Someone’s Been Doing His Homework!
While nobody would mistake this artwork for a Frank 1.0 train wreck, it does show that the new artist has been doing his homework on how to add a bit of extra Gil Thorp weirdness.
Creepy shadow crowd? Check!
Spontaneous confetti at every win! Check!
Marty Moon interview featuring Marty holding some mysterious non-microphone or tape recorder object? Check!
(And while it’s waaaaay to small…) At least one Kaz earring? Check!
The check-list of positives is just enough for me to overlook Kaz’s hair. (At least it’s still rather odd looking I suppose.) I’ll just stay chipper with Gil and leave it at that.
Marty is using his Motorola RAZR to simulate a microphone?
Wow…
Comment by TCM — May 8, 2008 @ 9:33 am
That’s not confetti, it’s foldin’ money. They’re makin’ it rain in Milford!
Panel 1 time warp: Everybody else is into the post-game celebration, but the batter is just completing his swing. Either that, or he’s frozen in place by the shame of it all.
Bonus today: Not one, but THREE disturbingly large foreground hands. Two of them in the second panel alone.
And speaking of “disturbing”… what the hell are the boys DOING in that locker room? Tearing someone limb from limb? Gangbanging their official White Sox inflatable doll?
Comment by johnw — May 8, 2008 @ 9:36 am
Marty seems to be using an iPod with a microphone attachment to conduct the interview. Though it’s probably a fairly common practice here on earth, I am nonetheless shocked to see the citizens of Milford adopting it as well.
Comment by spencer — May 8, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Booo!!! We got spookey anti-shadow boy washing the window of LOCKER.
Andrew’s doing his “Fiddler Crab” victory dance to a crowd of faceless zombies.
Comment by Striker — May 8, 2008 @ 9:49 am
This is so weird… When I read today’s strip in my newspaper this morning (before I checked today’s posts) the ballplayer in the foreground of the first panel had light blond hair. So I wasn’t sure who the guy was, since Andrew’s hair is dark. Then I get on here and the guy’s hair is dark, so I ran and checked the paper again to make sure I wasn’t halucinating. Sure enough, the hair is definitely blond in the paper. Anyone else here get GT in their local paper and find the same thing??
Comment by Thorpnotized — May 8, 2008 @ 10:16 am
I’m very curious about what Marty Moon has in his iTunes library. Perry Como? Michael Bolton? Barbra doing show tunes?
Comment by KarenD — May 8, 2008 @ 10:18 am
2-0? This … this baseball season isn’t going to end, is it?
Though I do like that it seems Andrew Gregory punched someone out to win the game. That’s winning Ty Cobb style!
Glad to see that Kaz, does indeed have his earrings, even if they’re not the pearl ones we all love. Maybe he’s trying a fresh now look for 2008.
Comment by El Santo — May 8, 2008 @ 10:38 am
Is it me, or does Kaz look like the bad guy from an 80’s teen comedy? All he needs is to turn the collar of his IZod shirt up.
Comment by B — May 8, 2008 @ 10:46 am
#5 Yes our local paper has him as a blond too (colorized version) along with their classic
PINK (I kid you not) uniforms.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — May 8, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
That’s a pretty wimpy earring. It takes a real man to wear those huge pearl–
Wait, Gil Thorp still runs in newspapers?!?
Comment by sourbelly — May 8, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
Whuh—? There’s a color “Gil Thorp”?
Comment by El Santo — May 8, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
Huzzah! The earrings are back!
Comment by philosophist — May 8, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Nobody’s mentioned the arm growing out of (the jerk formerly known as) Curley Horse’s head.
Chief Whigham has to stop with these huge hands! They’re creepier than Frank 1.0’s claw hands. Why these guys persist on drawing hands when they can’t draw hands amazes me.
That’s not an earring on Coach Kaz (?). It’s a wrongly placed period. Now if Chief Whigham could draw perl earring the way he draws hands, Kaz would be wearing two boulders in his ears.
I also like that Gil can complete senetences with his mouth closed.
Comment by Regina — May 8, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
I love Andrew’s freaky chinbeard in Panel Two! (Don’t harsh my mellow by telling me it’s only a freaky shadow. It’s so awesome if you look at it as a chinbeard.)
And hurray for Kaz’ earring - even if it is too little!
Comment by jules — May 8, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
KarenD: I’d go the other way with Marty’s iPod. I’m thinking Metallica. Headbanging, thrash rock, death metal. Anything to dull the pain and despair of his dead-end life: Hosting a sports-talk show with no callers, broadcasting high school games that nobody listens to, interviewing ignorant little snot athletes and emotionally neutered coaches, and drinking himself into a stupor every night. What a life!
Comment by johnw — May 8, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
#9 - Wow, a colorized version… that I would like to see.
#10 - Yeah, I’ve read GT in our paper for many years. I only found this site when I Googled to find out what happened when Frank 2.0 took over the artwork.
Comment by Thorpnotized — May 8, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
Marty listens to The Smithereens!
Comment by Striker — May 8, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
The freakishly large hand in panel three is obviously Kaz resting the index finger that he uses to point at himself when he talks.
Comment by Julie B. — May 8, 2008 @ 2:03 pm
Glad to see they’ve started a new post-victory tradition of holding a celebratory gang bang in the locker room. Imagine what happens if they win the Valley Conference championship!
Comment by Big Mokeski — May 8, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
In the first panel, why does the pitcher face the crowd from the left side of the mound? He throws with his right rand and should end up parallel to the plate.
Oh, wait. I get it. The pitcher finishes in such a bizarre place that the batter like all the batter before him are stunned into complete immobility. Pretty crafty.
Also, why does the pitcher use a past tense and a future tense in the same sentence in second panel? Do they not learn them right in Milford?
Comment by bevo — May 8, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
In Milford it is customary for the town drunk to ritually shave the pitcher of the winning team.
Comment by Dave the Brave — May 8, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
The part of Kaz is clearly being played by Bayside High rake Zack Morris. Fictional high schools collide!
Comment by Alex — May 8, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
Hooray, earrings! *Throws oversized confetti that I carry everywhere*
Comment by Gold-Digging Nanny — May 8, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Check it out, I think Marty picked up an old gate hinge and is pretending it’s a microphone. He hopes nobody notices and it seems to be working.
Comment by ScooterAl — May 8, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
Should someone warn Mimi that Gil is “Chippy”
Comment by deltawhiskey — May 8, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
deltawhiskey: I think so, since the “real life” Chipper left his last wife for a Hooters waitress.
Comment by Dr. "Eat More Cheddar and Drink More Pabst," aka Gil's Dietician — May 9, 2008 @ 5:27 am
So what the heck is that blob thing in the bottom right of panel 2 anyway?
And yay spontaneous confetti as well.
Comment by Emptyeye — May 9, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
Marty’s ipod tunes: for all the good reasons provided by johnw I’m alternately suggesting he’s got the Slim Whitman anthology.
Comment by SemperFi4evr — May 10, 2008 @ 7:51 am
The game seems to have taken place at a hockey rink, which maybe explains why he punched someone out.
Comment by Smokey Stover — May 12, 2008 @ 6:23 pm