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July 09, 2006
Get Bent
More and more every day Scott Stantis comes across not like a comedian, but as the guy in the audience who says, "Oh, I can do better than that!" And for some bizarre reason a publisher actually said okay and gave him a job. Of course Stantis isn't funny and can't really draw, yet he STILL HAS THAT JOB for some insane reason.
Today is an attempt at word play that would make Woody Allen wince. Winslow's brain hurts because he doesn't "get it," Carmen offers up that "kit and caboodle" is another way of saying "it," Winslow doesn't know what a kit and caboodle is, and somehow or another Carmen's brain ends up hurting because she doesn't get "it."
At first glance this might seem chuckle-worthy. But it's not. It doesn't make any sense. It's like a terrible Catskills routine that would flop miserably its first night and cost the joke tellers their jobs. Yet Stantis still gets a paycheck every week for this nonsense.
Maybe I'm missing "it." Maybe in some unbelievably clever way, Stantis has concocted this amazing strip to make my head hurt with his witty banter.
Nope. Carmen, Lil' Miss Know-It-All, simply has to say, "kit and caboodle is another way of saying "it." Everything. The whole shebang." Besides, once Winslow asks what Carmen doesn't get, why would her brain freeze? All Stantis has done is build up a rickety house of cards that counts on Sunday morning readers to glance at, think it's kind of cute, and move on to the really funny comics like Marmaduke.
How much longer can a guy get paid to do this?
Comments
you guys must be the only Prickly City haters left.
It's becoming obvious that the strip has been getting more and more fans, even from some liberals. i saw many sites that calls it "clever". And for obvious reasons, I saw many people at freerepublic praising the strip (well, DUH!)
Of course, 99% of the comics section are pure crap anyway.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 9, 2006 10:17 AM
I would love to see some links to these websites calling it clever. Other than the right-wing ones, which have already gotten the memo that they're supposed to love it.
Posted by: The Furnace at July 9, 2006 10:49 AM
Actually, typing "Prickly City clever" into Google is pretty fun. I especially like how many people ask the Washington Post to yank PC because it's not clever. Hmm...didn't see any pro-PC clever quotes, but maybe it's because it's the evil liberal internet.
Posted by: The Furnace at July 9, 2006 10:59 AM
Well, for starters, in previous podcasts when Toby reads the letters, many which contains praises (no emails were read in the last one, though)
http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2006/07/03/mallard-filmore-dropped-from-statesman-journal/
And I saw some forum posts on it at joshreads.com and Darrin Bell's forum.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 9, 2006 11:03 AM
I think it's great that the one saying PC is clever is our good friend Charles Brubaker, who comments regularly on this site.
As for the podcasts, I take those with a grain of salt. Obviously they're going to select ones that love them, and the few they choose that don't are emails that are easily ridiculed. But it's his podcast so he can do what he wants, and I doubt he really wants to read email pointing out how unfunny his is.
Oh, and thanks for commenting today, Toby! Welcome!
Posted by: The Furnace at July 9, 2006 11:56 AM
Regarding the link to the Daily Cartoonist. I got to admit that I AM in favor of dropping Mallard for Prickly City. I'll give Prickly that much.
Posted by: JB at July 9, 2006 12:07 PM
Furnace, it's worse than you thought. Anonymous' reference to joshreads.com, and the "clever" comment made on one of the message boards was ALSO made by our friend Brubaker!!
http://joshreads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=460
So, it seems that the only two references to PC being clever were made by Charles B., and both were only when comparing it to Mallard!
hahhahahahahahh
Posted by: FredN. at July 9, 2006 02:53 PM
