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December 23, 2006
Apocalypto Now-ish
Starring Mel Gibson as Winslow.
Okay, let me get this out of the way first: today's guest stripper appears to be Don Asmussen, who works for the evil liberal San Francisco Chronicle (I know they're evil and liberal because they're in San Francisco - Bill O'Reilly told me so).
Looking at some of his old strips, Mr. Asmussen has a habit of cramming as much as humanly possible into his panels. His guest stint at PC is no different. There's a whole lot packed into here, and...well, wow. Where to start?
First off, it's an Apocalypto parody. That's something I honestly never would have expected at Prickly City, and I think it's safe to say Stantis would have never attempted it. His mind just doesn't work that way. But how does it pan out?
Well - meh. Honestly, I don't really get it. Apparently Carmen is the last conservative in Prickly City, and the evil liberals are going to sacrifice her. This gives us yet ANOTHER Nancy Pelosi caricature, and as a bonus we get a tiny Howard Dean. Nancy by far and away fares the worst: boy, what is it with comic strip artists and Nancy Pelosi? Issues much? I don't care if the guy's a liberal or a conservative comic stripper, but come on - give it a rest. She hasn't even become House leader yet. I'm thinking it's because they're all too afraid of Hillary and Nancy is an easier, more fragile target. I'm sure looking at Asmussen's take on Pelosi had Stantis punching his cornflake box this morning.
So before Carmen can be sacrificed she wakes up and it's a "Wizard of Oz" ending, where it turns out Carmen was never really a conservative after all. Um, huh? I don't get it.
This reeks of "hey, wouldn't it be a good idea to parody that Mel Gibson movie?" but then having no clue where to go with it. Wouldn't this whole thing have made more sense if Winslow was the one afraid that his tribe of liberals were near extinction, with evil Karl Rove and George Felix Allen Jr. trying to sacrifice him, only to wake up to discover that Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi actually won and the conservatives are no longer in power? But no, Carmen has to be the poor little victim in Prickly City no matter what so I guess this is the warped, twisted take on things we need to see. I dunno, maybe somebody else read this and had a completely different take - if you did, please use the comments section and let me know what you think. But for me this gets an A for the idea, but a D for the execution.
Tomorrow I'm planning to look back on what I wanted to get Stantis for Christmas last year and what, if any effect it would have had on his performance in 2006. Unless tomorrow's guest has Winslow blaming the Jews for all of the world's wars and calling Carmen "sugar tits."
Comments
Methinks Asmussen should've been the liberal artist who drew last week's strip instead of Matt Davies. It would've been neat to see today's strip spread throughout the week.
(P.S. man...that Nancy Pelosi drawing is the worst ever drawn by the mankind known as editorial cartoonist...doesn't even look like her)
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at December 23, 2006 09:57 AM
At least this guy gave Carmen pants with her loin cloth. Remember that anime version? Creeeepy!
Posted by: willie lee at December 23, 2006 11:47 AM
I second that. I never want to see Carmen (almost) naked again...got that!?
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at December 23, 2006 08:49 PM
