4/21/10
It’s about that time in the plot where we slog slowly through the stories…we get beat over the head with the same plot points ’til we’re bludgeoned into a coma. All I know is the Thorps better get the alignment on their Geo Tracker checked.
Oh and thanks for the heads up that the third panel takes place “Later…” I was convinced that for once, this comic was going to start moving sequentially backwards through time, but that narration box sure saved me.
4/22/10
Slim chance Slim Chance can keep singing AND pitching, as he has dislocated his wrist in a flamboyant singing accident. And non-news alert: Everyone hates Cassie. Her mom has laced those cookies with arsenic to put her out of her misery.
4/23/10
I’m surprised that…
A. Robbbb is still a student. He was 37 last baseball season if I recall correctly.
B. Bryce hasn’t dropped dead from that horrible gash to his temple.
C. These two guys aren’t complaining that SlimJim has the words wrong….It’s “…going south to Mexico”, dammit!
Early prediction (sure to go wrong): Derek turns out to be a phenom and Milford goes on an early winning streak — but then gets an offer to go on tour and/or sign a recording deal, and has to make a fateful choice: lead the Mudlarks to glory, or fulfill his musical dreams. My advice: GET THE HELL OUT OF MILBURG!
Either way, I hope he kicks that surly bassist out of the group.
More physical impossibilities: Cassie’s apparently broken back in 4/22 panel 2, and Slim’s absolutely impossible pitching motion on 4/23 panel 1. Had to fit his throwing arm around the narration box.
I do like the shout-out to the old True Romance comics in 4/22 panel 3: “Oh, Mom, am I destined to be Forever Unloved because of my…FRECKLES???”
Comment by jvwalt — April 23, 2010 @ 4:35 am
“Heading/Going south to Mexico”?
Sounds like Elmer Vargas took up pitching, and fronting a band.
I really hope Female Bill Hawkins graduates without redemption. I also hope she returns that lamp at the end of her bed to the dentist she stole it from.
Comment by billytheskink — April 23, 2010 @ 7:21 am
Where do they play these “intra squad matches”, in some sort of pit?
Comment by Ned Ryerson — April 23, 2010 @ 8:52 am
4/21 P1: It’s hopeless to get the alignment fixed on the Geo Tracker. Gildo is forever crocked so he’s always driving over curbs, etc. Mimi’s had to get used to the insouciant bouquet of urine and vomit that the pine tree deodorizer can never fully mask. When an irate fan tell her “Milburg stinks!” she growls back “Not compared to Gil’s Tracker!”
Comment by semperfi4evr — April 23, 2010 @ 9:00 am
Later…the Longshots fold some laundry.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — April 23, 2010 @ 10:15 am
So, Slim Chance is supposed to be a little like Tim Lincecum, the pitcher for the Giants right? He is a little scraggly and unorthadox but good?
Comment by Paul K — April 23, 2010 @ 11:39 am
I’m trying to figure out whose freak hand that is in the second panel of the first strip.
SlimJim needs to do something about that horrific scar on his back in panel three.
At first I thought that was a chick singing in panel one of the second strip. Is SlimJim channeling his inner Adam Lambert or Clay Aiken?
I’m with you Jason: Why is Robbbbbb still around?
Comment by Regina — April 23, 2010 @ 1:45 pm
The B’s on the keyboards get more exercise as Robb returns to the strip. If the Ghost would leave the strip to even it out, I’d be OK. No such luck, fans.
Comment by Rob — April 23, 2010 @ 2:21 pm
Oh Robbbbbbbb, we missed thee!
Great headline Jason!
Later… Robbbbbb has to be admitted to hospital for open-heart surgery (ya know, being 45 and pretending to be 17 — let that be a lesson guys).
Comment by Gil'sBarber — April 23, 2010 @ 4:46 pm
LOL Regina — Adam Lambert or Clay Aiken?
Off topic now – does this year Amer Idol Suck or what?
Comment by Gil'sBarber — April 23, 2010 @ 6:42 pm
First panel on 4/23: He throws like a zombie.
#10: No TJ because no one cares much like the Millford track and field team.
Comment by bevo — April 23, 2010 @ 7:38 pm
I’m still waiting for Shep Trumbo to return. I’m hoping he and Cassie get together and blow up Milford High.
Comment by dougputhoff — April 24, 2010 @ 8:21 am
Re: The bassist… I can speak from personal experience. (Not necessarily from being a jerk) A bass player is, in most pop music bands, the most completely replaceable member of the band. Most successful bass players are relatively good natured as a consequence. I will never forget another musician describing one reasonably talented bassist as nothing more than ‘four strings and a bad attitude.’
Comment by Tim — April 24, 2010 @ 9:54 am
Hey Tim I love the bass players in all bands — bass rules!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — April 24, 2010 @ 6:52 pm
No doubt Derek’s absence from baseball was due to his inguinal hernia, if the truss he is wearing in 4/23 panel 1 is any indication.
Comment by Moon Mullins — April 25, 2010 @ 2:54 am