7/20/11
“Oh…Hey sweetie. I was just pouring myself a glass of wine, then napping on top of this comfortable book.”
“Wait, what’s a ‘book’? In any case, I finished the wine for you.”
“Where’s your dad?”
“I dunno, Brazil, I guess.”
“Brazil?!? What the hell is he doing there? Last I checked I sent him to that nice travel agent our friend Mr. Bakst recommended right before he disappeared into the vast void of nothingness.”
“Wait, what’s a ‘travel agent’?”
7/21/11
“So Kenny, I hear your Mom likes the sauce.”
“How’d you know?”
“I read the last couple comics.”
“Blah-blah Costa Rica nobody cares.”
“I’m glad you’re here. This first match looks tough, and with you swinging that ridiculous looking club backwards, we should be all set. I’m off to your mom’s bedroom. But only to drink.”
“Hey, this isn’t a club, it’s my Fisher Price ‘My First Butterfly Net’!”
7/22/11
“Wait, Horseshoe Bay? Charlie Vincent? Kemper, are you saying that today’s episode, which is teetering exceptionally close to the edge of complete incomprehensibility, is really just a shout-out to one of Neal Rubin’s buddies?”
“Nah…The real Charlie Vincent who lives in Horseshoe Bay and at some point lived it Michigan is 71, not 70. But he drives like a 70-year-old.”
“Nooo..Not there!”
“Uh, what?”
Today’s cartoon is like learning to speak French and then going to France and discovering you don’t know how to speak French.
Comment by laura c — July 22, 2011 @ 3:50 pm
7/21 P1 & P2: Kenny: “For the love of Beelzebub, Gill; how many times do I gotta tell ya? Stop staring at my ass and get outta here; you’re really creeping me out! You saw how my shorts bulged when you picked me to help Molly Kinsella. Give it up; it ain’t gonna happen. You got a better chance of winning a friggin play down in the next 20 years. Now let that sink in then leave me alone.
Comment by semperfi4evr — July 22, 2011 @ 3:51 pm
Dad is going to Brazil or Dad is getting a Brazilian. Wait. What?
Comment by bevo — July 22, 2011 @ 4:29 pm
This strip just hurtles along at laconic speed. At least Kenny Chudlark is swinging that ball retriever well.
Memo to Marty’s Gil-matrix (or is it a Crate-matrix?): How about some Molly Kinsella-Torrey Peake Brazilian action?
Horseshoe Bay? Aren’t those guys a bunch of crabs?
Comment by Dood — July 22, 2011 @ 6:37 pm
Charlie Vincent, retired sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press. And former colleague of Neal Rubin, who used to work at the Freep and now punches the clock at the Detroit News. (Yes, he writes “Gil Thorp” in his spare time. Could ya tell?) They must be good buddies, considering that Rubin never uses character names more than about ten letters long.
I am thoroughly befuddled by 7/22 panel 3. Did “Charlie Vincent” just give Kenny an atomic wedgie while he was teeing off? “Nooo, not there! I chafe so easily!”
Comment by John S. Walters — July 22, 2011 @ 7:28 pm
Wish this “big shooter” was a more literal job description, like Andrew Gregory’s mercenary father, Big Ray from the Jungle Patrol, a couple of seasons ago. Although they both spend lots of time away from their families in mysterious tropical locations, I doubt this story will turn out to be that entertaining.
Comment by steve — July 22, 2011 @ 8:35 pm
Gil’s overjoyed…he’s got a new drinkin’ buddy. Now he can weasel out of his responsibilities at the Country Club under the guise of helping Mrs.Lark.
Looks like Kenny’s really mad at his crotch.
Okay, enough of this boring golf this zoned me out last year and it’s doing it again and I haven’t evn been following it!
Comment by Regina — July 22, 2011 @ 8:48 pm
Ok – - if anyone hits a tee marker with their club – - there is a PING sound, the club may have a mark on it somewhere but otherwise will be in 1 piece, the marker will still be in 1 piece, AND – - the golfer’s follow-through will be disrupted enough that he wont be able to finish the swing normally. I saw it happen 2 years ago in my group, so I can attest. If by chance the head flies off, its not epoxied well enough.
I remember thinking ‘why would anyone stand that close to the marker when normally there is PLENTY of room between them?’
As a golfer, I’m embarrassed to look at that panel. Anyway, a crunch sound is either from stepping on something or sqweezing it in your hand.
Comment by Rob — July 23, 2011 @ 8:42 am
hmmm dear old dad took the family to crappy costa rica but leaves them home this year to pursue the nude beaches of brazil.i wonder if mimi is in bed drinking a bottle of wine seeing how gil passes out at the 19th hole everynight and never makes it home.if boring kemper peake is here wheres that smartass torrey pines.
Comment by mr120zcan — July 24, 2011 @ 8:03 am