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!
Cancer? Not cancer? Poorly drawn Gil. Unidentifiable object. Weird old guy spouting innuendo. Girls(?) engaging in some activity vaguely resembling a sport. Bad art on the walls. Weird hair. Sweatshirt from Connecticut. Name-dropping of some Michigan sportswriter’s cousin. Scary shadow people! The Bucket…always with the Bucket! Marty Moon sighting? Weirdos behind Marty Moon sighting! Fourteen plotlines started, zero resolved. More Stormy, mule!
Wow, covering this comic is easier than KAZ-BOT remembered.
Kazbot is batting .500. Not bad.
Comment by Scott de B. — May 25, 2007 @ 9:59 am
Marty Moon sighting?
Only if Marty is a tv nowadays.
Comment by Ennui, Willie Keeler — May 25, 2007 @ 10:00 am
I nominate panel 3 for the Milford Pantheon of Hair.
Comment by Indexer — May 25, 2007 @ 10:07 am
Marty Moon only covers boys sports. Girls softball is handled by his svelte alter-ego, Martha Moon.
Comment by Scott de B. — May 25, 2007 @ 10:43 am
Actually, I don’t recall her name, but the blond in panel 3 is the other member of the Milford High media. She’s a newspaper reporter. And she’s wearing the exact same outfit as Lisa Wyche!
Lisa’s six text messages are much more impressive than Helen’s nine, because Lisa managed to receive text messages on her deodorant container. Secret Roll-on… now with Bluetooth!
And I’m sure the suggestive leer on Gil’s face is just a case of bad drawing rather than evil portent… but he looks like he should be rubbing his hands together and laughing maniacally. “Just wait till you meet… CLAMBAKE! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HAAAA!”
Comment by johnw — May 25, 2007 @ 11:00 am
In panel 3 – for which I second the nomination for the Milford Pantheon of Hair – it’s Mary Catherine Gallagher from SNL!
Comment by jules — May 25, 2007 @ 12:03 pm
I’d like to nominate panel 3 and panel 1 for the Milford Pantheon of Disturbing Faces. I guess it’s “everyone wearing a black sweater over a white shirt looks like a Morlock” day.
So if our intrepid reporter Uggs McFugly is going to meet Clambake, and Helen Marzano is co-editor of the Strumpet, will this be a bridge that starts tying storylines together? I really hope not. I’m hoping that on the way to meet Clambake, Uggs bumps into Stormy, who’s hanging out on the baseball diamond for no reason whatsoever. Stormy decides that while Uggs is a freak of nature, she’s still an upgrade over 2B Liz Ritter, so he starts dating Uggs. Then we can have a whole storyline about how 2B Liz Ritter is upset and Stormy is once again a pariah, with a special return appearance from Peg-Leg Bill! Then, in one panel 3 weeks from now, we can find out how the baseball team’s season ended.
Comment by Cash — May 25, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
Is the female reporter Marjie Ducey (aka Dreamy Juice)? (Yes, I had to go back and look it up)
Gil is going to palm Marjie off on Clambake so he can hightail it the hell out of there. “What was I thinking, showing my face around here? From now on, Clambake will be our press secretary. Gil-Bot has decreed it!”
Comment by Ned Ryerson — May 25, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
Yes, I believe it’s “Juicy” Ducey. She works for Milford’s daily paper, whereas Helen is co-editor (with third baseman and Jabba the Hutt lookalike Rick Marzano) of the Milford High student paper.
Them and Marty Moon. That’s the media, such as it is, in happy little Milford.
Well, I guess you gotta count Von Haney too, sorta. Hey, where is old razor-head these days, anyway?
Comment by johnw — May 25, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
Von? He should be making the five mile trek from Yale to Milford soon. Just wait until baseball and softball end and he should be part of the summer story arc.
Comment by Ennui Willie Keeler — May 25, 2007 @ 8:57 pm
I appreciate the TEXT MESSAGING. The writers are IN TOUCH.
Comment by Monkey Time — May 25, 2007 @ 11:48 pm
I don’t know which is more disturbing, the way she casually refers to “down there” (as in “don’t for get to wash down there” or the way that she points “up” while referring to “down there.”
Comment by Laura Jane — May 26, 2007 @ 4:28 am
I also like the way the reporter has no idea who Pop is. Milford is a small town, Pop must have been living there for several decades, yet nobody seems to know him or be aware that there is a former Negro Leaguer in residence. I guess most people tend to avoid going to “that side” of town.
Comment by Scott de B. — May 26, 2007 @ 7:51 am
Nah. Popsbake moved to Milford because his son was transfered there — the ol’ follow-the-grandkids maneuver. Then the son got re-transfered. This was all cleverly explained early in the story line. Pay attention or you’ll have to move your desk outside again.
Comment by Larson E. Whipsnade — June 5, 2007 @ 9:26 pm