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November 28, 2006
Mangled
Finally, an excuse to share some FullMetal Alchemist manga.
Serves me right for getting my hopes up yesterday.
Turns out Stantis isn't out of commission just yet. While he may have temporarily handed over the drawing duties to his son's ex-girlfriend, he's still writing the same crap we've grown to loathe and hate over the past few years. How do I know that Shira-Chan didn't come up with this shit sandwich herself? Well I doubt a young woman would make fun of an elderly woman's appearance and think it was funny, especially when she didn't draw her to look all that ugly. Secondly, any girl into manga would know someone who's scared doesn't yell, "AWWW!" Nope, that's craptacular Scott Stantis writing all the way.
I'll admit it is kinda cool to see a giant monster fighting a giant robot - that's something I never thought I'd see in Prickly City. But that has nothing to do with Scott Stantis. Odds are he told this poor girl, "Just put some of that magma stuff you draw in there" and she had to tell him, "But it's MANGA, not magma" and he said, "Whatever, you want to date my son or not?" and for some reason she still did the job.
So as I said on Sunday, even if Stantis is going to be phoning it in and having other people draw it we're still going to be getting lame Nancy Pelosi jokes for the next week. Oh joy. My hope is when that liberal comic stripper comes in he'll turn things upside down in Prickly City. My suggestion: clearly establish the characters, draw them consistently from panel to panel, and tell clever political jokes that reflect the current attitudes of the American people. That's something we've never seen before in PC.
In the meantime, get ready for Carmen and Winslow to go on a quest to restore dignity in politics as they take the powerful Conservative Crystal to Washington, DC and use it to slay the awful Floating Nancy Pelosi Head or some kind of crap that bastardizes manga because Stantis doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. What should have been the best week ever in Prickly City has quickly become what it usually is: the worst comic strip ever. Even if someone with actual artistic ability is drawing it. It doesn't matter how pretty the paint job - if the blueprints suck, the house will fall down. And Prickly City is the house that Stantis built.
Comments
Nice takedown of today's strip, I was thinking the same but not as lucidly!
Posted by: FredN. at November 28, 2006 10:30 AM
This stip is awful. Both in the macro and in the micro.
In the micro, for today, "AWWW!" is something that cartoon characters say when a baby does something cute. "AHHHHH!" Is something they say when they are scared.
And doesn't the "Nancy Pelosi" floating head more closely resemble Hillary?
I hate this strip. Today. tomorrow, forever.
Posted by: willie lee at November 28, 2006 01:11 PM
For some reason I imagine Shira-chan as Anakin Skywalker and Stantis as Emperor Palpatine...
"Join the conservative side, young Shira-Walker..."
Posted by: AtmanRyu at November 28, 2006 01:39 PM
I'm getting frustrated with Shira-chan's flagrant disregard for Carmen's bald stripe.
Posted by: Marc Heiden at November 28, 2006 06:50 PM
