Jason has left the safe confines of the blog-o-sphere for a few days. In his absence the automatic Gil Thorp blogging robot KAZ-BOT will be filling in!
KAZ-BOT does not enjoy being a substitute after so long away, as KAZ-BOT is an intelligent BOT and does not follow this ridiculous comic if not forced to by Jason. All KAZ-BOT knows is that KAZ-BOT could score more than zero points against that crappy Oakwood team all by KAZ-BOT’s self.
Okay, I usually try to give equal treatment to all 3 panels, but there’s just no way I can do that today. I don’t even know what happened in panels 1 or 3, because I still haven’t been able to take my eyes away from the horrific image of a distraught, jiggling Cully Vale, moving so hard that huge beads of sweat are flying off his head. Is he in some sort of medieval torture device? It looks like he’s moving too much for it to be the rack, but his hands still could be chained over his head. Maybe Gil’s new training regimen is to chain his players to a wall, then strap them into one of those ridiculous vibrating strap/belt things from the 20s and 30s. Which, given the apparent age of most things in Milford, probably just arrived from the factory a couple weeks ago.
Comment by Cash — September 24, 2007 @ 8:35 am
Well, whatever he’s chained to, Cully’s shoulders are drastically dislocated.
Comment by sourbelly — September 24, 2007 @ 8:42 am
Whatever Cully’s doing, it’s strenuous enough as to require no fewer than four Apt. 3-G head bobbles.
Comment by Matt Ramone — September 24, 2007 @ 8:54 am
Has anybody heard of Cully before the current storyline started? Has anybody on the Milfold ever heard of him? Will he prove to be some sort fraud, like Clambake? Or is he worried thye’ll find out he’s from the special ed class?
Comment by Doug Puthoff — September 24, 2007 @ 8:58 am
What we don’t see in Panel 2: A crowd of reporters circling around Cully, clapping their hands, and chanting, “Dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!”
Comment by El Santo — September 24, 2007 @ 8:58 am
By the way, I guess this solves the “Big M on the jersey” mystery: they’re only on the practice jerseys. Is this normal for a high school football team to have practice jerseys? (That’s a legit question, not a snark. I’d always assumed most high school teams practiced in their game jerseys.)
Comment by El Santo — September 24, 2007 @ 9:01 am
Biggest surprise: Gil actually coaching.
Comment by Scott de B. — September 24, 2007 @ 10:05 am
El Santo: Yes, most high schools have practice jerseys. Usually cheap mesh things, but they ARE practice jerseys. And secondly, the image of the reporters gathered around Cully has been making me laugh for the last hour. Kudos to you, sir.
Comment by Scott — September 24, 2007 @ 10:06 am
Bill Ritter…is so misshapen. I’m stunned. I can’t even quite figure out what’s wrong, but something is totally off-scale. His head, maybe. And the shoulderpads ain’t helping.
Comment by jules — September 24, 2007 @ 10:25 am
Never mind whatthe hell Cully’s doing (even though that thought did cross my mind); what the hell is Bill doing? Is he doing sit-ups or is he lounging on an invisible chair?
Comment by Regina — September 24, 2007 @ 10:36 am
I assume Bill is doing old school sit-ups, but I like the invisible chair concept–very lolcat.
I think Cully is doing jumping jacks, and the mental effort is causing liquid to squirt out of the back of his tiny (and quite possibly stolen from a dead body by the assistant to the evil doctor who assembled him) brain.
Comment by KarenD — September 24, 2007 @ 10:47 am
Considering the Sunday Night NFL game, I hereby move that Jason (or KAZ-BOT)replace all usage of the name ‘Tony’ as applied to Milford’s crappy qb with ‘Rex’, at least until such time as Rex (”Tony”) stops sucking. It would make things much less confusing.
Incidentally, in Panel three, Rex (”Tony”) looks from the back like an early unsuccessful prototype for the Cully unit.
Comment by clem — September 24, 2007 @ 12:06 pm