9/26/11
The dragons, huh? Well that must mean we’ve made it all the way to Kansas for this game. Luckily, we can add this result of this match-up here, (if it ever ends) as it appears it’s been left off the schedule.
Speaking of brain damage, hey look: Gil’s at the game! And he’s wisely realized that if he pulls Chip Visci out of the game now, he can send him on a beer run…after all, he does look a bit old for a high-schooler.
9/27/11
You can tell Marty in’t actually at the game. Otherwise he would have told his audience of none that the way Derek Tolan knocked the ball loose was by sticking his fist twelve inches up the quarterback’s rectum. Which earned him a loving helmet caress from his teammate. So when’s Chip getting back with the beer for Chrissake?
Who’s the mooniest Moon we know? Marty Moon.
Comment by Dood — September 27, 2011 @ 7:22 am
“He seems a little fuzzy, Gil.” “No fuzzier than that blob on our helmets that’s supposed to be a block ‘M’.”
Of course Tolan fisted that ball loose; no way was he reaching it with that left hand attached to his right arm.
Comment by delvaldawg — September 27, 2011 @ 7:28 am
Marty’s standing by to take your call, people.
Comment by Dood — September 27, 2011 @ 9:20 am
I see Derek Tolan is using the newfangled “YMCA” move to get past his blocker.
Comment by Scott de B. — September 27, 2011 @ 10:48 am
Props for Gildo hiring Deke Davey! That secret play Deke taught the lads is called “The [Robert] Mapplethorpe”. Guaranteed to cause a fumble and maybe even an invitation out for drinks [and...] after the game. That’s play’s gonna get the Mudlarks to the playdowns this year.
Little Derek Tolan ran down the gridiron playing for Milford City.
He stuck in his fist and pulled out a nut boy and said “Eeewww, this is totally sh%tty!”
Comment by semperfi4evr — September 27, 2011 @ 11:23 am
Shouldn’t panel three on 9/26 be Chip ripping the refs a new one to the media because the refs don’t protect Chip Visci!
Comment by Ray — September 27, 2011 @ 11:44 am
Postgame press conference, first question: “Coach Thorp, why did it take you almost two full games to realize that your kicker was absolute horseshit? Shouldn’t you have noticed that during preseason practice?”
Apparently, Whigham has run out of interesting sound effects: Chip Vicious’ takedown produces a mere “THUD.” Ah, for the halcyon days of FOOZLE.
Comment by John S. Walters — September 27, 2011 @ 11:44 am
Trainer Rick Scott checks in: “He seem a little fuzzy, Gil. Either that or I was huffing smelling salts again.”
How is this strip able to afford all these minor-characters’ speaking roles?
Comment by Dood — September 27, 2011 @ 1:10 pm
derek tolan never gets to speak and he was here last year too . i hope he washes his hands good .
Comment by mr12ozcan — September 27, 2011 @ 4:52 pm
It appears that rigor mortis had set in on Chip Visci before he was even tackled. How else to explain the bizarre position in which he finds himself at the moment of “THUD”? And as for Chip being “a little fuzzy,” well, that’s just the way he’s drawn.
Comment by J.D. Springer — September 27, 2011 @ 8:32 pm
I guess Neal Rubin is in the hospital following heart surgery and is apparently doing well. What will happen first – his release from the hospital, or the end of this game? Gonna be close…
Comment by Rob — September 27, 2011 @ 8:52 pm
Nice catch, Rob. Here’s Neal’s column about his bypass.
Comment by Ned Ryerson — September 28, 2011 @ 9:25 am
does this mean gil thorp will go into repeats since he will be too tired to pick up a pen ?
Comment by mr12ozcan — September 28, 2011 @ 3:02 pm
Thanks – I got it from the GoComics.com site. They had many comments about him.
Comment by Rob — September 28, 2011 @ 5:04 pm
and the game drags on farther with a tipped ball after passing up a FG.
Comment by Rob — September 29, 2011 @ 2:58 pm
How many games does Milford have to lose for want of a kicker before someone hooks Gil up with Brody, A Bro?
As underachieving as Mudlark football has been I don’t know that a palace coup to sack Gil isn’t the worst idea. Sort of like how the strip Ernie turned into The Piranha Club with Ernie making an occasional appearance.
Serious note: I hope Rubin recovers and gets some plot clues from this tiny yet vocal board.
Comment by delvaldawg — September 29, 2011 @ 4:35 pm
The boys discover SuperToe at the junior high track. Remember that game? The football looked like a pill, and you put it on the tee, hit SuperToe on the head with your fist, causing his leg to fly up, and the ball would fly toward the goalpost, and you got points for distance, and whether the kick was good or not. I never had the game myself, but my friend did, and we played it for all of 1 day, maybe 2. We had way more fun actually kicking field goals at my grade school field.
Comment by Rob — October 1, 2011 @ 10:09 am
I’ve been away a lot the past few weeks and have missed a few strips. I remember the kid obsessively kicking field goals and thinking “watch out, heavy foreshadowing.” But I don’t remember any reason being shown why he isn’t already playing for Milford. Help?
Comment by vaganova — October 1, 2011 @ 1:56 pm
18 – vaganova
My theory:
Brody is old enough to be in high school, but is home schooled.
He practices at the junior high simply because it’s convenient.
The next plot step depends on why he’s home schooled.
> moral / religious issues
> mental / social development problem (my guess)
Comment by dale — October 1, 2011 @ 7:03 pm
Brody is a football savant. He has the social skills of someone raised in a cave and the intellectual agility of a small soap dish……but he can kick an 80 yard field goal. In a couple years he’ll be a walkon at Milford State. Then on to the pros and eventually prison when he stabs someone in a nightclub that makes a comment about his “My little pony” lunchbox.
Comment by Knoxy — October 2, 2011 @ 6:34 am
Blame it on the vaganova.
Comment by Rob — October 2, 2011 @ 6:41 pm
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