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September 30, 2008
Found: Carmen's Brothers!
This has all the makings of an absolute trainwreck. For the first time ever I'm actually looking forward to Prickly City this week.
Why? Scott Stantis, writing about the VP debate two weeks ago, is going to try and make fun of Joe Biden and Sarah Palin by injecting Carmen into the debate. He'll be doing it based on the Sarah Palin of two weeks ago (when she was basically in hiding, refusing to do any interviews) and not the Sarah Palin of the last week, who went on CBS News and made a fool of herself with Katie Couric and then yesterday had to go back with John McCain so the two of them could try and do damage control. Stantis will be doing this before having seen Tina Fey's Palin on SNL. Before Palin agreed with Obama's stance that if Pakistan won't go after Osama then we will - directly opposing McCain's position on the issue. Before it was leaked that Palin might try to marry off her pregnant 17-year-old daughter right before the election. Even before McCain's campaign shut down the Troopergate investigation.
I probably shouldn't get my hopes up. Odds are Stantis will spend the next few days making fun of Joe Biden's hair plugs, since that's oh-so-hysterical. Mind you, this is from a guy who draws the girl in his comic strip to look like she's got a reverse mohawk. Check out that third panel - that's not a part, someone shaved a three-inch wide strip down the middle of the poor girl's head.
But I'm still curious as to how Stantis will handle this. Palin was an easy target even before the past few weeks, although she's a Republican so Stantis will probably handle her with kid gloves. Biden has said a lot of stupid things in the past, but Stantis prefers jokes about how people look since that's an easy out. Could he actually let Carmen speak on the issues, giving us a look into the political mind of Stantis? Or will he be lazy and say that Carmen wasn't allowed into the debate even though she has an invite?
Probably that last one, since Scott Stantis is the worst comic strip writer in the world.
