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January 29, 2006
Violence on the Internets
In today's cutesy, oh so relevant, in no way 3 years behind the times Prickly, Carmen gets 237 forwarded email jokes and like any good neo-con tot she uses violence to solve her problems and takes an axe to Winslow to get him to stop. Heh.
I think we're all guilty of this - if we get a good gag, we want to share it. I think though we've tapped into why Stantis isn't funny - if he thinks there are 237 funny emails floating around the net, then his level of funny is much lower than mine. Then again, maybe he thinks "make your weiner bigger" spam mails are comedy gold.
On a side note, has anyone else noticed how Stantis's artwork has gone downhill fast this past week? Granted he's never been all that skilled in the drawing department, but damn - he's been downright awful this week. We started off with that bizarre Harry Belafonte song parody, then the Howard Dean that looked absolutely nothing like Howard Dean, and today we get the ugliest depictions of Carmen and Winslow ever.
Seriously - did Stantis break his drawing hand? Maybe he did, and since he's a poor cartoonist he's one of the 48 million Americans without healthcare (up every year since Bush was elected!). Or maybe he's letting Toby draw as part of his internship. If that's the case, Toby: you've failed. And if Stantis is fine and dandy and drawing this piss-poorly - you should be ashamed to call yourself a professional comic strip artist. Seriously dude - you're embarrassing yourself in front of a national audience. At least the axe looks good, but I have a feeling he traced that.
So what might be up this week at PC? Setting the Way Back Machine for the week of January 15th, 2006 we have several options:
- The CIA attacked a village in Pakistan thinking that one of Osama's number 2s, Al-Zawahiri, was hiding out there. Unfortunately, Al-Z's dinner invite got lost in the mail and he never showed up. Oops, only dozens of innocent men, women and children were killed. You mean the CIA bombed a town based on faulty intel? At least it wasn't a whole country. AGAIN.
- Walter Cronkite condemned the war in Iraq and called for a withdrawl of the troops. How dare he - it's not like he's been through another war with no exit strategy and called for us to leave years before anyone else. Oh, wait... I expect Stantis to call him a coward and draw him like "Howard Dean" with a moustache.
- And of course the biggies - since MLK Day was the 16th, look for Stantis to get a lot of mileage out of Hillary's plantation comments and Nagin's wanting New Orleans to be a chocolate city. Get those google searches ready so we can remind Stantis that the Republicans referred to the Democratically-controlled Congress as a plantation on a regular basis in the early 90s. No clue what he'll do about the chocolate city, although he might yet again hint at Carmen's ethnicity. It'll never be as funny as Master Shake assuming that Frylock is black - and I know, NOBODY gets that reference but it made me laugh so it's staying.
Any ideas on how Stantis will spend the week? Offer them up in the comments section while you enjoy your Sunday.
