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November 13, 2007
Tackling The Real Issues Of The Day
Wow - can you believe how politically charged today's Prickly City is? In one single strip, Stantis tackled such current and pressing issues as the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the new attorney general, the issue of waterboarding, and the attempts at starting a war with Iran all in one amazingly hysterical yet insightful strip. This is what political commentary on the funny pages is all about.
Oh, wait - seems as though there was some obscure story in some science journal about flesh eating bacteria the last week of October. That's much more inspiring to Stantis than actually commenting on politics, which is what I thought this strip was supposed to be about. My bad.
Leaving aside the stupidity and attempts at easy jokes in what's apparently going to be a week-long exercise in lameness (oh gee, ANOTHER Winslow-in-a-thong joke), I'd like to take a moment to point out once again how horrible Stantis' artwork is. Did he outsource that last panel? Because that sure doesn't look like Carmen OR Winslow. Also gotta love how Winston's arms are super long one minute then short the next. And what's up with Carmen's eyebrows in that first panel?
Sure, some people will give today's strip a pass because there's a joke about how gay and French Winston is because he wears speedos. Hardy har har. But honestly, I'm getting a little tired of not getting a chance to criticize Stantis and his pro-Bush politics. There isn't much fun to be had in ripping on Stantis for his bad habit of plucking obscure stories and polls and studies out of the news and acting as if they're fertile ground for "comedy." Get back to the politics, so we can get back to caring enough to criticize the strip.
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Make sure to check out the new site from regular commenter Chris, Tumbleweedtown. Another heaping helping of Prickly City criticism, and probably less softcore porn than I'm accusing of putting up on this site (come on, it was a picture of Kristen Bell in her underwear. It's not like she was naked).
Comments
Future goggles:
She's taking him to the E.R. Could this be some overly long setup to Stantis making a statement about healthcare? He will probably make some vague reference to healthcare without actually saying anything.
Posted by: John at November 13, 2007 09:58 AM
Maybe Winslow will be deprived of his healthcare by the ev0l Hillary Clinton, who has diverted the funds to children who were deprived by last month's SCHIP veto or something.
Posted by: Antenora at November 13, 2007 10:29 AM
...Or maybe Stantis will begin to take a stand on healthcare only to start making thong jokes again.
Posted by: Chris at November 13, 2007 02:50 PM
As for my blog, I can't make any promises but I will try to keep it pretty clean. Of course, today I talked about Winslow's s*xual orientation, thongs, and STDs, so even if it isn't R-rated yet, it's definitely entering PG-13 territory.
Posted by: Chris at November 13, 2007 02:52 PM
The next step is to add Tumbleweedtown to the Wiki page on P.C.
Posted by: FredN. at November 13, 2007 04:34 PM
FredN.,
Perhaps that is the next logical step, but something tells me I'll need to have more than three posts in order to have enough cred to stay on the page. We'd be dealing with Pellucid again, remember, and he tried to keep Shrubville off even after 2 years of writing about PC.
But I bet a lot of the hits that Shrubville gets come from the Wiki page. I know that's how I found it about a year ago.
Chris
Posted by: Chris at November 13, 2007 07:56 PM
Oh, how could we have missed this? Shouldn't we want to pay euro prices right now? Aren't Europeans coming here in droves these days to spend their euros?
Posted by: Annie at November 14, 2007 10:12 AM
