From the Comics Curmudgeon:

Today’s Gil Thorp is nothing less than a divine symphony of severed limbs. You cannot convince me that any of the arms on display here are actually attached to the Thorpian quasihumans near whose heads they’re hovering — the scale and the angles are all wrong. Particularly baffling is the behemoth paw in panel one. Is Fu “Rap Sheet” Manchu supposed to be holding a TV remote? It seems unlikely: not only is the hand bigger than his head, but he’s only about eight inches away from the television set.

I love that, having been insulted, Coach Kaz calls his girlfriend to “check in” emotionally, only to be further taunted for his dimwittery. FEEL THE BURN, COACH! She’s not dating you for your mind; she only loves your hairy, hairy arms, and the furious fists at the end of them.

Marmaduke, 8/16/07

You may have noticed the new link to Gil Thorp on my blogroll. It is quickly becoming my favorite comic. Today's actually makes quite a bit of sense. Usually they are just three panels of non-sequiturs.

The guy in the middle is Coach Kaz. He is a main character, Assistant-coaching Milford High's various athletic teams. Yes, he does appear to be wearing large pearl earrings in both ears. As far as i know, no one knows why and none of the other characters ever reference this quirk. And yes, he's straight as an arrow.