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June 21, 2006
BeakerBusters
There are so many things wrong with this strip.
"Winslow, where did you get the money to buy a blimp?!"
Is Carmen that much of an idiot that she doesn't remember yesterday when Winslow told her he got a Homeland Security grant?
"That nice Mr. Chertoff, Carmen."
"From Homeland Security?!"
No, you little moron. Mr. Chertoff from the donut shop down the street. Again, maybe Carmen is so much of an idiot that she doesn't remember lecturing "Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff" on Monday about money.
"That doesn't make sense."
He should have ended it there.
At least we've cleared up the mystery of what logo is on the blimp. As postulated by Marc Heiden, it is Beaker's black half-brother. Today's close-up only serves to confirm that fact.
Comments
What the hell does Winslow's attending Burning Man last year have to do with anything?? I mean, are they terrorists? Huh? I'm starting to think that Stantis has hired a bunch of manitees to push colored "idea balls" with words written on them into a "joke combine". This week: Chertoff, blimp, burning man.
Posted by: The Furnace at June 21, 2006 10:07 AM
I think they have pills for the burning man now. Goes back to the idea that it is a prophylactic after all.
Posted by: Sacki at June 21, 2006 10:50 AM
You know, when the Sacramento Bee pulled PC, I thought I'd miss it. I really disliked the strip, yet was somehow drawn to it. It was sort of like watching a bad Kung Fu movie; five minutes into it, you had to know HOW the hero would end up with the girl.
But, guess what? I was wrong. I don't miss PC at all. Not even a little.
Unfortunately, Lio is terrible, and I think they may end up bringing, ahem, SOMETHING to fill that space pretty soon. But I thought the same thing about "Rose is Rose", and it turns out people love it. I hope Lio has fans; at least I can go right over it without caring, sort of like Mark Frail or Apartment 3G.
At least I still have shrubville.
Posted by: MikeM at June 21, 2006 12:22 PM
One of Stantis's many problems is that he is stuck in single-panel editorial cartoon mode. He seems to view each day as independent of the day before, and so of course Carmen wouldn't remember what she heard yesterday.
Also, does Stantis even know what Burning Man is? Even if it is so ten years ago? Are we to assume that Winslow burned off his cillia with cocaine, or from the smoke of the burned effigy? Or is it just a cutesy remark that we shouldn't look into?
Bleah. I should start doing real work, for people more demanding than the editors who buy "Prickly City".
Posted by: Annie at June 21, 2006 02:19 PM
"Mallard Fillmore" has a similar problem. Whenever Bruce Tinsley gets obsessed with some news item or another, he has to restate it every day in the first panel of his strip, which leaves only one "new" panel for the so-called punchline.
Posted by: Mysterio at June 21, 2006 05:45 PM
Today's "Mallard Fillmore" is edited. Originally, there was a third panel that read "We thoughtless humans have caused an utterly tiresome comic strip!"
I'm curious about today's "Prickly"...since when do blimps, even a cartoon kind, emit smoke when they move along?
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at June 21, 2006 08:45 PM
