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March 09, 2008
And Every Day Prickly City Sucks
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.
Comments
I think the UFOs stopped by after visiting today's La Cucaracha. But they won't find any intelligent life in Shrubville.
Posted by: Richard at March 9, 2008 06:16 PM
Thanks for stopping by, Dick.
Posted by: Your Mother at March 9, 2008 08:36 PM
Don't forget the world's worst drawing of the moon.
I was recently reading a Calvin & Hobbes book with my kids, and I saw where Bill Watterson had drawn a similarly bad moon. So even Stantis's bad stuff is unoriginal.
Posted by: John at March 9, 2008 11:30 PM
Although Watterson could draw celestial objects correctly and tidily; some of the Spaceman Spiff landscapes have really lovely ringed planets in the background. (Not to mention that the weird backgrounds he did actually made sense in the context of a fantasy sequence; I've never been sure what aliens and dinosaurs are doing in Prickly City.)
Posted by: Antenora at March 10, 2008 10:11 AM
