Playing catch-up is easy when I didn’t really miss anything!
7/11/08
Marty Moon’s tense problems are nothing compared to Steve Rosen’s physics-defying checked swing hit: He somehow got it to bounce out of the pitcher’s armpit and straight into his glove. What a loser.
7/12/08
Magically, everyone realizes Elmer was 100% guaranteed to win the game. Gil should certainly proud of a team that managed to win any games with a giant armless, headless torso in the line-up. Hopefully that guy was just a pinch runner.
7/14/08
Try to look away at the fashion disasters in panel one. Then attempt to figure out how Brendan-Oyl suddenly grows sunglasses and an earlobe mutation in panel two then loses them again in panel three. (Perhaps that ugly, awkward meat hand high-five slapped them right off her.)
7/15/08
When the only redeeming quality of a character is that he kinda has a mullet, that character should most definitely not be featured in the vaunted summer storyline. Unless of course he is captured and tortured by banditos.
It looks like we’re going to be tortured by Elmullet all summer. It appears that Chief Whigham has joined Rubin at PUB and we’re being cheated out summer insanity because of it.
Comment by Regina — July 15, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Oh yea, PLEASE MAKE THAT THIRD PANEL GO AWAY! PLEASE!
Comment by Regina — July 15, 2008 @ 10:26 am
MC Escher is alive and well and living in Jalisco.
Comment by laura — July 15, 2008 @ 10:28 am
glad to have you back again and thanks for pointing out the disappearing sun glasses
Comment by Bryce — July 15, 2008 @ 10:44 am
I’m hoping Elmer tries to sneak back into America again and gets shot by an over-zealous border patrol agent. Then we’ll have a giant asteroid destroying Milfold.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — July 15, 2008 @ 11:18 am
Oh no, the possibility of this being the transition into summer didn’t even occur to me. I was thinking this was just the happily ever after for everyone. Gawd, I pray I’m right and El Mullet-o won’t last past the next strip or two.
Comment by Tweeks_Coffee — July 15, 2008 @ 11:18 am
Maybe El Mullet can teach the muchachos how to play biesbol then take them to the Little League World Series. Oh, wait. Disney is already making that PoS.
Comment by bevo — July 15, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
I also wanted to mention that I’m proud of Chief Whigham. He showed us in the third strip he can be as lazy and paying no attention to details (such as sunglasses and earrings) just like Frank 1.0 was. Take a bow, Whigham!
I was thinking on the way home that maybe our faithful readers can make up a insane summer storyline, as it looks like we’re stuck with this lame one…any suggestions?
Mine is that we find out that the little mulleted Muchachos that Elmullet’s boarding with are really Mexican slave labor drug mules. It’s up to Elmullet to free them from this life. He enlists the aide of Kaz P.I. and Marty Moon to sneak them across the boarder to eventual freedom. Elmer, being Elmer, decides against sneaking back into the country and is forced into male prostitution. That should hold us until football season.
Comment by Regina — July 15, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
You start thinking about this strip on the way HOME, man, you really
have a problem.
Graduation day July 15! I guess the only good thing is Milford
doesnt have time for summer school, so everybody’s out, pass or fail.
Comment by RobM — July 15, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
let’s see. Interesting insane summer storyline. Here goes…
OK, as part of her One Night Stand world tour, Gail Martin plays STADIUM in Jalisco, where the crowd, upset, due to thinking they were going to see legendary soccer star Tarzan Anights, riots. During the confusion, Elmer clubs himself on the head and ends up with a brain injury that can only be treated in Milford, by the skilled surgeons at HOSPITAL. At the same time, Andrew Gregory experiences another lapse in babysittng, and his brother Roddy is hit by a car, driven by Blue-Tooth-distracted Rep. Betty Bright, this time requiring major surgery also at HOSPITAL (see where I’m going here?) It turns out that Little Roddy has an extremely rare blood type shared by no one else in Milford except for (you guessed it!! Elmer!!!) Elmer agrees to donate his blood to help save Roddy, thereby teaching Andrew a lesson about brotherhood and all that claptrap. Meanwhile, While Branden, The Familia Vargas, and Gil wait in WAITING ROOM for news, Clambake, the team morale booster, stops in with some totally unrelated stories involving the Negro League. Hilarity ensues.
Comment by Mooch — July 15, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Elmer is our summer storyline? NO! If it’s like Regina’s and Mooch’s ideas, then that would be OK I guess.
Thanks to the “pinch runner” comment, I have this lovely mental image of the armless, headless torso-thing running around the bases.
Jason, you obviously haven’t been around too many teenage girls lately, because toddler-inspired rompers are everywhere this season. And if you must be caught without a romper, you should at least be wearing spandex shorts.
Comment by bees on pie — July 16, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Scott de B, Jul 11. Well my man were you ever right. I was stupid enough to think the storyline was all milked out. This has been ‘Dali’-esque for a while now. Better living through Al Keyhaul!
Comment by SemperFi4evr — July 16, 2008 @ 8:59 am
My extensive research has revealed that Brizuela is in fact a fictional town. Maybe it’s the Mexican version of Milford, with lots of bad hair, kids missing limbs and parts of their skulls, and male coaches wearing pearl earrings.
See you at El Cubo, Elmer!
Comment by sourbelly — July 16, 2008 @ 9:08 am