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May 07, 2006
10 Points For Anyone Who Can Explain Today's Strip
Excuse my french but - what the fuck?
Does anybody know what the heck is going on with today's Prickly City? Winslow finds the bleached skull of a long-dead steer and asks it questions like it's Yorick, only to have Carmen come up and make fun of him. Huh?
What the heck is all of this supposed to mean? Is Winslow acting as if the skull of a steer from centuries ago? Millennia? Does he mistake it for a dinosaur bone? Maybe he thinks it's the devil's skull. Or maybe Richard Nixon.
This is just one more example of Stantis half-assing it. He came up with a cutesy idea (Winslow seeking advice from the dead) only to have Carmen come in for one panel to make him look foolish, followed by Winslow's comeback. Scott, I think someone should introduce you to a little tool called "rewriting." Why would Winslow think this skull would have any answers? We know Winslow isn't the only talking animal in the desert - heck, some coyotes speak Spanish. And after having Winslow bitch about stereotyping animals, you've got Carmen saying every cow says "moo." If that's the case, why even ask the skull...
Oh nevermind. This is crap, pure and simple. Families across the country who pay good money for their subscriptions are going to open up today's paper and say, "What the heck? At least Marmaduke's funny." It still boggles my mind that Stantis makes a living off of this. Normally I'm not so critical (ha), but this has got to stop. The guy's actually getting in to MORE newspapers - how is that possible? Does anyone in charge actually read this shit? Or are they told "we need another conservative strip - we've been told to go with Prickly City until 2006 and the Dems take over." In any event, get used to more and more crap from Stantis.
I didn't listen to the podcast because I could really care less what Stantis plans on tackling this week. Do we really want to see him talking about Iraq? Or high oil prices? This after weeks of talking about people using bad words and Winslow being a coyote pack's whiny bitch. The guy's a hack as CJo has said time and time again, and it's not even fun to make fun of him anymore. I feel dumber for reading this strip. Before it was amusing to see how lame his jokes would be - now it's to the point that it's hard to read.
Thanks for ruining my Sunday morning, Stantis. Heck, for ruining every morning.
Comments
At first I thought it was over my head, but now I think Scott is just up in the clouds. Maybe his return to politics next week'll make things a little more interesting.
Posted by: JB at May 7, 2006 04:06 PM
