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July 22, 2007
WINSTON For President
Forget about today's Prickly City. It's actually not terrible, and is a nice surprise on Throwaway Sunday (which continues to reflect the current storyline, which must be just to piss off Pellucid). No, the real excitement is in the podcast, which Jeff kindly pointed out is back in the comments from yesterday's post. What makes it exciting?
Scott Stantis refers to Winslow the Coyote as WINSTON.
That's right - the guy can't even remember the name of his own character. One of only TWO in his whole freakin' strip. Congrats, Stantis - you just proved my point that we here at Shrubville spend more time on PC than you do. At least we remember their names.
The lamest part is easily Stantis's response to Jeff's letter, where they swear they lost the "second" page of his email. If you'll read the email below, and if you know anything about technology, there's no freakin' way it was a two page email that could be conveniently cut when the topic gets too critical for Stantis to handle. Then Stantis lies about Sheehan, saying she's going after Pelosi because she's too conservative (it's because Pelosi won't go after Bush and get us out of Iraq, as promised) and then basically calls her a media pig and "fair game." Way to avoid the difficult part of Jeff's email, Stantis. I'm sure it's much easier to go after the mom of a dead soldier than actually respond to someone with a legitimate criticism of your strip.
I had forgotten how painful the podcasts really are. Talk about trying too hard. However, it did make me look forward to my new "Winston for President" bumper sticker. I'd suggest a new slogan for Stantis though: "Winston '08 - Hopefully YOU'LL Remember His Name."
