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June 19, 2007
One and Done
The streak is over.
After a somewhat amusing strip that actually made sense and offered political insight yesterday, Prickly City is back to sucking again. Wish I could say I was surprised.
Today's strip is all over the place. Winslow announces to Carmen that Prickly City has moved up its presidential primary to July 2007. Ya get it? Other states like California are moving theirs up, so of course it would be funny if PC moved theirs up to next month. Ha?
A few things don't make much sense. First, I already heard or read (I don't remember) a gag saying that California had moved its primary up to last February, so this isn't exactly fresh comedy. But we've gone over that whole "2 week delay" problem comics have in the past. Then there's Stantis's insistence that much like the Simpsons and Springfield he doesn't say what state Prickly City is in, so Winslow has the awkward line that his CITY has moved up their primary. Um, what? Maybe if he had simply said "our state" instead of "Prickly City," but nope - I guess that would make too much sense.
Then there's Carmen's bizarre final line: that Reason won't be on the ballot. Huh? What does that even mean? How is that funny? Did he mean to use the word Logic? Or Common Sense? Why Reason? I suppose if I thought about it for a while and tried to jam that word in there to somehow make sense I could, but this is a freakin' comic strip - I shouldn't have to think.
That's why yesterday's strip worked. Winslow the liberal pointed out that the Republican presidential field is once again filled with ten rich white guys, using an ice cream cone to make the point. A nice visual gag paired with decent political commentary. More of that please.
Not more of this crap about a city having a primary where Reason is on the ballot.
Side note: doing a quick Google it looks like Prickly City is in Arizona, since they have a primary and New Mexico has a caucus. Not that it really matters, but why not just say it's in Arizona so today's strip makes sense?
Side note #2: is it considered a smear if I point these things out? I guess so. Maybe I should make an effort to actually smear Prickly City one of these days - Pellucid won't know what hit him (or her).
Comments
For some reason Prickly City doesn't seem like it could be a separate entity from states like Springfield or Bloom County, maybe it's because we never actually see Prickly City, just Carmen and Winslow running around in the desert around it.
Posted by: Snowman at June 19, 2007 10:01 AM
1) The Simpsons is set in Northern Kentucky. Surely you've seen the "Behind the Laughter" episode?
2) Once Prickly City's election is over, the comic will be able to move beyond the election. Right?
Posted by: Annie at June 19, 2007 11:20 AM
