6/28/08
Good thing nothing is going on…otherwise I would have felt bad about not posting since Friday. (Sorry!)
Panel 1: I’d be mad too if my dad had removed my forearms while I slept.
Panel 2: Too bad the picture of this sad Mexican clown is not painted on velvet.
Panel 3: After smoking his fatty and grossly misjudging some talent, Bugs takes his “Mi-So High!” bus back to Detroit.
6/30/08
Panel 1: The less said about Gil’s crotchal area, the better.
Panel 2: How did a guy known for “brick magic” manage to cement his hand to the wall?
Panel 3: And the award for “Most Depressing Panel of 2008″ goes to…
7/1/08
Panel 1: Uh, seriously Gil…enough with the crotch pants.
Panel 2: I’m too lazy to look this up, but isn’t Gil the third character within the last year to use the word “gents” in a sentence? How can we make this trend stop? Nobody born in the past two centuries speaks this way.
Panel 3: And I forgot to tell you both: The jury decided in your grand douche-off, it’s a hopeless tie. So just shut up already.
And now, unlike the rest of this post, something of very marginal interest: Did you know that Gil Thorp now has his own Facebook page? Yep. I’d join but that would require creating a Facebook account, and that’s just too muck work, gents.
The playOFFs? Something is not right in Milford.
Comment by Michael — July 1, 2008 @ 12:12 am
I think Elmer’s dad needs to put some damn pants on and slap that ingrate around a little. And Gil needs to lay off the nitrous — it’s slurring his speech in the very last panel.
Comment by Striker — July 1, 2008 @ 12:17 am
All I have to say is let’s get to the summer insanity, gents! It’s July already!
Comment by Regina — July 1, 2008 @ 3:16 am
I just became the 3rd member of the “Gil Thorp” Facebook page. I’ll report back if anything happens to it.
Comment by sam — July 1, 2008 @ 5:10 am
Now a GOOD storyteller would have built up the tension between father and son. Instead, Rubin basically sprung it on us out of nowhere. And in the process, he completely abandoned his other attempt to build tension — the incipient revolt of the team’s Lou Dobbs Contingent. Business as usual in Milford: lurching drunkenly from one plot point to another, like a high school coach making his way home from PUB with brief stops at each lamppost.
Meanwhile, we’ve been set up for the highly unlikely triumphant denouement: Elmer is saved from life in a Mexican hovel thanks to a major-league contract! Gents, I think we’ve solved our illegal-immigration problem: all the immigrants have to do is get really good at baseball and make the major leagues.
You know what’s even scarier than “Gil Thorp” having a Facebook page? The fact that “Broom-Hilda” and “Love Is…” have facebook pages. That makes me feel so much better about wasting my time and attention on “Gil Thorp.”
Comment by johnw — July 1, 2008 @ 5:45 am
Easy math, Gents/Ladies, apparently Gildo has has had some ‘reassignment’ surgery.
Comment by SemperFi4evr — July 1, 2008 @ 5:48 am
I have another question…Senor Vargas is illegal as well…why aren’t they deporting his ass? (I understand that at least one parent has to take care of the other two kids, so sned Smellmer and Senor Vargas back.)
Comment by Regina — July 1, 2008 @ 6:24 am
6/28: “Smoking his fatty.” Ick.
6/29: Does Brick Magic involve building random brick walls in the middle of nowhere? What is that supposed to be, seriously?
7/1: Wow, boring and confusing. What a combo.
Comment by sourbelly — July 1, 2008 @ 7:23 am
This Week in Milford has a Facebook presence, too:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4790303543
And I’m with Michael–playOFFs just ain’t right. Everyone knows it’s playDOWNs, just like everyone knows Kaz has nice earrings.
Comment by KarenD — July 1, 2008 @ 9:11 am
Playoffs? Something inside me just died a little.
And welcome back, Jason. Sorry for your troubles.
Comment by laura — July 1, 2008 @ 9:45 am
I third the sentiment on PlayOFFS??!! (spoken with the classic Jim Mora inotonation).
And please, for the love of Kaz’s tragically misplaced golden orbs, END THIS FREAKING BASEBALL/IMMIGRATION STORLINE! It’s July. Did Rubin just neglect to concoct a wacky summer storyline and instead opt to further drag this turkey out and maybe even veer down a few more blind alleys? Please, everybody shave your heads, put Clambake on a bus to Raleigh, send somebody to fat camp or whatever you have to do to stop this thing dead in its tracks. Bring on the rock’n'roll Carol King or Lanny Penn or any other plot device that will deliver us from these horrible baseball pants and get us into barfights or Marty Moon passed out in his car.
MAKE IT STOP!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 1, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
Amen, Bro!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — July 1, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
I agree: somebody needs to write Rubin and remind him about the playdowns. Volunteers? Not that there’s any hurry. The next three weeks will see Elmer, Gil, and Senor Vargas involved in a usually terse, yet meandering, dialogue. Then we might get a panel or two with wacky playoff, or playdown, action.
Comment by sir douglas — July 1, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
the 6/28 strip makes it clearer than ever that bugsy is chomping on the end of a frayed piece of rope to keep himself from eating more those delicious pretzel nuggets with the pizza flavored filling.
Comment by eggbert — July 1, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Last panel: Elmer … pwn’d!
Also, Mr. Vargas is apparently Two-Face. Somehow… I always knew.
Comment by El Santo — July 1, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Hopefully Bugs will never be seen again after 2 appearances (but I’m afraid he’ll pop up again some day and we’ll have to rewind the comics machine to see who the hell that is). He might still have that same cigar in his mouth.
Looks like KarenD created the Facebook page for this website. I wonder if it was before or after she found out about the Gil Thorp Facebook page. Whatever. All I know is, this dreck is expanding itself. Bon Voyage, Karen! Hope your page lasts longer then the Titanic. A soothsayer would predict that both won’t take long to start sinking.
Comment by RobM — July 1, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
While I was ranting earlier, I failed to point out that, in Panel 3 of the 7/1 strip, Elmer’s knuckles are melting!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 1, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
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