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August 27, 2006
I Would've Voted For Kodos Anyway
Ugh. Winslow tries to fly. Again. I'm hoping for the day when he actually does fly, since that'll mean Prickly City is over.
And what can be said about today's strip? Winslow runs out with three basketballs yelling about soaring. He leaps, crashes, and we see that he was actually carrying a ping pong paddle. Carmen shows up with what I'm guessing is a first aid kit, but it's the first one I've ever seen with a circle around the cross. Bleh.
What could Stantis have done instead of yet another "meh" flying strip? That leads me to the big question I've had all summer:
Whatever happened to Carmen and Winslow running against each other for mayor of Prickly City?
Maybe Stantis is waiting for November, but I doubt it. I think it's because he's afraid to have Winslow actually be a full-blown Democrat, especially at a time when he needs someone to stand in for Republicans. You know, someone to say stupid stuff like "Macaca." Obviously that can't be Carmen, and since we still don't have a legitimate third party candidate in Prickly City to mix things up it's going to have to be Winslow the Fall Guy yet again.
I was looking forward to a storyline about the mayoral race. It could have run over several weeks, and if Stantis were smart he could have worked in current events along the way. Can you imagine if he had started it when the Lamont/Lieberman primary was going down? It would have given "extreme liberal" Winslow hope he could win, but then Carmen would remind him that he's the one that supported the war against the desert hamsters so he's more like Lieberman than Lamont.
Oh, wait, what? Winslow, who was crowing about the Ned "Al Qaeda" Lamont win actually would have supported Joe Lieberman for Lieberman candidacy since they agree on the war in Iraq? Jeez, no wonder Stantis is afraid to pull the trigger on the mayoral race - he's confused his characters so much that there won't be any way to follow what the heck they stand for in the end.
So instead this week we'll get Carmen standing around self-righteously saying, "Hey, did you hear about how George W. Bush single-handedly stopped British terrorists from blowing up planes with liquids using his "illegal" spying program?"
WInslow should say in response, "You mean British intelligence, working with the government of Pakistan, foiled the plot. And the when the British approached the U.S. government for assistance, they actually got warrants - like they're supposed to - in order to do the spying, which is what Democrats have wanted all along. And that W actually pressured the Brits to reveal the plot long before they wanted to, just to distract from Ned Lamont's win in Connecticut. Oh, and are you referring to the spying program that a judge in Detroit has deemed illegal and ordered to have it stopped immediately. That's what you're talking about, right?"
Instead Winslow will stand there and say something stupid like, "Duhhh, I'm a stupid Democrat, duhhh, and I have a 9/10 mentality, duhhh, and we want the terrorists to invade our country and kill our families because we're stupid stinky liberals who hate America, duhhhhhh."
Seriously, that's what Scott Stantis thinks of Democrats. And he's not alone. He thinks people on the left WANTED those terrorists in Englad to succeed and blow up planes, because we hate George W. Bush THAT MUCH.
Ultimately I think it's more fun to imagine what Prickly City should be like instead of actually reading it. The real thing is just one disappointment after another. Just like the Bush Presidency.
