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December 30, 2007
"Winslow, Can You Believe You're A Coyote And The Sky Is Blue?" "?"
Today's Prickly City would probably be a decent comic strip - if it were any other strip. But since one of the characters has been running for president for more than half the year, and the other one has been his campaign manager, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Not only that, the way Stantis draws it only confuses the issue. Carmen has a goofy smile on her face, as if she's looking forward to the mud slinging. This after saying that all she wanted was for people to get along (then spent a week arguing with Winslow, then spent Christmas telling everyone who disagrees with her to kiss her ass). Then there's Winslow. Poor, stupid, clueless Winslow. For some odd reason, Stantis has a question mark hanging over the coyote's head and a look of confusion (or is it consternation?) on his face. No Carmen, apparently Winslow CAN'T believe the election is around the corner. He's that stupid.
But it is nice to see that all those years Stantis spent in junior high drawing big trucks in the corners of his algebra notebook finally paid off.
Something else I found peculiar: the businesses in Prickly City feel it necessary to have security bars on their windows? Is the city that dangerous? Then again they do have a Burger King with those terrorist-busting security cameras.
I get the sense that Stantis is missing certain parts of his brain, like they didn't fully develop when he was a child. He's all about coming up with what he thinks are cute ideas - "there's a lot of mud slinging in politics - what if Carmen and Winslow get mud dumped on them!" - but he's missing that part of the frontal lobe that reasons out why that kind of thing doesn't work for his strip. It's like his inability to understand that it's dumb to have Carmen asking for unity one day and then arguing with Winslow the next - and calling Winslow stupid for saying basically the same thing she said only days earlier. Not only can't he keep his characters and their personalities straight, he can't do it with his storylines either. It's a real problem, but it feels like the newspaper editors are too afraid to call him on it or he'll send his lawyers - or worse yet, Karl Rove - after them.
Now the big question: how does Stantis end 2007? Does he start a new storyline about the Iowa caucuses and ignore the New Year, or does he give a lame send-off to one of the worst years in Prickly City history? It's a tough call - usually I'd say that Stantis is all about throwing up an easy strip so he doesn't have to work on a full week's worth of storyline, but it's a holiday and we all know how he doesn't own a calendar. At least we can all agree that it's probably going to suck. Just like everything else in Prickly City this year. And next.
Comments
Good catch with the barred windows...who knew that Prickly City was so crime-ridden? Then again, considering it has no police force that we know of, this isn't totally surprising. Of course, the city is only four blocks long, so you'd think that people would realize what was going on if a crime of some kind happened.
Posted by: Chris at December 30, 2007 11:36 AM
"Carmen has a goofy smile on her face, as if she's looking forward to the mud slinging. This after saying that all she wanted was for people to get along (then spent a week arguing with Winslow, then spent Christmas telling everyone who disagrees with her to kiss her ass). Then there's Winslow. Poor, stupid, clueless Winslow. For some odd reason, Stantis has a question mark hanging over the coyote's head and a look of confusion (or is it consternation?) on his face. No Carmen, apparently Winslow CAN'T believe the election is around the corner. He's that stupid."
Yeah, I took one look at that smile and thought WTF. And Winslow must be EVEN MORE idiotic than we previously thought.
Posted by: Snowman at December 30, 2007 01:39 PM
