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October 30, 2005
Tricked Out Treats, Yo
It's the day before Halloween, and Stantis decides to serve up a treat instead of a trick with an actually clever(!) little strip. Carmen shows off her costumes for the big holy-day (why she's even celebrating is beyond me): George Will, Ann Coulter, and Bill O'Reilly. Winslow's choices: Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, and Michael Moore. Each says the other has the scariest.
In concept, this is a cute strip. Seeing Carmen and Winslow dress up as their heroes is amusing. Granted Stantis still has to bring his neo-con bias. George Will has cute blond hair and wire-rim glasses, Ann Coulter has long legs, blond hair, and a cocktail dress, and Bill O'Reilly has a suit and for some odd reason a mohawk. Winslow's smelly stinky liberal costumes though feature Ted Kennedy in boxers carrying a bottle of booze, Al Franken in a very stereo-typical Jewish fro, and, of course, a fat Michael Moore.
If Stantis made any kind of effort to be fair and balanced, we'd at least see MAnn Coulter with an adam's apple and a splotchy O'Reilly, but Scott is still a proud neo-con.
Here are a few other suggestions for neo-con Carmen to wear:
- Dick Cheney as a bulldog, chewing away at the Constitution while waving the Patriot Act
- A competent FEMA official (aka the Invisible Man)
- Rush Limbaugh popping pills while getting divorced again
- Harriet Miers as a pit bull in high heels - wearing a t-shirt that says "QUITTER"
- Karl Rove dressed as Benedict Arnold
Here's what I don't understand though, and maybe I'm thinking too hard for a Sunday morning (instead of praying like a good little rightie should be doing): why would a person dress like someone they idolize instead of someone that they think is scary? This is akin to Scott Stantis dressing up like George W. Bush on Halloween, isn't it?
In any event, today's colorful strip isn't really bad - it just doesn't make any gol' dang sense. Just another day in Prickly City.
