4/22/09
Thanks to Molly Kinsella getting lost in the Crock desert for several days, where she proceeds to hallucinate about tennis balls, the Milford girls lose the game!
4/23/09
Meanwhile, a reluctant (mostly reluctant to have to look at the ugliest mug in Milford. Ugh, no more close-ups of Thumb Poser please!) Robb Larue is about to give Shep the bad news that Bill “Opie” Hawkins is already putting the moves on Molly. I mean, who else would it be? Also, he should explain that a wingman can only do his job for the pilot when the pilot didn’t previously crash face-first into a chemical waste dump.
And even more meanwhiler, I would have never imagined a legitimate comic would ever attempt a Gil Thorp cross-over, but apparently such a thing has now happened. Thanks to alert reader Debbie, here’s this Wednesday’s Lio:
I’d have to say the weirdest thing about this is that Lio is being attacked by the Frank Bolle-era Gil Thorp characters… More specifically, it’s the characters from March 4th of last year!
Thumbs up to Mark Tatulli for this cross-over, which still makes way more sense than the real strip ever does! Thoughts?
1. Stop making sense!
2. I have a mancrush on Dalton Thumbo! More close-ups of his ginormous nose, please!
3. I forget.
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — April 23, 2009 @ 12:39 am
Robb LaRue must be as dumb as Cully. According to Google, he graduated HS in 1959! http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/University_Texas_Cactus_Yearbook/1959/Page_364.html . In panel one, he looks every minute of his 68 years.
Jason, I agree..please stop with the close-ups of Shemp “Thumb Poser”’s mug.
When I read today’s strip, I had the feeling it was a cut and paste of three different panels, because after reading it five times, it still makes no sense.
LOL with the cross over. Yes Jason, that made more sense than both of the above strip.
Comment by Regina — April 23, 2009 @ 4:39 am
Chief Whigham needs to back off of the attempted perspective just a bit. In 4/22 panel 1, Molly is reaching for a ball the size of her head; in panel 2, the ball is a wee thing; in panel 3, it’s finally settled on softball size.
I’m hoping the Mystery Molly-Consoler is one of her teammates. We could use a good lesbian plotline in this strip. (Besides, Neal Rubin has yet to reach his quota of plotlines this season. He needs at least three more, before he reaches the point where he can’t possibly resolve them all before summertime.
The only thing that would have made Lio even greater than it was, is having the ball bounce twice off the kid’s head.
Comment by johnw — April 23, 2009 @ 4:58 am
But to his credit, Thumb Poser is posing with his thumb in panel two. Still…yeah, no more extreme close-ups. I feel a bit queasy.
Panel two of yesterday’s strip is really funny if you only read the first three words, as I did. “Another Dickinson bunt – ” as the ball goes sailing over Exploding Eyeball Girl’s head. Ha! That was a hell of a bunt! (Unfortunately I ruined it by going back and reading the whole narration box. It was just a wild throw…shoot!)
Comment by jules — April 23, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Molly is actually missing from the waist down, so it takes her awhile to field a ball. I can’t believe it took the other team 6 innings to exploit this weak spot…….
Comment by knoxy — April 23, 2009 @ 8:00 am
Coach June Cleaver’s other secret weapon was to replace the softball with an over sized Tennis Ball and also place quicksand in front of the Pitcher’s mound. It is hard to play on the road. Milford had to make a choice… pull Molly out or field the Bunt and win the game. Worked to perfection. I shall Call her…. Mini ME
Now back to the Bucket where Maveric and goose… I mean Shemp and Robb unwind….
Hey Robb…shes lost that loving feeling…
I sense a serious Crash and Burn!
Comment by el lumpbo — April 23, 2009 @ 8:26 am
Robb and Shep, the eyes… think Coachey needs to send those boys to Dr. Lumpy in Central City to see what kinda pharmaceuticals they got in their waste water.
Great call, johnw on the low (so far) quota of plot lines which won’t get resolved. I doubt Gildo’s conk job will ever see the light of day again ‘cept on bacterial video…
Comment by SemperFi4evr — April 23, 2009 @ 8:55 am
Shrimp Trumbone reminds me of Fess Parker who was Daniel Boone in a 1960’s TV show.
Did I just say that?….Man, I feel OLD….
Comment by meathook — April 23, 2009 @ 10:08 am
4/22, Panel 3: Heh. The narrator said “A-hole.” Heh. Heh heh.
Comment by Sourbelly — April 23, 2009 @ 11:18 am
In Panel 3 of 4/23, the reluctant Robb Larue looks a lot like Dr. Wally Lamb. I hope his wingman tactics don’t include a clipboard and a rubber glove.
Something tells me that Sherpa Trillobite (Schmoopy Terwilliger? Schwepps Tutweiler?) picked the wrong wingman, who’s likely to respond as Cameron Frye did to Ferris Bueller: “Don’t ask me to participate in your stupid crap!”
You know what’s really consoling? A fallaway slam. But I’m sure the consoler is Bill Hawkins, the Frank Burns of the baseball team.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — April 23, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
Sheesh, Robbbb is at The Bucket waiting for a group of hot chicks (by Milford standards, that is) to show up, and he’s kvetching about not studying? What a nerd. He doesn’t deserve to be a cool jock teenager.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — April 23, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Hey! “cool jock” was supposed to be striked through – my poor html skills or Jason’s fault? I go with Jason.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — April 23, 2009 @ 12:54 pm
cool jockSorry.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — April 23, 2009 @ 12:55 pm
Hey what gives? Shemp Dumbo did pull his classic salt shaker gag when he left the Bucket.
Comment by Bobby Joe — April 24, 2009 @ 8:09 am
Don’t look now but Thumb Poser’s Spidey Sense is tingling in panel 3 of 4/24s strip. Bill “yup” Hawkins better look out.
Comment by Rex Kwan Do — April 24, 2009 @ 9:33 am
[...] then there’s today’s panel three shout-out to Lio (who shouted out to Gil last month.) There’s a lot going on, I just wish I had the time for further analysis! But [...]
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Ah Shep I hope we get a return appearance of you in the strip… getting your ass kicked by the team.
Comment by Rembrandt36 — July 5, 2009 @ 12:38 pm