“Off the record…the boys suck, Marjie. But shhhhh, don’t tell them!”
“Um, why are you telling me this? We were talking about my new earrings.”
“I just want everyone to know, off the record of course, that the Milford boys suck at baseball.”
“Well since I work for the newspaper, even if I print your quote, nobody under the age of eighty will read it anyway.”
“In that case, on the record, those boys just plain suck. They’re the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. If only they had a weird old man or a janitor or a talking dog to coach them…”
“Wait, aren’t you the coach?”
“Well ‘CoachThorp’ is just a meaningless title…It doesn’t mean I actually do any coaching. Kinda like the Pope. Do you ever see him poping?”
“The octogenarians are gonna love this story.”
But sometimes* segues don’t have to make any transitional sense at all…
WHUMP!
What just happened? A student just fell through the ceiling onto what may have been a good player! No wait, word on the street is that the whole team sucks. So there’s no loss here, from what I can tell. Except a perfectly good ceiling.
*Or in the case of this comic…always.
Will Jamjar be shunned, like Cassie was, for hurting Milford’s chance at winning through his injury of Derek?
A beatdown would be the manly punishment – where will the line start?!
At least Tuck will be pleased!
Comment by milfordian — May 26, 2010 @ 9:07 am
I don’t get what is happening in P3. I’m guessing it’s supposed to just be two people bumping into each other at a corner in the hallway but it looks more like a bomb exploded in a locker and bodies are flying. Perhaps this is the beginning of a Columbine type incident at Milford. Maybe Jamjar shouldn’t have picked on the band geeks so much.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — May 26, 2010 @ 9:49 am
What’s Milford’s Pythagorean record? Are they outperforming that? If not, maybe they are for real; although Chance may have been getting lucky on BABIP and is due to regress.
Comment by Ennui Willie Keeler — May 26, 2010 @ 10:34 am
What is the deal with that wall in panel 2? It doesn’t seem to divide anything important, the hallway seems to stretch back along the wall on both sides. There’s no doorway, so it’s not separating a classroom from the hall. Maybe it’s loadbearing, but in a high-traffic area like a high school hallway, what kind of architect would put a wall there instead of pillars?
Comment by Wikitorix — May 26, 2010 @ 11:52 am
Panel 2, lower right corner – white fedora – looks like Matt the Hatt is still roaming the halls (or perhaps he’s moved on passed his hat on to some other loudmouth)
Comment by steve — May 26, 2010 @ 12:15 pm
I thought the behatted dude was Dylan, because it looks like Jamar is saying goodbye to the hat. Would Matt have bequeathed his Hatt to Dylan? Were they ever part of the same storyline? A better question: Have they ever been seen in the same room together?! Hmm, curiouser and curiouser…
Also: Jamar and (is that Slim Chance he just ran into?) might possibly have created that mighty WHUMP! if they had both been running full-tilt through the halls. Since they both appear merely to have been strolling, the worst that should have happened is that one of them dropped a notebook. A notebook full of (secret baseball plays? awesomely bad love songs?) that someone else would find, leading to Misunderstandings and Embarrassment.
I should be writing this stuff!
Comment by jules — May 26, 2010 @ 1:40 pm
“Trouble,” eh? Is this going to lead to a fist fight between JamJar and whoever? If so, I’ll be rooting for whoever.
Comment by sourbelly — May 26, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
In any well regulated universe, panel 3 would be easily understood. Some kid rounds the corner, sees JamJar, thinks “This is the asshole who wasted the entire fall for all of us,” and throws a crossbody block.
But this is Milford, and the collision will instead be a Turning Point, one which re-introduces Jamar and allows him to waste our entire summer.
Comment by vaganova — May 26, 2010 @ 9:22 pm
“The team sucks, so when they have the inevitable late-season collapse and miss the playdowns, it won’t be my fault!”
Gil Thorp, inspirational leader.
Comment by jvwalt — May 26, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
Today’s comic shows us that this was actually Bryce and the drummer. Hopefully he broke his wrist by knocking Bryce out. Here comes the friction on the team with Bryce causing controversy again. They just need to trick him into thinking he’s fat and he’ll come around. Nothing like giving a kid an eating disorder and self esteem issues to bend him to your will. Ahhh Milford.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — May 27, 2010 @ 5:49 am
The two collisionists were Jamar (“The Ghost”)Geddis and Bryce Larkin, twin sibling of the lovely Brenda. Bryce has gone to tell his woes to the music geeks in their secret headquarters in the basement of drummer Trevor Fancy Bracelets. He won’t get much sympathy from Tuck.
Comment by David Black — May 27, 2010 @ 2:20 pm
“Do you ever see the Pope, poping?” Most awesome line EVER Jason!
As far as these two collionists, TG they weren’t driving.
Off-topic, can anyone believe kids today actually do “drive” while texting? Today I heard the latest in La La Land is they hold their breath while driving. Sheesh!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — May 27, 2010 @ 5:52 pm
Panel three looks so insane. Is the guy lying on the floor tripping JamJar/Bryce/Random Black Guy?
Also, did Ashley’s new mole creep over to Gil’s face?
Comment by Regina — May 27, 2010 @ 6:39 pm
Apparently, the tripper was Bryce and the trippee was a band member, probably drummer Trevor.
The tripper certainly seemed to have the negroid features of The Ghost, at first.
This is very confusing.
Comment by David Black — May 27, 2010 @ 11:13 pm