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March 22, 2008
Imperfecto
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.
