1/22/09
Panel 1 Revelation: Wow…the reason they’re reserves seems clear. They’re guarding each other while the girl from New Thayer takes the wide open shot.
Panel 2 Mystery: Giant ball? Or midget player? I think Whigham is channeling Frank with this bizarre artwork.
Panel 3 Odd Reference: Mudlark Wonder twins activate! Form of…clearly superior, yet sloppy, possibly dwarf-sized players!
1/23/09
Gil takes a break from calculating the location of the Lost island to discuss the suckiness of Bill Hawkins. If only there was some total jerk star point guard from New York who could take over…(Stephon Marbury perhaps…?) Too bad there’s nobody like that around here.
Meanwhile, total jerk star point guard from New York Bryce Larkin has been understandably mistaken for a lunch tray* and stacked in the appropriate pile. Maureen Monte figures this is a good time to enact whatever stupid plan Brenda recruited her for…so she takes a picture of the wall 12 feet to the right of “Lunch Tray” Larkin. That will solve their non-existent problem! (I mean really people, what does it matter if some asshole kid doesn’t want to play on the crappy local high-school team? Give it a rest.)
We end today’s strip with a wave from Freak Hand. Hi, Freak Hand! Thanks for being more interesting than the rest of the characters combined.
*Because both have no personality and smell like a Bronx sewer.
Oh man, it’s my favorite freak hand, the “May just be a bundle of fingers Tyler Jay collected and game to Brianna as a token of his love” hand. Looks like Dylan has some competition for her affection!
Comment by Lomion — January 23, 2009 @ 10:12 am
I love panel 1- I get turned on watching chicks lick other chicks’ armpits.
Comment by Ian — January 23, 2009 @ 10:26 am
Who cares about freak hands, oversized balls, and NYC assholes… WHERE THE HELL IS KAZ’ EARRING?????
Bring back the earring, Whigham, or DIE!
Comment by johnw — January 23, 2009 @ 10:36 am
1/23 P1: Wacky ol’Gildo:
With his right hand he’s playing tic tac toe with himself.
With his left hand he’s playing with himself.
Comment by SemperFi4evr — January 23, 2009 @ 11:14 am
That dude in panel 2 has begun the long slow vigil…watching for the swallows to come back to Capristrano so he knows it baseball season.
Comment by laura — January 23, 2009 @ 11:29 am
1/22 Panel 2: Someone more skilled at Photoshop than I should put this guy into the famous “ape evolves into man” poster — you know, the one that Encino Man’s poster was based on. I’m thinking Cro-Mudlark should be about 2 or 3 steps before the fully upright man. Between him, the giant ball, and the motion lines, this is one of my favorite panels of the Whigham Era. Definitely evokes the artastic stylings of Frank.
Comment by Cash — January 23, 2009 @ 11:59 am
Ask, and you shall receive!
http://www.zete.org/people/idembsky/ape-to-man-evolution.bmp
Comment by Ian — January 23, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
Strip one, panel two: Exploding hand syndrome.
Yay, Marty Moon’s back, looking sorta sober and not saying one word about losing his job to two teenage lying punks.
John, I’m with you on the earring. He can draw earrings on Dylan, who nobody cares a rat’s dick about, but not Kaz? Something’s wrong here!
Lol Semper Fi. Someone said the other day Gil looked like a Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robot. He’s repeating that pose again today. Maybe because he’s playing pocket hockey.
Maureen’s next picture with “lunch tray” Bryce: Sticking him up in a tree.
Comment by Regina — January 23, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
LOL good job, Ian!
Comment by Regina — January 23, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
I thought Brenda was a star player, yet she or another “twin” is playing with the reserves in panel #1. It appears that something took a chunk of Kaz’s ear out, thus no earring. Finding out how that happened would be infinitely more interesting than the current goings on.
Comment by gwilo — January 23, 2009 @ 3:12 pm
That’s a picture of Brenda and another player blowing out New Thayer (not of the reserves finishing up). Apparently, New Thayer is so lousy that Brenda and other player can indulge in girl-on-girl armpit shennanigans and still “blow out” NT.
No wonder Brenda is so good at basketball. If my forefinger and thumb could touch around the circumference of a basketball, I’d be a star, too.
Comment by eggbert — January 23, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
Thank you so much for clarifying what’s on the sign in panel two of today’s strip! I couldn’t tell at all and I thought maybe Maureen and Brenda were up to some crazy hijinks by photographing Bryce under a sign that says “I’m with stupid” or “Get it here.”
Comment by Gold-Digging Nanny — January 23, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
Ian Great job!
And Jason, love the headline “Lunchtray Larkin” LOL
Comment by Gil'sBarber — January 23, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
I like Maureen’s shirt, but if thats in the Milford cafeteria, I think the school dress code needs tightening up.
Anyway, it’s January, not June. Hope she brought a coat.
The basketball seasons have both turned into sidelights for the other stories, so I cant get a hang of how many games or victories either side has. Not many is a good guess.
Comment by Rob — January 23, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
Although the ‘someone ripped a chunk out Kaz’s ear theory’ is intriguing, I believe that we are seeing Kaz’s earring. Specifically, he is wearing his provocative, yet stylish, ‘lightning bolt’ studs.
Comment by Tim — January 23, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
Hey Bryce is no basketball player – he’s into musical theatre:
“NYC
You’re standing room only
You crowd
You cramp
You’re still
The champ
Amen For NYC”
Comment by blondie — January 23, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
If the photo makes Bryce look that bad, he’d immediately look in a mirror and then get on a scale.
If you doctor photos and people find out, it could be detrimental to your professional career and maybe your health.
Comment by dale — January 24, 2009 @ 2:40 am
ummm…so apparently the author does not know that 17 is an illegal number in both high school and college basketball, one that can result in an immediate technical foul?
Comment by uw_m77 — January 25, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
sorry, no comment here. still reeling over the week long catfight in brenda starrr.
Comment by lester — January 26, 2009 @ 6:25 am