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April 15, 2006
The Final Straw
After a week of Winslow employing an illegal immigrant to save money for his pack, today he takes an easier route - outsourcing! Who saw that coming?
That's right - the tree-hugging, union loving, dirty stinky LIBERAL Winslow has decided to outsource to a foreign country.
I'm just about done with Prickly City. I know I've harped on this point way too much the last few weeks, but if Stantis is going to have Winslow do everything he disagrees with, then quit going around saying that he's a liberal. This week proves without a shadow of doubt that Winslow is NOT a liberal. There, I said it. Carmen isn't a conservative either, because most times she's on the flip side of Winslow's neo-con beliefs and she shares more with Democrats and Liberals than she does the Republican party.
And in case Stantis is reading this, I don't care if your argument is that people aren't black and white on issues. We're not talking about you or me - we're talking about comic strip characters. Now if your characters had any depth whatsoever, I might buy your argument. But they've been two dimensional caricatures of liberals and conservatives from the very beginning, which is why it makes no sense for Winslow to be in favor of outsourcing this week.
Instead Toby was right - if you don't like something conservatives are doing, you make Winslow do it. Carmen is there to "tsk tsk" him, but she's basically the straight man for the wacky, moronic Winslow. There isn't even a debate - Winslow is the bad guy no matter what, even if Stantis admits that it's his conservative Republican party that's doing what he disagrees with.
So what does it all mean? Well when Winslow and Carmen actually made sense, it was a conservative strip where the conservative Carmen made her case while the liberal Winslow was made to look the fool. But now with Winslow doing both conservative and liberal things, with Carmen simply taking the other side, and since Stantis is using Carmen as his surrogate - that makes Prickly City just another comic strip.
Say goodbye to that "we have to have a conservative comic!" slot you've been getting everywhere, Scooter.
Comments
Apparently, you're not the only one who thinks the strip isn't really conservative.
Houston Chronical recently added "Prickly City" and replaced it with another political strip "Mallard Fillmore". It caused outrage from the strip's readers and even called "Prickly City" a "liberal" comic.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at April 15, 2006 08:02 PM
Okay, this is why I shouldn't add comments when I just woke up in the morning in Japan...
I'll try it again...
Houston Chronicle recently picked up "Prickly City" and removed "Mallard Fillmore" to add it in the paper. Conservatives got pissed off and accused P.C. a liberal stip.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 15, 2006 08:04 PM
PC replacing MF? I DO think PC is a tad better than MF, but it's still like someone hitting your foot with a hammer, only to stop and begin hitting your hand.
Posted by: Mysterio at April 16, 2006 03:17 AM
