How to accessorize while robbing Kaz
I’m guessing Greasy Backseat Thug #1 (aka “Mitch”, perennially one of the most popular greasy backseat thug names) robbed Coach Kaz’s house, as he seems to have stolen some ridiculously feminine hoop earrings and a bad hairstyle while he was rooting around in “some guy’s dresser drawer.” Reason #6 Mitch is trouble: He either completely absorbed Greasy Backseat Thug #2 (possibly named Stanley), or threw him out the window of the impossibly small Bad News Taurus. I’m looking forward to the day that Kaz sees Mitch sporting his special evening-wear earrings (the pearls are just for everyday use) and punches entirely through his skull.
Meanwhile in Valley Central, the 30-year-old prankster teens gather at their version of “The Bucket.” The major differences in their hangout are: A) It doesn’t have an amusing dirty-sounding name and B) Rather than a converted iHOP, it is just some guy’s poorly architected house with a sign in front of it. All told, “The Bucket” sucks, but it’s still better than this place.
What are they up to? Who cares. So can you solve the mystery of what “stuff” comes in two colors, and in cans? Is it spray paint? Or some other kind of paint? Probably. Unless they’re creative enough to have acquired Easy Cheese (both Nacho and Pepper-jack!) I really am not interested anymore.
And finally: I’m as big a fan of insane cartoon art as any overly-analytical blogger, but I would like to remind Frank McLaughlin that when people are drawn in profile, THEIR PUPILS AND IRISES (or is it IRI?) ARE STILL VISIBLE. Here’s a helpful link, Frank. When you don’t draw any pupils or irises (iri?), your characters in profile look like creepy, soulless zombies and I see them in my nightmares. You do this all the time, and my nightmares are only getting worse. Please, please, please fix this! It’ll take like five seconds. Thanks in advance.
I’ll bet that the Bad News Boys (and Elf) are heading to The Dugout to have a good meal and are going to overhear Rob Riggle’s master plan. Shenanigans ensue.
Comment by Tony — October 30, 2007 @ 9:45 am
Re: the no pupils: Frank is just getting usready for Halloween by drawing everyone in profile as if they’re zombies.
I thought the exact same thing when I saw John Revolta’s earrings. They have to be part of the Coach Kaz “evening wear collection”. When Kaz finds out, Revolta better be standing behind Frankencully for protection.
I’m glad to see the “kids” from Valley Tech are back. Maybe Bad news Boyd’s gang can hook up with the Valley Tech pranksters and they can silly string the school together or play a rousing game of “doorbell ditch” throughout the neighborhood.
Comment by Regina — October 30, 2007 @ 9:48 am
When the strip mwas posted last night I spent 15 muinutes attempting to visualise the Dugout in three dimensions. The doctors say I can’t return to work for at least a few days, and that I might never fully recover.
Comment by killebrew — October 30, 2007 @ 9:48 am
I’m no geologist, but I think you’re being a little hard on McLaughlin, Jason.
The VT prankster’s eyes have rolled back in his head from brain strain trying to
list all of the “stuff” he brought and trying to remember why.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — October 30, 2007 @ 9:54 am
If the Taurus Gang and the Valley Tech Hooligans come to blows, I demand an homage to West Side Story. Yes, complete with dancing.
Comment by El Santo — October 30, 2007 @ 9:54 am
Great idea El Santo! Or at least an homage to the one in “Grease.”
Comment by Gil'sBarber — October 30, 2007 @ 10:00 am
I don’t know, Jason, I think “The Dugout” does sound a bit racy itself.
Comment by sourbelly — October 30, 2007 @ 10:22 am
Anyone want to guess where this plot is going?
I say Cully and his crew (one should be named Woim) will encounter the pranksters in the act, scare them away and steal their paint, at the very moment Milford’s finest arrive on the scene. Everyone will think Cully and his gang are the Spray Paint Vandals, Cully will get booted off the team, and go on a murderous rampage.
But we won’t see any of it. Milford students will just talk about it after the fact, so Frank doesn’t have to strain himself drawing anything hard.
Gil’sBarber: “I’m no geologist…” LOL
Comment by Tim Goral — October 30, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Soupy Sales is now a Valley Tech prankster? Will we see Gil and Kaz get pies thrown in their faces?
Comment by sir douglas — October 30, 2007 @ 10:50 am
My theory is that Mitch is really a gay prostitute who knocked unconscious/killed a john and stole his money to finance the diner-related hijinks of the Bad News Taurus crew.
Comment by Matt Ramone — October 30, 2007 @ 11:06 am
He got both colors … black and white.
Comment by Ivan — October 30, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
I can’t think of anything that they could do with only six cans of paint that isn’t vandalism. If they got enough paint to put the Valley Tech logo on the Milford football field, that would be funny, and it would just take a lawnmower to fix it. As it is, I predict that they will vandalize the Milford building, get caught by Cully and Boyd et al, Boyd and henchmen will want to help out the Valley Tech pranksters, Cully will have a “Darth Vader watching the Emperor zapping Luke” moment, then decide to move toward the light side, some pranksters will get arrested and be in jail and miss the Milford-Valley Tech game, and Tony Casey will complete some passes to receivers in holes in the defense caused by the pranksters’ backups not being very good. Milford will win 20-17.
Comment by Wikitorix — October 30, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Panel 2 is my favorite. Until I glanced at the narration box, I thought it was called “The Dugo.” As for the building, it looks like it could have been drawn by Escher, if he had lacked artistic vision.
Comment by Catbus — October 30, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
Oh thank goodness. I thought I was the only one who could see the dead, blank, soulless zombie eyes.
Comment by Reynard Noir — October 30, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
Wednesday’s strip is up. One of the Valley Tech pranksters is wearing a collar made out of French bread. Eh, maybe it’s Italian bread. I don’t know the difference.
Comment by Ennui Willie Keeler — October 30, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
In Gil Thorp tradition, should not the other team’s restaurant be simply titled “Other Team’s Restaurant?” Of course that is a little wordy and too close to a proper name for this strip!
Comment by ubrational — October 30, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
I’m writing to complain about the use of an Italian slur to name the restaurant. Boycott Gil Thorp!
Is the last kid in panel 3 made up like Brandon Lee in “The Crow” or Conrad Veidt from the German silent classic “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” for Halloween?
Comment by PRiverside — October 30, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Oh yeah, he got the stuff all right. There’s going to be some serious huffing at zombie-boys’s house tonight. Then they’re going out to eat brains.
Comment by jailbird — October 30, 2007 @ 9:10 pm
mmmmm…..brains….
Comment by Wilbur of the North — October 30, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
braaaaaaains……
Comment by Mooch — October 30, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
Where would they find any in Milford? MUHAHA!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — October 31, 2007 @ 8:51 am
I laughed so hard at “both Nacho and Pepper-jack!” that my tummy hurts. Damn you!!! Damn you all to hell!
Comment by Anne — November 1, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
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