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April 16, 2006
Balls
Stantis skips the traditional Easter strip to instead have Winslow refuse to fetch a tennis ball for Carmen. I guess that even though Winslow can hire immigrant workers, outsource his pack's business, play video games, and try to get an appointment to the Supreme Court Carmen still thinks he's a dog. Which is funny, because most people reading Prickly City think he's a cat.
Nah, it's not funny. None of this is funny. Because it's to the point that PC doesn't make sense any more. It's like Stantis has completely given up on writing his own comic strip, and instead steals ideas from other strips and tries to force his characters into those situations. Lucy trying to get Snoopy to fetch a ball? Funny. A neo-con tot trying to get a coyote to fetch one as he uses his PDA? Not so much. Today's strip might have made more sense if in the past Winslow used to love playing catch, and maybe if Stantis had done it earlier in the week he could have had Jesus the Immigrant get it for him since he's become too lazy to do the work himself. But on a Sunday it's just a cheap, half-baked idea that would work better in Marmaduke than in Prickly City.
So what can we expect to drive us insane this week? I'm betting Iran will be 16 days away from a nuclear weapon that's pointed right at PC. I can't see Stantis trying to do the immigration thing again since he tied that up oh-so-perfectly yesterday (ahem). It's too early to get into the Plame/NIE/Cheney is a traitor and Bush is a leaker story. Or, it could be a week of "It's spring!" strips, which could include a tornado hitting town and the hilarity that will follow when Michael Brown shows up to help. Maybe he can be drawn as a fat slob.
Happy Easter, if that's how you roll.
Comments
It's kinda funny. Not in a haha way. More in a "wow, Carmen is a moron" kinda way.
Posted by: JB at April 16, 2006 11:38 PM
