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November 04, 2006
Where's That Toilet? I Think Winslow Needs to Go #2
As the elections approach it seems like Stantis is losing his mind and whatever trace elements of ability he might have had. After toilets and balloons, we now get the Might Morphin' Power Winslow.
At first we see a bloated, constipated Winslow - his forearms having grown to Popeye-proportions and his gut distended so much he makes the late Marlon Brando look svelte. Apparently Poor Winslow's head is about to explode.
Next Winslow has miraculously dropped about 20 pounds - arms look normal, gut less pudgy, head not nearly as explosive. The only difference is he has more black stuff under his armpits, apparently a side effect of hanging around Carmen. Some "Right Guard" might clear that up. Ha ha ha ha! That's a joke worthy of Stantis, I tells ya!
We then get Demon Winslow. You know the one - eyeballs rolling into the back of his head, mouth shaped like a melon baller, and even his fangs are sticking out. However he doesn't yell. He just asks if the election is over yet. Now of course anyone who actually pays attention to politics would question why Winslow - a supposed liberal - would be upset right now. The Dems are up in the polls across the board, and many are predicting they'll at least take the House (not me though - I still say the fix is in). Wouldn't it make more sense to have Carmen wish it was all over, so she wouldn't have to hear about scandal after scandal after scandal? I know if I was her I'd be dreading another Mark Foley or Bob Ney or George Allen incident where he sics his goons on a liberal blogger.
Oh, then a disembodied voice - possibly God's - tells Winslow they're almost over. This is one of the few times having lines separating the panels would have helped. At least then we could have seen that someone off-panel was talking to Winslow. Here we're left to ponder if maybe it's Karl Rove whispering sweet nothings into Winslow's ear.
It ends with Winslow going back to holding his head together. Hey, at the very least Stantis took the time to draw Winslow four different ways instead of copying and pasting. Too bad he has no clue how to draw his own characters with even a modicum of consistency.
So there you have it: the expanding/contracting "liberal" can't wait for the campaigns to end and the votes to begin because he hates the idea so much that his side might win. Maybe Winslow is one of the new breed I keep hearing about called "Defeatocrats." Lord knows Stantis hopes he's one.
In other news: did you hear they postponed announcing Saddam's verdict until tomorrow? Gee, it's as if the trial the Bush Administration threw together to try him timed it so they could influence the elections. Nah - they'd NEVER do anything like that, right? Right?
