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October 08, 2006
Stick It Up Uranus
Now Stantis is making a joke about the Katie Couric pic being airbrushed to make her look thinner. That was originally reported on August 30th. Honestly when I first saw today's strip without reading it I thought he was back to talking about those photos of Lebanon that were photoshopped to add smoke. That was only a week or two before the Katie Controversy.
Doesn't Stantis realize that people around the country are going to open up the funny pages, see this acid trip of a strip (more on that in a sec), and say to themselves, "Wasn't that like a month ago? Why is he making jokes about this now?" Why wouldn't his editors realize that the real joke here would be that now Katie looks almost as slim as her current ratings? This has got to stop. Someone needs to tell Scotty he can't keep making jokes about stuff that happened a month ago that everyone has stopped talking about for weeks now.
As for the drawings today, did someone slip Stantis a bad mushroom or something? What kind of freakshow is this? Let's take a closer look:
- In the upper left hand corner there appears to be what I imagine is a piece of a green cheese moon. It looks like a lime wedge to me, but it's floating in mid-air.
- The PC blimp finally returns. That let's us know that Stantis was desperate to fill up empty space.
- The rock formation on the far left is topped by what looks like a basketball. Why? I have no idea.
- What's creepier is the rock formation next to it seems to be wearing a purple wig, making it look like a rejected FraggleRock character.
- At the bottom of a screen is a snake that looks like it's crapping a cactus.
- The planet Saturn is in the sky. I'd say it was Uranus, but its rings go the other way.
- Of course there's the bizarre stick person Winslow. The less said about it the better.
- On the other side it looks like Carmen is gaining the weight that Winslow lost. She sure has been getting plump the last few months.
- And finally, there's a DINOSAUR. A PURPLE dinosaur. WTF? What does Barney have to do with any of this? And why would Stantis, who I'm guessing is an Intelligent Designer, include something that shows how whacky his theories on creationism are? Is this dinosaur 6000 years old? Or was he hosting a children's show on PBS and they fired him and sent him off to spend his retirement in Prickly City? Maybe it's supposed to be a lizard. Or a mutated meerkat.
So there you have it: a weekend of comics that would have been appropriate the first day of September, 2006. Soon we'll be getting knee slappers about the Pope saying Muslims are inherently violent and Joe Lieberman losing the primary. I guess that's easier for Stantis to joke about than the fact that Condi Rice was warned on July 10th, 2001 that Osama was determined to strike in the U.S. (a full month before Bush got a PDB with a similar title) or that the Congress has given the President the power to decide what constitutes torture.
Who knows - maybe next week we'll get to see Winslow being waterboarded. Wouldn't that be fun? Meh, Stantis would just screw it up by showing Winslow standing on a board in the middle of the desert saying, "So this is waterboarding? It's not so bad," and Carmen telling him that he needs to add water. Yeah, I know, not funny. It would be perfect for PC.
Comments
I always figured that PC's bizzaro backgrounds were a tribute to/imitation of Krazy Kat's odd landscapes.
Posted by: Mysterio at October 8, 2006 10:14 PM
