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February 17, 2006
Just Shoot Me
What a strange week it's been. Amidst the three strips about Oprah, which all say the same thing only with different "drawings," the predicted foray into Sheehan, which by a stroke of good (or bad) timing ended up in the lap of Sacki, our resident Sheehan Crank, and the inexplicable appearance of Doris Kearns Goodwin on our website, I'm about to go on record as making a stunning THIRD SUPPORTIVE COMMENT about Scott Stantis this week: Today's strip is pretty good.
It sets up the expectation that Stantis is going to go Old Testament Book of Leviticus on liberals. By frame three you think, "This jackass is going to end with 'For the party of tolerance, democrats sure are intolerant,' or some such needless needling he likes to throw out there because he has no other ideas.
But -- BAM! -- in frame four he takes a sharp turn and... lo and behold... it's funny. Or at least it's cute. Or at least it's not punch-your-fist-on-the-Corn-Flakes-box bad. And Carmen is the right size.
Plus, it's topical. You get the vague allusions to the controversy surrounding publishing (or not publishing) the 'offensive' Danish political cartoons.
AND, it's self-aware. I'm sure Stantis gets enough hate mail to know a lot of people loathe his strip and undoubtedly write their local newspapers asking for them to dump it.
In conclusion, would somebody please take me out back and put a round of birdshot into my face and chest before I get too soft.
Comments
You liked this one? I didn't like this one. It just seemed so, I don't know, "I can write a stupid cartoon and get space in the paper because it wants to pretend it's balanced when really, it's run by a Republican cabal, and you can't stop me, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah."
Posted by: Annie at February 17, 2006 12:06 PM
Upon viewing that photo, my immediate reaction was: When did the Financial Times start running Marmaduke?
Posted by: sacki at February 17, 2006 03:54 PM
While it's an easy target, it would have been nice if he had gone after a comic that's more political. Like one who does storylines the equivalent of saying that President Clinton was a racist.
Posted by: The Furnace at February 17, 2006 05:53 PM
I liked that one. But only it's because I so goddamn hate "Marmaduke".
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at February 17, 2006 11:18 PM
