12/21/11
Sweet tattoo. That will be perfect when your pumping gas at a Marathon gas station!
12/22/11
Sweet warmup gear. Is that from the Charlie Brown collection? Sweet Jesus! Is that a magic marker or are you glad to see me?
12/23/11
Sweet Merciful Crap! Is Kaz giving an in-game shocker?
12/24/11
Sweet Spirits of Camphor, what’s more jarring? Referee Kenny Rogers or the further erosion of the annual Christmas greeting into a tossed off aside! (Did Kenny just bash Gil across the back of the head with a folding chair?)
12/26/11
Yeah yeah, I heard the first time Coach, did someone hit you over the head with a chair?
So let me get this straight. The opponent is the Putnam Vo-Tech Beavers? (Featuring Travis Bickle) Sweet Georgia Brown, this is painful.
Just a quick timeout to ask what you did with Mimi and the kids, Gil. Maybe next year you could just have Kaz, or Marty, or Wally Lamb give the Holiday greeting to all 18 of your readers so as not to take time away from your drinking at the PUB.
Comment by Milfordian — December 26, 2011 @ 10:00 pm
You took the words out of my mouth Milfordian LOL. Thanks Gil for taking time out of your busy schedule of drinking and being lazy to wish us a Merry Christmas. What a total dick.
I think the stars behind Gil are what he usually sees when he wakes up from a drunken stupor.
“Bowen, please tell me that’s magic marker…or one of those paste on tattoos..or a figment of my drunken imagination.”
Comment by Regina — December 27, 2011 @ 7:11 am
Once you graduate high school, the list of things lamer than a tattoo of said high school’s logo is as follows:
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Comment by billytheskink — December 27, 2011 @ 7:28 am
If a tattoo with a 2-inch-high solid letter M didn’t hurt much, then it probably is magic marker. (Could just be me, I suppose. Gotta represent to low pain threshholds, Tim!)
Sweet mohawk, Travis! Yeah, I’m talkin to you.
Comment by jules — December 27, 2011 @ 8:32 am
12/24 P2 & 12/26 P1:Thanks, Neal, for keeping me up to speed given the fast pace of the game. I mean I was so overwhelmed by Gil’s greeting that I totally forgot Paris had 4 fouls. I hope your bypass went well and that you’re back on all 8. Dude, less trips to The Bucket… them cheeseburgers ‘n fries are bad news.
Comment by semperfi4evr — December 27, 2011 @ 9:55 am
It’s so nice that the Arendians from Vo Tech made it all the way to Milford for a game. It’s a long trip from Vo Mimbre!
Comment by Scott P. — December 27, 2011 @ 10:42 am
That “M” is not for Milford folks, it’s for “Moron” as what Parker totally is. My husband says’ Parker’s cheapo tat looks like a nicotine patch.
Comment by Regina — December 27, 2011 @ 12:42 pm
Yo, the Putnam Beavers are in Springfield, MA, my hometown.
But if they’re looking for cool nicknames, why not the Science & Technology Cybercats right next door?
Comment by Soccerhead — December 27, 2011 @ 12:51 pm
whos ass is kaz slapping and why does ric devore look at gil like they will have a jerry sanduskey meeting after the game
Comment by mr12ozcan — December 27, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
Sweet move, Gil… putting in the untested soph at a crucial stage of the game. That’s the kind of coaching that’ll keep you out of the playdowns for the umpteenth year in a ro — hey, wait a minute! The soph did something GOOD? Dammit, how’re we gonna lose the game now?
Re: Gil and tattoos… the 50s called, Gil,they want their attitude back.
Comment by jvwalt — December 27, 2011 @ 7:17 pm
I think it is a nice touch that Coach Thorp wishing us happy holidays via a one-panel shoutout, and some of you are being awfully grinchy. If this were during the horrible football season, a whole day or two would have been a good timeout, but I am glad to see the team win. I go to HS basketball games and see a lot of tattoos, even on some of the girls. A cheesy block M is only slightly more ridiculous than what I have seen. It does look like a nicotine patch, but mostly I am disappointed that I had always wondered what a Mudlark looked like, and this was the best opportunity to draw that. If I were to get a tattoo, I would seek out the fashion sense of Lini Verde, and if I wanted it off I think Cortez Beecher could do that. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Comment by Mudlarks Fan — December 28, 2011 @ 9:31 am
What I love is the depth and subtlety has infuses this comic. Gil 12/24 P3 giving a Christmas greeting contrasts with Ransom 12/19 also P3 and 30 pieces of silver. The faces look in different directions but are identical – saving only the Goatee. The top of Ransom’s head is obscured, hiding the yarmulke seen in 12/20 P2.
Horribly racist, sure – but finely crafted racism.
Comment by Salinger — December 29, 2011 @ 1:32 am
Well Salinger, that’s quite a tumble from Jerry B. Jenkins’ 2001 David Green story…
Comment by billytheskink — December 29, 2011 @ 8:19 am
Sorry to have gone silent for so long, compadres, but tattoo plots just don’t do it for me. The only interesting question is why these normal-for-Milford kids want to look like dorks.
Comment by vaganova — December 29, 2011 @ 6:42 pm
I still want to see that first kid’s “some kind of jungle scene” chest tattoo! (Was it Micah? I’ve already forgotten.)
Comment by jules — December 29, 2011 @ 7:38 pm