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September 26, 2005
Shrubville: Year One
(Normally CJo would be enlightening us today, but The Man is sticking it to C and he asked me to sub. CJo will return later this week and be much more entertaining than me - I promise.)
First of all, today is the one year anniversary of Shrubville. A big round of applause to CJo and Sacki for making our days brighter by making fun of Scott Stantis and neo-cons in general. Thanks boys. Keep up the good work.
Next up is yesterday's strip:
Since I'm the guy manning the weekend beat I was supposed to write up a snarky post on the "What race is Carmen supposed to be?" topic, but honestly I didn't have any desire to discuss it. Frankly I don't care what she's supposed to be. Some think African American, others Hispanic, others a poorly drawn Raggedy Ann. Now I'm not as familiar with the history of Prickly City as CJo is, so maybe when he gets a chance he can let us know if we've ever seen Carmen's parents and if they offer any clues. I know her mom "appeared" once, but they didn't really show her. I think her dad is MIA. In any event, it doesn't matter - I don't see skin color in my comics, I just sees me funny. And I don't see any of it in Prickly City.
Today's strip sends us twirling, twirling into the whole God vs. The Constitution "debate." Carmen climbs a bluff and tells a cloud (the Intelligent Designer? God? Buddha? Allah? The Spaghetti Monster? she doesn't specify) and tells him/her/it that they've been judged unconstitutional.
As Sam would say on Quantum Leap: Oh boy.
Yup, he's going there. Stantis is taking on the conservative Supreme Court and the words of our forefathers to say that God should be in EVERYONE'S life, whether they like it or not. I guess in his melting pot everyone is welcome, just as long as you acknowlege that his God is better than your God, heathen.
I can't wait to see where Scoots goes with this. Will he focus on the legality of God? Will he talk about how God is already a fundamental part of our judicial system? And will he still be unfunny doing it?
Personally, I hope Stantis tackles the age old question if God even exists. Maybe he has absolute, positive proof that God exists and has perfect teeth, a nice smell, and is a class act all the way.
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On a side note something just hit me: if Stantis can put out a whole freakin' book of his piss-poor comics, why can't Shrubville put out a book of its comments on said book? A companion piece, so to speak. Would anybody buy it? Or, more specifically, would 100,000 people buy it?
Comments
From what I can make of it, Carmen believes God is a roll of White Cloud toilet paper, and it would violate the 4th Amendment in the cruelty of denying them a good, clean wipe.
Posted by: Sacki at September 26, 2005 04:03 PM
