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 thinks this art is terrible. Also, KAZ-BOT would lock up those Valley Tech pranksters in Guantanamo. Why? Well, really, why not? Please analyze today’s strip without KAZ-BOT’s help…because KAZ-BOT is now off to KAZ-PUB.
Why is Marty offering a stick of licorice to Gil?
Comment by Scott de B. — September 25, 2007 @ 8:10 am
Why is Shapeless Eyeglass Man attacking in panel three?
Comment by Anonymous Novelist — September 25, 2007 @ 8:24 am
I think it’s more a bra with arms in panel three.
Comment by Matt Ramone — September 25, 2007 @ 8:42 am
It almost looks like a silhouette of Dick Cheney.
Comment by Anonymous Novelist — September 25, 2007 @ 9:34 am
Hmmm… Marty seems to be offering a delicious Freeze Pop to Gil. Must be unseasonably warm in Milford today.
Also, you’re all wrong. That silhouette is obviously none other than sad-sack drummer Cliff Wrobeck — back, and looking for blood!
Comment by El Santo — September 25, 2007 @ 9:41 am
It’s no wonder Casey’s passing skills suck. His right arm is on backwards.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — September 25, 2007 @ 9:52 am
Whoever suggested the duality between Tony
EasonCasey and Rex Grossman seems to have been on point. Notice that Tony always over-throws his receivers (except on that screen pass). Just like Sexy Rexy, who seems to get off on throwing long*. Although due to Frank’s need to get the player, the football, and the dialogue box into the same small panel, none of Tony’s overthrows have looked particularly uncatchable. Maybe the problem isn’t the QB, it’s the receivers with alligator arms. Or maybe they’re purposely dogging it because they don’t like Tony. Which is just last year’s Sean Pettibone plot with different positions, but I wouldn’t put it past this comic.I’m not sure which is more frightening – Dick Cheney or Cliff Wrobek bearing down on you as you try to unload a pass. As for the mysterious object being offered to Gil in panel 1, I’m not sure exactly what it is, but I think its purpose is quite clear: Marty Moon has badmouthed Gil for so long that the only way he can still get an interview is by bribing Gil with candy.
*For an extremely thorough, hilarious, and adult-oriented take on that idea, see Kissing Suzy Kolber if you haven’t already, or just google “Sex Cannon.”
Comment by Cash — September 25, 2007 @ 9:52 am
Do the Mudlarks ever run the ball?
Also, Cave Spring sounds like the kind of place that would have spawned Cully Vale.
Comment by sourbelly — September 25, 2007 @ 10:18 am
The object Marty is offering Gil in panel 1 is clearly a Kit Kat bar. Duh.
Comment by The White Suge Knight — September 25, 2007 @ 10:37 am
If Gil had any sack he’d go all Jeff Gundy on Marty Moon. Only he should make it profanity laced, actually puke on him and maybe give old Marty a push into a drunken Coach Kaz.
Coach Kaz, finally coming to terms with the fact that his “seven large” isn’t quite the golden egg he’d thought it would be, allows Marty to fall to the ground.
Coach Kaz then provides Marty with a golden shower to remove the remains of Gil’s hot dog, yogurt and Pabst lunch.
That would liven up the action a bit.
Comment by tom — September 25, 2007 @ 12:35 pm
Marty is wearing a disguise so Gil won’t recognize him; he is wearing a kimono– a black under kimono and a white outer kimono– and he has just threatened to commit hari kari with a chopstick if Gil doesn’t talk.
By the way, I can’t get over the feeling that Jimmy is waving “Hi, Mom” in panel 2.
Comment by Laura Jane — September 25, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
Cave Spring? Has it has a prior reference in Gil Thorp? Now we are referring to a high school in Roanoke, Virginia? I’m so confused – this blows our “Milford is in the Midwest” theory all to hell. :)
Comment by Big B — September 25, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
I can’t wait to see the coach from Cave Spring! I wonder what his jacket will look like. And perhaps we’ll be treated to a unique facial hair configuration, too.
Comment by jwright — September 25, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
High schools have stadiums with stands and towers like that?
I’m definitely voting against the next school bond issue.
Comment by dale — September 25, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
I’m sure it helps Tony to have his offensive lineman block from behind him…”blow the whistle, BLOW THE WHISTLE!!”
Comment by ThornInvasion — September 25, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
The coach at Cave Spring is definitely Cully’s dad
Comment by john b — September 26, 2007 @ 2:50 am
Cave Spring coach will look like Fred Flintstone … yabba, dabba, or maybe like Gill on ‘roids!
Comment by tom — September 26, 2007 @ 3:33 am
The screen pass is becoming an obsession with this team. Every day we get another screen pass, or advice from Gil on how to run it. It’s almost like our artist has just learned what a screen pass is…. or just heard the name for the first time, which is more likely.
Note to other teams: if the other team doesn’t connect on the deep game, don’t blitz and make yourselves vulnerable to the screens. Duh.
Comment by Ianscot — September 26, 2007 @ 6:04 am