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January 14, 2006
Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding
Talk about watching a guy go through a mid-life crisis right before our very eyes (via his surrogates). As I mentioned a week or so ago Stantis uses his Prickly City characters as a way to express his own beliefs, and man - the guy either needs some therapy or a trip to the car dealership to buy himself a Corvette.
After Winslow talked about sporking himself yesterday, today he tries to literally rip his own fur off. After that fails miserably, Carmen gloats, saying she told him that he wasn't velcroed in there. (When was the last time anyone referred to velcro, by the way?)
In any event, poor Scott Stantis is obviously going through a major transitional phase in his life. And I can't blame him: everything he used to believe in as a Republican is crumbling right before his eyes. Big government. Illegal spying. Corruption. Dammit, those were things we're supposed to accuse Democrats of doing! Not the party of God! Not to mention being engaged in not one but three wars with no exit strategies, an out-of-control deficit, and a President who only gives speeches in front of handpicked crowds. It's not supposed to be like this, is it Scotty? The Republican party you grew up with is no more.
I'm sure that's tough for you to accept, especially since you know your core audience still wants to see you suck up to the Powers That Be despite all of the questions swirling around in your head. Can you support a president who illegally spies on Americans and then brags about it? A president who tortures? A president that accuses anyone who disagrees with him of being a traitor? That last one really has to bother Stantis, especially since he's been known to tweak Bush everyone once in a great while. But dammit, it's the Republican party. He knows no other. Even though he's got all of these conflicting feelings in his head, he can't turn to another party, can he? He can't side with the Democrats on some of these major issues...it's against what God says. He chose to be a Republican years ago. Dammit, it's his choice, right? What are all of these strange feelings stirring inside of him?
Maybe Stantis is Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain, saying to the Republican party, "I wish I knew how to quit you!" The feelings he has for Democrats can't be real.
Ultimately I'm sure Stantis will come to terms with his sexuality. Er, I mean political affiliation. It's okay Scooter, we're here for you. No matter which mountain you choose to ride.
Comments
Ha ha ha. Nice.
By the way, today's strip seems a little familiar to me. Could it be because it's a virtual REPEAT of a strip published on September 1, 2004?
Posted by: CJo at January 14, 2006 10:11 AM
I always took this strip, which as CJo noted repeats itself in various ways, as a racist/classist statement. No matter how much Winslow tries to fly, change his skin, etc., he is stuck being Winslow. It would be better if he just accepted it, instead of trying to get into Princeton. Can you imagine going back to your Princeton reunion and seeing coyotes there - and not because they are serving drinks?
Stantis has his eye on the Supreme Court, and this strip is his own recurring signal to the White House that, yes, his conservative credentials are intact.
That makes much more sense than the syndicate continuing to carry a lazy, stupid comic strip when there are so many more deserving comic artists out there.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 14, 2006 01:38 PM
