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June 23, 2007
A Wii? Shouldn't That Have Been Yet Another Edwards Haircut Joke? Republicans Can't Get Enough Of Those
I wanna elect this guy for president.
Boy, it's been a roller coaster ride for Winslow's presidential campaign so far. In the past few weeks he's gone from being a part of the Democratic debates where called Hillary a witch and Obama shallow, to being a complete unknown only a few days ago when Prickly City moved up their primary to July 2007, and now he's magically the frontrunner, having raked in $60 million.
How does that happen, exactly? I don't mean the money thing - that's just Stantis making a point about the problems with political fundraising, and he's got one. No, I'm talking about Winslow's rise to prominence, his fall into obscurity, and now suddenly outraising all of the frontrunners in the course days.
It happens when the person writing the strip doesn't know what he's doing.
As a fellow writer, I have a sense of what Stantis goes through during the creative process. Ideas and jokes come at you all the time. The key to being a decent writer is knowing when to use the right joke. Sure, it might have been funny to Stantis to have a reporter ask Winslow who he is at a press conference - but it's not a joke you can tell AFTER showing Winslow at a nationally televised debate.
Wacky, sily humor is fine - if you know what you're doing. Stantis doesn't, and it's painful watching him learn on the job since he never actually learns anything other than to suck more than he did the day before.
You know what would have been cute and maybe even funny? If Carmen had quietly declared her own candidacy as a Republican, and SHE was the one who had magically raised $60 mil in a matter of days because she's from Prickly City. But nope - the "hysterical" idea that Winslow and his "Free Paris and Bomb Canada" platform is now winning because he's from a city(?) that's having the first primary is supposed to make us laugh and laugh and laugh.
Ain't gonna happen. Unless you're Pellucid - then you might think this is the funniest thing since Rush's "Obama the Magic Negro" song or Glenn Beck sexually harrassing a female guest.
Comments
I hope you level similar criticism against the Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy, Futurama, and South Park, which also regularly ignore outcomes of prior episodes (shouldn't Homer be getting mobbed by fans and outraged people on the streets for having been an astronaut, a rock star, CEO of a company, mayor of a town on two occasions, and a good friend of almost every celebrity in the United States?). Also, did you ever consider that because there's no real punchline in this strip that it could be a setup for tomorrow's strip?
Posted by: Pellucid at June 23, 2007 11:34 PM
Episodes? Prickly City is a TV show now?
Oh, and I'm sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to wait for my daily comic strip punchline to arrive the following day. It's a cliffhanger! I forgot how much Stantis looooves to end his week-long storylines on Sundays.*
(*Yes, that's sarcasm. Harder to tell online, I know - sorry. But apparently you're new to Prickly City otherwise you'd know Sundays are almost always a single panel one-off unrelated to anything going on in the real world.)
While I wait until tomorrow to find out why today's strip is supposed to be funny I'll try to figure out what the heck your point is. Homer should be mobbed by people because he 1) was a failed astronaut upstaged by a carbon rod 2) was a roadie, not a rock star 3) a temp CEO of a nuclear power plant (quick - name one other than Mr. Burns) 4) mayor of one of the 50 worst towns in America where the current mayor is seen as a joke and 5) a guy who happened to be around celebrities during sweeps?
Um, that's supposed to make him popular how?
Posted by: The Furnace at June 23, 2007 11:59 PM
He was also a professional boxer who went for the Heavyweight Championship against "Mike Tyson" and about a million other things. Even if each of these things wasn't amazing on its own, the fact that he's done all of them would make him far and away the luckiest man alive and would be known by everyone for the sheer volume of amazing things he's done.
Posted by: Pellucid at June 24, 2007 09:02 PM
Rush released a song entitled "Obama the Magic Negro?" It's been all downhill for those Canucks since Bob and Doug took off, those hosers.
Posted by: Sacki at June 25, 2007 11:27 AM
