Sometimes I feel / Sometimes I feel / Like I’ve been tied / To the whupping post / Tied to the whupping post / Tied to the whupping post / Good lord I feel like I’m dyin’
18-3 for Milford at the end of the first quarter. Milford has scored since then and VT only had one guy able to move the ball, and was behind when he injured with seconds left in the game. Milford hasn’t had a good year… So who has VT been playing to have a perfect season up until now? And how do you protect it given the fact you’re in a deep hole with no way out? “Do it for Pedro!” gonna be you’re rallying cry in the 15 seconds you have left?
“But Rubin’s doing a great job with the strip. Why does Tribune want a change?” “Great job?? Ha! Have you seen the numbers, Henry? We’re losing papers left and right! Thorp isn’t a modern strip under Rubin! It’s old fashioned. That’s why we want to bring you aboard.” “So you want me to change it? How?”“Henry, just look at everything you already write. We want more explosions! Helicopters! Football players hit so hard they nearly die! Girlfriends knocked up, fistfights in the lunchroom, hateful attitudes everywhere! Most of all, we need villians, like The Joker and The Penguin, and if you want to turn Thorp into Batman, do it! We need light sabres, ray guns, space ships, and stuff the kids expect in a comic strip. None of this sports stuff every day.” “Well, I don’t know anything about sports anyway.” “Then you’re our man.”
A helicopter? Really? For what may (or may not) be a broken leg? That’s way over the top for a HS football injury. Maybe Whigham just likes drawing helicopters…. although not sure who makes a double rotor helicopter. They would have to be counter rotating rotor blades which would negate the need for a tail rotor, which this one still has. And what the hell does the rest of the conversation in P2/3 even mean or have any relevance to the incident?
“Are you afraid that you’ll miss that big meeting, be late for the wedding, or your ambulance will be stuck in heavy Milford traffic? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Worry no more! Next time you have to be somewhere in a hurry, just shout MEDICA at the top of your lungs. We’ll be there in a flash! Discounts for seniors and vets, call today! Se habla español.”
coach kim complains do you believe my wife makes me wash the dishes gil replys theres a golf instructor in scottsdale who will take care of your overbearing wife
p 2.5 (Gil): “…that’s right punk…I heard about what your wife, or grandma, or who ever tf that is said about me and I want to show you, and them, a thing or two…so go ahead and send the next stiff you got for qb out there and get ready to call for another helicopter son…”
If there was one more panel, Gil would add, “Plus we welcome failure around here.” So now VT has to use their backup QB who never plays, the ending to this should not be close. And speaking of close, the new Mopped Up Thorp is close. So close that it’s actually here!
Klubble 6 months ago
P2a: My wife hasn’t been home in months.
darkaudit 6 months ago
If you’ve got to chopper a kid out, the game is friggin’ OVER.
Klubble 6 months ago
Where are they playing, Mount Everest?!? They can’t drive an ambulance onto the field? A copter for a broken leg?!? Come on!!!
Klubble 6 months ago
P2: Sound effects reveal what Gil wants to do to this punk.
seismic-2 Premium Member 6 months ago
“Pick up where we left off?” As opposed to starting the game over from the kickoff?
jslabotnik 6 months ago
Radar announces over the PA, Pedro Martinez’s chopper was shot down over Lake Ontario. No survivors.
Charks 6 months ago
Kim falls into the trap. His backup QB will throw a pick six.
Gil-doh! 6 months ago
P3.5 “Loser washes dishes with Jun Jun for a month.”
Gil-doh! 6 months ago
P1 Don’t get too close to that helicopter, Mr. Reality. Those rotors and skids look a bit ominous. Just saying…
Gil-doh! 6 months ago
(WHUP! WHUP!) “THANK YOU COACH THORP, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?”(WHUP! WHUP!)
Gil-doh! 6 months ago
Sometimes I feel / Sometimes I feel / Like I’ve been tied / To the whupping post / Tied to the whupping post / Tied to the whupping post / Good lord I feel like I’m dyin’
LawrenceS 6 months ago
18-3 for Milford at the end of the first quarter. Milford has scored since then and VT only had one guy able to move the ball, and was behind when he injured with seconds left in the game. Milford hasn’t had a good year… So who has VT been playing to have a perfect season up until now? And how do you protect it given the fact you’re in a deep hole with no way out? “Do it for Pedro!” gonna be you’re rallying cry in the 15 seconds you have left?
Irish53 6 months ago
A helicopter? C’mon Henry…. If he was sitting up, there’s no way it was a life and death situation that would require a helicopter
Irish53 6 months ago
Maybe Whigs wanted to draw one though
jayesquire 6 months ago
Joe Theisman didn’t even get a chopper. Now that was a broken leg !!!!!
bearwku82 6 months ago
P1-3- Is that rain or Luke’s body hair flying around causing a health hazard?
KazDojo 6 months ago
The chopper isn’t for Pedro. Marty fell out of the press box again. Easy on the corrected coffee there, chief!
Irish53 6 months ago
P 4 (Kim): “…but coach Thorp?….isn’t second place in The Valley on the line for you?…”
Jusbcuz 6 months ago
“But Rubin’s doing a great job with the strip. Why does Tribune want a change?” “Great job?? Ha! Have you seen the numbers, Henry? We’re losing papers left and right! Thorp isn’t a modern strip under Rubin! It’s old fashioned. That’s why we want to bring you aboard.” “So you want me to change it? How?”“Henry, just look at everything you already write. We want more explosions! Helicopters! Football players hit so hard they nearly die! Girlfriends knocked up, fistfights in the lunchroom, hateful attitudes everywhere! Most of all, we need villians, like The Joker and The Penguin, and if you want to turn Thorp into Batman, do it! We need light sabres, ray guns, space ships, and stuff the kids expect in a comic strip. None of this sports stuff every day.” “Well, I don’t know anything about sports anyway.” “Then you’re our man.”
Irish53 6 months ago
P 2…that’s what Mimi sez to Ericka…
artegal 6 months ago
Sorry your starting QB is being air lifted to a hospital, but I thought this was a great time to talk trash.
MailbuEd 6 months ago
A helicopter? Really? For what may (or may not) be a broken leg? That’s way over the top for a HS football injury. Maybe Whigham just likes drawing helicopters…. although not sure who makes a double rotor helicopter. They would have to be counter rotating rotor blades which would negate the need for a tail rotor, which this one still has. And what the hell does the rest of the conversation in P2/3 even mean or have any relevance to the incident?
Twainrdr 6 months ago
Tomorrow, out coaching Thorp! The MacArthur End Around.
Little Blue Bicycle 6 months ago
“Are you afraid that you’ll miss that big meeting, be late for the wedding, or your ambulance will be stuck in heavy Milford traffic? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Worry no more! Next time you have to be somewhere in a hurry, just shout MEDICA at the top of your lungs. We’ll be there in a flash! Discounts for seniors and vets, call today! Se habla español.”
lemonbaskt 6 months ago
hey henry be original you should have sent a locomotive to pick him up
lemonbaskt 6 months ago
coach kim complains do you believe my wife makes me wash the dishes gil replys theres a golf instructor in scottsdale who will take care of your overbearing wife
lemonbaskt 6 months ago
coach kim also whines why did coach doyle get to go on the helicopter
lemonbaskt 6 months ago
hey coach gil who broke pedros leg beats me kim the author only told me three player names this year leo and the two vape boys
mstgator 6 months ago
WHUP! There it is.
metals24 6 months ago
“Wait! Hold that Chopper! Kwan just broke a nail! Please help him!”
hifirick1953 6 months ago
This storyline is broken worse than Pedro’s leg
Irish53 6 months ago
p 2.5 (Gil): “…that’s right punk…I heard about what your wife, or grandma, or who ever tf that is said about me and I want to show you, and them, a thing or two…so go ahead and send the next stiff you got for qb out there and get ready to call for another helicopter son…”
Mopman 6 months ago
If there was one more panel, Gil would add, “Plus we welcome failure around here.” So now VT has to use their backup QB who never plays, the ending to this should not be close. And speaking of close, the new Mopped Up Thorp is close. So close that it’s actually here!
https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2023/11/21/it-all-balances-out/
rpaul33 6 months ago
Who was it that doubted this train wreck could get any more ridiculous?
tdrewhardin 6 months ago
An appropriate song, in more ways than one, would be REO Speedwagon’s “Time For Me to Fly”.
tdrewhardin 6 months ago
Or to paraphrase Husker Du
“…there’s only two lunkheads here/but they don’t fly…”
James St. John Smythe 6 months ago
What happened to Picard? Wasn’t he the Milford doctor at one time?
Snarker formerly known as Rube Whigham 6 months ago
The helicopter isn’t for Pedro. It just dropped off Kwan to throw some strikes to protect the perfect season!
That kid with Marfan 6 months ago
How many characters stowed away on the helicopter to get out of this trainwreck?