6/20/09
6/22/09
So after a promising Friday ending with local radio tools wearing cardboard boxes, we regress back to the boring adventures of lame couple Bill and Molly. Who really wants to see Bill throw rocks like a girl all night? Clearly not Mrs. Kinsella, who would rather gouge her eyes out than take any more of his fruity pebble throwing.
And two more weeks of baseball? Even the wacky Japanese character on Molly’s shirt is pissed off at hearing that.
TWO more weeks of baseball?! Are you kidding me?! This year we’re going straight from Bill, Molly, Shemp, Dr. Pearl, Sackodog, and the Rajah to FOOTBALL! Hoo-ah!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — June 22, 2009 @ 12:18 am
I dislike Opie so much I want Shemp to get away with his prank. But in Milford, justice will prevail.
Comment by ScooterAl — June 22, 2009 @ 12:58 am
Once again, unethical behavior pays off for Gil Thorp: he told the Hawkinses to sic a lawyer on the school district, and Mrs. Pearl had to cave on the suspensions. So much for her tough stance against “sexting.”
And how did Bill know where Molly’s bedroom was? Does this mean he’s… you know… seen her “Hello Kitty”? Gosh, wow.
Comment by jvwalt — June 22, 2009 @ 4:53 am
Why didn’t Bill just text her that he was outside?
Did his cell phone get confiscated?
Comment by Dave — June 22, 2009 @ 5:15 am
“We’re not allowed to play sports for TWO weeks? How can you do that? We were going to win everyone of those games by forfeit, seeing as we’re the only school in the 5 state area that:
1. is still open
2. still playing spring baseball
Just an aside…I think we have a Mrs. Robinson thing going on between Mollys mom and Opie
Comment by knoxy — June 22, 2009 @ 6:02 am
5–Knory–The state baseball playdowns..err, tournament, just finsihed this past Saturday in Indiana–ironic, since most of the schools around here have been out for a month.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — June 22, 2009 @ 6:51 am
I’m hoping that the first panel tomorrow is Bill pulling and Ashley Aiello and saying that “a criminal” sent the picture around.
Comment by billytheskink — June 22, 2009 @ 7:23 am
So let me get this straight: in Thorpverse, school goes right through July? And you have a lawyer on retainer just to deal with your kids childish pranks? Makes sense to me.
Also, I like the nod to M.C. Escher in panel 3 in the first comic.
Comment by Regina — June 22, 2009 @ 7:25 am
Fruity Pebbles. I see what you did there.
Comment by sourbelly — June 22, 2009 @ 8:02 am
From where or from what is Molly speaking from in panel 3 of todays comic? “Hello Kitty” is right! You and your freckles better be mighty careful, Billy! His look of terror is palpable and justified!
Comment by PFM — June 22, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Mimi in panel 2 of the 6/20 strip appears to be distracted by the way Molly plopped her butt on the desk…or is it Molly’s butt?
Comment by meathook — June 22, 2009 @ 9:03 am
Maybe Milford suddenly moved to Iowa, where they play their high school baseball in the summer. There they don’t get to the state playdowns…err, playoffs until the end of July.
Comment by another Josh — June 22, 2009 @ 9:03 am
I have to say that I kind of like the bland couple. I just hope Shep Shempo gets the shit kicked out of him. I hate jerky assholes. Aside from that, I wanted to say that this blog is great. I have read through most of the archives and damned if I haven’t laughed myself to tears. What I like about this over say – Comics Curmudgeon – is that for the most part this blog is not mean-spirited. Gil Thorp’s universe is so bizarre that you just run with it and have a great time.
Comment by rembrandt36 — June 22, 2009 @ 9:39 am
Welcome to Milford, rembrandt! Here, have a Nut Boy! They’re shitty!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — June 22, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
Hey, I throw rocks much better than that! Bill is throwing rocks like…a drunken Marty Moon. Or even a sober Marty Moon. (There’s a reason he’s announcing instead of coaching. He’s got no coordination at all! And also the kids think he’s a real creep.)
I think that’s Boo from “Monsters Inc.” on Molly’s shirt. Awesome!
Sure, high-school baseball in the Thorpiverse runs right through July…remember the adventures of El-Mullet? I think his class didn’t graduate until last July. Funky star-shaped sunglasses were involved, somehow. And then he went on the road with the Kalamazoo Kings. Good times, good times!
Comment by jules — June 22, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
Not knowing any better, I’m going to guess that the wacky anime character is from Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku line.
But I initially thought it was Crayon Shin-Chan and that Rubin/Whigham may be way more hip than I’d ever imagined.
(But honestly, if that shirt were real, I’d buy it for my wife. It’s super-effective happiness!)
Comment by El Santo — June 22, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
Kick his ass, Bill, kick his ass!
Comment by Rob — June 22, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
The character on Molly’s shirt is Pucca, a cartoon that used to be on Disney’s Jetix channel.
Comment by Tim — June 22, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
It’s obvious Molly didn’t have anything to wear so she tore up anime comic books and made a shirt. And when it rains, we’ll have even more fun. My cell phone camera is ready.
Comment by Mudlarks Fan — June 23, 2009 @ 5:15 am
I initially though that the Kinsellas had a large telescope in their living room until I realized it was the bannister.
Throwing pebbles at the window?! Oh Bill, is there no limit to your squareness? You’re a cube, rube!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — June 23, 2009 @ 7:29 am
Wowo, I totally did a double-take with the 3rd panel of the 1st comic. I saw it as a side-view, and I thought that he had been thrown out of the window and was violently spinning away from the building to his death. Would’ve made the comic more interesting!
Comment by Richard — June 23, 2009 @ 8:37 am
If one of the characters appears in a Bobobo Bobobobo shirt, then I’ll be impressed.
Comment by johnw — June 23, 2009 @ 10:21 am
I’m kinda hoping for a Ranxerox t-shirt myself.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — June 23, 2009 @ 10:39 am
I got a bad case of vertigo from 6/20 panel 3. wooozy.
Comment by Emily — June 23, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Comment by Gray — June 23, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
First off, the 6′1″ Kinsella dame needs a Meekrab shirt to go with those oh-so-chi-chi dot pajama bottoms. They probably reveal a Chinese brocolli beef tatoo on her lower back.
Secondly, Where is Cully when we need him to break up the fight by reverse slamming Hawkins to the diamond-hard floor of the locker room. Otherwise the far more street saavy Clump Lumbo will pull a razor Narkins will get cut.
Comment by Sgt. Saunders — June 23, 2009 @ 9:38 pm