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August 16, 2007
All Over But the Shouting, Just a Waste of Time
I don't want to turn this into a rant about how when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. (I mean, what are we to believe, that it was some sort of a magic xylophone or something?). I know this is only a comic strip (and a horrible one at that), and, as such, we should be able to suspend disbelief every now and then. We should allow the strip's creator some leeway in his story development and some wiggle room in his characters. But this last week or so has been so tremendously off-the-charts-ishly suckfuckingly stoopid that it's painful and embarrassing to witness.
Let's trace the Iowa thread through to today...
8/2/07: Winslow wins the PC Primary, so it's off to Iowa
8/3/07: 2 Votes/Woodrow Wilson diversion
8/4/07: 2 Votes diversion contiunation
8/5/07: Sunday Funday
8/6/07: It's off to Iowa to hire a staff but we're broke
8/7/07: We're broke because we spent $64.0 million on Randy the dancing llama of the apocalypse
8/8/07: Wandering Jesus-like through desert with globe looking for Iowa
8/9/07: More globetrotting looking for Iowa
8/10/07: Hitchhiking Across America to Iowa
8/11/07: Winslow arrives it Iowa only to learn it's still Prickly City
8/12/07: Sunday Funday
8/13/07: Winslow arrives in Iowa only to learn it's still Prickly City
8/14/07: Winslow's Iowa campaign staff which he can't afford thinks Winslow is in Iowa when Winslow is still in Prickly City
8/15/07: Er...Um...Winslow's campaign staff which he can't afford doesn't want him in Iowa so they are paying Carmen -- his campaign manager -- to keep him in Prickly City
8/16/07: Er...Um...Winslow is in Iowa and insults Corn
Now matter how you slice this thing, it's rotten.
So if I may add some "constructive" to my "criticisms" and offer this foolproof way for Scott Stantis to escape the hole he's dug...to chop down the weeds he's so far in that he can't see where he is...to guide him to safety on his journey up shit creek without a paddle...
QUIT, you stupid dumbshit!
Comments
"Corn is dumb?" That's the line? Why not "Eww, no, I hate corn" or "Blech?" God this strip sucks.
Posted by: The Furnace at August 16, 2007 12:17 PM
Corn is dumb if you love Texas oil men the way that Stantis seems to. I'd think the better joke would be about pigs. Aren't there more pigs in Iowa than people? And wouldn't a coyote like to go after pigs?
Okay, I'm ready to be a cartoonist now.
Posted by: Annie at August 16, 2007 04:29 PM
