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August 24, 2007
Today's strip? Not so bad in a should-be-a-single-panel-political-cartoon sort of way. Stantis can do the political cartoon thing. One panel concepts are right in his wheelhouse. Softball-lobbed, eephus-like, right over the heart of the plate. It's the only pitch he can hit for power, what with his fists full of ham and his bat a cudgel.
I thought I'd remind us all of some famous Stantis political one-panels for lack of anything else to say.
As you might expect, he recently hacked away at one of his favorite targets: steroids and Bonds.
Boy, those steroids sure did make Bonds big, didn't they. But his head is so tiny! What about the HGH, Stantis??
This all calls to mind one of his first hacks at steroids, the old syringes-as-asterisk piece from 2005...
I'd have to say my favorite one-panel Stantis strip was from back in the Terri Schiavo days. Let me set the scene...
Schiavo's hospital room. Schiavo, unplugged, her face in a ghoulish mask of death. A shadow in the shape of a crucifix drapes over her lifeless corpse. The shadow, it turns out, is cast from Jesus himself, who has appeared in the hospital (still dying on the cross, no less!), who asks his father (God!) to forgive them/us/heathens/Democrats...
As the thieves and scoundrels (and Nazis) said upon opening the Ark of the Covenant before their faces twisted and melted under hellfire's heat, it's beeeeeeeeeeeeauuuuuuuuuuuuuuutiful...
Here's another chestnut, which depicts John Kerry trying to run away from the state he represents:
Gee, think Stantis will re-do this strip but instead feature Mitt Romney, who was the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when same sex marriage was legalized? Yeah, me neither.
And last but not least, the John Kerry Flipflop Strip. Short, sharp, simple-mindedly literal, and shitty.
Gee, think Stantis will re-do this strip but instead feature Mitt Romney, who seems to flip and flop and blow with whichever way the prevailing political winds are blowing? Yeah, me neither.
Comments
Only Stantis could completely botch the Barry Bonds gag. The whole point is that his head has grown several hat sizes, which is the one part of your body you can't make bigger by working out. What a doofus.
Posted by: The Furnace at August 24, 2007 12:12 PM
