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March 31, 2008

TODAY'S STRIP

Yes, this should be good. Scott Stantis and the Komicz Kidz are going to take us on a guided tour of the Constitution.

The world waits with bated breath.


Posted by CJo at 04:58 PM | Comments (2)

March 30, 2008

Margaret Wants Her Schtick Back

TODAY'S SLOP

Hello, Stantis.

It's me...your reader.

You're so unfunny.

It makes me feel...sad.

(pause for some unknown reason)

You're a dick.

Posted by The Furnace at 11:47 AM | Comments (0)

March 29, 2008

Goodbye, Tucker - And Good Riddance

TODAY'S LOVE LETTER

So let me get this straight: Scott Stantis just spent a week telling us that Winslow spent thousands of dollars to have sex with Geraldine Ferraro. Is that about right?

While I appreciate Stantis trying to combine two of the bigger political stories of the month - Ferraro's racist comments and Spitzer's hot hooker - it was done in such a ham-fisted, unfunny way that it negates any points he might have scored for trying. Add in that he missed a perfect opportunity to slam McCain for being shameless for not resigning after the Keating Five scandal (thanks Annie), and it's clear that Stantis was in way over his head.

Today is a literal love letter to Tucker Carlson. MSNBC finally got around to canceling Tucker's low-rated talk show and Stantis/Carmen miss him something awful. Of course the day after it was announced Tucker was still all over MSNBC's regular newscasts - as an "expert" of all things - so I'm not sure what she's whining about.

My favorite part of today's strip: Carmen's suggestion that Tucker's show was "unfairly" canceled. Ha! Check out these ratings - Tucker has had the worst rated show on MSNBC for ages, usually taking in half of what Chris Matthews pulls and a third of Olbermann's numbers. To confirm that it really was because of the presence of that obnoxious punk, the show that replaced it starring David Gregory outperformed Tucker's old show by 35% its first week. I love it when Republicans like Stantis whine about things being "unfair." What's unfair is that Tucker Carlson stayed on the air months longer than he should have precisely because he's a conservative tool.

Which is the same reason why Prickly City is still on the comics page. Enjoy it while you can, Stantis - hopefully you'll be on the unemployment line standing next to Tucker soon.

Posted by The Furnace at 10:17 AM | Comments (1)

March 28, 2008

There Once Was a Man from Shutthefuckup

TODAY'S STRIP

There once was a man who lacked shame.
And whose character one could call lame.
But as you might insist,
He's not on Winslow's list.
Scott Stantis, in fact, is his name.

Posted by CJo at 03:28 PM | Comments (2)

March 27, 2008

Translated from English to Chinese to English In the Hope of Making More Sense

TODAY'S STRIP

Why your has here dragged me?

This is real. I am by a running mate outside mine ticket.

This so disparages...

I really was sorry if I have caused the pain to my campaign family.

If?!?!?

Any question?

Why do you boil?!

Other questions...

Posted by CJo at 02:58 PM | Comments (0)

March 26, 2008

Up Up and Away

TODAY'S STRIP

Disappointment comes in many forms. Today's special: dimensions. Sponsored by the letters HOLY FUCKING HELL NOT THIS TRITE SHIT AGAIN.

My disappointment comes in the 3-D variety, which is exponentially greater than Carmen's 2-D disappointment. Why couldn't it be an execution? Seriously, she could be in heaven right now with Terri Schiavo. They could play Boggle.

Actually, adding the pure torture that is wasting time on Prickly City might push it into the 4th dimension. And, loard willin', the First Law of the Fifth Dimension will be applied soon (scientifically, of course): A Change Is Gonna Come/People Got To Be Free.

Posted by Sacki at 07:20 AM | Comments (2)

March 25, 2008

McCheney

TODAY'S STRIP

After yesterday's painfully worded strip, Stantis hits us with the punchline: Winslow has been hanging out with Geraldine Ferraro!

Unfortunately that was two weeks ago, and since then everyone has stopped focusing on Ferraro's racist comments about Obama and are instead obsessed with Obama's pastor's comments. But it's okay by me that Stantis brings this up again - I don't think Ferraro and Clinton got nearly enough criticism for that whole deal. Then again who knows where Stantis is going with this - he might think Ferraro was right.

I don't really have much to say this morning. Instead, I'd suggest checking out this article pointing out how the media is in the bag for McCain. Doesn't have anything to do with Ferraro or ovaries, but it does make for a good reminder that the press wants to annoint St. McCain as the next president, and the general public is falling for it. Sorry, but if someone is willing to vote for McCain over Hillary or Obama, they're just asking for four more years of Bush/Cheney - and that's insane.

Posted by The Furnace at 10:18 AM | Comments (2)

March 24, 2008

Choose Your Own Adventure

TODAY'S STRIP

As Carmen reads through

A) Viewer Mail
B) Web Pages she has printed out
C) A loose-leaf newspaper
D) Winslow's personal correspondence
E) Campaign strategy notes

she uncovers something which causes her to walk all stiff-legged through the desert like:

A) Frankenstein
B) A goose-stepping Nazi
C) An old man in need of Flomax
D) A petulant child
E) A petulant goose-stepping Nazi Frankenstein in need of Flomax

She then upbraids Winslow for:

A) Dumping Carmen as his running mate
B) Engaging in sodomy with Joe Lieberman
C) Engaging in sodomy with Geraldine Ferraro
D) Ending a declarative sentence with a question mark
E) Continuing to exist

Posted by CJo at 07:38 AM | Comments (0)

March 23, 2008

Did You Know They've Got Satellites Just For Broadcasting Radio?? In My Day, We Only Had AM and We Were Happy To Have It!

TODAY'S STRIP

Old Man Stantis is bitchin' about technology again. See, TVs started out all small and hard to watch, then they got bigger, then they got HUGE, and now they're all tiny again!

Um, wait - no they're not.

Yeah, we have the option of watching TV on our phones and iPods - because we can carry them around in our pocket and hold them as close to our little eyes as we please, which wasn't an option when TVs first hit the scene.

But the most popular televisions out there now are still gigantic. The little problem with Stantis' attempt at "the evolution of TV" is that it didn't really happen like he says. If we want we can watch the biggest TV Best Buy has to offer, and we can watch the smallest screen I can get on my phone. And Stantis is complaining about this?

Oh, by the way, Happy Easter! Once again, Stantis fails to check the calendar on one of the most important days in the Christian world. Way to go, Old Man - you've still got it!


Posted by The Furnace at 10:34 AM | Comments (0)

March 22, 2008

Imperfecto

TODAY'S STRIP

Some things are better left unsaid. I didn't want to know why Winslow has been trying to fly all these years. I was fine with Stantis' lame stabs at humor surrounding the attempts.

It's the kind of lazy writing Stantis has perfected. After a week of Buckley-worship and then a sudden shift in gears to make a "joke" about Ralph Nader, Stantis needed something to fill in a Saturday and this is what he came up with.

Now he's screwed himself over. At some point Winslow should have been allowed to fly, if only for a little bit. THAT is when we should have learned his real motivation. But instead of trying to be creative and thinking this out into a full week's worth of strips, we have Carmen and Winslow standing in the desert talking.

Stantis has a comic strip where he can do anything his mind can imagine and his hands can draw (although admittedly his skills are pretty limited in both cases). Why does he insist on having the same two characters stand around in the same boring location every single freakin' day? Why not show us what Winslow would do if he could fly instead of telling us?

It might be the lazy Saturday before Easter Sunday, but every day is a lazy day for Scott Stantis.


Posted by The Furnace at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)

March 21, 2008

The Zenith

TODAY'S STRIP

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH. RATTLE RATTLE THUNDER CLATTER BOOM BOOM BOOM. THUD THUD THUD THUD SCRAPE DONK SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE.

That's the sound of the Prickly City machinery suddenly switching gears. You can just imagine Stantis sketching away on another 'my friends, my friends' strip when he saw the headline on Drudge appear: Nader To Announce Candidacy.

And boy does his sudden screeching shift pay off in laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs. This strip is funny in a Good Friday kind of way. You know the kind of humor, with the nails and the hammers and the blood and the pain, etc.

So laugh it up, you followers of the Great Whore Apostate Cult System of Roman Catholicism. Laugh it up.

McCain/Hagee/My Friends/My Friends '08!

Posted by CJo at 11:09 AM | Comments (0)

March 20, 2008

Friendly Fire

TODAY'S STRIP

John McCain, the questionable friend, has won 62.7% of the vote in the 40 primaries held this year.

According to the latest polls
, if the election were held today, John McCain, the questionable friend, would beat either Obama or the lady Clinton. (No, not literally! But really, could he actual perform a physical beating without lifting his arms above shoulder level? It's an established fact that women on the whole (unlike ham off the bone) have a greater lower-body strength than men, so if it were reduced to that based upon his upper-body condition, I suppose even Hillary could inflict some fair amount of damage. We're in the process of running simulations at the Shrubville lab on the SV2K8, so hopefully we can get those to you in case you need a tiebreaker when choosing between candidates.)

In fact, in this country of laws, it is John McCain - not the lady Clinton nor the Obama - who has put his name on an amici curiae brief just this week.

While the Obama may have friends like Tony "Slum Landlord" Rezko and the lady Clinton friends like Marc "Richie" Rich, John McCain - he's a friend of the American Constitution.

With friends like that, as they say, who needs bulletproof vests.

Posted by Sacki at 07:21 AM | Comments (2)

March 19, 2008

He Gone

TODAY'S STRIP

No yelling.
No name-calling.
No conversation interruptus.

Winston's reaction? I haven't seen such shock and awe since...

Trivia note: Kenny Loggins' #1 top-hit smash hit song of all-time "Danger Zone" was originally intended as the theme song for "Firing Line."

Posted by Sacki at 07:30 AM | Comments (2)

March 18, 2008

No Paradise

TODAY'S STRIP

At some point editors across the country need to ask themselves a question: who exactly is the target audience for Prickly City?

Today's strip continues Stantis' tribute to conservative icon William F. Buckley (but Carmen was so close to him she gets to call him Bill), someone only adults know about. It ends with Winslow making a joke only really stupid children would think is funny. The kind of joke Billy Buckley would probably point to to show how ignorant America has become. "Pair-a-dime?" Really? Did Stantis intend everyone who reads this to start their day with a groan?

I could understand it if this was the kind of strip a parent reads to their child in the morning. Junior can't read those big words that Buckley would say, so he needs an assist from the old man. After dad spends a few hours trying to explain who this Bill Buckley person is and why anybody cares that he died, he then reads the rest of a joke that only makes sense if you read it outloud. And then the kid is sent back a grade in school because he's made dumber by having heard this stupid joke. The dominant paradigm is twenty cents? Wouldn't that be paradigms? Sorry - I was trying to think like a normal person with a functioning brain for a second there.

What I do think is amusing is the idea of Buckley in the afterlife, reading Stantis' "tribute" from beyond the grave. Having one of the worst conservative writers talk about how influential Buckley was to him is probably the best backhanded compliment one could give a neo-con dick like Billy Boy.

Posted by The Furnace at 11:13 AM | Comments (0)

March 17, 2008

TODAY'S STRIP

Words nobody knew...
a stutter...
the slouch...
a creepy, effeminate eye bulge when excited...
the blood of young boys surging through his vampiric veins...
Andy Rooney's non-touching, awful tribute on 60 Minutes...

I'm sure going to not miss you, William F. Buckley.

Posted by CJo at 04:05 PM | Comments (1)

March 16, 2008

Water Games

TODAY'S STRIP

It's a wet dog hair joke day. Here - enjoy some Baby Plucky instead.


Posted by The Furnace at 10:43 AM | Comments (0)

March 15, 2008

Because "Diff'rent Strokes" Would Have Been Too Controversial

TODAY'S STRIP

I love it when a blowhard like Stantis says waaaay more with his words than he thinks. For example, today Stantis talks about "generation versus generation" and "young against old" - and then uses 1970s sitcom "Chico and the Man" to make his point. The point I think he's trying to make is that generations are always butting heads and young people just don't get that, but the point he's making is that he's really old and out of touch. And unfunny.

What makes it even worse is that little girl Carmen is the one telling coyote pup Winslow that he's the one who will never "get" what she's talking about since she's so much wiser than him despite being in the same freakin' generation. God Stantis sucks.

Yeah, "change vs. stability" has always been a part of campaigning. Unfortunately, stability under Republicans usually results in a recession and people clamoring for change (see 1992, 1976, 1960, 1932...). 2008 is no different. We're most likely knee deep in a recession right now, and Obama is the change candidate while McCain (and to a slightly lesser extent Hillary) are in favor of stability.

Obviously today's strip is a dig at Obama and how naifs like Winlow and him don't "get" how important stability is and how silly it is to think a person can change things for the better. Unfortunately the media is already on board with this: just check out how much looooove they have for McCain at this stage of the game compared to Obama.

I have a sneaking suspicion Stantis was all in favor of "change" in 2000 when he voted for Bush - and he got it. Oh how things have changed - gas is now $3.39 a gallon, we're stuck in two wars without end (not counting the "global war on terror"), the housing market is trashed, the dollar is in the toilet, and so on and so forth.

Sorry Stantis, but if this is the kind of "stability" you want for the next four years, you're the one who's never going to "get it."

Posted by The Furnace at 11:38 AM | Comments (1)

March 14, 2008

A Visit from the Faiku Fairy

TODAY'S STRIP

One way is spelled P.O.W.
Though less pleasurable than
The other one's B.L.O.W.

Posted by CJo at 02:52 PM | Comments (1)

March 13, 2008

A Visit From Weird Al

TODAY'S STRIP

Hi, kids out there in Shrubville-land. I was reading through the Dr. Demento list-serv when I saw I was referenced at your fine website. Groovy.

I thought I'd contribute a little song about John McCain I've been working on, inspired by Scott Stantis' line, "McCain has gravitas and the fogeys."

I call it, "Way Down Upon the Johnny River, or, Old Folks Should be Committed to a Home."

[Cue Stephen Foster music]

[Enter me, Weird Al, in blackface]

Way down upon the Johnny River,
Let's bomb Iran
That's m'only chance of winning ever
With that and the old folks, I can.

All up and down the whole damn nation,
Angrily I roam
Still longing for the old plantation
For that would keep Obama home

Chorus:
All the world could use some bombing everywhere I roam
My friends, how my heart is growing weary
Far from the old folks at The Home

-----

Well, that's all I'm willing to share of the song. I'd post more but I'd hate to rile that Sacki guy with too much Weird Al.

Keep up the good work, Shrubville.

Warmest regards,

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic

PS: You can buy a new copy of "UHF" on DVD for $4.99 at Amazon! Please, people, I'm hungry.

Posted by CJo at 09:54 AM | Comments (2)

March 12, 2008

Dare To Be Stupid

TODAY'S STRIP

What the fuck am I looking at here? Is he seriously calling out Ziggy? What the hell is that about?

Even if Ziggy (like I see implied here) sucks, sucks long, sucks hard, and/or sucks often, nevertheless that comic has the common courtesy to be one panel, so no matter how wretched it may be on a given day, it's not much to mull over. Whereas certain strips, and I won't name names like Prickly City here, blow long, blow hard and blow often in extended play.

It's like Weird Al Yankovic. You might find "Eat It" amusing or disgusting, or just be flat out indifferent to that particular song. But it's merely a single and when it's over, it's over and you move on, like Ziggy. Whereas if you were made to listen to the entire album containing "Eat It" you'd have to plow through 11 tracks of some rather stupid and somewhat repetitive material that might send you into a murderous rage.

So, in conclusion, Prickly City: has a bad beat and you can't dance to it.

Posted by Sacki at 09:48 AM | Comments (3)

March 11, 2008

Gen Suck (reserved for the people born the same minute Stantis was)

TODAY'S STRIP

Sigh.

Maybe it's because winter has been so topsy turvy this year (I'm sorry, but 30 degree swings every other week is not normal), but I get the sense that we here at Shrubville are more than a little burned out when it comes to Prickly City. At least I am, and I apologize to any of you who are reading this and wondering why the heck things have been so lame with me lately.

I guess I'm just tired of pointing out the same things over and over again when it comes to how terrible Stantis is as a writer. Today's strip is just awful. He has Winslow come up with this bizarre word to sum up his target audience, but when he explains what the word means to Carmen it's all out of order.

Stantis, you're not telling people this joke - you're writing it out. How can you not realize that there's a difference between telling someone a joke and writing it down??? I'm completely baffled by this, especially since it's not the first time Stantis has "told" a joke instead of writing it down so it makes sense to a reader, not a listener.

Yes, "Genywhynextnetboomletbabybusterboomermillennials" is a mouthful. But at least it would make sense, at least to me.

Posted by The Furnace at 12:11 PM | Comments (0)

March 10, 2008

Don't Stop Believing

TODAY'S STRIP

Like a Journey song, this series goes on and on and on and on and on but alas goes nowhere in the end. (Well, I guess maybe it ends up as the musical backdrop to highlights from the 2005 White Sox [available on VHS at your local Walgreen's] or, I suppose, ending the Sopranos.)

At any rate, please make this journey stop.

Don't stop believing. Vote Obama.

Posted by CJo at 02:51 PM | Comments (3)

March 09, 2008

And Every Day Prickly City Sucks

TODAY'S BOX

Why is there a square drawn in the middle of today's Prickly City?

I didn't really notice it at first - I thought it was a three panel waste of a Sunday strip like usual, with Stantis boring us with his lame philosophy jokes and unfunny word plays. And oh look - there's a rock that looks like a cup, and some UFOs and even what I think is a bi-plane. No blimp, but hey - can't have everything.

But then I noticed that red box. It's as if somebody - not sure if it was Stantis or his "editor" - decided that his artwork was so overpowering that maybe they should break up his masterpiece into three sections so people aren't overwhelmed by its "beauty." Why else would it be there? Maybe it was just a mistake - somebody was so impressed by Stantis' witty "writing" that they wanted to put it on a magnet, so when he opened it in paintbox he accidentally saved it with the box around it. I dunno. It's just annoying and pointless, just like Prickly City in general.

Posted by The Furnace at 12:49 PM | Comments (4)

March 08, 2008

Lose-Slow/Can't-Win '08

TODAY'S STRIP

Sorry for posting so late, but really - what's there to say about today's Prickly City? Carmen calls Winslow a "flag-burning commie" and Winslow calls Carmen a "knuckle-dragging fascist." Can someone explain to Stantis that according to Jonah Goldberg liberals are the fascists AND the commies? Well, pretty much every form of government that fails is blamed on liberals so I guess it's a moot point.

I'm also wondering why being a knuckle-dragger is somehow the equivalent of a flag-burner, but whatever. I guess it hurt too much for Stantis to come up with something legit like "illegally spying" or "torturing" or "Constitution ignoring" as a better description for Carmen.

Overall it's a decent strip - I like how silly it makes politicians and talking heads look when they talk about "unity" and "reaching across the aisle." It's one of the reasons I'm not a big Obama supporter, but I'm especially not pulling for Hillary or McSame as Bush. The Liebermans/McCains/Hillaries of the country are the ones destroying it, not making it a better place. The Republicans had their way for six years and trashed the joint - why should the Dems work with them, especially when they've spent the last year or so blocking everything they've tried to do and even when they DO "unify" Bush just vetoes the bill? Then again at this point I'm fed up with the whole lot of them so maybe I'm just a lil bitter.

Carmen joining Winslow's ticket is the laziest, least creative thing Stantis could have done. Not only that, he did it in the laziest way possible. Having Winslow beg the person who destroyed his campaign join him on the ticket makes zero sense. If Stantis really wanted to have fun with this idea, he would have had Carmen truly pull a Cheney and tell Winslow she figured out a way to save his campaign - she was going to be his veep, and all he had to do was say whatever she tells him to say and leave all the thinking to her. But instead we're apparently going to have Carmen and Winslow bickering the whole time instead of trying to be funny. Wonderful. Just another day in Prickly City.


Posted by The Furnace at 02:13 PM | Comments (0)

March 07, 2008

Monster

TODAY'S STRIP

I guess I should have saved yesterday's post for today, a day in which Stantis outrightly references Cheney-as-Veep-Selector/Selection.

Going back in time, I should have instead said this about yesterday's strip:

There's no fucking way Winslow chooses that horrible monster as his VP.

Posted by CJo at 12:45 PM | Comments (1)

March 06, 2008

It's About the Math, Stupid

TODAY'S STRIP

Points to Stantis for -- intentional or not -- riffing on the Bush/Cheney VP love-connection. "I searched the entire country but the perfect match was sitting in front of me all along."

And bonus points to Stantis for -- clearly unintentional -- accidentally riffing on a current theme thrown about by the Clinton camp: maybe the black guy and the chick should unite (alas, with her on top and, of course, from behind avec strap-on).

So with the Bush/Cheney riff points awarded -- let's say 5 -- and the bonus points -- let's say 3 -- his gross total today is 8 points. But when we add it to his massive karmic debt for being such an asshole (-14,675) and his total accrued Prickly City Sucks points (-23,987), he's still, you know, in the hole.

But he's making up the difference. Yes, he is. He sure is. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes he will. Yes. He. Will.

Posted by CJo at 08:50 AM | Comments (4)

March 05, 2008

Stinko De Marzo

TODAY'S STRIP

Maybe I'm dumb but I can't understand why Carmen talks like a chick but walks like a man. Carmen's a dude, right? That's why she wouldn't want love letters to another quote-unquote guy winding up in public. (I mean his name gives it away like a bad noir character. Tucker - one who tucks. If you know what I mean.)

She's totally like an Ann Coulter or Ellen Page or a reverse Boys Don't Cry, trying to pass as a chick. Okay. Well, I suppose that would be neither party A nor party B, so yeah, third-party. Ride it like you own it.

Posted by Sacki at 11:08 AM | Comments (5)

March 04, 2008

Is Admiral Stockdale Still Alive?

TODAY'S STRIP

Even though he declared a few weeks back that he was running as an independent candidate for president, Winslow is back to pondering whether or not he should run as an independent. Yeah, Stantis sucks.

What makes it even worse is the reason why Winslow is supposedly going to stay in the race: to act as a spoiler. Who exactly would the liberal Democrat Winslow be hurting? I doubt he's going to draw a lot of votes from St. John McCain. So Winslow, a guy who's gotten all of two votes (one his own), is going to play spoiler - and ruin it for the Democrats? Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.

At least it means Stantis going back to what I thought he'd talk about when Winslow first declared his independent bid, and that's who his running mate will be. Will Stantis make it someone we already know or - gasp - create a new character? I'd say that there's no point in making somebody up since that person couldn't help his campaign, but we're talking about Prickly City here where logic doesn't apply.

So who will it be? Does Winslow beg Conde Rice in hopes that all that time on the campaign trail will lead to some nookie? Maybe he'll court Ross Perot since he was the last actual spoiler - and there are plenty of jokes from the 90s Stantis can rehash for that. This will probably mean some more fat jokes at Bill Richardson's expense, and maybe a few "John Edwards is a fag" references since Stantis is about as funny as Ann Coulter.

The really depressing part? I don't think anybody cares at this point. This might have been a decent storyline if Stantis had pursued it when he originally mentioned Winslow running as an independent- back on February 10th. But he was too busy obsessing over Bill Clinton's penis to give it much thought. With everybody else wondering what's going to happen in the big primaries today in Texas and Ohio I doubt there's much interest in Winslow following up on something he first mentioned almost a month ago yet hasn't talked about it since then. Unless this is going to lead to a few days of Ralph Nader bashing, it's pretty much a waste of time.

So it's perfect for Prickly City.

Posted by The Furnace at 10:35 AM | Comments (3)

March 03, 2008

2012

TODAY'S STRIP

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

"Nominees Pretty Much Set"

Man oh man does Stantis ever know how to write a compelling headline.

I also like how Winslow is reading the back of the Newspaper (an Estee Lauder ad, perhaps) to give the viewer a clear view of the headline. Brilliant work, Scottyboy.

Alas, the sad truth is that the GOP Candidate is 'pretty much set' whereas the Democratic candidate isn't. Much to the delight of Shrubville's Sacki, Hillary will fight on past tomorrow and continue to gouge away at Obama. She needs to bloody Obama up enough so he won't win in November. She, too, is thinking of 2012.

Posted by CJo at 12:14 PM | Comments (2)

March 02, 2008

Evilution

TODAY'S STRIP

It's Sunday, so that means Winslow's trying to fly. It's not a bad strip, and at least it's original. I guess Stantis caught some Discovery Channel shows a few weeks ago and they made an impression. I'm amused at how childishly it's drawn (especially the second dinosaur and the canine before Winslow whose right hind leg is pointing straight up for some reason), but for Stantis this is as good as it gets.

I'd don the future goggles but I have no idea where Stantis is going to go with things this week. He whined about McCain and admitted waterboarding is torture, which is about as liberal as he's ever going to get. Which probably means he'll be going hard and heavy against Hillary and Obama, although he really hasn't come up with anything original to say about either in quite some time. Did Stantis realize two weeks ago that Ohio and Texas would be so huge in this campaign? Is he really ready to accept McCain as the guy he has to vote for in November? Hard to say.

Eh who am I kidding - he'll probably be making jokes about Valentine's Day.

Posted by The Furnace at 11:57 AM | Comments (1)

March 01, 2008

Tortured; Logic

TODAY'S STRIP

Credit where it's due: Scott Stantis does what John McCain, George W. Bush, and the rest of the Republican party refuse to do - he admits that waterboarding is torture.

Unfortunately he's doing it in the comics section of the newspaper and couldn't be bothered with figuring out a way to make it humorous. Granted torture isn't something to make light of, but why spend a week on it if you don't have a funny way to make a serious point? Isn't that what Stantis is paid to do? Heck, anybody could have written and drawn today's strip - and I mean anybody. Are we supposed to forgive Stantis for the fact it isn't funny because he's a Republican admitting something that isn't politically popular? Should he be applauded because he's standing against his party and NOT endorsing torture? I don't think so.

It's sad to think that Carmen had to be waterboarded before she admitted it was torture. Heck, John McCain really was tortured and he refuses to make it illegal because he thinks it'll make him look weak on terror or something. Is that what it's going to take to make Republicans change their minds on something? Force them to experience it before they understand why they're wrong on certain issues? If that's the case then Carmen's going to have a long year ahead of her when she's diagnosed with a disease and is denied healthcare coverage because of that pre-existing condition or any other number of issues where Carmen/Stantis/Republicans don't seem to understand why lefties think the way they do.

At least Stantis has seen the light on one issue. Too bad he still isn't funny. Or a good writer. Or a good artist.

Posted by The Furnace at 11:05 AM | Comments (1)