April 05, 2007
Send In The Calvary
So some fella named Conyers is traveling around the country personally handing out subpoenas, like the one received by our favorite OCD-suffering Prickly City character, Carmen. I'm not sure it's been explicity stated previously, but by her words and actions (e.g., the meticulous over-combing of her hair in order to have a perfect 7-inch part exactly down the middle), it's clear that girl ain't right (despite the too clever by half declaration that Carmen "may not be correct but [she] will always be right").
(Speaking of, I clicked on the "Meet The Characters" button recently at the gocomics site for Prickly City, and there are only 2 listed. Whither Dio? Shelly? Professor Pete Prick? Jose Mesa? The PC Blimp?)
Anyhow, this Conyers character is probably some one-off creation, so I wouldn't get too worked up about it. He'll saunter in, laying his cloak in front of Carmen, she'll wash his feet, it won't be to his satisfaction and he'll wind up giving $20 to Winslow to rat her out. Winslow's act having condemned her, Conyers will trick her into thinking she's getting a blimp ride (but we all know that ship has sailed), but he'll actually nail her to a cross - nevertheless she'll be satisfied because she can see her house from there, and that's all he promised. I'll forget about it all until Sunday, when I go out to get the paper and discover that the rock used to secure it has been moved, and the wind has taken it all - except for the comics section, alive in all its glorious color. Amen to that.
Comments
Hey, I just learned this about Carmen from the Meet the Characters link at Go Comics: "She is an innocent who loves being a child. She fights tooth and nail against a society that wants her and her friends to grow up much too fast."
Is she fighting against growing up too fast by talking about tax cuts, Nancy Pelosi's plane, the Harvard Curriculum, Al Gore's carbon footprint, the Republican presidential race, illegal wire-tapping, etc.?
And why is "her friends" plural?
Stantis could really use some more characters. A few strips ago Carmen was fired (from what?) because she "wasn't hard enough on the Democrats." Now today, she is being subpoenaed "for being political." It doesn't make a lick of sense. The disembodied hand that fired her should be subpoenaed.
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