« No Republican Left Behind | Main | Peek-a-Choo, I See You »
November 26, 2006
Lose Weight The Stantis Way!
One day Scott Stantis draws you / And the next
Today's Prickly City wouldn't be so bad if Winslow wasn't drawn so freakishly thin. Does Stantis have any idea how to draw his own characters anymore? The guy needs to cut out what he thinks is his best ever drawing of each of his characters and tape them around his desk so he has something to refer to when he's writing. It's one thing to have them flip flop on their political stances every day - that's more a reflection of Stantis's inability to deal with his own faults as a Republican. But drawing Winslow one day as chubby, then the next day as fat, then chubby, then razor thin, then fat as the week goes along? That means you're either the worst professional comic stripper on the planet, or you've gotten so lazy and tired of your own strip that it's time to call it a day. Either way, there's no reason you should have the job anymore. Let someone else in there that can at least draw his or her characters with SOME consistency and personalities that don't shift with the latest Republican talking points.
I suppose I could try and find some deeper meaning in today's Prickly City, but if I do it would once again show how Stantis doesn't care about his characters anymore. Winslow, even after being warned by Carmen not to, still sticks his tongue to a cactus only to get stuck with no exit in sight. To me it seems like a pretty obvious metaphor for the war in Iraq. But that would make Carmen one of the stinky smelly liberal hippies and Winslow would be the Republican war-mongering neo-con. Oh wait, it's the Iraq war we're talking about, so of course Carmen has to be right and Winslow has to be wrong. So sayeth Scott Stantis. He's always right, we're always wrong, deal with it.
Word is that Stantis is going to have Prickly City taken over by Democrats, much like the rest of the country. In other words, he's going to introduce MORE characters that he won't know how to draw whose politics will flip flop more times than Mr. Bush's over the past 6 years. Stantis tried to bring in other characters before - Kevin the Bunny and Dio spring to mind - but he was so completely incapable of keeping THEM straight that he simply dropped them with no explanation. Lord knows what Stantis has planned now that the Dems are in charge of Prickly City. Does he bring in another new character, like the mayor?*
*Let me take a moment to remind everyone that earlier this year Stantis made a big deal in his podcasts** that Carmen and Winslow were going to run against each other for mayor of Prickly City. It never happened.
**Let me take another moment to remind everyone that Stantis hasn't updated his podcast since September.
Oh who am I kidding - Stantis is going to spend the last few days before his break making fun of Nancy Pelosi's appearance and cracking lame Howard Dean jokes. Maybe he'll toss in some Tom Cruise jokes to remain "topical." I just wish the surgery he was going in for was to replace his funny bone - unless he's never had one, which could very well be the case.
