More Brick!!!!
GLARGH! Gil Thorpe! You always confuse and vex me. If you haven't been following the travails of my new fave, Brick House, here's what you've missed:
Brick has introduced this startling innovation to Coach Thorpe: Analyzing game film. Shockingly, this new tactic has propelled Milford to (I think) two victories on the gridiron. As with so many comic strips, I just have to ask: WHEN THE HELL DOES THIS TAKE PLACE??? OK, I have no idea if high school programs routinely analyze film, or even have the resources to do so. What's so shocking about this whole scenario is that Coach Thorpe and the rest seem to never even have heard of this scheme. WHEN IS THIS???? Seriously, is he going to go off and share this bit of strategy with his colleagues, Coaches Rockne and Halas?
And that isn't even the point of this strip. Brick's social skilz and inability to read other people's emotions leads me to believe he may be mildly autistic or suffer from Asperger's syndrome (he's like a football savant or something). To wit: The Milford fans are actually chanting FOR Brick -- in a positive way -- and he thinks it's a "ritual slaughter." Whatever, socially inadequate dude.
Next, things get better, because Coach Thorpe sends his young charge away with these stirring words: "Go be adequate!!" (TWO exclamation points!!). More inspirational words have never been spoken. Remember George Gipp? "Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and be adequate for the Gipper." I get inspired just thinking about it. Or, this is baseball, but still, Lou Gehrig's famous speech? "Today, I consider myself . . . well, quite frankly, not very lucky. ALS sucks, y'all!!" MAN! Doncha just get the chills thinking of those rousing words?
Panel 3 leads us to believe that Brick may be gaining some social acceptance. Except for the girl (I think it's a girl) who seems bummed that Brick's tagging along again. And not that I have anything against ambiguously gendered people, it's just that when you aren't part of the social mainstream yourself, you shouldn't exclude other people just because they say assy and ridiculous things like, "History suggests that a blitz is highly remote."
posted by big al at 9:33 PM
6 Comments:
Is that a guy or chick in the last panel? They have visible lips, but the hair do is just...feminine. The clothes are just too manly tho, and the expression. Perhaps it's the long lost child of Wilbur from Mary Worth?
Gil Thorpe drives me crazy!!! It makes no sense. It jumps around, never following through on a story line.
I heard T.O. is looking for work. Maybe he can help Brick analyze some game tapes for the next big match up.
That person in the last panel is a chick. It's Lexi, and not only is she a chick . . . she's a cheerleader!!
The men in GT are so ultra-masculine looking, you can tell the women, because they are slightly less.
And, really -- what the FUCK is wrong with Brick. Did you read today? "Sorry. Have I engendered ill will?" WE GET IT. He is a dork. WHY DOES HE HAVE TO TALK LIKE a turn of the (twentieth) century English professor???
I meant to add:
"History suggests that a blitz is highly remote."
That's what the good citizens of London thought.
"That's what the good citizens of London thought."
HA HA HA.
Yeah, the GT Masculine man is so square-jawed/faced. ULTRA-MACHO! The women are just slightly less square jawed. It's like all the men (except dweeby Brick, of course) have the face shape of SpongeBob, and the women have Maria Shriver face.
My little Iowa high school of about 400 students was running game films at practice back in 1973, when my brother was a freshman.
Has Brick always been so chunky? I thought that he was a weedy little runt, but lately he's been sporting a double chin.
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