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August 11, 2007
Because Actually Sending Winslow To Iowa Would Make Sense AND Be (Potentially) Funny
Sometimes you just have to sit back and marvel at how terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Scott Stantis is as a comic strip writer. He redefines "awful" with each new strip.
Yesterday Winslow was hitching a ride with what we're supposed to know is a truck driver. We never actually SEE the driver, mind you, because that would be too much work for Stantis. Maybe he missed the "how to draw a semi truck" class when he dropped out of college.
Apparently it was a short ride, since Winslow is still in Prickly City - which is only four blocks long.
Winslow is so impossibly stupid that he thinks he's in Iowa. It's sort of like those sci fi stories where the guy thinks he's landed on a strange alien planet, when really he just crash landed back on earth. What might have been funny: Winslow ships himself to Iowa in a crate, can't see where he's going, and he accidentally falls off the back of the delivery truck and ends up on the edge of Prickly City. See, was that so hard Stantis? In two seconds I came up with a storyline that would have made sense instead of the crap you've thrown at us all week.
Anywho, Winslow is a complete moron now. He thinks people in Iowa speak "Iowanian." Ha ha ha - get it? No, because that's not funny. And amazingly enough, Winslow thinks that Iowa somehow looks different from Prickly City. I mean come on - he's that stupid? It's as if Stantis actually has Winslow in Iowa, looking at the cornfields and the tractors passing by, while Carmen is still in the desert. But nope - they're standing in the same place.
Oh and to top things off Carmen calls Winslow "dingo-breath." Wow. That's about as unfunny as you can get.
I'm begging somebody - anybody - Pellucid - please explain to me why this is supposed to be funny. Why any of it makes any modicum of sense. How can one man take something with so much potential - Winsow running for President - and turn it into a heaping, steaming pile of crap? Seriously, it's as if he's trying to suck more than anybody on the comic pages. He's like the Bill Kristol of the funnies - wrong about everything, yet somehow he's still got a job. At least when Stantis is wrong, people don't die. They just don't laugh.
Comments
Here's my prediction: Winslow misses the Iowa straw poll (I guess he's a Republican?), so he is forced to drop out.
Next week's strips will return to the theme of Nancy Pelosi's appearance.
Posted by: Annie at August 11, 2007 02:14 PM
