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July 07, 2007
No Virginia, There Is No New Prickly City Character
Let's recap this past week in Prickly City...
MONDAY: Stantis jams an iPhone joke into the strip with his worst drawing ever.
TUESDAY: Carmen misses Winslow.
WEDNESDAY: Carmen misses Winslow (pretty much a repeat of Tuesday)
THURSDAY: Carmen holds new character try outs, and we get a turtle that speaks (Stantis doesn't tell us if this is Winslow's old girlfriend Shelly or not)
FRIDAY: New character try outs continue, this time with a vulture.
Got all that? Outside of an attempt at being topical on Monday, we've got two days of Carmen saying she misses Winslow then two days of her interviewing new friends. So where is this massive storyline that could introduce a revolutionary new character to the comic pages going?
Nowhere.
Fed up with her exhaustive search for a new character, Carmen has decided that even though she doesn't support anything Winslow stands for (yeah, I know, my head hurts too thinking about how stupid that line is since Winslow agrees with her most of the time), she's going to join his campaign. Why? Because in her mind, she can use HIS platform to spew her views on politics.
Think about that for a minute. Stantis is going to have Carmen join Winslow's campaign so she can spout off her Republican talking points during his Democratic campaign. Maybe that makes sense to Pellucid, but I think anybody with a working brain would think that's ridiculous.
Carmen then says she'll throw him a bone (like she's doing him, Mr. $60 Million in the bank, a favor) and he calls her an "anti-canite." After doing a google search on the term, I think it means somebody who hates canines, but I'm not sure. Much like how he ripped off that "I was told there would be pie" line from a Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law episode, he rapes that old Seinfeld "anti-dentite" gag here. Hint to Stantis: if I have to look up what a word means in the dictionary and it's not there, and if I have to google it to try and make some sense of it, odds are it's NOT FUNNY.
So there you have it. After teasing that he would bring in a new character - something most of the people who read the strip have been begging for him to do for months - he instead drops the idea after two(!) lame strips and instead will have Republican mouthpiece Carmen do all of the talking for Winslow in his campaign.
Why not have her run against him? Wouldn't that make for that little thing writers are supposed to love called "conflict?" What good is it having her join his campaign? It's stupid to think that a Republican would saddle up with a Democrat, and even dumber to think that the Dem would let the neo-con do any talking on the campaign trail. It's just a lazy, unfunny way of getting Carmen and Winslow back together again.
But I wouldn't expect anything else from Scott Stantis, who is still your Worst Comic Strip Writer In The World. Pellucid should be proud.
Comments
I kind of figured "anti-canite" was a pun on "Anti-Semite", but I'm not sure how that makes any sense. Hmm, Joe Liebermann was a Jew, and he was a Democrat who disowned his party to become an "independent", which I guess is like how Winslow the supposed liberal keeps agreeing with Carmen and scorning the other Democrats.
I probably thought more about this than Stantis did.
Posted by: Antenora at July 7, 2007 09:28 AM
I kind of figured "anti-canite" was a pun on "Anti-Semite", but I'm not sure how that makes any sense. Hmm, Joe Liebermann was a Jew, and he was a Democrat who disowned his party to become an "independent", which I guess is like how Winslow the supposed liberal keeps agreeing with Carmen and scorning the other Democrats.
I probably thought more about this than Stantis did.
Posted by: Antenora at July 7, 2007 09:28 AM
