved, they might discover that she’s an alien and turn her over to the Men In Black. If Tyler goes to the ER, the doctors might detect the alien parasites growing in his midsection, and we can’t have that, now can we? (Speaking of Brynna, I think her flying saucer is lurking in the background of panel 3.)
The Geographic Conundrum That Is Milford: I thought it was supposed to be generic Midwestern, but if thats the case, they’re having an awfully mild winter. Since the characters are standing around outside in light jackets or shirtsleeves, Milford must be no farther north than, say, Chattanooga.
Comment by johnw — February 14, 2007 @ 11:24 am
I too am curious what the hell that thing is hovering near Tyler’s head. My first thought was that Tyler, feeling woozy from the concussion and/or massive head trauma he recently received, has decided to lay down next to a Middle School science demonstration involving magnets and iron filings.
But after reading johnw’s post about the oddly warm weather in “Midwestern” Milford, it all became clear. Milford may in fact be a town-that-time-forgot deep in the Florida swamps, and the mysterious object in panel three is in fact the fabled Will o’ the Wisp.
Comment by CounterHegemony — February 14, 2007 @ 11:55 am
johnw–clearly Milford is in another dimension. Note the full moon in panels 1 and 2 on 2/12 and in panel 2 on 2/13. The last such celestial event visible to we Earthlings was on 2/2.
Comment by Flyby Reader — February 14, 2007 @ 11:56 am
I assumed the mystery object in Panel 3 was a small, localized Aurora Borealis.
Comment by Cash — February 14, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
I bet Brynna is the one who whacked him in order to cast suspicion on R.J..
Comment by Fuzzyman — February 14, 2007 @ 3:34 pm
That’s Grant in panel 2, right? Wasn’t sure if it was him or Paris.
Comment by Ennui, Willie Keeler — February 14, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
It’s Grant. Paris wears horizontal stripes.
Comment by Scott de B. — February 14, 2007 @ 5:02 pm
Also Grant’s face is about 40% thinner.
Comment by Cash — February 14, 2007 @ 6:20 pm
It’s clearly Navi the Fairy.
Clearly.
Comment by Black Card — February 14, 2007 @ 9:32 pm
I’ve given up trying to keep track of what’s who. There are only 3 main (note that I said main)characters in Gil Thorp: boys who look like Gil, boys who look like girls, girls who look like boys.
Comment by dale — February 15, 2007 @ 2:09 am
The reverse Giloolly theory is still the best one I have even after seeing today’s strip. As
I predicted yesterday and “Fuzzyman” reiterated today, this is a set up. I thought Brianna
hit Tyler to take out her frustration with him and will blame R.J. who just happened to show up
late to the party. Now, as someone mentioned, where is Jason? Was the bright light and
the assault actually done by Jason Beattie who is one of Brianna’s goons. Remember the
newspaper reporter is on the girl’s team and has a license to print anything. Keep in mind
that Nancy Kerrigan was whacked by Tonya Harding’s goons at Cobo Arena in Detroit. Where is
writer Neal Rubin based again?
Comment by Gray — February 15, 2007 @ 6:37 am
It’s so sad that Tyler has such low self esteem. I blame that evil Brynna, always calling him stupid and such. Next she’ll be telling him how ugly he is so he won’t attract any of the other manish basketball players. And that’s just wrong. He’s beautiful! He looks so Adam Ant-ish, I’m swooning just looking at his lovely 2-dimentional face.
*sigh!*
Comment by jailbird — February 15, 2007 @ 8:38 am