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July 24, 2007
The Final Countdown
Seriously, make sure you at least watch through the singer's first few lines. Classic. At least he's a better singer than Stantis is a comic strip artist. And you gotta love the Coleco keyboards.
As if on cue, Stantis answers the question I posed in yesterday's comments. Next Tuesday is apparently the Prickly City primary, and an entire nation holds its collective breath wondering what's going to happen.
No, really - what the heck IS Stantis going to do?
For the first time in the history of Prickly City (CJo can correct me if I'm wrong on this), Stantis has devoted several days a week to a storyline that's been running for over a month now. He's actually going to see through the concept that Prickly City is holding the first primary of the 2008 presidential campaign. I know, I'm just as shocked as you are.
But what exactly has he done with this storyline? Winslow "debated" some of the other candidates, but really there was only a few lame "Hillary's a witch" and "Obama has no ideas" jokes that felt like they came off the top of Stantis's head (which is pretty much where all of the jokes in PC come from - I doubt the guy even knows what the term "rewrite" means). What else? Winslow gave us his platform - the oh-so-topical "Free Paris" and "Let's invade Canada," neither of which was funny. So Stantis just threw them out there once or twice for easy laughs and then moved on to more Cindy Sheehan bashing. Isn't it sad that he's spent more strips on going after Cindy Sheehan than Hillary Clinton over the past month?
Talk about a wasted opportunity. Winslow could have gone after each of the Democratic candidates, trashed the lefties' plans for the future, and shored up his own Republican base by talking up all of the great ideas the righties have (remember when Carmen came on board Winslow's campaign so she could spew her own neo-con talking points, and then didn't? Good times). But instead we got strips like today's where Carmen asks how Winslow's doing, and he's nervous. Whooweee, that's comedy.
So what happens now? I'm guessing they cancel the primary when they realize that Prickly City is...well, a city, and cities don't hold primaries. If Stantis was daring he'd actually carry through the storyline, maybe having the election too close to call and spending weeks on the recount. Or have Obama and Clinton split the vote and somehow Winslow wins. But no - Stantis won't do that. It's been obvious for some time now that he's bored with the storyline and could care less. That's why he had Carmen join in - and do nothing other than set Winslow up for a few lame jokes like today's. And I guess it serves me right. I'm the one that's been pushing for a year that Stantis spend more time on longer storylines, and Stantis did it - and botched it even worse than his one-offs about blond teenage girls in thongs. Way to go Stantis: you set the bar low, and accomplished your lowly objectives. Next up - a third character? It'll give Stantis another name to forget.
