6/21/08
So Rep. Betty Bright is one pissed-off lady, isn’t she? If I looked like that, dressed that tackily and was busy enough to be one of those jerks who drive around with a ginormous Blue-tooth in my ear all day, I guess I’d be pretty pissed off too.
At least we get a window into how one government official reacts to communication sent to her office:
Method: Send personal letter.
Response: Receive personalized pissed-off phone call telling you to go to hell.
Method: Call regarding an article in The Milford Star for some reason.
Response: Block all calls, take a drive to avoid further contact with office.
Method: Call field office to request a personal exemption from immigration law.
Response: Send INS to caller’s house for immediate deportation.
Method: E-mail suggesting Betty make a guest appearance on What Not to Wear.
Response: Trace IP address. Have e-mailer sent directly to Guantanamo.
Later, Gil invites Elmer to his office to play a series of increasingly high-pitched tones.
6/23/08
“So you’ll be deported to this country here…”
“Zzzzzzzz.”
“Fine, screw you kid. If you don’t care, we’ll send you over here to the Pacific Ocean!”
Later…
“So this is the lady you’ll be staying with…”
“Zzzzzzzz.”
“Fine screw you, mullet-head. If my sexy giant earrings and striped Hello Kitty outfit aren’t enough to keep you tantalized and awake, feel free to rot in the Gulf of Mexico. Besides, I have to go e-mail back What Not to Wear…”
And more laterer…
“I forgot for a few weeks, but check me out: A nine-foot tall muscle-bound freak. Oh and something about drawers.”
“Say, that reminds me…I left my index finger in a drawer! And once I go get it, I’m going to go call Marty Moon…he has all sorts of contraband crap in his drawers.”
I love that Gil got pwn’d by Rep. Betty Bright. I think she’s still pissed off about having to do Gil a favor with Stormy Hicks. -Thought Balloon- “Flat head Honkey only knows my ass when he wants a favor”. I’d be pissed off too if I was driving around town in that ruffled get up.
ElMullet in panel three, first comic “lalalala I don’t hear you, Gil”.
Gillooks like he’s ready to suck his thumb in panel three second column. Kaz is still missing his “little gold orbs”, but in all fairness, he’s too far away to see if he has them on.
How is Gil going to solve the visa problem? Print some up in his basement. Nah, that requires work…he’ll get Marty Moon to do it. That is, if Marty can pull himself away from his pimpin’ and pretending to be CurleyHorse’s dad.
Comment by Regina — June 23, 2008 @ 9:01 am
Too bad the baseball amateur draft ended weeks ago.
Comment by Spike — June 23, 2008 @ 9:12 am
Maybe Elmer can defect from Mexico to Cuba then defect from Cuba back to the United States.
Comment by Scott de B. — June 23, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Ahahaha! Good job, Rep. Bright! Don’t let that small town high school coach push you around like that. Trust me, you just won my vote. I also give non-ironic kudos to Whigham’s art in that panel: it’s far more dynamic than we’re ever treated to in the pages of Gil Thorp.
Tomorrow’s strip: Kaz punches his way into a counterfeit visa operation. Those knuckles haven’t seen action since last summer, and he didn’t put on that skin tight wifebeater for nothin’!
Comment by El Santo — June 23, 2008 @ 9:26 am
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Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — June 23, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Hahaha, Scott…maybe he can convert a 1952 chevy into a motorboat to get back to the US from Cuba.
Comment by Regina — June 23, 2008 @ 9:50 am
It’s totally going to be Marty Moon.
Comment by Howabominable (aka Lindsey ^_^) — June 23, 2008 @ 9:57 am
6/21: I like the juxtaposition of the pissed off ugly bitch and the ruffles. It kind of, I don’t know… SOFTENS her ANGER.
6/23: Yeah I know a guy with a drawer full of visas. Also master cards and american express. He’s still doing hard time… identity theft is a bitch when you get busted.
Comment by TCM — June 23, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Rep. Bright is also pissed off because she apparently has to work a night job as a hotel chambermaid and she’s late and had to change into the silly frilly thing in the car.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — June 23, 2008 @ 10:08 am
What happened to Gil’s index finger in panel 3?
Comment by Richard — June 23, 2008 @ 10:15 am
Too far away to check for earrings, but that is one magnificent Coach Kaz in the third panel today.
Comment by Mac Thomason — June 23, 2008 @ 10:16 am
I’m sure that’s a hands-free phone in Rep. Bright’s ear, but I prefer to think of it as a Borg implant. And yeah, some nerve those constituents have, bothering their elected representative with phone calls and letters and shit. Betty doesn’t answer the phone for anything less than a $1,000 campaign donation.
Nice Hello Kitty shout-out in panel 2 today.
And last but not least… the less said about Kaz’ mutant physique, the better. I assume he’s on the Barry Bonds training regimen. He’s probably giving the football team shots of “flaxseed oil” to get them ready for the fall season.
Comment by johnw — June 23, 2008 @ 10:19 am
Wouldn’t Elmer have plenty of relatives in Mexico? Why is he having to mooch off of Branden (who I always thought was black, not Mexican)?
Comment by sourbelly — June 23, 2008 @ 10:20 am
KAZ SMASH!
Comment by Cash — June 23, 2008 @ 10:25 am
“What kind of a Rep. would I be if I did anything about an issue that’s got half my constituents upset?”
Plus, I think she’s driving a spaceship.
Comment by Smokey Stover — June 23, 2008 @ 10:35 am
Lots to work with…
Bright looks like she is driving the Batmobile. Looking at the ratio behind her right shoulder, that thing cannot have a backseat. You know she going to cut the call with Gil short because Commissioner Gordon is on the other line.
To echo a previous comment, is Kaz on the cream or clear? It explains the receding hair line. How come the rest of the teams are not on the cream or the clear? If they are, then shouldn’t the Milford teams win a lot more games?
What if Kaz said bushelful of forged documents, would Gil still have gotten his idea to find a fake a green card, student visa, or H-1B?
Finally, what the hell happen to the baseball and softball seasons? Did they end? How come there is no track and field season? The potential for poorly drawn art plus more uninteresting story lines is too irresistible.
Comment by bevo — June 23, 2008 @ 11:28 am
“Baja! I don’t have anything in Baja!”
I believe Elmer going to end up deported to an oil rig inhabited by an insane Charles Gray and a white Persian cat.
Comment by laura — June 23, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
According to Comicmix, it’s Frank Bolle’s birthday. http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/23/happy-birthday-frank-bolle/
Comment by clem — June 23, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Marty Moon’s drawers are indeed full of crap.
Comment by Dave — June 23, 2008 @ 8:15 pm
Laura, now that you mention it, the parallels between Gil Thorp and Diamonds Are Forever are uncanny. Cliff Wrobek is a dead ringer for Mr. Kidd!
Comment by jwright — June 24, 2008 @ 1:25 am
Is this honestly a universe where the high school whatever-Gil-is coach ((side note: aren’t there different coaches for different sports in high school, or am I really just that homeschooled?)) actually HELPS you forge documents?
I can see the next installment…”Curly Horse wants to get plastered, but isn’t 21 yet…Gil Thorp to the rescue! With his X-acto knife and at-home laminator, Curly Horse will be drinking in no time!”
Comment by Chelsea — June 24, 2008 @ 3:55 am
Isee that Mimi has infected Gil with the smallpox. Guess we’ll have to balance his four humors with more Pabst at BAR.
Comment by Dr. "Eat More Cheddar and Drink More Pabst," aka Gil's Dietician — June 24, 2008 @ 8:59 am
please stop making me pee in my pants, guys! especially the method/response part, my boss almost caught me reading this at work!!!
Comment by richard — June 25, 2008 @ 8:04 am
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