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January 02, 2007
Don't Call It A Comeback
Well that didn't last long. Stantis's brief run of halfway decent strips comes to a crashing halt today with the Worst. Comeback. Ever.
Carmen does her best Rocky impression (or maybe that's just what I thought she should be doing - odds are Stantis just, once again, has her running through the desert instead of doing anything meaningful). Of course like all Republicans she wants to leave the past behind and move forward - no need for any silly investigations into everything the Republicans have been doing for the past four years. No no no. We must move forward! For the good of the nation, so we can start the healing, as the late President Ford would say (did you know he was America's Greatest President? I didn't either until CNN, MSNBC, and the rest told me so).
Winslow tells her to keep wishing, and then refers to her as "G.O.P.- Gal." I like that. Hang over her head that's she's been Bush's biggest cheerleader. I much approve.
But then we get Carmen's comeback: "Dang straight, Lib-cur!"
All together now: huh?
Like I said: Worst. Comeback. Ever.
I understand that Winslow is a coyote, but "lib-coyote" isn't funny. But calling him a mongrel dog? Heck, I admit it: I had to look up exactly what a "cur" was. I knew it was some kind of mangy mutt, and the good people at Webster's confirmed that it's a mongrel dog. I can see Stantis hesitating to call Winslow "Lib-boy" since Winslow isn't human, but a dog? He's not a dog either, jackass.
Oh, wait, I just looked up "cur" on dictionary.com. Check this out:
CUR
–noun
1. a mongrel dog, esp. a worthless or unfriendly one.
2. a mean, cowardly person.
Now the big question: was Stantis calling Winslow a mongrel dog, or a mean, cowardly person? I'm guessing he only knew the first definition, but it just happens to be an insult to liberals everywhere too. Nice job, Stantis. You can call names with the best of them, tough guy.
Doesn't Stantis run these strips by anybody before he sends them off? Couldn't he run this by a co-worker and ask if it's funny or if it makes sense? Is there anybody out there who thinks "Dang straight, Lib-cur!" is humorous in any way, shape or form? Unfortunately there's only person person who apparently matters: Scott Stantis. Why, I have no idea. And now we're finding out, via yesterday's comments, that if any editors decide to scrap Prickly City they're going to trash a left-leaning comic strip along with it. So there's the Catch-22 for all of us demanding Stantis pull the plug - he's going to take someone who's actually funny down with him. And knowing Stantis, he probably thinks that's hysterical.
Comments
Not to hijack the PC attacks, but here's a letter to the editor at Trib re: Candorville:
Posted by: anony at January 2, 2007 06:17 PM
