For the love of god, someone send a helicopter out to look for that kayak.
NO! Leave them for the sharks! Thorpblogging forever!
Whigham has a strange tendency to draw Mimi with a dark upper lip
Actually she looks a lot like Greta van Susteren in panel 3.
I have returned.
Ogged's triumphant return to blogging.
God, the hired zombie Roy Lichtenstein. The decline of this strip continues. I miss the old Frank.
No way, Spike. My hopes are high for the Rod era.
I can't help but note that the link is to the Trib, not TWIM ( or whatever the Thorpblog is called). The jig is up, Labs. We know your dark secret.
7: My hopes are high for the Rod era.
This makes me semi-seriously ask, what is your personal metric for Gil Thorp goodness? (Tell me to take it to Standpipe's if that is appropriate.)
Rod can make it up to me if Kaz gets his pearl earrings back.
Well, I'm slightly sad to see the Bolle era end. Everyone was exactly the same age! Although everyone was far more attractive than they were before, their faces shifted from strip to strip such that they were no longer recognizable!
I suppose everyone will be happy that Gil is back to being a block-headed bull, but I sort of enjoyed the Robert Mitchum thing he had going on.
9: good question. I think what I love about the strip is the cartoonish (haha) all-americana thing, so a square-jawed Gil fits better. Also, you know, the more hunktastic, the better.
The first panel is disorienting. I didn't know that open three-dimensional spaces existed in Milford.
Gil has an awfully nice kitchen. How's he afford that big ol' Subzero on a high school coach's salary? I'm suspicious.
Boo. I thought the whole point of Gil Thorpe was the utter lack of visual continuity and gnomic minimalism. Also, the new lettering is magically appalling.
I am excited by Gil's tiny, girlish hands and the bottle of Tabasco he appears to be drinking.
The new lettering is horrible, but it is at least legible. Frank 1.0's was totally undecipherable.
Oooh, maybe Gil will become an alcoholic! That would be new. Lord knows no one in comics drinks a beer without becoming an alcoholic. He'll slap Kaz around a bit and end up with a fist in his brain!
16: Your perspective is thrown because Bolle made everyone's hands bigger than their heads. I assumed it had something to do with penis size.
12: Also, you know, the more hunktastic, the better.
Ok, so counter to the usual stock message here, more masturbating to Gil Thorp.
Gil keeps his beer in the freezer, apparently.
Didn't Bolle just take over the strip (again) a couple of months ago? And shouldn't the constant change of artist cause a Milford-wide spiritual crisis, as the people lose their faith in a Creator who capriciously screws with their line weight and sense of perspective?
22: Bolle's run was always intended to be temporary. He was just helping out a fellow Frank.
I just don't see Whigham doing spit-curls. I can't see it. I really respected Bolle for taking over spit-curl duty so gracefully.
I'll admit it; I'm the only person alive who's sad to see Bolle go. He was a billion years old and made everything soap-opera-ish and static, but he drew hair well and put everyone in nice button-down shirts. These kids today, without collars! [shakes fist]
These kids today, without collars! [shakes fist]
At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.
