5/12/10
Due to budget cutbacks, Marjie is now the only reporter for the Milford Star. Rather than talking to Slim Pickens (which is also the current state of the plot), I think she should be spending her time investigating the escaped clone they made of her…you know the one with a few missing chromosomes, that wandered into the high school and made friends with She-hulk. Instead she wanders into the dugout and asks Gil, “Hey, did you hear your damned hippie pitcher likes Greg Maddux?” What a scoop! And we wonder why print is dying?
5/13/10
“You used to write songs, man! But ever since you wanted to be all multi-talented, your song production has really tapered off! Some of us have zero talent at all and became bass players! Hell, I can’t even read, like ol’ fancy bracelets over there. But at least I show up to practice and complain every day. I mean, what else are bass players for, am I right? I think I’ll go drink some more bleach.”
5/12 P3 – By the besotted look on Gil-do’s face I’d say he just yakked up into that batting helmet and is tossing it in the trash to hide it from Marjie. Note to Gil: you’re not fooling her; you stunk up the joint.
Comment by semperfi4evr — May 13, 2010 @ 9:04 am
I don’t know what I hate more. Tuck, or the number of times Backyard Tire Fire has been mentioned in the strip. If Rubin mentions them one more time, I’m starting a backyard tire fire in the living room of his fucking house.
Comment by south mauldin, sc — May 13, 2010 @ 9:09 am
5/13 P1 – “Hey Derek, why don’t you just chug on that big bottle of ‘N’ we have over there!” (Liquid Nutboys, perhaps?)
Comment by Ian — May 13, 2010 @ 9:15 am
Gil finds out details about his players through the “newspaper” reporter. Dr. Pearl finds out details about the athletic programs at her school by listening to Marty Moon on the radio. They really don’t like their jobs, do they?
I checked google and it told me that Drive By Truckers were the hardest working alt-country band (I mean according to some blogger somewhere, and that probably doesn’t include Australia, since they have their own hardest working alt-country band, according to some other blogger) so beware south maudlin when you are setting that fire, because the Drive By Truckers might, ya know, drive by (and pelt Rubin’s house with PBR empties and spent bic lighters and stuff).
I was going to speculate about what’s going on in that bizarro rehearsal space (acid trip garage) but I gave up and downed a 52 ounce gutbuster of N(utboys…they’re shittier than the bottom of the trash can in the dugout) instead.
Tuck: named after a medicated pad for inflamed assholes.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — May 13, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Just wait till Marty Moon reads the Star’s feature on Derek: “Warning, Milfordians: the Mudlarks’ new star pitcher is under the influence of a radical leftist and a gang of arsonists!”
As for 5/13, I love the Longshots’ little clubhouse. duct-taped furniture, vintage metal light fixture, and BRIGHT SHINY LINOLEUM CHECKERBOARD FLOOR. Just like the rumpus room in Jerry Jeff Walker’s house.
And as for Tuck… well, he can go suck on an exhaust pipe. He’s in the running for Most Annoying Gil Thorp Character Ever — and that’s some pretty damn stiff competition.
Comment by jvwalt — May 13, 2010 @ 10:07 am
Just like the rumpus room in Jerry Jeff Walker’s house.
Haha, I sprayed my gut buster on my monitor. (But aren’t there a bunch of stains and scuff marks on Jerry Jeff’s linoleum from the last time Robert Earl Keen and David Allan Coe stopped by?)
Comment by Ned Ryerson — May 13, 2010 @ 10:55 am
And where the hell did my little Ned picture go? Damn you wordpress!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — May 13, 2010 @ 10:56 am
doesnt a bass player in altpunk or whatever they play only need to use the e string . why is slim so scared to tell this pugsley with a goatee to fuck off .if he gets balls cassie will be the new bass player next week and tuck will do something stupid and be in jail with scuzzball ray.
when is the trail of ray that would be some good reading
Comment by mr120zcan — May 13, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
I agree with the harsh comments about Tuck. He’s down there with surly, sulky Duncan Daley (what’s happened to him?) and he lacks the comic qualities of Jamarr.
Joining the two troubled characters of Cassie and Derek is a work of genius. This is going to be one of the best Gil Thorp stories in years.
Comment by David Black — May 13, 2010 @ 4:10 pm
I think Gil whacked off under the girl’s bleacher and is hiding the evidence from Marjie. Also, he seems annoyed that she’s telling him what music SlimJim is interested in…she’s cutting in on his rush to get to PUB before the “Two For One and free hot wings Happy Hour” ends.
I hope that liquid N stands for nitrogyclerin.
Hey, I had those same wristbands…IN 1984!!!!
Panel three, second strip…that is more of Tuck’s medicated pads face than I ever wanted to see. DO NOT DO THAT AGAIN, CHIEF WHIGHAM!
Comment by Regina — May 13, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
Tuck’s hatred of jocks is too pronounced – he obviously has some repressed jockular issues. He will resolve them with either: 1) Gil, 2) Kaz (bar fight – I hope, I hope), or 3) Luhmmmmm (as Tuck and Steve-o will become pals lamenting over Slim’s crush on Cassie (Tuck) or Cassie’s crush on Slim (Steve-o, because he “kind of liked it” when Cassie kissed him). This will lead to Tuck either be Gil’s new catcher or a football player next season (starting sometime in October).
Comment by milfordian — May 13, 2010 @ 5:57 pm
So much here, in both the strip and our reactions to it, that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Tuck really is annoying. But note the reversal of expectations– the musician is the intolerant case of testosterone poisoning, and the jocks look like the artists!
And it’s spreading to us. So Mauldin 2 threatens to torch Rubin’s house, and I fall for the cheap side myself– when I first read #8 12 oz can I thought he’d written “when he balls Cassie.”
Not that this can’t all happen. But finally, a story which engages our gutter personalities. No doubt this will turn pusillanimous– Dr Pearl will rule that Derek has to get his hair cut or that Marjie is hitting on the players or some damn thing, but we can still hope.
Comment by vaganova — May 13, 2010 @ 6:51 pm
Today’s strip: The return of “Ease up”.
Comment by Regina — May 14, 2010 @ 7:23 am
I saw that Regina, it’s an “ease up” followed by a crash cymbal. Almost as good as following it with a Kaz punch.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — May 14, 2010 @ 8:36 am
If you though this picture of Tuck in Panel 3 was a close up………
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