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May 05, 2006
AhhhhhhhhhWoo
OK, fine. Here goes. "Ha ha ha ha." There; I said it; I complimented this strip. In fact, I'll go one step further: "Nice pun on the 'free roaming.'" And...fine...one more: "I'm glad the coyote's legs aren't upside-down."
I'll grant this strip a C+, which graded on the Stantis curve (since he has sucked from bottle-to-thumb-to-scribbling-strips) is an A-.
Charles...good call on the coyotes' upside-down legs being the same as Dogzilla's from The Buckets.
The Buckets -- created and originally drawn/written by Stantis -- was one of the original "Punch My Corn Flakes Box" strips. We may rake Scott over the coals for his shoddy art and writing in PC, but it was 100x worse in The Buckets, which featured the UGLIEST cast of characters this side of Drabble.
Father? Fat-n-ugly.
Grandfather? Decrepit-n-ugly.
Dogzilla? Coyote ugly.
Mother? Rip-out-your-eyes-with-corner-of-Corn-Flakes-box ugly.
But special scorn shall be heaped upon the Bucket children: Toby and Eddie. Eddie was an imbecilic, goo-goo-googly-eyed, inanity-spouting little cretin. And Toby morphed from a snot-nosed, knee-skinned little shithead into a sullen, bowl-cutted fuckwit teen, all within the span of a week. And then he'd be a kid again. And then a teen. Back and forth, back and forth, all depending on what was convenient for the storyline. (That sounds kind of familiar, actually...)
Seeing those two little freaks running around the comic strips scared me off of having children for ten years. In fact, the very day the Chicago Tribune stopped running The Buckets (what a glorious day!!), I stopped punching the Corn Flakes box and I went and impregnated the first woman I saw.
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I'm very thankful my paper didn't carry The Buckets, from the look of it. My local paper actually only played PC for the first couple months, then it got replaced with La Cucaracha. Got rid of Ann Coulter too... :)
Posted by: JB at May 5, 2006 03:13 PM
My former newspaper, Memphis, TN Commercial Appeal actually ran "The Buckets" for a brief time (it was the later strips when Stantis quit working on it).
I think they ran it because Stantis used to draw editorials for Commercial Appeal (don't know if that's real reason though).
From my understanding, they don't run "Prickly City", although judging by how many newspapers are picking the strip up lately, I have a feeling "Prickly" will soon go past the 1,000 newspapers mark in 10 years.
Oh, and the podcast for May 1 is up. Some highlights: Stantis went doctor shopping with Rush Limbaugh (according to his email) and Stantis thinks Fred Phelps should be shot.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at May 5, 2006 11:31 PM
Oh, BTW, I have one of the "Buckets" book which contains strips both written and drawn by Stantis. If you want me to scan some for comparison with "Prickly", let me know.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at May 5, 2006 11:42 PM
