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April 22, 2007
It's Been Done
We're reduced to a poop joke today.
Not just a lame Calvin & Hobbes rip-off, but a lame Calvin and Hobbes rip-off that ends in a poop joke.
You know Stantis, this kind of gag might work better if you had Calvin playfully prowling Carmen more than three times a year. Not exactly a running gag that people relate to this strip. Instead they relate it to better strips (or cartoons, like yesterday's rip-off of the Simpsons).
Speaking of running gags, I'm too burned out to try and don the Future Goggles. Odds are there will be one black panel strip offering condolences to those who lost loved ones and Virginia Tech, but it'll be a week before Stantis actually deals with that incident. Gonzo didn't go on the stand until Friday, and I doubt it matters since Stantis probably doesn't have the balls to go after Mr. I Don't Recall.
So what does that leave us? Probably more jokes ripping on the "Democrat" party. Probably talking about how they hate the troops and they're forcing the President to veto the war spending bill. Blah blah blah.
Do you think Stantis ever talks to anyone about Prickly City? Does he ever seek ANY kind of feedback? I don't expect him to read Shrubville - we're brutally honest and kinda mean, and proud of it. But do any of his editors ever critique his work? Do any of his friends and family talk to him about the quality of what he writes, and let him know if it's not working? I doubt it, but it's question I'd like to ask him. Because so far this year Stantis has turned one of the worst strips on the comic book pages into the worst comic strip, period.
And I think that makes us all want to poop.
