Shrubville

One of the stupidest strips of the year, and that's really saying something. What does the punchline mean? Is the controller saying Wii, or Winslow? Why would Winslow tell her to quit only to say because he wants to play? She only owns one controller (Wii comes with two I thought)? Just really stupid across the board. How many times does Stantis think he can use the same Harry Reid/surrender punchline in a week? Did someone dare him he couldn't do it every day? Guess what Stantis - you might have won the bet, but everyone else lost.

Can someone think of another comic strip where not only did the writing get worse, but so did the drawing? You'd think after several years of this Stantis would know how to draw his own characters. And there are only two of them, so it's not like he had a lot to get right.

Is the lesson that conservatives don't believe in sharing? I don't get it.

I think we have to assume that if Winslow is playing the part of Harry Reid, then Carmen is playing George W. Bush. So to continue the analogy, Bush's Iraq policy is like an 8-year-old girl who continues playing a video game even though she obviously sucks at it. And Reid only wants to pull the troops out of Iraq so he can get his turn to "play".

John - nice.

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.

And to think, when the headline here at Shrubville read "The Last Four Days of Prickly City" I thought it meant Stantis was finally calling it quits. That just shows how horrible this comic strip is.

John, awesome analogy. To extend it, if Winslow is Senator Reid and Carmen is President Bush, then Stantis is God -- he creates a is the master of these characters, and Carmen thinks that she has the right opinions because God [Stantis] tells her so.

Oh yeah, and Dio represents Jimmy Hoffa (disappears mysteriously), Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse represents Klemens von Metternich (conservative -- well, Kevin is when it comes to technology anyway) and the dinosaurs represent Anna-Nicole's baby (just because).

Wow, this strip really takes on a new meaning when you look at it as one big metaphor.

Or don't. Whatever floats your boat.

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible.

The Wii is aimed as a family game console, for everyone to join in into the fun (and yes, there ARE party games in which you can use one remote), yet during this week we see Carmen as a selfish spoiled bitch, hogging the system for herself, even when she (i.e. Stantis) is completely ignorant of what she has. If that not a proper symbolism for conservatism, I dunno what it is...

As for political analogies, I do agree John nailed it.

I have to say, there are times when I read this blog and feel kind of bad for Stantis. He tries with all his might to make a good comic, but fails. Then a blog (which I'm certain he reads) mocks him for it. "Poor guy", I think.

Then there are weeks like this, which remind me that he deserves all the shit he gets.

Yeah, Katal, I also read this blog regularly and I too feel sorry for Stantis. I mean, we mock him so harshly it's not even funny, occasionally. We accuse of him of not even trying to do his job, assured of job security by the lack of "conservative" strips in existence. Well, I'm sure he does put a lot of effort into it, and sometimes there is a series where I think, "You know, this isn't really terrible. It's not the best, but it doesn't deserve relentless disparaging."

Well, this week deserved relentless disparaging.

John, that is an excellent political analogy.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot...
Does Stantis actually read this blog?