9/10/12
“What do you think about the team this year, Coach?”
“Well, Marjie, I think they’ll probably do better than those suckholes we had last year. What’d we go last year, like 3-6?”
“Actually it was 1-8.”
“Yeesh. Yeah, like I said, we sucked ass. But that was before I found our secret weapon Brophy Apropos. Have you seen that little weirdo kick the ball?”
“Do you mean Brody Abro, Coach?”
“Yeah, whatever. I just call him the best place kicker in the valley.”
“What else can we look forward to this year, Coach?”
“Well we’ve got linebackers and stuff…I’m sorry, I’m having trouble focusing looking at your moustache.”
Is it just me or is that a lot of red?
9/11/12
Right on schedule! The Irishman tries out for football….hey what happened to the part where the Irishman actually tries out for football? Oh, it was deleted due to boredom.
Yeah, you may feel like a knight, but you smell like Schweaty McBromhidrosis, the last guy who wore those pads.
9/12/12
A scrimmage just for the kickoff squad? Okay sounds like a recipe for disaster, but what do I know. It looks like Hamani Gaines has a special jersey that turns from red to white once he “breaks free”. (Of course…what kickoff squad scrimmage would be complete without such a special jersey?!)
Until…the ol’ Irish helmet to the groin.
“Anyone think they can handle returning kickoffs?”
Can’t concentrate…focused on Marjie Ducey…in color…needs beret…the raspberry one.
Comment by Dood — September 12, 2012 @ 11:01 am
9/12 P3 Um, that’s not a tackle. Hint: he’s got the Village People anthology on his IPod.
Comment by semperfi4evr — September 12, 2012 @ 11:27 am
Aye, there’s nothin like a scrimmage for the special teams to raise the level o craic. Coaches, players, a reporter named Marjie, and tis unknown how many scouts. Now that Timmy’s raised the kick returner out of his shoes, we have to ask the question that’s bitin the public: how did this all begin in the fevered imaginations of Whigrub?
Hypothesis # 1: Whigrub happened to see the movie “Rudy,” and mistaking the term “Irish,” said “I know! We’ll bring an Irish kid with heart to Milford and they’ll carry him off the field when they win the Bogtrotter Belt over Valley Tech!”
Comment by vaganova — September 12, 2012 @ 2:41 pm
Shouldn’t Terry’s responsibilities have been explained VERY CLEARLY to him before the squads were on the field?
Is it normal to tilt the ball away from the kicker?
Comment by Dale — September 12, 2012 @ 2:55 pm
Good eyes, Dale– the ball is tipped the wrong way regardless of kicking technique. But this is Milford. Ditto Terry’s hitting the ballcarrier. Everybody told him to just kick the goddamn ball and get out of the way, but nooooo, as the late John Belushi used to say, he had to attempt a tackle. But with a few exceptions such as Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Beckett, we Irish are more noted for spirit than intelligence.
Comment by vaganova — September 12, 2012 @ 3:08 pm
if you read todays mary worth it looks like there going with a one arm charecter too.
Comment by mr12ozcan — September 12, 2012 @ 5:58 pm
The kicker is the last line of defense on the kickoff squad, and any coach worth his salt should be telling him to make the tackle if he HAS to. Also, in high school, the kickers usually play another position anyway, at least at mine.
Disappointed at Marjies yellow hair – as a platinum blond she deserves special treatment in a color strip.
Comment by Rob — September 12, 2012 @ 7:04 pm
I’m guessing that’s not actually a regulation football but one of those felt ones from the old Tudor Electric Football games.
This sequence of strips, with the color changing jerseys and the yellow Marjie hair and the acting and the groupies and the “Luke, Luke, save me” with the lightsabre and the vwing, vwing, vwing… wait, where was I?
Oh yeah, no colorized strips please..
Comment by teenchy — September 13, 2012 @ 6:10 am
teenchy, I was thinking of going back to the B&W strips (getting the color ones and resizing them is kind of a pain in the butt)…I forget what the poll results were a few weeks back, but I think keeping the B&W had a lead. Who said this was a democracy.
I was kind of on the fence before but these red uniforms are hard on the eyes so don’t be surprised if traditional B&W returns shortly.
We can consider this color interlude to be a trip to Oz (the one with the little dog and the wicked witch, not the one with all the prison rape).
Comment by Ned Ryerson — September 13, 2012 @ 6:41 am
So in Panel 2 of 9/11, Terrybot tells Gil that he’ll “be back tomorrow with permission from the mother.” Who talks like that? Is Terry from the future? Is Marjie Ducey really Sarah O’Connor? “Ah’ll be baaack Coach Thorp.”
“Yeah whatever Terrybot. How’s the gin in the future?”
Would be a more interesting storyline for fall sports this year anyhow.
Or it could simply be that “the mother” was a placeholder for Terry’s mom’s name and they were too lazy to replace it.
Comment by Jeff — September 13, 2012 @ 8:53 am
Lemme see if I got this straight. We can’t risk Brody A. Bro on the kickoff squad. I can buy that.
So, what’s Gil’s stellar solution? Give the job to a kid who is told to “kick and get out the way.”
Ummm……couldn’t Brody do that?
Comment by Bucket Lister — September 13, 2012 @ 3:11 pm
Ned, didn’t mean it to come off as a commentary on your judgement but on the havoc the color monkeys can make on a strip’s logic and continuity. I’m not one of those “I thought of Marjie as a platinum blonde and seeing her yellow blonde ruins the fantasy!” kind of folks either.
The odd perspectives and disconnect from how human bones and muscles move are part and parcel of the Thorpiverse. The color changing jerseys only add to the confusion.
Comment by teenchy — September 14, 2012 @ 6:22 am
Don’t worry, teenchy. I didn’t take it that way.
Your point is valid. There’s certainly enough art issues to discuss without adding coloring mistakes. I’m a little scared to see what kind of snafus will occur when actual games take place and the colorist has to sort out multiple jesey colors. Also, think about long term continuity of the opponents jerseys and road/away issues. It’s going to get much worse.
I was mostly just thinking out loud. There are some technical issues that make posting the colored strips more work (okay about thirty seconds more per image, but over the course of the week,that’s like a whole three minutes!) We’re nothing if not lazy here!
Comment by Ned Ryerson — September 14, 2012 @ 8:25 am