Jason has left the safe confines of the blog-o-sphere in order to go interact with other humans face-to-face for a few days. In his absence the automatic Gil Thorp blogging robot KAZ-BOT will be filling in!
KAZ-BOT must admit that KAZ-BOT has not kept up with this comic since February. Instead KAZ-BOT has been enjoying the hot redhead in Judge Parker…Comics that make the gender of each character voluptuously obvious are much easier for KAZ-BOT to comprehend, rather than the androgynous nightmare that is “Gil Thorp.” KAZ-BOT would be pleased for you to explain just what the deuce is going on here.
oh please, please, please, please let these girls shave their heads in a show of solidarity when Mimi starts chemo. Since the only way to tell characters apart in this strip is by their hair, they’ll be totally indistinguishable from one another (except for Brynna’s antennae).
Comment by Tim Goral — May 24, 2007 @ 10:33 am
Welcome back, O Mighty Kaz-Bot! Your peeps have missed you.
Tim: I had the same thought… except maybe they can get the Clambake Special Acorn-Cut (see 5/16/07 strip) instead of the Full Kojak.
Just tryin’ to tie the plotlines together. I know Neal Rubin don’t roll that way, but I must try. If only because Clambake would be so much creepier offering his double-entendre advice to teenage girls.
Comment by johnw — May 24, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Abbey Spencer is a babe. That is all.
Comment by Ennui, Willie Keeler — May 24, 2007 @ 11:40 am
I have to admit that I actually laughed out loud at Helen’s super sarcastic reply to Brynna in Panel 2.
I am also admiring the fantastic tuck and roll job on the Milford school bus. They must’ve drove down to Tijuana for that (got the whole bus done for a hundred bucks).
The M on Lisa’s uniform is totally copping a feel in Panel 1. Fran Tarkenton better not find out about that.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — May 24, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Okay, just when Helen and Lisa are back to being drawn (relatively) normally again… actually, I should say, “drawn the way they usually are,” especially for Lisa.
Anyway, that happens, but Brynna’s disguise is still wildly fluctuating. For one thing, she appears to have gotten a major face-lift between panels 1 and 2. And I love her blank, dull stare at nothing in particular in panel 1. It reminds me of David Puddy from Seinfeld.
Comment by Cash — May 24, 2007 @ 2:17 pm
In Panel 3 in Friday’s installment, the reporterette does the patented Cathy. index finger in the air thing.
(My apologies for commenting on other comic strips here. I don’t have the time to slog through hundreds of comments at Comics Curmudgeon eacgh day.)
Comment by Ennui Willie Keeler — May 25, 2007 @ 4:41 am
re: Cash’s comment about Brynna…And I love her blank, dull stare at nothing in particular in panel 1. It reminds me of David Puddy from Seinfeld.
I’m going to call Brynna so she can talk me through installing a Clarkman garbage disposal in my shower:
Well, it’s a big job. You’ve got to dismantle the latch hasp from the
auxiliary drainage line.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — May 25, 2007 @ 5:50 am