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May 13, 2006
Stantis Heat
The turn is complete. The formerly liberal Winslow has flown the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and the former conservative Carmen says he was premature. Of course next week if/when they run for mayor, if a Democrat did something stupid two weeks ago it'll be Winslow that's doing it because heaven forbid Stantis's little proxy Carmen do anything wrong. Lil' bitch.
Unfortunately, today's strip tells us something else about Stantis. What happened two weeks ago? That's right - the anniversary of Bush on the aircraft carrier with his precious banner. So, instead of looking ahead like everyone else and planning for his criticism of the handling of the Iraq war by Republicans to run the same week - lazy azz Stantis was caught with his pants down and is trying to play catch up. Note to Scooter: most of us have realized the Republicans screwed the pooch on this a few years ago. But it's nice to see you're finally come around to realizing that YOUR president is the worst in history.
I've noticed something the past few weeks in the comments section. This isn't about not liking Stantis because of his politics. Maybe at first it was, but not anymore.
There's a term in pro wrestling called "X-Pac heat." Now heat is the term for the crowd reaction - the more heat, the better. If you're a heel (a bad guy), you want as much heat as possible - if they boo your character, great. If they throw stuff, even better (except for batteries and spark plugs - those just hurt). However in the late 90s there was a wrestler known as X-Pac (aka Sean Waltman, aka the guy in love with that freak of nature Chyna). At first he was just a bad guy, getting booed along with the other heels - like he wanted. But then people started to personally hate HIM. They weren't booing the character - they were booing Sean Waltman. And that's a horrible sign, because no matter what he did in the ring, the crowd was going to hate him no matter what - because they didn't like him anymore. So now whenever a wrestler goes out there and the entire audience goes quiet only to boo the guy because they don't want him in their ring, it's called X-Pac Heat.
That's what Stantis has right now. The majority of us aren't bitching about his politics anymore, we're complaining because the guy can't keep his characters straight and makes Winslow his patsy for everything he doesn't like - even when it's his precious conservative side that's doing it. On top of that, it's only after a third of the country (29% in some polls) are the ones left supporting Bush that Stantis grows a pair of wrinklies and starts criticizing Bush's war. It's to the point that as readers we're not as interested in what he's going to be discussing politically or what jokes he might try to tell - we're there to see how badly he's going to screw things up while not being funny.
And if we're all feeling that, how do you think the rest of the country that reads his stuff in the morning is starting to feel?
Comments
Nailed it. I actually agree with his politics and the message that he's trying to convey this week...
...but I just can't get over the fact that miss neo-con tot (AKA Lil' Bitch) is never allowed to screw up in any of Scott's little parables. Now that he's regretting some of his past views, he's switching sides of the characters more than ever to make sure she's always the voice of reason.
There HAS to be a way that he could've pulled off the same story line, and kept the characters' personalities straight. Plot ideas anyone?
Posted by: JB at May 13, 2006 07:13 PM
