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December 26, 2006
It's Like He Never Left (Get It? Left? I Pulled a Stantis!)
Okay everybody, altogether now:
Awwwww, poor Scott Stantis.
Oops, I'm sorry, this is Prickly City. Let's try again:
Ahhhhh, poor Scott Stantis.
Yes, the chosen one is back - and apparently his right arm is in a sling. We know this because his proxy Carmen has a bum right wing as well. Which leads to an admittedly "heavy-handed" metaphor (lots of lame lines today) about how things were wrong when they weren't Right in Prickly City during Stantis's absence. Meh.
The problem is things weren't all that different when Stantis wasn't around. We had all of one good strip where Carmen admitted they did everything the right(wing) way and lost. The rest of the time we got Wil E. Coyote references and a stereotypical liberal Winslow with his Volvo and hemp jacket. Ha-ha? In fact for the most part I'd say other than the various ways the characters were drawn it wasn't all that much different from a typical two week run of PC. Heck, they even got in a slam on Nancy Pelosi. That's supposedly what happens when the left takes over? Color me confused.
I think today's strip is a good window into how Stantis's mind works. First off we always knew that Carmen is his stand-in, which is why she flips flops constantly - he's never wrong, so she's always right. But we also learned that in Stantis's mind, when he's not around the liberal media will take over his strip and put everybody on the welfare, offer abortions on demand, raise taxes, and punish his poor little Carmen. Of course none of that happened, but that hasn't stopped Carmen/Stantis from ACTING like it happened. Yeah, I know - it can hurt your brain after a while if you think about it too much.
So this week we're all supposed to feel sorry for poor Stantis - his arm is in a sling, you see, so don't judge him for the lazy azz strips he's about to turn in. And it's not his fault the last two weeks weren't "up to his standards" because he wasn't in charge. Things were wacky and crazy before X-mas, but now that he's back everything will return to normal. Because things were so unbelievably bizarre when he went to have his surgery.
Okay, maybe the whole manga thing was a bit weird - but didn't Stantis write that?
Like I said, if you think too much it'll make your brain hurt. Not so much like it's been hit by a ball-peen hammer - more like it's been exposed to several years of Tom "The Hammer" Delay. That's obviously been much more painful to our country than a few weeks of people not wanting to kick Stantis while he's down.
Even though he thinks that's what happened.
Ouch, my brain.
