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October 07, 2006
Pluto Gets the Shaft
Goofy interviews with Mark Foley(R-Fl) to be a Congressional page
August 24th, 2006. Scientists announced that Pluto would no longer be classified as a planet.
October 7th, 2006. Scott Stantis makes a lame joke that's been told a few hundred times about it.
Are there any other comic strips that are so obviously behind the times? I admit I don't read many other strips, but don't the good ones do a good job of covering up the fact that comics are usually a week or two behind current events? I know I've harped on this before, but geez - nearly a month and a half later we get a Pluto/Goofy joke? I can't wait for a week of Stantis attacking the judge in Detroit that found Bush's illegal wiretapping to be...well, illegal. How dare she question The Leader! At least that'll be something people are still talking about since the Congress hasn't made it legal yet like they did with torture.
While Stantis, like so many other Republicans, jumped the gun and declared Air America dead, it was nice to see a different background behind Winslow this past week. Instead of them saying, "Hey, did you hear..." out in the desert he actually had a little set with his own Air Winslow sign. Whatever happened to Carmen and Winslow actually having storylines where they got to act out what Stantis was talking about? He's fallen into this horrible rut of simply having his characters stand there (or run, or jump) and talk about things. Am I the only one who thinks that's incredibly boring?
What would be be more interesting two weeks from now: Winslow having to explain why he's instant messaging a Congressional page asking him how he masturbates and how long his penis is as he sits at the computer typing with one hand, or Carmen running on a rock saying, "Hey Winslow, did you hear that Democratic Congressman* Mark Foley has been accused of inappropriate emails to teenage pages?" Bor-ing.
(* Mark Foley is actually a Republican Congressman from Florida, but tell that to Fox News and The O'Reilly Factor. They've repeatedly put up a graphic saying that Foley is a Democrat. Yup, nothing but the truth over there at Fox. Oh and it's just not Fox News - the AP did the same thing. At least they corrected it shortly after posting it.)
Odds are the Foley scandal will last quite a while, so at least Stantis won't seem so far out of the loop when he talks about the Foley scandal around Halloween (look for him to draw a Dennis Hastert that doesn't even fit into a single panel since he's so fat, and we know how Stantis only likes to draw people as being obese). Of course like every other Republican out there he'll try to find a way to blame the Democrats for it (lastest ploy: did the Dems know about this too, and why didn't they do anything!?!? Answer: they didn't know, it was a Republican informant that went to ABC News, but that doesn't matter - Republican talking heads will start acting like this is a Democratic cover up instead of a scandal that is wholly Republican).
This is obviously a case where Winslow has to be the victim (Foley is gay, after all) but I doubt Stantis will say he used to be a Congressional page and Foley hit on him too. And if he did, he'd have Winslow say that it was all a "prank" like Rush Limbaugh says and he was really the one to blame (not explaining why it was always Foley who initiated the sex talk, asking "do I make you horny?" to 16 year old boys and asking if they jacked off over the weekend).
Or maybe we'll get a few jokes about Anna Nicole Smith's son dying. Much easier for Stantis to make fun of a tragedy like that instead of dealing with a Republican scandal, especially since he likes to make jokes at the expense of women (just ask Terri Schiavo and Justice Sandra O'Connor). Scott Stantis: pure class.
Comments
This may be the worst Prickly City strip ever, although there are so many bad ones that the competition is stiff. And Mark Foley would make a joke about that, to be sure.
Posted by: Annie at October 7, 2006 09:39 AM
And why does Stantis cares about Pluto? Doesn't that involve applying a little something called "science" (something he openly loathes over and over...)?
And to mess up a Pluto joke? The shame!
I bet he would be the only guy who could ruin an Uranus joke as well...
Posted by: AtmanRyu at October 7, 2006 11:38 AM
