12/18/08
Sorry for the late update…my December has not been as conducive to a regular blogging schedule as I’d originally hoped. First I was attempting to reenact the shadow shooter from the first panel, which resulted in temporary blindness and paralysis. Then I became determined to find a police officer who would leave the house dressed like that, and ended up down at the Blue Oyster Bar. Man those guys made me dance with them for hours.
12/19/08
OK, which is more ridiculous? The fact that someone at the Swifti Mart took the time to fabricate a realistic security camera, or the fact that the cops could not figure this out for several days? Oh well, I suppose when the officers wear their underwear over their pants they can’t be expected to do things like determine basic obvious facts.
Aieeee! The Disembodied Head of Marjie Ducey! The horror, the horror!
Comment by johnw — December 19, 2008 @ 2:07 am
Strip One: The shadow guy is abviously doing the YMCA dance in honor of the Cop from the Village People visiting Milford.
Gil’s freak index finger (as always) is creepin’ me out.
Panel two: Playing the role of Inspector Baldy McBald: Burt Young.
I think that this Swifti-Mart Nutboy theft is an inside job between AA and Marty Moon.
Comment by Regina — December 19, 2008 @ 4:33 am
LOL Police Academy is one of my favorite movies!
Comment by Regina — December 19, 2008 @ 4:34 am
I was thinking the bald guy was going to pay for some kind of fantasy involving Ashley and the person dressed as a policeman.
Comment by Bill-DC — December 19, 2008 @ 5:58 am
You got to ask yourself just how stupid the police in down-market Milford are – read the actual question asked. “Do you know why the security camera didn’t tape the robbery?” There are video tape recorders that do the taping and the camera takes the picture, Numbnuts. Didn’t they even look for a VCR? Nope because cameras record images and this one looks soooo real. Hey, Zoolander, the files are in the computer, better crack it like a coconut to get them out. The question reads like they have inspected the device and found that there are no recordings and now they haul poor Ashley’s tired ass in to question her about what she knows about the failure of the camera to record the robbery. Shit fire.
Comment by Sgt. Saunders — December 19, 2008 @ 6:18 am
As if they had to make a fake security camera – Security Mart’s owner, Apu, bought one for less than $ 10.00.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200148874_200148874
Comment by blondie — December 19, 2008 @ 6:49 am
Those two policeman are to law enforcement what Rubin and Chief Wiggum are to comics strips.
Great bit of police work, Lou.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — December 19, 2008 @ 7:22 am
By the way, what has Tyler Jay been up to lately? I’d keep my eyes on him, if I were the Milford police department.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — December 19, 2008 @ 7:25 am
“Why don’t you lay off the Asians, Lou?”
OK, that had nothing to do with this strip, but this strip has nothing to do with this strip anymore. I swear to god, this is turning into Zippy the Pinhead, except not quite as linear.
Comment by Sourbelly — December 19, 2008 @ 8:17 am
Maybe the cops are just trying to trick Ashley into admitting that she knows there was nothing recording the robbery …. and that she used that knowledge to concoct a fake robbery and make off with all the Nutboys!
Nah, probably not – that storyline has the potential to be moderately interesting, at least in comparison to what usually passes for plot in this strip.
Comment by spencer — December 19, 2008 @ 8:24 am
Dylan Bauza has become one heck of a player and we’ve got this other kid who can’t stop sniffing the basketballs. I’ve directed the rest of the team to whiff balls at him any time they see him huffing the Spauldings. Well, ya gotta fill the roster somehow, Marjie.
Meanwhile the interrogation continues:
Okay, Aiello, I’d advise you to tell us what you know. Officer McMoustache can get pretty cranky when he hasn’t had his Nutboys. (It’s the classic “stupid, good cop/leather clad, hypoglycemic bad cop” routine.)
Comment by Ned Ryerson — December 19, 2008 @ 9:04 am
I think more cops should wear chaps while on duty. Officer Blue Oyster is at the head of the curve.
Comment by Cash — December 19, 2008 @ 9:33 am
Marjie: “Tom Stewart killed me! Tom Stewart killed me! Tom Stewart killed me!”
We actually had a fake camera at an espresso stand where I used to work. Didn’t seem to deter the tip jar thieves. Bastards!
Comment by bees on pie — December 19, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Why doesn’t Bubba Smith get more film work?
Comment by Ned Ryerson — December 19, 2008 @ 11:43 am
Mmm, giant freak hand in Panel One. I imagine Officer Blue Oyster accidentally locked himself up in his own handcuffs, and no one has been able to find the key for three days, so he needs a little assistance… that’s why Detective Baldy is scratching his chin for him, and someone had to help him get dressed this morning. None of this is his fault! Really! (Except the handcuff thing. That’s totally his fault.)
Comment by jules — December 19, 2008 @ 12:58 pm
Swifty Security: It’s Shitty!
Comment by Lomion — December 19, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
I feel bad for the girl in the third panel of Thursday’s strip whose left leg is stuck in the Milford Gymnasium quicksand.
Comment by Julie B — December 19, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
5- Sgt. Saunders
Methinks you’re trying too hard with the meaning of “tape.” All the guy is saying is, “Do you know why that thing didn’t preserve a record of the robbery?”
I certainly believe you could buy a fake security camera. The owner has to be an idiot to tell his teenage employees that the thing is fake.
If Ashley were in on the deal and knew the camera was fake, it would be really stupid for the robber to wave a gun around unless there were other people in the store.
I still want to know why the cops have to interview the girl in the gym during basketbll practice.
Comment by dale — December 19, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Long ago, football players used to deride basketball as “roundball.” But in the present GT, nobody seems able to draw a round basketball. In panel one, the shadow person is about to be clocked by a falling boulder (note the despairing port-de-bras) and in panel three Mimi’s one visible player is carrying some kind of melon or outsized coconut. There are some actual spheres in Gil’s panel two practice, but they appear to be volleyballs and Rand McNally world globes.
Comment by vaganova — December 19, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
How about how close the ceiling lights are to the players? Need a little more vertical space, eh?
Comment by Rob — December 19, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
Dale – I suppose you’re right, but I do know fake cameras are available. However, why the police had to find out from the employee several days after the robbery is a valid question. Seems to me nearly the first thing done at the crime seen would be to pull the security tape, or drive or whatever the camera fed. They would then find out it was fake – hey no recording equipment! How very novel! I reread my earlier post and yep, dale, I did kind of go off on the wrong tangent, but hey, it was 0618 in the AM.
Comment by Sgt. Saunders — December 19, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
Just saw Saturday’s episode and I have to withdraw all of my commentary regarding Milford’s Finest – what Fuzzy asked was a rhetorical question and the cops were in on the cam-scam from the giddy-up go. I eased the hammer down on my .45 and slid her back into the holster. Sweetness will just have to romp another day…these cops were on the level…but the creep with the roscoe and all the Nutboys was still on the lam. I ordered up a Gut-Buster from the new store clerk and hit the streets wondering – what kind of demented creep gets his jollies on Nutboys and terrified girls? The numbers added up. I just didn’t like the answer.
Comment by Sgt. Saunders — December 20, 2008 @ 3:47 am
That creep probably already packed a grip and split for the coast.
It slipped my attention from his first appearance, but Saturday’s strip shows that Dylan has a soul patch. I can’t recall any other Milfordites sporting a soul patch. I’m immediately suspicious of this character.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — December 20, 2008 @ 6:34 am
Ned, we all learned from Mark Trail that facial hair = bad guy!
Comment by jules — December 20, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
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