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May 17, 2006
Peter Piper's Proactive Paradigms
One, Shrubville needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Shrubville doesn't have a new entry, all the readers should be asking "Where's Shrubville?"
With that in mind, let's pick up and travel back in time to see where the Team Shrubville Action News Team left off yesterday. Okay...we have a darling youngster drawing a colorful penis and a reference by the Furnace to a "Big Boy Comic Strip Artist Writing Utensil." I won't touch that one with Winslow's fly swatter.
Now let's span time and return to the present day's strip. Can have a good result, says Carmen. Freedom of religion, says Carmen. Bad ideas are armed, says Carmen. One, she talks too much. Yak yak yak. And to think people are upset when it's said that women shouldn't be allowed on the frontline. Anyhow, back to the points above, is she making an argument for or against occupation and/or 'liberation'? Seems they could have had freedom of religion before the bad idea of sending armed troops over there took place. It's a pithy little phrase tho, to match Winslow's helmet, that sounds pleasant and if uttered frequently enough seems to make some sort of mystical sense. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out "Forgive us our trespasses."
Comments
Of all the Prickly City strips over the years, this one makes my head hurt the most. Will someone send little Carmen back to the second grade, so that she can learn to form a logical argument? That will start showing up on standardized tests in third grade, you know, and her school surely wants to make Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind.
Posted by: Annie at May 17, 2006 12:35 PM
If you send Carmen back to second grade, she's going to start drawing penises, and who know where THAT might lead ...
Posted by: jackmac at May 17, 2006 02:22 PM
So I guess this is the "cover your ass" strip where Stantis says that even though he's making fun of the deaths of over 2400 servicemen and women for a war based on lies, we should all stand behind our "war" president. One thing he left out: there were never any "weasels" of mass destruction, a little fact he's kept out of this week and a half of strips.
Posted by: The Furnace at May 17, 2006 03:09 PM
