MKay: I’m not all that into sports – is there a position in football in which a trench-coated player stands smoking in one spot, occasionally pausing to hurl a football a great distance? Because this guy would be GREAT at that!
Apparently Coach sees the same thing in Jarod in Today’s strip!
Team-work, strategy, nimble-ness, speed, stamina, co-ordination, not to mention grades be damned, this boy can throw a football!
Considering Coach goes around “rehabbing” people with shredded ACLs with no medical training whatsoever, this almost makes sense.
Still, like MKay, I don’t know a lot about sports, but doesn’t Westview already have a quarterback? It’s such a played out plot that I think we’re just one step away from a goal-kicking mule.
Son of Stuck Funky 
“☼$#ﮧﮧ” is possibly the cutest form of symbol swearing I’ve seen. Are good old-fashioned at signs too filthy for the funnies?
Wake up kid–just the fact that you’re in Westview is a death sentence.
Is J-Rod puppet activated or something? His eyebrows practically have a life of their own.
Sam? Is that you? -sosfdavido
Jarod has edged out Frankie as my favorite Westview bad boy.
That’s right Jarod, take a look at what becomes of former WHS “star” athletes…”death sentence” sums it up quite well. This Jarod is a guy after my own heart with the attitude and the profanity, like a #$*&%$ breath of fresh ^%$#@ air in a really @%$#& strip.
Hairline
That’s it
Hairline.
Drawing a high school kid!
Hairline.
And trench coat, has any kid worn these in the current century?
Dude just needs love. A pretty Australian exchange student at Westview would help clean up that potty mouth, Danny Zuko. What profanity did he utter, anyway? “Gol’ durn it, coach! Tarnation!”
It’s an easy bet that Wedgeman (he gives wedgies, get it? Clever wordplay!) is the current starting quarterback, and Jarod 5head here will take his spot. Which means Owen will somehow pay the price for Wedgemen’s anger.
I think it really went down like this:
So is the whole smoking thing just forgotten? ‘Cause usually things like that are a serious hindrance to playing.
Hey, as dumb as this arc is, let’s face it, it’s MILES ahead of the terminally ponderous crap he’s been churning out ever since Frankie skulked away in shame. It’s like TB woke up from his afternoon nap on January 3rd all full of piss and vinegar instead of the usual horseshit and sap.
Shame Mary (Crankshaft) isn’t part of the time-jump, because they’re only two decent characters in years. It could be the story of the unlikely friendship between a teenage hoodlum and his kind-hearted elderly neighbor who drives a bus.
A malcontent seems to be about to join the football team at midseason, taking over somebody’s place. In the real world, this would not end well.
Cripes, this storyline reminds me of about every other storyline in GIL THORP, with an outsider joining the team, or some malcontent giving the team trouble.
TB should stick to what he knows, killing, maiming people or giving them strokes and comas.
Speaking of comas, still no word on Cellphone Girl.
There are a lot of jokes made about how teenagers in movies and TV are frequently played by actors in their 30s. This is usually because the producers or casting directors choose to employ performers who have amassed some experience at their craft. It’s a trade-off: Do they go with the older actor who’s had more credits, or the newcomer who may be the right age, but is an unknown quantity? With the money that’s at stake, they usually go (rightly or wrongly) with the performer with an established track record, hoping that the audience will overlook the actor’s true age.
But this is not a TV show. Jarod is not being played by an actor. Batiuk did not go through headshots and resumes and decide “Well, he’s a little old for the part, but I liked his audition.” JAROD IS A DRAWING. There is no reason for him to be so badly miscast.
Bull in the masthead looks like he’s being fitted for the guillotine.
Well, we can only hope, right?
Let them eat pizza!
My son hates Nicolas Cage, thinks he can’t act. See my son was born in 1995 and never seen Nic Cage in a good movie. Never seen Moonstruck or Raising Arizona. So he thinks Cage can’t act. But it is really just that Cage cannot say no to any part cause he needs the money. Wonder how much he is making for playing a high school student.
http://host.madison.com/daily-cardinal/entertainment/nicolas-cage-is-he-a-bad-actor-or-just-money/article_a496ca22-7beb-11e2-82b4-0019bb2963f4.html