« [Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn] | Main | Snow Job Day »
February 13, 2007
Ouroboros? Oh Yes, You Are Boring Us
Those of you expecting to drop by and find another solid offering left by the Furnace in his usual Tuesday slot, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but he'll not be leaving any nuggets today. In the fevered run-up to the big game, he and I made a friendly wager, and somehow my favorite squadron came out on the losing end. Yes, indeed, Pro Bowl XXXVII was everything that it was cracked up to be - so really, nobody's a loser. It combines all the excitement of the second game of the preseason with all the execution of the first game of the preseason and it features all of your favorite players, provided they haven't decided to forgo the trip to Honolulu and been replaced by some other guy.
Anyhow, here we are examining today's Prickly City. Four panels. Classic! Don't you just feel ripped off when the writer tries to get clever with the medium and starts fiddling around with 3 panels, or even just 1 giant panel? At those times, I feel I'm not getting everything out of the free gocomics.com experience. Even if, as is the case here, 3 of the 4 panels are just the same static image. That, however, means there's a big payoff at the end, you can be certain. Once thing, tho, is we've been doing Shrubville since before Pro Bowl XXXIV, and we know better to expect a big payoff. And since James Brown is gone, we can't even get at the table to negotiate for a big payback. At this point, we'd even settle for a Vic Tayback. We'd be in denial if we thought otherwise. That dog still (still) won't hunt, as they say.
