Henry, Henry, Henry. You hype us all up with the Luke Martinez meltdown then you jerk us over to the jayvee girls championship game? No bueno. We’re not here for ADHD Theater; we’re here to see things play out. At least we’re still on Berrill Field, right? Oh, wait, there’s a Valley Tech banner on the outfield wall. Maybe Luke was right yesterday when he said it was HIS FIELD!
Today’s strip relies solely on the colorists getting things exactly right. Did they? You be the judge. My first instinct upon seeing it was to invoke the old Bugs Bunny reference.
Then I discoved a ’60s bubblegum tune that, on second listen, is kinda creepy. Creepy in the “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” vein.
Cool that Dorothy is the batter who can break the tie and drive in (not send in) the ducks on the pond. Not cool if she gave up the runs that lost the lead Keri gave them. In today’s Thorpiverse, Milford bat-and-ball teams only have one pitcher, so that seems likely.
Can we hope this game is resolved in tomorrow’s strip and the baseball game resolved by Saturday, the first day of July? Is it asking too much? I’m even cool with the Martinez fallout spilling over past Independence Day. After all, it’ll take more than one strip for Luke to be able to clean out his office.
This Week in Milford 
Hard to dribble with a facehugger clamped onto your head
Now we move on to the fallout from Keri’s grounding and suspension. Was she suspended from school or just from the basketball team? Reply hazy, try again. Now we see true Gil Thorp “coaching” in action. When the team is at full strength, he’s on the sidelines; when the stars are suspended, he leaves Ochoa to clean up the mess. Good thing she has experience with jayvee super subs, having been one herself.
Too bad the artwork doesn’t support the dialogue. Easy enough to call this another Strother Martin moment, but this isn’t failure to communicate on Henry’s part. The dialogue in P1 matches up better to the artwork in P2, where a
New ThaYER player appears to be driving to the basket. (Nice to see a Valley team other than Milford, VT and Goshen for once, even if their name’s screwed up on their jerseys.) In her drive to the basket, Lopez appears to knocked the Milford girl’s face clean off.In yesterday’s comments, faithful TWIMer hitorque mused that, in the old Thorpiverse, this suspension would get the full Marty Moon treatment. Wishful thinking now that Marty’s been turned into an emasculated recovering alcoholic (whatever happened to his daughter, BTW?) who drinks with Gil’s rivals. Jackie Carter, however, may have created an opportunity for exactly that as she spills the tea on the air. How much of this would’ve been public knowledge and how much of it would have had to been spilled by the Milford sports information department? Also, who is the severe-looking blonde with the headset sitting next to Jackie? Fox News covering Valley hoops now? Talk amongst yourselves. teenchy out.