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July 21, 2007
WTF? Part 467
Reading today's Prickly City, do you get the sense that there's a whole lot going on in Stantis's mind when he dreams up these storylines but he just doesn't take the time to actually draw them? For example, it seems as though Stantis has it in his head that poor Winslow is so distraught and broken down after smashing his iPhone that he's laying around the house in his underwear, unable to function. But his good friend Carmen comes to his rescue, lifting him up and sending him back out into the real world full of confidence once again. What she doesn't expect though is that Winslow has been lolligagging around the house in a thong! Ewww! Ha ha! Now his little butt cheeks are flapping in the breeze as he bounces down the street, full of life and vigor again now that she's convinced him he's no longer a victim of technology. But maybe in that thong he IS a bit of a fashion victim! ;-)
Problem. NONE OF THAT APPEARS IN THE STRIP. The only things we get are 1) Carmen lifting Winslow up 2) Winslow running off 3) Carmen telling us that Winslow is prancing around in a thong.
Is it laziness? An inability to communicate what he's thinking? A combination of the two? Probably that last option, since Stantis seems to have a whole lot going on in that neo-con brain of his, but half the time he doesn't make any sense and the other half he can't be bothered to actually explain what he means (like today).
It's just a shame that some people will think today's strip is funny simply because Carmen says the word "thong." Maybe tomorrow's punchline will just be Winslow standing there saying "booger." High brow humor at its finest. The only difference is that Winslow actually has a nose, whereas the rest of the time he never wears clothes so the idea of him in a thong isn't exactly sensical to begin with. But whatever. Grampa Stantis still hates technology and still isn't funny, so I guess in some ways all is still right with the world.
Until Cheney takes over as President while Bush gets a probe shoved up his rectum later this afternoon.
Comments
big deal number one: new podcast!
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number two: Stantis read the letter I wrote him a month ago.
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number three (and a BIG surprise): He cut out the tough part. Read the letter in its entirety below; they cut it after the 43rd word. What's interesting is that Stantis responded by saying that Cindy Sheehan was a public figure and therefore an apt target for public ridicule. THAT WASN'T THE ISSUE- THE ISSUE WAS THAT CINDY HAS TWICE THE GUTS STANTIS DOES.
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Big Deal Number 4: STANTIS 'CUT AND RAN' from the rest of my letter...it'd be ironic, it might even be funny, if it weren't so stupid.
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Mr. Stantis:
You referred to Cindy as cutting and running. You mock a woman's loss of her son. You attack her for trying to get an explanation of what the war is about, why her son died- what was the goal of this military effort? The Bush Administration keeps offering new answers: stopping the efforts of those who attacked us on 9/11 (proven false), a search for WMDs (which has been forgotten), bringing freedom to a dictatorship (has not worked out so well).
To have that yellow thing respond with "so mean"...do you think that defuses the stab at a good woman? (I know the yellow thing's name, don't worry. Mentioning its name would be like saying you write a comic strip; there's an adjective there that's not pulling its weight)
Cindy Sheehan tried to change the world for the better. You sit and write a strip that is 98 out of a 100 instances NOT funny and does nothing to advance the debate between our political positions. YOU think the death of a woman's son is fodder for comedy.
If I offered you a thousand dollars (in a check or as a donation to a charity), would you be willing to sit down with me on the phone, take out ten recent strips and explain how they are EITHER FUNNY or TRUE? Could you?
why no podcast for two months?
once again, hope your dad is doing well.
Posted by: Jeff at July 22, 2007 06:25 AM
big deal number one: new podcast!
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number two: Stantis read the letter I wrote him a month ago.
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number three (and a BIG surprise): He cut out the tough part. Read the letter in its entirety below; they cut it after the 43rd word. What's interesting is that Stantis responded by saying that Cindy Sheehan was a public figure and therefore an apt target for public ridicule. THAT WASN'T THE ISSUE- THE ISSUE WAS THAT CINDY HAS TWICE THE GUTS STANTIS DOES.
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Big Deal Number 4: STANTIS 'CUT AND RAN' from the rest of my letter...it'd be ironic, it might even be funny, if it weren't so stupid.
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Mr. Stantis:
You referred to Cindy as cutting and running. You mock a woman's loss of her son. You attack her for trying to get an explanation of what the war is about, why her son died- what was the goal of this military effort? The Bush Administration keeps offering new answers: stopping the efforts of those who attacked us on 9/11 (proven false), a search for WMDs (which has been forgotten), bringing freedom to a dictatorship (has not worked out so well).
To have that yellow thing respond with "so mean"...do you think that defuses the stab at a good woman? (I know the yellow thing's name, don't worry. Mentioning its name would be like saying you write a comic strip; there's an adjective there that's not pulling its weight)
Cindy Sheehan tried to change the world for the better. You sit and write a strip that is 98 out of a 100 instances NOT funny and does nothing to advance the debate between our political positions. YOU think the death of a woman's son is fodder for comedy.
If I offered you a thousand dollars (in a check or as a donation to a charity), would you be willing to sit down with me on the phone, take out ten recent strips and explain how they are EITHER FUNNY or TRUE? Could you?
why no podcast for two months?
once again, hope your dad is doing well.
Posted by: Jeff at July 22, 2007 06:25 AM
