…and when I say popular, I mean a couple posters actually wanted this. But, hey, I’m one of you and I need the daily snark too, so I’m going to carry the ball for Jason for a while. Game on.
1/28/09
1/29/09
1/30/09
1/31/09
Commentary for the last few days is going to seem a bit warmed over. Josh at the Comics Curmudgeon already scooped TWIM on the best panel of the last few days, the guy in panel 3 of 1/29 making the universal hand gesture for jerk-off behind Marty’s back…classic.
I will just add that Gil’s only function during this basketball season has been to act like a dick and give snotty responses to anyone who points out that he has a blue chip point guard right under his nose. Yeah, keep working with Bill Hawkins, Gil, and maybe by the end of the season he’ll get his turnovers per game down into single digits. Dick.
Next week: Bryce thinks he’s getting shorter.
-Ned Ryerson
I agree that Josh scooped TWIM on the best panel of the year so far, but I actually think it’s the first panel of 1/29′s strip. As soon as I saw that one, I was eagerly anticipating Jason’s take on it. I wonder if Whigham drew it that way as an homage to the Mystics of The Dark Crystal?
And glad to see you’ve taken over the reins, Ned! I’ve been really missing this blog the last few days. It’s good to know we’re still in capable hands.
Comment by Cash — January 31, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
All panels 1/31: Awwwwkkk, the lips! Sum’o you think they’re mustaches which could be. Is that a cue to some particular ethnicity? Or might it be that as brother and sister they have been doing v*e*r*y b*a*d things with each other?
Comment by SemperFi4evr — January 31, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
Speaking of d-bags, where’s Gregory’s father, Big Al or whoever he is? Are Andrew and his sibs without adult supervision again. If Al is still around, why isn’t doing his usual from the stands jive? Or did Rubin forget all about it, the way he did Jim Gross’s knuckleball or the Milford-Valley tech rivalry last season.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — January 31, 2009 @ 10:00 pm
Another thing, shouldn’t Bryce have tried out for the team, since his parents obviously are in some sort of financial trouble and will probably have difficulty sending Bryce to school. A scholarship may be the boy’s only way to college. Once again, Rubin hasn’t thought this through, so what else is new?
Comment by Doug Puthoff — January 31, 2009 @ 10:06 pm
1/31 Hey, Bryce. The “jerks” don’t even know the name of your old school. Apparently you don’t either. They’re mocking you.
Comment by dale — February 1, 2009 @ 1:23 am
Welcome back Ned…I’ve missed the daily snarking! Jason once again has left the site in capable hands!
In panel one is Dylan doing the YMCA dance?
I totally missed the universal signal for “jerk off” until I read the Comic Curmudgeon. LOL…I love it. I was wondering why those two idiots were behind Marty. At first, I though they were heckling him for losing his public access show to a pair of lying teenagers. Plus, I was wondering what in Clambake hell was going on in panel one. I thought it was a pair of Siamese twins playing basketball.
In panel three, Curley Horse is acting like his usual dickish self. We need Big Ray (although Doug, I like the name Big Al better) to come back from Jungle Patrol and put him and his freak hand in check again.
In the last panel, is Bryce doing a solioquy, is he stretching..wtf is he doing??? Also the look on his face in panel three appears that he caught Kaz and Gil in a very compromising position.
Comment by Regina — February 1, 2009 @ 5:36 am
#2 SemperFi4ever: I agree, these lipstaches are getting out of control. Near as I can tell, they’re supposed to denote non-whiteness. Elmer had one, and now both the boy and girl Larkin twins are sporting them.
Comment by sourbelly — February 1, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
7 – sourbelly
Once upon a time, I thought the lip = moustache thing was just a poor job of shading and the people who did it never bothered to see how it looked to the readers.
But I think you’re absolutely correct; it’s some sort of ethnic clue.
Having said that — several weeks ago Ashley had one.
Comment by dale — February 1, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
I third the demand. I was wondering if I would really have to go without my semi-daily dose of Milford snark for an undetermined amount of time. Thanks for making with the funny, Ned.
Comment by bartcow — February 1, 2009 @ 7:52 pm
Monday Panel 1: Kaz’s left hand comes out of his right shoulder.
Panel 2: 2 of Gils players would rather work for money then play bad basketball. Good choice.
Panel 3: Gil warns Kaz: “Next time Mr. Twin comes in, he can play.” But not this time.
Blue-chip point guard? Hold your horses. Its not Gil’s fault this mope wouldn’t leave his room all winter. I have no interest in Johnny-come-latelys, and neither should Gil. You don’t join a marathon with a mile to go, then say you won the race.
Comment by Rob — February 1, 2009 @ 9:22 pm
Monday -
Amateur psychologist, certifiable psycho Gil knew he had an opening and lied.
Bryce isn’t likely to come back until he finds out there is an opening. This will be apparent at the next game or someone will tell him earlier. I can’t imagine how Bryce wouldn’t find out that Gil lied: the two guys know when they quit, and the remaining players will figure it out in a few days.
Comment by dale — February 1, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
Yeah, I might have oversold the merits bringing Bryce aboard. I’m still figuring out where I stand on this basketball season story. But Gil’s attitude about it all is annoying me.
I’m in a post Super Bowl fog, so look for a new post a little later today.
Comment by nedryerson — February 2, 2009 @ 6:21 am
I like how Kaz can barely contain his laughter in panel 3 of Saturday’s strip.
Is Gil’s playing mind games with Bryce really the funniest thing he’s seen since that morning’s Funky Winkerbean?
Comment by billytheskink — February 2, 2009 @ 7:19 am
“A Dylan Bauza bomb” looks to be equivalent to some kind of fancy dance move. At the very least, it involves ‘jazz hands’.
Comment by philosophist — February 5, 2009 @ 11:57 pm