Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for August 08, 2024

Womp Womp…

At least we know the B League can afford the high cost of paper, ink, envelopes, and postage.

SPOILER ALERT: Rod can’t read

Rod, keep the baby.

Gilbot-9000 spidey senses tingle. Must. Tell. Rod. To. Embrace. Failure.

He’s not checking the mail?!

Finally back to Rod. And with the inevitable rejection letter. I have a feeling if the B League doesn’t want him the the NBA is also out of reach. Maybe that college coach that never heard of him can offer him a spot.

Great cropping of the letter. “Unfortunately” and “was a tough” take up an entire line while the rest of sentences are “trimmed” so we have to figure out (rather easily" the message. BTW, wouldn’t letter be on 8 1/2 X 11 paper ????

Yes, I’m sure that in 2024 the NBA and its other leagues contact prospects by snail mail.

Gil finds out that Rodney’s dream of pro ball stateside is put on hold. GT reminds Rod of the connection at Milford JC. “My grades weren’t all that great” says Hot Rod. “There are more important things than grades” replies The GilFather. Like winning the caddy golf tournament.

“Or you can catch the next container ship to SE Asia. They play basketball with kendo sticks.”

Hard to believe that a decent but not great scorer on a podunk high school team who once hit a game winning shot got rejected by this pro (semi-pro?) team. Don’t they know he learned how to dunk? And speaking of dunks, today’s Mopped Up Thorp is a slam dunk.

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He must have stunk up the joint. They didn’t even feel the need to cut him in person.

Rod can still go pro. The beer league at the YMCA needs players.

“Best of luck in your future endeavors.”

Haha…that kid called him “chef”. Pretty observant, since that will be his new job a local fast food place.

Meanwhile, Gil receives his most recent Bill from the Credit Card Company and faints

The old saying that good news comes by phone, bad by letter, still works.

chef you may not be that good at b-ball but nobody can peel a potato as fast as you

in other news keri reports mr segura and the dragon guy from comiccon are ghosting her but if they meet again they will be bros

marty moon on his podcast said the summer of jami is a complete failure

Gee, who’d have thunk it?

How unfornate.

Which one is calling him “honey?”

P4- This is a copy of the letter that Henry just got from the Comics Awards.

P 4 (Rod): “…no…they don’t want me…” P 5 (Mel): “…GET OUT, YOU FREELOADER!…”

P4 “Yas mommy…errrrr…Mrs. Gordon. Will you console me and let me nestle your bosom some more?”

Mel glad to hear the news.