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February 24, 2008
Stantis Probably Wrote It On MLK's Birthday
Holy crap on a cracker - is today's Prickly City awful.
Where to start? At first I didn't even know how to read this strip and had to skip to the end to figure out what Stantis was trying to do. Starting off with Winslow trying to fly - that's typical for Sundays. But he's actually flying? Then Britney's head pops up? Your eyes are then drawn down to read the caption about how celebrities should be on money - so at first I had no idea what Winslow was doing in the upper right hand corner and why Winslow was ordering people to eat dessert first.
It gets worse from there. A disco joke? Winslow, a coyote who looks like a cat half the time, saying that cats should be in Gitmo? Man, Stantis hit rock bottom and kept digging. This is just horrible on so many levels it's hard to imagine anyone allowing this to be printed in its current form. Yet here it is, wasting space on the comics page.
My mind is a jumble right now. I honestly have no idea how to respond to any of this. Why would a coyote care about cats? His hatred of cats has NEVER been established as far as I know. Is it because he's a coyote, which is part of the canine family? Then why not use that "joke" before? And seriously, is Stantis going to have Liberal Winslow make jokes about Gitmo? Oh no - he's not going to close it down, instead he's going to use it to jail his enemies? What?
On top of that we're supposed to believe that a guy who hasn't gotten a single vote this year and is now an independent is going to have a gaggle of reporters hanging on his every word?
Again I ask: is there one editor out there who can justify why this is still carried in newspapers? Please, I'm begging somebody - anybody - tell me why Scott Stantis should be paid for this. Explain to me why someone who thinks that disco and Britney jokes are still "hip" has a job. For the love of god, someone tell me how a guy who can't even draw a believable cat makes a living doing this!!!
Comments
Some have said that Garfield is a rude little boy in a cat suit, so maybe Winslow is a short middle-aged man in a coyote suit, trying to be hip and coyote-esque? That'd explain the repugnance of him wearing a thong, as well as the dated pop culture references and random cat-hating.
I think the papers hold onto Stantis along with well-done liberal strips like Candorville to be "fair and balanced", but sometimes this is even worse than Mallard Fillmore.
Posted by: Antenora at February 24, 2008 02:39 PM
Here's another great question: why no new podcast for 220 DAYS!?!?!
220.
There are cowards, and there are big-mouth
cowards...then there are Southern boys who write nonsensical comic strips and don't get back on the mike!
Seriously, is that enough time to have a baby?
sheesh.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 25, 2008 02:22 AM
oh, that was by Jeff, BTW.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 25, 2008 02:22 AM
Hmmm. I know an Arizona resident whose cat was eaten by a coyote. I'd think Winslow would want more cats around for snacks.
Posted by: Annie at February 25, 2008 06:19 AM
