One of these days I’ll have time to do another blog update, but today just isn’t it. Sorry…! Feel free to comment on what’s been happening in Milford lately. It does make me feel better that Gil Thorp hasn’t twittered in nearly two months so I’m not the only delinquent in this One-Curley-horse tank town…
Thanks for still reading and commenting, folks! Smell ya soon,
-Deadbeat Blogger
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Sigh, what looked like a(n exciting?) scene in the prison appears to have vaporized and we’re back to Lame-arr being Lame-arr. Is he really running up the score? That’s for the coaches to call and apparently they didn’t. No surprise. Just more in(s)anity in Tank Town.
Take a rest, JB/DB but don’t forsake us!
Comment by semperfi4evr — October 30, 2009 @ 8:10 am
I love the melodrama in today’s Panel Two, complete with freak hands (both of them!!) and exploding ear, or temple, or something. “Let it GO, Jamarr! Jamarr!! NOOOOOOO!” *Kaz faints*
Comment by jules — October 30, 2009 @ 8:32 am
#1: Is Freak Hands Spit Curl yelling “let it go!” because he doesn’t want Jamarr to run up the score, or because Jamarr shouldn’t field a punt that close to the end zone? I’m not sure. It’s been really hard to pay attention to this strip lately.
Comment by sourbelly — October 30, 2009 @ 8:38 am
Kaz is one good cry away from being a woman.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — October 30, 2009 @ 9:37 am
10/30 panel 3 “He’s gone!” And so is half of Milford, based on the size of the explosion in the background……….
Comment by Knoxy — October 30, 2009 @ 10:29 am
You feeling OK, Jason? You loose now, Jason?
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — October 30, 2009 @ 10:54 am
I don’t see how starting from the 2 is “running up the score.” If he let the ball go out of bounds, they could have started safely from the 20. Given that Jamarr gets free, what’s he supposed to do – stop and wait for the defense to catch up?
Comment by dale — October 30, 2009 @ 11:47 am
An old football coach’s rule that I remember is that you never field a punt inside the 10 yard line.
The chances of the ball bouncing into the end zone for a touchback are much greater than the chances of the punt returner crossing the 20 or of the punting team downing the ball inside the 10.
Of course, punt returners are rarely among the team’s smartest players.
Comment by billytheskink — October 30, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Nice cameo appearance of Edward Scissor Hands in panel # 2 of today’s strip.
Comment by Gil's Proctologist — October 30, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
That’s correct, billytheskink. And JarJar certainly isn’t “among the team’s smartest players.” But then again, who is? Milford hasn’t had a smart player since Brick House. (Oh, how I miss him!)
Comment by sourbelly — October 30, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
Cripes, way to go on break, Jason, just when Kaz is having his big freak out. Best single panel of Gil Thorp in ages. Please bookmark it for a future Random Amusing Panel O’ the Moment.
Comment by El Santo — October 30, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
Today’s middle panel is the reason why I read Gil Thorp regularly. Though I also love the final panel, which looks like a fight scene in a Japanese cartoon.
Comment by dmac — October 30, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Not to be sounding serious or anything but I think there were like 55 seconds left in the game; hence, Jam Jar running it all the way was like being a dick.
Hence: Kaz having a stroke.
Did I say hence twice? omg, guess I am being serious.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — October 30, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
dam i was waiting for you to comment on the locker room scene from the other day . i guess the mr baskt mystery has you on a marty moon type bender
Comment by mr 12 oz can — October 30, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
off topic, Happy Halloween all and turn clocks back and replace smoke detector batts this weekend
Go Milford !!!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — October 30, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
I’m replacing my clock and turning my smoke detector batteries back……….
Comment by Knoxy — October 30, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
I turn the clock back every time I read Gil Thorp! [rimshot]
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — October 30, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
This is a great blog, on a great comic. And I don’t even like sport, especially not football.
Marty Moon is a revolting creature. He deserves to spend his life in that crate.
Comment by David Black — October 31, 2009 @ 1:27 am
I went to replace my smoke detector battery and found that someone had replaced the 9-volt with a mini Nutboy and I thought that I might have developed a second, Tyler Durden-like personality inspired by Gil Thorp who does things like films imaginary cable access shows in the basement and robs liquor stores and videotapes wayward boys in trees and pretends to be the parents of kids whose real parents patrol remote jungles and mastermind palace coups and provide awesome face punching and sleuthing sub-contacting for the rock n roll Carol King and no wonder I’m always so damned tired and increasingly ineffectual in my Ned-life and have left a trail of smoking remains from here to Charlotte with inexplicable small fires of dubious origin and maybe I’m also moonlighting as an insurance adjuster from an Atom Egoyan film set in Charlotte called Mr. Baskt and the Adjuster.
Meanwhile JamJar Binks William Carter Gaddis has finally wised up and flipped the script on his wooing of Valarie but it stay ain’t gonna work because she hates you and if anything she’s ann even stronger proponent of the football adage of punt receiving that Kaz was adamantly screaming about in yesterdays strip. At the two??? Are you f’in stupid JarJar?? Let that shit go over your head, you moron. Yeah I had a dozen kills but I had to ditch over Dunkirk because the Jerries were peppering me with flack and my cabbage crate is deep in the briney.
Endless bullshit. It’s nutty!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — October 31, 2009 @ 6:40 am
19. Ned “Endless bullsh*t. It’s nutty!” — Yup, and it’s art imitating life too.
Comment by semperfi4evr — October 31, 2009 @ 8:16 am
I dont think my smoke detector even works, so why replace the battery? Will turn back my clocks before going to Sam McGuire’s tonite tho!
Comment by Rob — October 31, 2009 @ 11:44 am