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January 05, 2008
He Skimped On The Corn Suit? How?
I'm not usually one for resolutions every new year, but I really should make one not to talk anymore about how poorly Stantis has been drawing Prickly City as of late. It would save me a lot of time and typing. So from this day forward (until I give up on it, like most people do with silly resolutions), I vow to write less about how terrible Stantis is as an artist.
But first, let's point out how exceptionally crappy things look today:
- In the first panel, why is Winslow's body shaped like a giant yellow marshmallow? In the second panel he's a bean, then the third the more traditional pear with a nubbin for a tail. Consistency, thy name isn't Stantis.
- Carmen looks completely different in panel one compared to panel two, but we never see her face so it's not really her expression that's changed. Stantis has just drawn her in one sloppy way, then changed it up to a different, sloppier way. Also, her arms are officially the same size as her legs now.
- Along those lines, her part goes from four inches across to two. Either way, still looks hideous.
- Do we have any idea how many fingers characters in Prickly City are supposed to have? Because Stantis tends to just draw a few squiggly lines and hopes people think they're fingers.
- Stantis can't even keep a clipboard, which is a brown square with a yellow half circle on top, the same between two panels. They're called "straight lines," Stantis. Borrow a ruler sometime.
- I kinda like the third panel, mainly because it keeps us from having to see Stantis attempt that little something called "detail."
- Without the "whack whack whack," I thought Carmen was breathing into a paper bag like she was having a panic attack. Mainly because Stantis decided he didn't need to draw that little half circle that let's us know it's the same clipboard from the first two panels.
- Why is Winslow's head so narrow in that last panel? It's like he's been squished.
Today's strip could have been a really good opportunity for Stantis to poke fun at himself. When Carmen asks Winslow what lessons he's learned, he should have said, "Well, I guess I should have spent as much time campaigning in Iowa that I did for that Prickly City primary that nobody remembers instead of just the past few days. Oh, and the corn suit was insulting to the people I was trying to get to vote for me." Yeah, I know - not funny. But it's what Stantis did, and it would have been nice for him to admit that he dropped the ball big time with the Winslow campaign. It's as if he got so bored with the process because he did it last summer that he didn't think there was anymore funny to squeeze out of the process - which gave us the stupid corn suit. And now we're expected to read him throughout the rest of the primary season? He might as well just ignore it until the conventions, since he obviously shot his load last summer.
And why oh why is Winslow depressed? He should be like every other candidate not named Biden or Dodd who's still in the running. Even though the media told us that this was the Most Important Election Evah for weeks, we now know it doesn't mean anything since New Hampshire is a few days away - and THAT'S the Most Important Election Evah (until Super Tuesday, or as that one moron on MSNBC says, "Tsunami Tuesday").
It's too bad Winslow doesn't have the media on his side, like St. John McCain. I could have sworn he came in fourth place - behind Tired Fred Thompson - but to hear them gush it was a four way tie for first place and McCain was the real winner of the night. Then again Winslow is a Democrat, so much like Hillary ("it's the end of an era," Howard Fineman told me) and Edwards (he's dead in the water, dontcha know - cuz he came in SECOND) his campaign is done, finished, through, over. Unless he's Obama, and if he gets the nomination it might lead to race riots (at least that's what the leading Republican bloggers are saying). What I found interesting was that while Obama gave an awesome victory speech (he's not my candidate, but even I admit it was great), the media decided they didn't really want to show it the following day. Huckabee with Chuck Norris? Saw plenty of that. Romney saying that the people didn't want to change who's in the White House (???), but who's in Washington in general? That got some play (but sadly outside of Keith Olbermann nobody commented on how it sounds as though Willard "Mitt" Romney is finally embracing the policies of George W. Bush - and admitting it). But Obama kicking all kinds of ass with that speech? No time for that - Britney's in the hospital!!!
With that in mind, Winslow's punchline today really does suck. He should have stuck with reality and said what everybody else is saying: "Oh Iowa doesn't matter - New Hampshire is where I REALLY have to win if I want to be president! Now get me a suit made out of granite! And the number for Karl Rove! I heard Obama has not one but two black babies..."
Comments
Results of the Wyoming Republican primary which was held today:
The people of the Equality State voted overwhelmingly for Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts; he received 66.7% of the delegates to their convention. In second place with 25% was Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee and in third place with 8.3% was Rep. Duncan Hunter of California. The other candidates did not make significant showings in this primary. It should be noted that the three candidates who earned delegates to the convention all visited Wyoming at least once in the last year; our least populous state was not visited at all by Huckabee, McCain, Giuliani, and Paul. Also, Gov. Romney has a son who owns a ranch in Wyoming; he was actively campaigning for his father in the state during the leadup to the primary.
Overall, Republicans largely ignored Wyoming in favor of other early races such as Iowa and New Hampshire, whose primary is on Tuesday. The media largely ignored today's primary as well.
Posted by: Chris at January 5, 2008 08:58 PM
