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April 28, 2007
Seriously - Worst. Comic Strip. Ever.
And you thought the desert shark storyline was bad?
Ladies and gentleman, I give you the worst Prickly City series EVER. Without a doubt. Stantis has been bad in the past. Even downright horrible. But he's topped himself (or bottomed?) with arguably the most non-sensical strip in the history of his comic.
It started with Carmen finding petrified dinosaur eggs. Think about that for a minute. Does Stantis realize what the word "petrified" means? How stupid does a grown man have to be to realize that anything petrified is...you know...DEAD? ROCK? Does that not compute with him?
Okay, I understand what Stantis was TRYING to do. But he's already failed. Even before he gets to his point, he's done what most Republicans do: created a false argument. There's nowhere to go from here. They're petrified eggs. There is no hatching as an option. Yet Stantis plows through, like a Republican trying to justify the war in Iraq. There were no WMDs, so why are we there? I can hear Stantis now: "just give me a few more chances and you'll see where I'm going with this."
So where did Stantis go? Winslow sits on the eggs. Carmen's response? To start screaming and yelling at him about the "ethical implications." Of what? Sitting on what are essentially ROCKS? I could understand there being a question of ethics if Winslow planned to sell the rocks instead of donate them for study. Or if he tried to use them to prove to Carmen that they're not 6000 years old, blowing her Bible's theory of Creationism out of the water. But nope - Winslow and Carmen think that just by sitting on an egg, no matter what the condition, will make them hatch. "Come on - just another chance..."
What happens? The eggs hatch. And today we see the result: A FULLY GROWN DINOSAUR.
Let me stop here for a minute. Everyone has a different sense of humor. The gag of Winslow in a dinosaur's mouth might make some simple-minded people laugh. Heck, Stantis stole most of the bits from this week from old Simpsons episodes, where they were actually funny (mainly Bart hatching lizard eggs after killing a bird he thought was their mother, and today the one where Bart sold his soul to Milhouse and bought one of those foam dinosaurs that expand when you add water, which he imagined grew to dino-size and tried to eat Lisa). But none of what Stantis did this week is funny to me, and I'd argue most normal people. There isn't anything humorous here. The set-up is downright idiotic. The results make zero sense. And Stantis's attempt at making this some kind of ethical argument reeks of trying to somehow justify this ridiculous storyline in his "political" comic strip. It's all just a bunch of unfunny hooey. AND HE GETS PAID FOR THIS.
I won't even get into how horrible Stantis's drawing of a dinosaur sucking on Winslow is, other than to say it looks like someone's been watching sad gay porn again.
If Stantis is so worried about the ethics of things, maybe he should tackle what a candidate for president recently said about Osama Bin Laden. You remember him: Public Enemy #1, most hated man in America, killed a few thousand people - this is what one politician said about him:
"It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
Who said that? Well it's pretty easy to guess it's NOT a Democrat, because if it had been this quote would have been screamed across the headlines and caused a few right-wing talk show hosts' heads to explode on air.
Nope, it's Mitt Romney. Republican for President. He doesn't think Osama is all that important.
What's the ethical implication of that, Stantis? One of YOUR candidates - someone you'll vote for if he gets the nomination - doesn't want to do everything it takes to catch America's most wanted. Why don't you spend a little time preaching to us about that, instead of wasting our time with comic strips that wouldn't last more than a week in a high school newspaper?
Oh - I already know your answer - "Just give me one more chance..." I'm sure the payoff tomorrow will be funny, right? Right?
Please - I beg of you - if there is one person that reads Prickly City and Shrubville, and you think ANY of this storyline was funny, write in our comments section and explain to us why this should make us laugh. I really want to know who exactly makes up Stantis's audience so I can see how this guy makes a living churning out the worst of the worst in the world of comics.
Comments
And while he's making a living, he's harming people like Darren Bell, because editors want to have both "balance" and "funny" on the funny pages.
Posted by: Annie at April 28, 2007 01:47 PM
