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July 01, 2006
I'd Rather Be Flying
Today's a blow off strip, some sound gag about Winslow and a dog whistle (although I doubt that's how a coyote would look if he heard one, but whatever). So you know what that means...Future Goggles!
(For the sake of our own sanity, let's assume that Carmen is a conservative while Winslow is a liberal. At least for starters.)
- Carmen's laptop, containing all of the vital information of the occupants of her homeless shelter, is "stolen." For some reason Carmen doesn't really care, while Winslow worries it's terrorists. The laptop then mysteriously reappears, and Carmen tells everyone at the shelter that everything is fine - just as ten thousand credit cards with a 19.99% interest (with adjustable rates!) show up at their door. Oh, and there are already thousand dollar charges on each that somehow went to Carmen's mayoral election campaign.
- The news of two American soldiers being kidnapped in Iraq hits the town hard. No, wait - you know what? Even I know this isn't something you can talk about in a comic strip, at least not one as slapdash as Prickly City.
- Carmen will talk about how crazy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is for believing that the 2004 election was stolen. She'll just laugh and laugh at him, telling him to "get over it" and wonder just how insane he is. Of course she'll never offer up any explanations for RFK's points, and Winslow will nod along because he's a stupid stinky liberal who only does what Carmen wants. At the end of the week Winslow asks Carmen if there's any chance he'll lose their mayoral race because of rigged electronic voting machines, and she'll call him crazy and laugh in his face. She'll then slip the Diebold director a thousand bucks she stole off of one of those credit cards.
- Stantis won't talk about it, but I wish he would bring up that memo the WaPo published saying how horrible things really are in Baghdad. Instead he'll focus on Bush's "surprise" trip where he had to secretly fly in during the middle of the night - didn't even tell the new leader of Iraq - stayed a few hours walking around the heavily secured compound, then took off again when the photo-op was finished. Stantis will find a way to call our President "brave" and "dreamy."
- Jack Abramoff's buddy and White House official David Safavian was found guilty...ha ha ha - did you actually think I was going to include this? Everyone else has already forgotten that somebody in the WH was convicted of a crime, which hasn't happened in what, a century?
- Ohhh, but I have a feeling I know where Stantis is going to go this week. It was about two weeks ago that Dan Rather left CBS. Wonderful. Has Stantis ever actually gotten a laugh out of a Dan Rather reference? So look for a tall, headless reporter wearing suspenders talking about "the frequency Kenneth" and faked Texas National Guard papers, nevermind that they never did disprove that Bush was AWOL (I think we all just accept that Bush is a coward). Okay, I know I'll get some flack for that last coward line. But it cost our government a MILLION dollars to train W to fly and he never saw a minute of real combat. And these guys swiftboat Kerry and Murtha. Disgusting.
Anywho, odds are Stantis will at least take off the 4th and either re-run something from last year or throw up a single panel of Carmen and Winslow watching fireworks and talking about our freedom (nevermind the unfortunate use of fireworks to symbolize explosions while our servicemen and women have to deal with real explosions every day in a war based on lies). But what about the rest of the week? Any ideas? Please put the comments section to good use.
Comments
Personally, I'm hoping Stantis will do a part 2 of that "God said knock it off" storyline. That never got resolved and ended on a cliffhanger.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at July 1, 2006 09:28 AM
Nice, Furnace. I always enjoy your Future Goggle posts. And I'm pretty sure you have 100% accuracy.
By the way, today's strip is an almost panel-by-panel rip-off of an old Peanuts strip (Charlie Brown + Snoopy + Dog Whistle). I'll scan and post it some time next week when I track it down.
Posted by: CJo at July 1, 2006 10:29 AM
Well, that joke was pretty much used in other comics before (or at least, a variation of it). It's a very common joke. Just like a webcomic doing a "cut and paste" joke.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at July 1, 2006 07:25 PM
