Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for March 04, 2024

Really?? A Stevie Wonder blind joke? Grow up. Hypocritical for an author who has pushed inclusivity to try to derive humor from disability.

Gil rushes to get to Beth before his brother.

Who’s zooming who?

Is it normal for pilots in flight to have conversations with anyone beyond air traffic control? Not knowing anything about flying, it would seem odd that Gil would be patched through to the hangar where his plane is kept and talking about his (lack of) love life rather than the tower and his flight status.

But we can’t stop this world from it’s / Crash and burn / It’s crash and burn / Crash and burn

“Milford, we have a problem.”

I’d stay away from that nimbus if I were Gil.

P2- Try and have some fun. OVER. Gil packed the three Gs. Geritol, Grecian Formula and Gold Bond. The stud doesn’t look a day over 48.

Who else is rooting for engine failure?

As usual, I am confused by this strip. Isn’t Beth the bartender at a bar IN MILFORD? Where is he flying to? Milford isn’t so big you have to fly a jet from one end to the other.

Maybe that is the misdirection? He isn’t flying to Beth, he is flying to Paris to meet up with Monique, a character we have never seen before and couldn’t guess was coming.

Beth works at some swanky resort where Gil gets his (almost) annual coaching award. He sees her just once a year, yet they’re both smitten (in an unrequited sort of way).

Hope Gil has enough put away for the Carbon Credits he needs to buy for this trip

Scramble the fighter jets- this plane’s off course.

Talk to me Marty!

This last week of Gil has to be one of the longest arcs in a while. Too bad there’s no sports in it.

Bang! Zoom! To the moon!

The only Cessna a high school coach’s salary can afford comes in a little box with ‘Monogram’ on the top. Fixing games must pay off big.

What would Ted Lasso do?? WWTLD

Lasso is lame. To get Gilfather’s mind right, WWTDD.

P 3 (Gil thought bubble): “…No Mimi and her dumb wife…no Jami…No Keri…No Cami…now’s a good time to disappear for awhile…”

How can Gil afford to pay for the hanger fees and the fuel? Those used car commercials must pay more than I thought.

Gil about to get the bad news that Beth is into him only in the brief moments right after he wins COTY!

Finally able to log into this site. I kept getting a server error message. And speaking of messages, the best message of all is that today’s Mopped Up Thorp is online. Has been for about 6 hours, but it is online.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2024/03/04/seems-unlikely/

“This is Captain Oveur”. “Over” “Yes, this is Captain Oveur. You want to talk to Kareem?”