12/27/11
Ric Devore (master of the boring interview) drives and dishes, then it’s a Bowen steal. Count it!
Though admittedly, it’s hard to lose to a team that forgot to bring it necks to the game. You may have thought it was the Milford tattoo slap that got the crowd all riled up…but I’ll attest that it’s the appearance of Marty Moon right there in the front row at the game, rather than shoved in a crate two area codes away. (“Oh my god, he’s real…and he stole Gil’s v-neck!”)
12/28/11
A star is born – Parker Bowen’s Wonder Woman bracelets! When Stefan Harvey (master of the incomplete website) found out the store was out of bracelets, he settled for getting the shitty M tattoo. Why the M, you ask, and not some cool mascot? Because Whigham admitted to Neal that he couldn’t even draw a Mudlark once, let alone twice every day for the next few months. (“Plus, I have this cool stencil kit!”)
12/29/11
Panel 1 Question: Is Cortez Beecher actually a muscular 70-year-old man (‘roided up Clambake?) or just drawn that way?
Panel 2 Question: Is it me, or is there something slightly homoerotic about the way Marty says “slender Sophomore Ric Devore” as he creepily ogles the kid shuffling into the game?
Panel 3 Question: Does Marty have a competition in his Ric DaHore man-crush? Between Gil’s nonsensical compliments, Kaz wearing a suit jacket to impress the kid and Winky McGee in the background, I think the answer to that one is a resounding yes, sir!
What suberbly drawn and expressive block tattoos! Sure, the font changes a little between panels but what can you expect for $30. Ransom must have used the same ink that he used on Kitten. I’m sure there is some interesting character development coming for those two.
The questions you raise are intruiging, but the big one is: What happened to the Wonder-Woman braclets on Kareem-Abdul Cortez in 12/29 P1? EVERY onther visible wrist in this cohort is bracleted EXCEPT .. Marty Moon, 12/27 P3. Simple coindicence? Of course not, this is Whigham and Neal,
Comment by Salinger — December 30, 2011 @ 5:15 am
I don’t know why you say Stefan Harvey’s website is incomplete. I mean, I know HE does, but I it use as my major portal for Social Networking, Programing and English Football sites. Not bad for a highschool kid who can now only attend MIT, Missouri State or the Montgomery County Community College if he wants to play more basketball.
Comment by Salinger — December 30, 2011 @ 5:21 am
I thought the crowd went crazy for Ric Devore because Marathon Oil gives out a free tank of gas when a tatted-Mudlark scores 30 points or more in a game. The slap on the block M tattoo was a reminder of the offer.
Comment by bevo — December 30, 2011 @ 6:38 am
When did Parker get that tattoo? Yesterday? And he’s slapping it, without bursting into tears afterwards? It’s definitely magic marker. But it’s great to see Marty again, all microphoned up and sitting right in the stands! Why, you could reach out a hand and touch his Evil Spock beard, if you wanted to.
Comment by jules — December 30, 2011 @ 8:19 am
I hadn’t read the comment on panel two and was wondering why Chief Whigham drew Parker Bowlegs as a freaky looking black kid, then I went back and realized that a freaky looking black kid (Stefan Harvey) also got a tattoo that will make him look like a total tool. (Stephan Harvey represents being a total asshole!)
LOL love the “Clambake on ‘roids” analogy Jason!
Just wondering why they let Marty out of his outhouse/tool shed. He’s getting very familiar with the boys now that he’s on the floor. I’m starting to think he was in that box because he’s on the Milford’s registered sex offender’s list.
Jason, Gil never makes sense. He’s spouting nonsensical shit because he’s started his New Year’s drinkin’ early. “Bring out my good friend Captain Morgan!”
Comment by Regina — December 30, 2011 @ 8:41 am
Apparently Gildo and the whole MHS administration are letting the tats proliferate. Why can’t some some responsible adult [even the booster club president] give them a little talk that –> once out of MHS that tattoo is gonna make them look like major a-holes for the rest of their lives? The can’t all get jobs for Marathon Oil.
12/29 P2. Geeze, how could Dr. Wally Lamb have cleared Ric Devore to play with such advanced scoliosis?
Comment by semperfi4evr — December 30, 2011 @ 8:44 am
Well, any plot that centers around tat-slappin’ is, by nature, going to sound vaguely homoerotic. Slap that tat! Gimme a tat-slap! It was a tat-slappin’ good time!
Enough of that. Now to the important news. I just read D.E. Johnson’s excellent mystery novel “The Detroit Electric Scheme,” set in the boomtown Detroit of 1910. In one passage, D.E. sheds a whole different sort of light on our favorite teen hangout:
“The sign, a weather-beaten board splashed with faded black paint, read THE BUCKET. I had never been here before, but I knew the name. The Bucket was the most notorious saloon in Detroit, its repuatation for violence so great that the newspapers called it the Bucket of Blood.”
Ah, if only. That’d really liven up the strip, don’tcha think?
Comment by jvwalt — December 30, 2011 @ 10:37 am
12/27 P1 they can’t count it…where’s the bonk???
and why are the players wearing nicotine patches with an “M” on them? Last time I knew tattoos needed no boxes on them
Comment by Clinton (Regina's husband) — December 30, 2011 @ 1:16 pm
12/28 panel 3- What the hell is Cortez doing?
Comment by gwilo — December 30, 2011 @ 4:40 pm
9 – gwilo
No idea.
But 12/29 panel 1 we used to call interpretive dance.
Comment by Dale — December 30, 2011 @ 5:44 pm
first off cortez could play yertle the turtle the way they draw him . i think marty and gil both have a man crush on ric devore shudder to think how that turns out .also can winky mcgee be the mr baskt of 2011 well only one day left to find out shitttttttttt
Comment by mr12ozcan — December 30, 2011 @ 6:21 pm