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May 30, 2006
"Mr. W., Put Up This Wall!"
And just like that it's over.
After spending Sunday applauding Stantis's growth as a comic strip writer and artist, it all falls apart only a day or two later. The Republicans in Congress get their fence, Carmen says they make good neighbors, and Winslow tells a lame joke I've heard more than a couple of times over the years. I can't wait to see Stantis draw Michael Moore without a shirt. I'm shivering in disgust already.
Bonus points to the person who can come up with the most creative thing that Carmen looks like in the first two panels. Her head looks like a bulb of some kind to me, but I can't put my finger on it. And don't even get me started on the mess that is the third panel, where Carmen is a cross between Napoleon and...heck, I don't even know - but she sure doesn't look like any little girls I've seen.
The obvious question: how the heck did Winslow get on the other side of the wall? See Scooter, this is EXACTLY why you introduced the freakin' alien last week! So you wouldn't have to deal with this kind of lazy writing! Instead he falls right back into his lazy azz ways, and it's getting really annoying. But if he didn't use Winslow he couldn't shoehorn in his "fat man watering" joke, something he's been desperate to use since he heard it on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour a few months back.
In the end I guess this means that Stantis is in favor of erecting our own Great Wall along the Mexican border. But where does he go from here with it? He set up the Hispanic Winslow a few weeks ago, and last week he brought in Opie the Alien - will they play into all of this, or will it be a week of Winslow showing how easy it is to get over the fence?
What I think would be cool is if for the rest of the week the comic strip looked fantastic and was hysterical, and then we'd find out at the end of the week that they hired an illegal to do the strip for $3.25 an hour. That would be sweet. I mean it couldn't get much worse than it is now, right? Although there's a good chance it would be in Spanish. But have you seen Mexican TV? Good stuff, especially Sabado Gigante. Bring on the blond Mexican babes in tight clothes!
Comments
Posted by: Sacki at May 30, 2006 12:31 PM
More on the Sac Bee, Mark Trail, and PC:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/columns/acuna/story/14261150p-15074804c.html
Posted by: Annie at May 30, 2006 02:52 PM
Okay, now I REALLY disagree with Stantis. In his latest podcast, he talks about the late Jeff MacNelly and commented that he was "better than Bill Watterson". MacNelly was a fine cartoonist, but no cartoonist is better than Watterson!
MacNelly was the greatest editorial cartoonist, I'll agree, but noone's better than Watterson! Except maybe Patrick McDonnell...although both Bill and Pat are tied.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at May 30, 2006 11:47 PM
