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July 31, 2008
Thong Kong Phooey
Thongs aren't funny when they are associated with 8-year-old Hispanic Neo-Con Tots.
Thongs aren't funny when they are associated with the species Canis latrans.
Thongs aren't funny when they are associated with a 49-year-old cartoonist who tries to wedge them into a strip featuring an 8-year-old girl and a coyote once every three months.
In fact, thongs just aren't funny.
Especially when they are drawn to look like a razor strop hanging in old thyme barber shop.
The lack of humor in thongs obviously wouldn't preclude Scott Stantis from using them in his strip. After all, this is a man who can make himself cackle with glee at the wit of a finely placed Rob Schneider reference.
But his continued obsession with thongs goes beyond the pale. It's creepy. It's disturbing.
And it might require a psychiatric intervention.
Posted by CJo at 09:01 AM | Comments (6)July 30, 2008
Read This Strip: No New Laugh-es
Well, thank the loard for that. Now we now, Furnace. Now we know why Prickly City is a republic and for how long. To commemorate this special occasion, I'd really love to get the Franklin Mint to produce a limited collectors edition plate to present to you, but unfortunately for me those aren't available yet, which sucks because my only other option is to buy a collectible print from the ucomics site. It's only $85. (Shucks, I'm just going to go down to the library and cut it out, and then put it in a $1 frame from the thrift shop. And then sell it for $50 - a savings of over $30! - and then give you a Jackson. Don't be sore.)
Posted by Sacki at 08:03 AM | Comments (2)July 29, 2008
Screw Continuity
So Scott Stantis throws out several years of continuity for a cheap "joke" about the Olympics. Man, you take a few days off and somehow, despite the odds, Prickly City gets worse.
Apparently Prickly City is a republic. Not just a republic, but one that has its own mint where they can produce their own currency. Oh, and they also have their own Olympic team.
Keep in mind this is the same Prickly City that moved up its primary for the United States presidency so it could be first among the united states (even though it's a city - er, wait, no, it's a republic...). Oh, and Winslow has been running for president of the U.S. for over a year now, even though Prickly City is a republic. Within the U.S. of A. Head hurting yet?
Here, let's take a quick look at how American Heritage defines the word "republic," thanks to the folks at dictionary.com:
re·pub·lic (rĭ-pŭb'lĭk) n.
1.
1. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
3. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
4. A nation that has such a political order.
2.
1. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
I could probably spend hours trying to figure this out. Is P.C. a country within a country? Does it have a president? Are residents citizens of the U.S., or do they have their own P.C. citizenship?
But let's not waste our time on this nonsense. Stantis wanted a cheap and easy excuse to justify how Winslow could have easily gotten onto an Olympic team in an event that doesn't exist. Sure, he could have said that Winslow is actually from some obscure island country and they were desperate for athletes (I would have gone with "Cuba"), and since Winslow has dual citizenship he made the team. But nope - Stantis thought it funnier to make Prickly City its own republic that makes its own coins.
Hopefully Stantis will drop this tomorrow and apologize for wasting our time with this "republic" nonsense. Otherwise, isn't his whole career as a political comic strip artist over when it comes to using P.C. as a vehicle for talking about AMERICAN politics? Can't exactly whine about the AMERICAN Democrats when your characters aren't even residents of our country, and declare their allegiance first and foremost to the Republic of Prickly City.
doo·fus /ˈdufəs/ [doo-fuhs]
–noun, plural -fus·es.
1. a foolish or inept person.
2. Scott Stantis.
July 28, 2008
No Post and No Lunch Make CJo Cranky
I don't have time for this shit strip today.
I didn't have time for lunch either and that means I'm cranky!
Suffice it to say: this strip is a needless repetition of Saturday's garbage. It sucks!
Posted by CJo at 04:28 PM | Comments (1)July 27, 2008
I wish every day were like Sunday.
My 'hometown' newspaper (The Boston Globe), which I still inexplicably subscribe to and which still inexplicably runs 'Prickly City,' doesn't run the Sunday PC strip. My only Sunday source for PC is GoComicsdawtcowm, which ain't working for me today.
So I may (or may not) check in later to see the strip. And then I may (or may not) check in later at Shrubville to post a comment.
Posted by CJo at 12:44 PM | Comments (1)July 26, 2008
Uh-Oooh
The Furnace is taking a well-deserved weekend-off and Sacki is passed-out in a pool of his own vomit and/or urine. That leaves me, your old pal CJo, in charge.
You know what that means:
Half-Assed-alicious!
I am glad that Stantis added another phrase to his mangled repertoire of expressions. "Uh-Oooh" can now join with "Awwwwwwwww!" [to express fear instead of cute] as a full-fledged Stantisism.
I'd look up some more phrases on this list, but then it wouldn't be as half-assed as you've come to expect.
So before I write another line, I'm logging off. I hope that by the time tomorrow's paper arrives at my door, I, too, will be in a pool of my own vomit and/or urine.
Posted by CJo at 12:05 PM | Comments (0)July 25, 2008
O Sole Dio
Holy Dio, is Vaughn really a recurring character? Now?
After a year and half of Winslow's campaign, Stantis decides to bring in a new character who is hired to be Winslow's Campaign Finance Director at the exact. same. moment. that Winslow has suspended his campaign?
It makes no sense. But that comes as no surprise.
It's amusing that Vaughn is introduced to us much in the same way it was reported that Dio was introduced to us, according to this apocryphal note from Wikipedia: "Minor recurring characters include Dio, a chameleon named for Diogenes the Cynic, who first appeared as a campaign director for Winslow..."
Of course, true 'Prickly City' historians, also known as Pricktorians, know that, in fact, Dio was introduced as a Carmen and Winslow sidekick on January 4, 2005, appearing in six straight daily strips. He was then seen in daily strips off-and-on and/or sporadically from January 15, 2005 until February 24, 2005, a period in which he functioned as Winslow's chief counsel for Winslow's senate confirmation hearing as well as just being your everyday run-of-the-mill cynical sidekick.
He wasn't seen in a daily strip ever again.
However, he showed up in three final Sunday strips: March 27, 2005 (where he slipped on ice in the desert that was smoothed by Winslow's zamboni), April 10, 2005 (where a bird 'snatch'ed him) and his final appearance on April 17, 2005 (where he was dancing in a conga line with Winslow and Carmen).
And that was the end of Dio. He only lives on in a few scattered memories. Brubaker. You. Me.
I doubt Stantis even remembers. Or cares.
*************************
So do not doubt my existence, people of the world! I am alive!
Who but the one and only amazing CJo could pull that out of the archives?!
Posted by CJo at 11:08 AM | Comments (2)July 24, 2008
Buongiorno and Arrivederci
Ciao, i miei amici.
Lungo tempo non vedere.
I've just returned from a two-week non-Prickly-City-reading sojourn into the wilds of Italia. And I feel great. I'm tanned, rested, AND ready to dive back into thrice-weekly Shrubville posting. Nothing's gonna stop us now.
[Brief interlude while I catch up on two weeks worth of strips.]
Oh mio Dio.
Ho voglia di merda.
Rendono fermata.
Vi prego di inviarmi indietro.
Ciao-ciao.
Posted by CJo at 08:08 AM | Comments (3)July 23, 2008
Komedy
Yesterday's punchline: Katie Couric.
Today's punchline: Michael Dukakis.
In an article in the New Yorker published in 1936, H. L. Mencken argues that "k words" are funny. "K, for some occult reason, has always appealed to the oafish risibles of the American plain people, and its presence in the names of many ... places has helped to make them joke towns ... for example, Kankakee, Kalamazoo, Hoboken, Hohokus, Yonkers, Squeedunk, "Stinktown" and Brooklyn."
Well, at least our fair author knows his core audience is oafs.
Posted by Sacki at 07:56 AM | Comments (2)July 22, 2008
Maybe "TTFN" Stands For "Think That's Funny? No."
Question: Why would Katie Couric have to give a concession speech?
Answer: She wouldn't.
Conclusion: Scott Stantis is the worst comic strip writer in the industry today.
I mean I "get" what Stantis was going for, but couldn't he have found a better way to say it? What if Winslow said, "Hey - this isn't my concession speech - this is the script from Katie Couric's last show on CBS!" That might suck, but at least it MAKES SENSE. Bah. CJo, save us!
July 21, 2008
Suspended Animation
While negotiations continue to secure the return of CJo to the Shrubville fold, if & when he does come back he can be confident that he'll be able to pick up where he left off, as it seems word of the Lady Clinton suspending her campaign has just reached Alabama. 'Bout time. Well, it was either that or it was just so goddamn important to get the Starbucks storyline out there because that, my friends*, was Acapulco comic Gold, baby.
*Oddly enough, although Senator McCain often speaks to "my friends" he's never actually speaking to my friends. Maybe I should nudge him or write on his wall on Facebook, because it just seems like the friendly thing to do, and we're obviously both friendly people.
Posted by Sacki at 09:38 AM | Comments (3)July 20, 2008
We Are Doomed
P.C. feels like a repeat. Something about Winslow eating Carmen. Make of that whatever you wish.
Instead, did you hear that the prime minister of Iraq has endorsed Barack Obama's plan for withdrawal? This comes on the heels of the White House announcing a plan for a time "horizon" (not a timeline, of course, but a horizon - as E.J. Dionne pointed out, isn't the horizon something you can see but you can never actually reach?). Oh and there are plans to send more troops to Afghanistan, something Obama has been pushing for all along. And then of course there's Bush basically calling Obama an appeaser for saying we should talk with Iran - and this week Bush sent one of our diplomats to talk with - you guessed it - Iran.
Can you imagine if this had been the other way around? What if Maliki had endorsed McCain's 100 year plan? The media would be all over it, talking about how Obama doesn't have the experience and this just proves that McCain should be our next dictator - er, I mean "president." Instead, I'm guessing the Maliki story will be buried, and they'll continue to find ways to gush over McCain while trying to destroy Obama.
Check out this glorious quote from John Kass of the Chicago Tribune:
Asking whether TV network news shops had liberal bias was a bit like wondering what would happen if you left the hungry little boy alone in the room with the large box of Turkish Delights.
The outcome was never in doubt.
So it was reported last week that since June, the network news spent a thin 48 minutes covering crusty Republican Sen. John McCain, and 114 glorious minutes covering the cool guy they love, the liberal Democrat, Illinois' own Sen. Barack Obama.
This guy might actually be more delusional than Stantis. Where is it written that everything said or written about Obama is POSITIVE? Hey Kass, did you take into account how much of that Obama coverage was because Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut his nuts off? In the meantime, John McCain's top economic adviser said that Americans are just a bunch of whiners and that the economy is great, McCain repeatedly referred to Czechoslovakia as a current country, and made crude jokes about killing innocent Persians because that's just "McCain being McCain."
Does John Kass honestly believe that Barack Obama got 114 minutes of positive coverage this month? Really? Somebody get this guy a comic strip, because he could give Stantis a run for his money.
But that's how the conservative mindset of "heads I win, tails you lose" works. "Look at how much coverage Obama gets compared to McCain!" is the storyline, but don't you dare explore exactly how much of that coverage was negative (my guess: most of it). Yet John McCain's had a month so bad it would have ruined other presidential contenders, yet he's doing better than ever thanks to the mostly positive media coverage he gets.
Unfortunately it's just going to get worse. The media critics will still ramble on about a "liberal media" that only exists in their little minds, John McCain will be portrayed as our next president, and silly Barack Obama will be branded a lefty liberal loon who can't be trusted for various (mostly racist) reasons. It's a shame that people in the media don't take Carmen's advice about rising above that type - instead they're all just like Stantis, and won't let the truth get in the way of a good smearing (or attempted joke).
July 19, 2008
Rush Defense
It's Copy And Paste Saturday at Prickly City, where Winslow suddenly has a radio show. But being a radio show host like Rush Limbaugh is hard work, just like being a comic strip artist. I mean look how much effort Stantis puts into his work - four panels, all the same - man, I feel bad for Stantis. This must have taken minutes for him to churn out.
Don't get me wrong - GOOD comic strip artists do have a hard job if they want to be entertaining. But not good ol' Stantis. He has one of the easiest jobs in he comics, as he just churns out Republican talking points and slaps together strips like today's where he only draws one fourth of the strip and then pastes it over and over and over.
Rush is good at his job too. I may not like the guy, but he does know how to keep his "dittoheads" entertained. Stantis is more like the John Gibson of the comics - nobody knows how he got his job, or how he keeps it since he's so awful, yet there he is getting paid to be conservative. Must be nice to enjoy the corporate media's own version of welfare.
July 18, 2008
Skip
Just when we were in full-on "What's he going to say about Starbucks next, because I'm totally prepared to laugh my ass off" anticipation, he's throws a curve.
Panel 1: (Carmen) Rush Limbaugh just got a $400 million contract!
Panel 2: (Winslow) That's a lot of Oxycontin up the nose. Where do I sign up?
Panel 3: (Carmen) Haha! No seriously, Winslow, are you prepared to go deaf and dumb?
Panel 4: (Winslow) You mean he wasn't deaf and dumb before he started funding terrorists through his drug use?
July 17, 2008
Winslow Has Gas Problems
No real complaints with today's P.C. For Stantis, this is as good as it gets.
However I am left to wonder why he's making Carmen look so bad. Isn't she the campaign manager and running mate? And is there anyone else even working on the campaign? Guess that didn't cross Stantis' mind.
Where in the world is CJo?
July 16, 2008
100 Grande Bar None
While I regret to inform you that the GoComics Prickly City webpage refuses to come up for me today*, and while I might give a fake promise to check back on it and come up with the proper assessment without actually intending to do so, I must take a moment to comment on something strange that many of us have probably noticed: what a highly charged political topic!
And by regret I mean huzzah, despite the fact that replacing 'regret' with 'huzzah' would render the sentence completely meaningless, or rather, more meaningless if there were any meaning to be found in the first place. You just can't replace a verb like that without consequences.
It seems that people aren't going to Starbucks anymore because they ain't gots the funds, because despite the fact that they may have the skills to pay the bills, this wonderful economic recession 'slowdown,' as our first MBA president declared it to be, won't allow them the luxury. Way to zing the lame-duck president, our fair author.
July 15, 2008
Care Less
I don't drink coffee.
July 14, 2008
Mon Dieu!
I'm really shocked and amazed that our fair author would have the audacity to publish such a strip today, Monday, July 14, 2008. The fact of the matter is that this is truly a Sunday-quality strip. 4 panels. 2 blank panels. 1 word. A horribly out of date 'joke.' That's some top-notch work right there. Perhaps he decided to use the one about airline food and how awful it is, in addition to those bags of peanuts they give out and how hard it is to open them and then you tear it and the peanuts fly everywhere and there are none left to shovel into your mouth.
Unintentional theme today: Bastille Day 2008. Starbucks, grown on the back of their famous French Roast coffee, is laid low by the revolting peasants. And by laid low I mean they're still making a Carl-Sagan's-estimate-of-the-number-of-stars amount of money.
Posted by Sacki at 09:43 AM | Comments (1)July 13, 2008
You Know What I Hate? Prickly City.
Back during my favorite period of SNL, Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest played two characters named Willie and Frankie. They were night watchmen at various places, and when they crossed paths during their rounds they would talk about the painful things they had done to themselves, then complain about it. The skits are known as "You Know What I Hate?" Here's a sample:
Frankie: You know what I hate?
Willie: What?
Frankie: I go into the kitchen, I open the drawer, you know?
Willie: Uh huh?
Frankie: And I take out a, uh--
Willie: Carrot scraper?
Frankie: Right. And I stick it up my nose, you know, and I'm rootin' it around, and, you know, gettin' all the mucus membranes out o' there, you know? And then I take one o' them, uh--?
Willie: Mentholated eucalyptus cough drops?
Frankie: Right. And I stick it-- wedge it up there, you know? I take a couple o' whiffs, boy. Heh, ya feel like your head's gonna explode.
Scott Stantis would have fit in perfectly with Willie and Frankie. Like today's strip - he's once again bitching and moaning about how the campaign lasts months and months. A guy who MAKES HIS LIVING talking about politics is now going to complain that the media spends its time talking about the quest to be president. I can just picture it now...
Scottie: You know what I hate?
Frankie: What's that?
Scottie: I get paid to do this comic strip, you know? So I have to introduce a new character. One of those uh -
Willie: Armadillos?
Scottie: Right. And so I have him become the campaign finance manager for the coyote I got running for president. But I don't know what to do with him, so I have him uh -
Frankie: Buy several gallons of gasoline and matches and have him threaten to set himself on fire?
Scottie: You got it. Hoo boy, that was painful (for my readers). But you know what I really hate?
Willie: What?
Scottie: This presidential campaign of ours. I mean, I had to have that coyote start running for president last April!
Frankie: You had to have him do that?
Scottie: Well, I mean, I guess I didn't HAVE to have him to do that, but I write a political comic strip.
Willie: If you don't like writing about politics, then why do you have a political comic strip?
Scottie: I like writing about politics, just not all the time. I mean, in England their campaign only lasts a month.
Frankie: So you're saying you'd rather we go back to being like the British.
Scottie: Exactly.
Willie: You know what I hate?
Frankie: What's that?
Willie: I hate Republicans who whine and complain that elections in our country last a long time, when they're the ones who spent the last 8 years not just ruining our country, but politicizing every part of our government so we don't have a choice but to campaign all year long.
Frankie: Yeah, I hate that too.
Hey Scottie - nobody's saying you have to write about politics. I'm sure there are a few night watchmen jobs opening up that you'd be perfect for - just quit and enjoy whining about politics on your own time and quit wasting ours.
July 12, 2008
Meet Vaughn
Yesterday: Winslow and Carmen interviewed an armadillo for the position of finance director on their campaign. All he could say was that they're doomed.
Today: We learn that...
- Winslow and Carmen hired the armadillo. I guess they likes them some "straight talk" (which is different from John McCain's Straight Talk, which is to tell everybody that everything is going great even when it's not).
- The armadillo is named Vaughn. Not sure if that's a reference to Vince Vaughn or what.
- Vaughn the Armadillo is going to set fire to himself. Winslow thinks he's going to burn the campaign's financial information - nope, Vaughn just wants to commit suicide. Good morning, kids! Hope you enjoy the hilarity of self-immolation while you're eating your froot loops!
I looked for the funny in today's strip, but I haven't been able to find it. Is it funny that the armadillo is so depressed by the job he interviewed for (despite saying they were doomed over and over) that he wants to kill himself? With gas costing over $4 a gallon why waste it when he's got all that paper around him? Sorry, I'm spending more time thinking about this than Stantis did.
Maybe Vaughn should spend some time with John McCain's leading economic adviser Phil Gramm. He'll tell you that things aren't bad - the recession is "mental" and we're a nation of whiners. Straight Talk!
Then again, considering Gramm's ties to Enron and the mortgage crisis, maybe Winslow and Carmen already interviewed him for the job this past Wednesday.
July 11, 2008
Doomy McDoom
Seems to me...if one were to give our fair author the benefit of the doubt and take it at face value that his guest character in Wednesday's strip truly was a tapeworm*, and combine that with Senator Clinton yesterday followed by what appears to be an armadillo today, it would appear to be thematic. Politics, money, parasite, roadkill. I'm not buying it, are you?
*Although tapeworms don't have fangs, perhaps (once again feeling generous, as it's Friday and I'm looking forward to enjoying a solid summer weekend, so what the hell I'll be giving the benefit of the doubt)...perhaps he had wanted to do both a tapeworm and a snake but ran out of room and settled on a hybrid.
Posted by Sacki at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)July 10, 2008
This Strip Reeks of Failure
If CJo wasn't out of the country, I think the term he might use to describe today's PC would be "ham-fisted."
Scott Stantis still desperately wants to make fun of Hillary Clinton. So it doesn't matter to him that it makes zero sense that she would be interviewing for the role of financial director for Winston's campaign, which has NO MONEY. If she herself has campaign debt, why waste her time with a candidate that's just as broke as she is?
But Stantis never lets "logic" ruin his attacks on Senator Clinton. Attacks which are just a little bit more than sexist, but hey - par for the course when it's a Republican trying to be funny.
After yesterday though I have a newfound respect for Hillary. She voted against the horrible FISA bill, something that Obama didn't do. If I had known that back during the primaries, she would have gotten my vote. Instead, we're now a country where the government can spy on its citizens without warrants, the president can tell corporations to break the law and they can do it without fear of penalty, and while we know that the telecoms did spy on us illegally for years, we'll never know what they were doing because they're immune from prosecution. Thanks, Senator Obama - nice to know that you and the rest of the Democratic leadership in Congress are willing to bend over backwards to give President 23% Approval Rating everything he wants and more.
Sorry Mrs. Clinton - instead of being the nominee, you get guys like Stantis making fun of how you dress and how you look.
Posted by The Furnace at 09:09 AM | Comments (1)July 09, 2008
Get Up (Get On Up)
What a late start to the day, huh? Between the actual American holiday, CJo's holiday (permanent vacation?) from Shrubville, and the Monday Shrubville of
"Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!"
I had no idea what day today was. Unfortunately, it dawned upon me that it was Wednesday and there was Prickly City to read. Even more horribly, I was greeted by the sight of a tapeworm cameo. Given the track record of character appearances and their subsequent quick exiles in the Prickly City history (Dio? Shelley the Turtle? Humor?), we thankfully can hope that Larry the Tapeworm is short-lived, although of course in this instance he'll probably become a mainstay. In preparation for that event, let's consult the liberal New York Times for some background on our new friend:
In the intestine, the worm is a fierce competitor for vitamin B12. Absorbing the vitamin for its own needs, the worm deprives the bone marrow of a vital ingredient for making red blood cells.Tapeworms sometimes reach a length of 30 feet and can live up to 20 years. They have a complex life cycle; in adult form they attach themselves by suction cup to the small intestine of vertebrates.
The fishworm is a compact sex machine containing both male and female sex organs sufficient to produce and release up to a million eggs a day.
To survive, the eggs must reach fresh water, where they become embryos with hooks that are ingested by crustaceans. The crustaceans in turn are swallowed by fish. Freshwater fish like the pike and perch, major ingredients of gefilte fish, are especially fond of these delicacies.
Ingested, the larvae of the worms embed themselves comfortably in the muscle fibers of the fish. When humans or other vertebrates swallow the raw fish, the cycle is completed.
Though symptoms are sometimes described as the Jewish housewives’ disease, the worm is nonsectarian, and the anemia can be found in other cultures that eat raw freshwater fish.
There you have it. Our new character is a "compact sex machine" and/or an anti-Semite. That's it. Time for a letter-writing campaign to purge this parasitic strip from our family friendly newspapers.
Posted by Sacki at 08:06 PM | Comments (2)July 08, 2008
Worst Campaign Manager Ever
This morning I was greeted by this email in my inbox from CJo:
"That does it. I'm out. Today's Prickly City is so bad, so incredibly stupid, that I can't deal with it anymore. I'm leaving the country - maybe visit Europe, where they don't have to put up with this shit in their newspapers. Yours truly, CJo."
All I can say is: CJo, please, take me with you!
This edition of P.C. really is THAT bad. How in the world does this exchange make it into the comics section:
Winslow: Then we'll have to create the position.
Carmen: How can you create something that never existed?
I am actually dumber for having read that more than once, and I probably lost a few IQ points re-writing it here. "How can you create something that never existed?" WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??? Shrubville never existed before Prickly City - it was created as a reaction to the worst comic strip ever. But in Carmen/Stantis' mind, that's an impossibility. Shrubville could never have been created because it never existed. WTF? No, change that: WHAT THE FUCK???
By the way, as Winslow's campaign manager shouldn't she have hired a finance director months ago? Oh, wait, it didn't exist so she couldn't. The stupid, it burns!
Oh and it gets better: the punchline is a rip on Tony Danza! You know, the guy that was in over a hundred episodes of "Taxi" and in almost two hundred episodes of "Who's The Boss?" - that Tony Danza. Of course that was twenty years ago, so to Stantis that's a hip reference that will have his readers rolling on the kitchen floor.
But the writing isn't the worst of it. Check out Carmen in panel 3. Um, isn't that how Stantis usually draws the moon? Better yet is panel 4, where Carmen is suddenly drawn to look like a cross between Barry Bonds and Popeye. Poor little moonhead girl.
Maybe instead of Tony Danza Stantis should have gone with Karl Rove. His position didn't exist until Rove entered the White House, and look at how much damage he's done to the country. At least Tony Danza makes us laugh. Unlike Rove, or Scott Stantis.
July 07, 2008
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
Toga! USA! Toga! USA!
July 06, 2008
Summing Up The Republicans
Whether he intended to or not, today Scott Stantis perfectly sums up George W. Bush and the rest of the Republicans that have done so much damage to this country over the last 8 years.
"I do what I want. If it works...it works. If not, I will blame others. It's a risk I'm willing to take." - W (Winslow, but may as well be this guy.)
July 05, 2008
Relatively Speaking, Prickly City Sucks
Uh oh. Stantis is talking about philosophy again. Carmen worries about moral relativism and right and wrong, with Winslow getting the easy punchline.
Maybe Carmen should worry about her physical relativism instead. Check out the difference in her body size between panels 1 and 2. She goes from super skinny to obese with no explanation. She then grows two or three inches from panel 3 to 4. What's happening to the poor girl?
But getting back to "moral relativism," I think it's pretty safe to say that it's just plain wrong to make fun of someone's painful history with cancer and torture. Celebrating that Sandra Day O'Connor's husband is dying is probably wrong. Stantis getting paid to do it? Not necessarily morally wrong, but just a stupid waste of money.
July 04, 2008
USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA! USA! USA! USA!
July 03, 2008
Selling Scott Wolf Tickets
I ain't selling no Woof Tickets to y'all, but you gotta check out Inaugural Prickly City Proper commenter ScottWolf48110's OTHER comments on other strips. This man is a genius. His observations are astute. His wit is quick.
I mean, check out his work on Shoe. Or on Heart of the City.
I'll pay $10 (imaginary money, no cash value) to anyone who can entice ScottWolf48110 to start commenting here.
I'll also pay $10 (imaginary money, no cash value) to anyone who can find any comments by Charles Winchester Brubaker IV on any strip at the Gocomics site.
Oh, and finally, I'll pay $10 (imaginary money, no cash value) to anyone who can prove that this same Scott Stantis that is railing against the media focusing on the meaningless and the trivial in a presidential campaign is an imposter who has kidnapped the Scott Stantis of 2004 who buttered his bread with the meaningless and the trivial.
Posted by CJo at 10:24 AM | Comments (2)July 02, 2008
Spread The Word
I've always thought we've had some brilliant, astute, and clever readers and commenters here at Shrubville. Unfortunately, what is said here about how dumb, oblivious, and lame Prickly City is might not be seen by a portion of its audience. Perhaps it's new, or perhaps I hadn't noticed it before, but now you, me, or anyone's pet monkey (hi Toby!) can comment at the Prickly City GoComics website. So go on. Register, sign in, and take the man down from the inside.
EDIT: It appears that a "swolf48110" was the first to comment on the Prickly City page, yesterday. I'm going to be working under the assumption that this is really Scott Wolf of "Party of Five" fame. Celebrities: They're Just Like Us!
Posted by Sacki at 04:12 PM | Comments (1)July 01, 2008
Distortion
Stantis finally gets around to making fun of the whole "terrorist fist jab" silliness that happened the day after Obama became the Democratic nominee. Not surprisingly when Winslow says he wants to take an ax to the media man he fails to make the more obvious joke, which is "Well it's good to see Fox News' E.D. Hill has a new job, covering my sorry campaign."
Actually this strip ends up being more timely than Stantis could have imagined. Over the weekend on "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer asked Gen. Wes Clark if he thought that being a pilot and getting shot down qualified John McCain to be president, and Clark said no. But that's not how the media is portraying it. No, according to them Clark attacked McCain and said all sorts of nasty things, which makes Clark a traitor who hates the military. A four star general who hates the military. Luckily there are some real veterans who are responding to this nonsense, but the mainstream media won't have any of that. They're much more content with taking Clark's words out of context and ignoring that he was just saying Schieffer's words back to him. Too bad Clark didn't just say, "No, I don't" and leave it at that - kinda hard to make a soundbyte that paints him as a traitor with that.
I'm all for Stantis going after the media. Unfortunately, most times he's just as bad as they are. And less funny too.
Posted by The Furnace at 11:12 AM | Comments (1)
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