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August 29, 2007
The Tugger Becomes the Funnee
After a couple of years of fits and starts and bitching and moaning, it finally appears that Prickly City is "hot" "live" or "real-time." How else to explain the commentary on the alleged exploits of Rep. Craig Larry (name changed to protect his identity). After all, while Iowa has the "Field of Dreams" site, Idaho is known for its "Field of Creams" site. If you tug it, they will come. Scotty, working blue. Bravo. Author. Encore.
Comments
Clearly this is all supposed to be a metaphor for the Iraq War, but it's so bad it's not even funny.
What's interesting for me is how Stantis is mocking Carmen and not Winslow for the first time ever...unusual, especially since I always thought Carmen=Stantis in the strip. So Stantis is making fun of his own viewpoints (in his own, lazy, cut'n'paste way).
I think that the desert hamsters war series worked better than this rope-tugging series.
Posted by: Snowman at August 29, 2007 11:35 AM
Please, no more masturbation jokes. We already drove Charles Brubaker away with debased jokes causing juvenile titters. Or, keep 'em coming. I can't decide.
Posted by: FredN. at August 29, 2007 12:11 PM
So do you think Stantis traced the panels today or just used the copy machine?
Posted by: The Furnace at August 29, 2007 01:31 PM
It looks too uniform to have been hand-traced(Winslow doesn't even appear to open his mouth or point to things like he did yesterday), so I assume Stantis overcame his technophobia enough to find a copier, or even try using an image-editing program and those mysterious Ctrl key commands.
Posted by: Antenora at August 29, 2007 05:55 PM
Definitely the copy machine; the drawing is the same in every single panel today.
Posted by: Chris at August 29, 2007 09:15 PM
He has used the same picture of Carmen in 12 consecutive panels. Winslow has varied only slighty.
He is one step away from using clip-art like in "Get Your War On", except Prickly City is about a million times less funny.
Posted by: John at August 29, 2007 10:47 PM
