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August 25, 2007
Why Can't Prickly City Be Made In China Too?
Ugh. Anybody got a bucket?
We're back to semi-repeats again after that bizarre detour into Winslow bonds. Carmen and Winslow each scream "you're wrong," but then say they're still friends, then get busy screaming "you're right!" All together now....awwww.
As in awwww...this sucks.
It really sucks because Carmen and Winslow haven't been arguing at all lately. Was this a strip Stantis wrote a year ago and found buried at the bottom of his sock drawer, like the ones he ran a week ago? It seems familiar - maybe CJo can help us remember a strip similar to this with the whole "you're wrong - but we're still friends so let's keep agreeing to disagree" sappiness that originally appeared back when these two were fighting constantly.
And that's one of the problems with this strip. Since Stantis can never be wrong, he's had to morph both Winslow and Carmen into mini versions of himself. So they don't so much as argue as just stand on different sides of various issues, making comments and "jokes" while we're all left scratching our heads wondering why the heck if they're supposed to be a liberal or conservative they've suddenly shifted positions for a week.
What makes it even worse is that Stantis spent over a month on Winslow's campaign, and he and Carmen never once argued about the issues. I remember Carmen saying that she saw it as an opportunity to use Winslow to get her views out there, but it never happened. Instead we got weeks and weeks of seeing how stupid Winslow is. Now this week we get a bunch of retreads and then a few days of this stupid bond crap that Stantis never set up and had zero humor involved (where was the character from China that was supposed to come and collect on the value of Winslow's bonds? Isn't that the logical next step in all of that?). And now we're back to these two arguing - kind of hard for us to really buy Carmen and Winslow screaming at each other when they haven't had a disagreement in months.
I wonder where Stantis is going to go from here. I think the Winslow bond thing is dead. I don't see him sending Winslow back on the campaign trail, unless he wants to spend some time on that Iowa straw poll from a few weeks ago. He's not going to talk about the bridge collapse or the mine tragedy. Definitely no commenting on FISA or Gonzo or the war in Iraq. So what's left? Any idea what Stantis is going to spend next week wasting our time with?
(Oh and as a side note, I love from yesterday's strip how Stantis's wording is so terrible he once again botches a punchline because he doesn't know how to use the space in a panel. I love how "nuts" is so far to the left it's hard to see that it actually is the second half of the word doughnuts. Geez Stantis sucks.)
Comments
Yeah, but what the hell were they supposed to be arguing about? Couldn't Stantis think of anything? I guess not, because today's strip has about as much substance and genuine commentary as a chunk of dumb corn stuck in Winston's teeth.
Posted by: Chris at August 25, 2007 03:18 PM
I guess he probably hammered out a strip during Nicole Richie's 80 minutes in jail. Winslow should be adding "free Nicole" to his platform in about a week or so.
Maybe Winslow will get a job at Bad Newz Kennels.
Posted by: John at August 25, 2007 03:19 PM
