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March 20, 2007
Laziest Man Alive
Carmen stands at the top of a cliff. Winslow lays at the bottom, holding a broken umbrella and saying, "I'm the fall guy."
Welcome to yet another addition of Scott Stantis's "I'm too lazy to do my f*cking job."
You see Scott, with this administration and all of their scandals it would be really helpful if you specify WHICH scandal Winslow is the fall guy for. Is he Scooter Libby, who took the fall for Karl Rove in the outing of a covert CIA agent? Is he Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, who took the fall for the Walter Reed scandal? Or maybe he's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's assistant Kyle Sampson OR Harriet Miers, who are both positioned to take the fall in the attorney purge scandal?
On top of all of that, why would WINSLOW be the fall guy? Because it's cute to show him all smashed and bruised? I'm sure you didn't intend for us to all assume that Carmen pushed him off the cliff, but that's exactly what I see. The little Republican bitch, always looking out for herself, shoved Winslow off to protect herself and now looks on as if to say, "What, I didn't do anything wrong." Why? Because nobody in this administration is ever to blame and none of them ever take responsibility when things go to hell. I'm sure you blame everything bad with Prickly City on your editors, like you did when they supposedly inserted those infamous Ted Kennedy quotes or when they somehow published your lies about Howard Dean. Never your fault, right Stantis?
I'm sorry, but you can't just throw out something like this and assume everyone knows what you're talking about when you write them TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE. I'll bet you yourself don't even know who Winslow is supposed to represent, you just heard the term "fall guy" over and over again from the Republican talking heads and thought it would be cute to see Winslow at the bottom of a cliff near death holding an umbrella. Yeah, real cute.
Hey, I've got a few more terms that the Republicans repeated ad naseum this weekend: "At the pleasure of the President." "Micromanage the war." "Witchhunt." Maybe you can work those in. Like dress up poor wittle Carmen like a witch and Winslow can burn her alive. Or have Winslow pass a bill in Congress trying to redeploy the troops. Or show Winslow on his knees giving President Bush a slobber knocker. Whatever.
Can you honestly look in the mirror and say you gave today's strip your all? That when you sat down to write this, you thought it through and decided what it meant? That there was a deeper meaning beyond Winslow being abused once again? Did you ever stop to think that yes, there are plenty of jokes that can be mined from the numerous Republican scandals, and the accomplices at the lower levels that take the fall for their superiors, the ones that are really ruining the country? Did you take a moment and say to yourself, "This is good. I'm proud of this. I want people to read this and think I've done a good job?"
Or did you come up with what you think is a funny visual (which you just stole from a Wil E. Coyote cartoon), slap a lame punchline in that relates to something you heard on Fox News, and send it off to your editors on the way to cash in your paycheck?
Scott Stantis, you're an insult to every comic book artist out there who takes the time and energy to create a good daily comic strip. You are an embarrassment to your profession, and a reminder that there are numerous artists out there who can't have their voices heard because you benefit from a quota system that insists if your conservative strip is cancelled, an actually funny, well-researched, entertaining liberal strip must also be removed. Scott Stantis, you are everything that is wrong in the world of comics. And today's strip just reinforces that even you yourself know that.
Comments
In two weeks: strips about the fourth anniversary of the war against the desert hamsters. Scottie had no way of knowing that was coming up!
Posted by: Annie at March 20, 2007 11:19 AM
