1/12/12
Hi, I’m Ransom Hale. I’m from New Zealand. I opened a tattoo parlor in Milford, but I’ve found that tattooing alone does not pay the bills, so I sell bootlegged movies from my shop. It’s a genius business plan, especially in a town full of weirdos who are so dumb, they don’t know how to find poor quality bootlegged videos on their Hello Kitty laptops.
Hi, I’m Marty Moon. I just bought this laptop from a pawn shop and I’m bringing it to my gig calling high school basketball to make it look like I know what I’m doing. I’m also going to try dressing like an airline pilot because everybody buys them free drinks. I think those are airline pilots, but I’m going to find out for sure tonight.
Hi, I’m Gil Thorp. I’m coaching basketball and I’m exploring my passion for homosexual innuendo.
1/13/12
Hi, I’m 6-Foot-8 Roland Sanchez, basketball player from Central High. 6-Foot-8 Roland Sanchez is my legal name. My parents really took a gamble on that one. Is it just me or are these guys from Milford somewhat gay?
Hi, Gil here again. This innuendo things is really working great. I’m not sure that kid in the goggles cares much for it, but I’m the coach. You know, the word “innuendo” actually sounds a little gay.
Hi, I’m Lini Verde and I just drained a three pointer. Coach says I should yell SWISH! every time I do that. I really don’t want to. I’ve got to put up with enough crap as it is.
1/14/12
Hi, I’m Bobby Ottewill. I don’t get to do much around here but drain a few jumpers and such. Hey check it out, is that that guy from They Might Be Giants in the stands?!
Hi, it’s Marty again. I really don’t know that much about sports.
Hi, Gil again. I’m running out of vaguely gay things to say so I’ll just call my team “fellas” and leave it at that. Hey what do you think about my jacket? It’s from the Jim Rockford collection.
Hi, I’m Marty Moon and I haven’t done sh– in this strip since I got fired from “Prep Spotlight” three years ago.
Comment by Doug Puthoff — January 15, 2012 @ 11:14 am
At first I thought Gil’s jacket had “leisure suit” written all over it. But Jim Rockford that’s a good description…
Some body needs to teach Lini how to come up “square” or “vertical” or “straight up” I forget what Jerry Jones called it..
In 14 Jan panel 1–who is that dude way off by himself–a scout???…
And of course if you got the edge in man power, in the heat of the last few moments, some coaches might tell one of his goons–start a fight…
But I do not think Gil wants a “hockey game to break out”….
PS Jerry Jones ran Denny Crum’s practices back when “Cool Hand Luke” was at the top of his game…
Comment by rowdyman — January 15, 2012 @ 11:39 am
I am stunned — STUNNED — at the amount of coaching Gil is doing in this game. This is more effort than he’s put in since about the time his kids disappeared.
As for Lini’s wrist… it’s a fine line, isn’t it, between “gay” and “dislocated.”
As for Bobby Ottewill’s habit of “draining jumpers”… is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Comment by jvwalt — January 15, 2012 @ 11:56 am
panal one jan 14 is that winky mcgee with the weird hairdo ?
Comment by mr12ozcan — January 15, 2012 @ 12:34 pm
Three minutes left to go in the game and now it is time for the strategy to kick in? Central can probably just stall and win. Nice planning, Gil. Next panel, on the bus home — “I think they might start to tire out soon.”
Comment by Moon Mullins — January 15, 2012 @ 12:39 pm
In second panel on Jan. 12 strip, Marty Moon is using the laptop to download Twilight from a Torrent server. Unseen panels: burning copies of DVDs and selling them to Milford kids.
It sets up the summer plot: this town is not big enough for two bootleggers.
Comment by bevo — January 15, 2012 @ 6:02 pm
Hi, I’m Don, the Rebel without a Blog! If I had a blog, I would make lame comments there instead of here. Blogs are expensive! Have you ever tossed change in the virtual tip jar? Me, neither! This comment is so long and so lame, I’m gasping! I think I’ll go drain a few jumpers, if you catch my drift! Check it! Count it! Bonk! HRONK! FOOZLE!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — January 15, 2012 @ 11:20 pm
“Hi I’m Gil Thorp! You know what my favorite saying is? It’s five o’clock somewhere! Now bring on the booze!”
Panel three in the first strip looks so sexually explicit. It looks like Gil is forcing the kids hands into his crotch. And I thought this was a family friendly strip.
At first I thought Marty was a cop going after Handsome Ransom. Then I realized his mommy dressed him so he can look spiffy now that he’s courtside.
Cortez the killer has a look that says : “Man, if this drunk ass dude pulls my hand down on his crotch one more time, I’m gettin’ all Medievel on his ass.”
#3 Jvwalt: Thought the same thing about Lini’s wrist. It’s kinda Paul Lynde-ish.
When I saw Gil in his suit, a line from Saturday Night Fever came into my head: “I like your new haircuts…I like that polyester look.”
Comment by Regina — January 16, 2012 @ 6:33 am
Regina, jvwalt, you’ve got me thinking that instead of the tat slap after making a basket Lini could just flick a limp wrist at his opponents. Exit, stage left even!
Comment by delvaldawg — January 16, 2012 @ 6:40 am
“Hi, I’m Coach Matt Shaw. Oh, wait, I don’t get any speaking lines until next fall, when I tell Gil, ‘Yes, sir’ after he asks me to fetch the sangria.”
“Hi, I’m Steve Luhm. Want to know the secret to shiny floors?”
Comment by Dood — January 18, 2012 @ 8:48 am