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October 13, 2007
Study Schmudy
These are strange times in Prickly City. On Tuesday, Stantis (well, at least we all think it's still Stantis) bitched about a study that said conservatives and liberals think differently. The next day was something about Facebook (which really made me doubt that Stantis was writing it), and then the past two days were devoted to the birthday of some guy in a band (which confirmed it really is Stantis, since he blatantly ripped off his own strip from exactly one year ago).
And what's today's strip about? Stantis bitching about the study that says conservatives and liberals think differently.
What makes it even more bizarre is that he acts as if this is the first time he's brought it up in the strip. Personally I thought that Tuesday's strip was plenty on the subject - nope, not for Stantis. He's got more crappy jokes to tell about it!
To further confirm that Stantis is still the hacker in chief, the writing today is pretty lame. Carmen says the study is dumb, Winston says it's smart, and then unprovoked Winslow screams that Carmen is the dumb one. This could have easily been taken care of if Carmen had been the second one to speak in panel two - Winslow says "sounds pretty smart to me," Carmen says, "I think it's dumb," then in the third panel Winslow gets upset and screams, "Well I think YOU'RE dumb." There - simple and easy to fix. Instead, Winslow comes off like a jack ass for screaming at poor wittle Carmen for having her own opinions. Next he'll be yelling at her for thinking that the Jews need to be perfected.
And don't even get me started on how out of character it is for Winslow to be the one screaming. Did Stantis even read that study?
I'm not sure what to make of Prickly City anymore. Is Stantis slowly handing over the reins to someone else? Or is he trying to get fired? Either one would be fine by me - unless they're all going to be like today's waste of space.
