7/23/09
7/24/09
Sorry for the delay, when I realized Unofficial P.I. Bob Kazinski was gonna be heavily involved in the plot this summer, I got so excited I just kinda blacked out for a couple days. Then Thursday gave us still more Kaz action: Shirtless talking on the phone, working hard at his gumshoe internship (well, asking dumb questions at least) even while while in a Chinatown massage parlor, wearing a Hawaiian shirt like the party animal he is, and even eliminating Raúl Ibañez as a suspect!
Unfortunately I was rudely shaken back to Earth by the other storyline: Gil does something boring. Frankly, I can’t believe he showed up to Ted’s practice for local hobo underprivileged kids. That’s way more times than he showed up to high school practice this year. Maybe he’s only there to scare the children into abandoning their interest in sports. Because hey, if he can convince all the local boys to give up now, maybe he can completely disband his teams in a few more years, as he’d always hoped.
Looks like he’ll have his hands full with one Casper Cordova, a little horned devil child, with the ability to see out of the back of his head, and catch baseballs that fly in from other ballparks. Maybe Gil will just have Casper packed in a crate and shipped off to Kalamazoo before the summer is out.
I think someone on Comics Curmudgeon interpreted that wall scroll to mean “Hard Fighting.” Clearly Kaz is the new leader of the Cobra Kai!
Comment by El Santo — July 24, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
Check out Casper Cordova. He’s a wizard with the high altitude fungos.
Played much baseball, Casper?
Nope, but I’m liking it.
Ya like gladiator movies, Casper?
Um, I think I hear my mom calling me. I gotta go.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 24, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
Ooooh! Freak-hand sighting in Panel One! *jumps up and down, clapping*
Someone please translate this sentence for me: “He mostly likes to work with the younger guys, but he’s an athlete.” Uh. Of course he’s an athlete; he’s wearing a uniform with a little C on it, and he has his glove on the correct hand. How do the younger guys enter into it? Would this sentence make sense if it were arranged differently? I can’t make heads or tails of it. Medic!!
Comment by jules — July 24, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
Is Casper the same 8 year old kid who didn’t want to play but brought his own glove and is now 22?
Comment by dale — July 24, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
Yeah, check out Casper Cordova. Last week (7/16) he was wearing his glove on his LEFT hand!!
Comment by gil fanski — July 24, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
Wear your glove on the appropriate hand! Now that’s good coaching!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 24, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
I don’t even want to imagine why Kaz has his eyes cast downward while he’s talking to Gil in the local Chinese massage parlor.
Panel 2: Kaz is quite the clown…we’ve eliminated A-Rod and all of the Mets.
7/24/: At first I thought Gil’s freak index finger was his freak thumb.
Gil: “Casper, have you ever seen a man naked?”
Comment by Regina — July 24, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
I’m really hoping that 7/23′s panel one leads to a “Samurai Kaz” plotline one of these summers. I’m already excited for it!
Comment by Cash — July 24, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
7/23 p1: In addition to the Oriental fabulousness of Kaz’ mancave, hey, check out the tattoo on his left arm! Chief Whigham may have downsized the Kaz earring, but he’s amped up the crazy in the rest of Bob Kazinski’s life.
7/24 p1, Gil’s deleted response: “Well, if they’re good, then I don’t want them on my team. Can’t have the playdowns interfering with my drinking time!”
7/24 p2: Is that a baseball glove or a jai alai cesta? Maybe Casper is a Basque?
Comment by jvwalt — July 24, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
7-23 panel #3: it could be a trash can next to Gil at the ol’ County Park, but it sure looks like a keg to me! No wonder Gil showed up!
Comment by milfordian — July 24, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
7/24 panel 1, Ted is standing pretty close to Gil, and we don’t see where either of their left hands are.
Comment by gil fanski — July 24, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
and 7/23 panel 3:
Gil: Any future big leaguers, Ted?
Ted: No, and don’t you be getting any ideas about Billy here, he’s all mine.
Comment by gil fanski — July 24, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Blame it on the Casper Cordova.
Comment by Rob — July 24, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
I’m somewhat sure the language on Kaz’ decor is Japanese. At least the first word (kanji) means “large” or some variation thereof. It could be the same in Chinese or Korean. Maybe Kaz is a Samurai. Or has just visted his geisha girl. (Does Kelly know about this?) Or maybe it refers to his ego or anatomy!
Comment by meathook — July 24, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
#5 – Thats Jonah fielding the ball, not Casper. We dont see Casper in action till 7-24.
Comment by Rob — July 24, 2009 @ 6:45 pm
Jonah has the Shazam! shirt and glasses.
Comment by Rob — July 24, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
Nok! Nok! They’re not showing the guilty party’s face on Saturday, because by now, Magnum Kaz has bashed it in. Nok!
Comment by Sgt Saunders — July 25, 2009 @ 3:01 am
What Nokkers!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 25, 2009 @ 6:57 am
7/24p1 – Gil, Gil… what is this now, Rex Morgan, MD?
Comment by Ginevra — July 25, 2009 @ 8:19 am
Vy, sank you!
Comment by jules — July 25, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Saturday’s strip: Gil playing chess?!?! Geez – next thing he’ll be playing shuffleboard at the retirement home! Kaz is definitely the future at Milford!
Comment by milfordian — July 25, 2009 @ 8:55 am
“Good Work, Kaz. Now I want you to go forth and kill Marty Moon.”
Comment by Sgt. Saunders — July 25, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
Kaz now 2-0 as a gumshoe. I figured out that question from Jules about Casper – Ted is saying the younger guys AREN’T athletes. Which is crap. ‘Younger guys’ is a relative term. So is ‘athlete’. So when did Casper become ‘older’ and therefore eligible to become an athlete??
Your turn, Jules.
Comment by Rob — July 26, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Okay, I can’t wait. Who the hell is the perp? He’s got Sackodog’s haircut, but he ain’t 6’9″!
BTW, it just dawned on me that Kaz is sporting the Magnum PI inspired get up for this case (even though my first though was Glenn Quagmire…all-riiiight!)
Comment by Ned Ryerson — July 27, 2009 @ 7:57 am
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