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August 04, 2007
Flashback Goggles: Primary Edition
How many people write and draw Prickly City? I'm starting to wonder if there's a committee of high school interns that slap it together, and then Scott Stantis acts as if he's the "mastermind" behind the whole thing. How else to explain the inconsistencies in the characters, the storyline, and the drawing from day to day? Let's take a look back at this past week, shall we?
SUNDAY: Winslow takes a leak with his mic on before he speaks before hundreds of Prickly City residents, all anxious to listen to their homeboy candidate for the Democratic presidential nominee.
MONDAY: Winslow claims to have been out campaigning by shaking hands with factory workers, but all of the factories have been sent overseas thanks to the Republicans (I figured out that last part myself).
TUESDAY: Election day. Single panel of the campaign headquarters building.
WEDNESDAY: The day after. Single panel of Winslow saying he won.
THURSDAY: Winslow is such an idiot he doesn't realize that even though he won in Prickly City, this now means he has to go on to Iowa and the rest of the states for their primaries and caucuses. Luckily he's got Carmen around to tell him these things since he's such a moron.
FRIDAY: We find out that despite the hundreds that turned out for the campaign rally, only two people voted for Winslow. Oh and Carmen - who is running his campaign - wasn't one of them. We don't learn who Carmen DID vote for if it's a partyline primary and she voted on the Republican side. Oops, guess Stantis forgot that the Republicans and the Democrats tend to, you know, hold their primaries on the same freakin' day. How bad must the Republicans feel that nobody voted for them?
TODAY: Winslow now magically understands the entire primary process and exclaims that he's the front runner.
For the life of me I can't figure out what Stantis is doing anymore. Is he commenting that not enough people participate in the election process? Or that the Democrats have such a weak field of candidates that only Winslow voted for himself along with some old man somehow stumbled into the voting booth? And does he realize that he just slapped the faces of all of the Republican candidates by showing that even though Winslow is such a doofus he could only get two votes, it's two more than Romney, Giuliani, McCain, and all the rest COMBINED?
Then I remember that Stantis had a city holding a presidential primary and realize that he doesn't know what he's doing.
This is bad. I mean REALLY bad. We've knocked Stantis around in the past for his non-sensical storylines, but usually they'd be done with after a few days and he'd go back to obsessing over how evil technology is and how much he hates blond celebrities while talking about them constantly. Now he's spending day after day on something where he's completely clueless, simply making it up as he goes along without a care in the world whether or not it makes any logical sense or if it's even funny (and I doubt he cares at all about that second thing).
And don't get me started on today's drawing. My lord, is it atrocious. Carmen literally has a bald spot on the front of her head in the second panel. The rest of it looks like a first draft, where Stantis was so busy he just traced over some old drawings and forgot to go back and finish the job. Or maybe it was those interns I theorize are really writing and drawing the strip at this point.
I realize there are times when I'm supposed to just sit back and say "it's just a comic strip, don't look into it too much." But with Prickly City I can't help myself. Did any other Democrats campaign in Prickly City? Did any Republicans? Why did good little neo-con Carmen not vote? Was it because of her age? If that's the case, why did a coyote pup get to vote? Heck, why is he even allowed to run? I know, I know - I'm trying to be realistic and I shouldn't since it's a stupid comic. But is there another comic out there that allegedly offers political commentary but leaves you scratching your head instead of laughing?
I never thought I'd be saying this, but can Stantis hold a recount and discover someone else won so we can put a bullet in the head of this stupid storyline? Please?
