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February 16, 2007
Without Limits
Some look at him and see a clean, athletic, articulate man with a brown moustache. Others see a clean, athletic, articulate man with a blonde moustache. Others still can't look beyond his smooth, hairless legs that look so mesmerizing in shorts. In short, this week has been a comic-strip disaster the likes of which haven't been seen since that one week when Stantis non-sequitured his way from his 1,000th attempt at a bipartisanship joke to Winslow announcing his presidential campaign. (For those of you keeping score at home, that would be 'Last Week.')
"I'm cur," Scott sends us off with, so very cleverly adjectivizing a noun. I'm very optomistic [sic] he will remain such a wizard with the English language.
Comments
I'd like to apologize to everyone for complaining that Stantis wasn't spending any time on political strips. He's doing it now and it's made things much much worse. And I didn't think that was possible.
Posted by: The Furnace at February 16, 2007 09:27 AM
Stantis proves that "articulate" is not a synonym for "acting white".
Posted by: Annie at February 16, 2007 11:15 AM
Yet another strip where one speech balloon fails to follow the previous one. In the second panel, Winslow finished up with, "Get used to it!" Then Carmen says, "Except in Montana..."
Huh?
Besides that, this strip is not funny at all. There used to be a funny strip on occasion, like the 2004 one where Winslow misunderstands a Gallup pollster, or the 2006 series with the coyote from across the border. And I'm politically liberal, just so you know! "Prickly City" never ran in my paper, but I still read it online, hoping (futilely) that it would get better. How foolish of me...
One time, I listened to a certain "Prickly City" podcast in which Stantis promised to introduce new characters, and soon. This is late 2005, when the strip's cast still consists of Carmen, Winslow, and (sometimes) Dio. So what happened? Dio disappears for all eternity, Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse makes a couple of appearances before disappearing into the abyss as well, and... That's it!
Instead, now we just have Carmen and Winslow, and the strip is never funny and the art is mediocre at best and the social and political messages are mixed! What's the point? Stantis should just give it up once and for all!
Until then, I'll keep reading it just for the sake of agreeing with the comments the folks over here at Shrubville make about this mockery of a comic strip.
Stantis, if you're reading this: End it. Please.
Posted by: Where the Hell is Dio? at February 16, 2007 02:51 PM
Ah... Feels good to have gotten all that out!
Posted by: Where the Hell is Dio? at February 16, 2007 02:52 PM
