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October 31, 2008
Good Grief
You could live 38 years and not see anything as crappy as this comic strip, but I only took 3 seconds to look over teh Prickly City today:
0:01. Another American holiday gone by without acknowledgment from Prickly City. Why does he hate America and its holidays so?
0:02. Another lazy 'idea' scribbled out: is it just me, or is this a blatant, unfunny, horribly offensive ripoff of Lucy setting up her psychiatry stand in Peanuts?
0:03. Is that cactus shaped like a martini glass?!? Does that speak more to my state of mind upon viewing or his state of mind upon writing?
Posted by Sacki at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)October 30, 2008
Dumby!
Dumby! It's the opposite of smrt! It means someone is stoopit!
What a moran! What an imbycile! What a no-nuthing!
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What a complete and utter disaster Prickly City has become. Stantis doesn't know whether he is coming or going. He lurches left, right, up, down, over, and, of course, under. The sorry state of Conservatism in America has not only ripped apart the GOP, but it has also completely snapped the fragile psyche of one Scott Stantis.
Buh-bye, Dumby. See 'ya later, dummass.
Posted by CJo at 08:35 AM | Comments (6)October 29, 2008
Nutz
Apparently Sacki thought the vote was yesterday and not next Tuesday, assumed Obama won, and thought he could sleep in today. No dice. Maybe next Wednesday. Please please please, next Wednesday.
As for Prickly City - ugh. Stantis takes on ACORN, with unhilarious results. So Winslow got registered to vote a bunch of times - so what? Is he going to vote more than once? Not likely. But whatever - it gives conservatives a phony controversy to whine about since they know their candidates are horrible. Get used to it - the next week will be "Obama did X!" and instead of talking about what really matters, Obama and his supporters will be forced to spend all their time talking about X. Pretty much like it's been for the last few months. Oh well - hopefully the deep hurting will stop soon. For all our sakes.
October 28, 2008
Conversion Complete
Yesterday "liberal" Winslow hired registered Republican Joe the Plumber to be his only campaign staff member.
Today he recreates Republican John McCain's reaction to the financial crisis - first saying the fundamentals are strong then ending up by supporting the bail out.
I think it's time to admit the obvious:
Winslow is no longer a Democrat. And he sure ain't a liberal.
Over the years Stantis has had Winslow flip flop on his positions, usually because Stantis can't bring himself to show Conservative Carmen as the butt of his jokes. Like today - it would make a whole lot more sense to have Carmen give this speech, since she's the Republican of the strip.
But as we get into the home stretch of this election cycle, it's clear that Stantis doesn't care anymore about his own characters (not that he cared much to begin with). They're all - scratch that - they're both just one big blurred mess, dull tools to be tossed out there when Stantis wants to make a lame joke about whatever was happening in the news at the time.
McCain makes a big deal about Joe the Plumber? Winslow hires him
McCain looks like a doofus reacting to the financial crisis? Winslow follows suit.
Next week I'm sure Winslow will call Obama a socialist/communist/marxist/fascist while talking about William Ayers and Rev. Wright and blah blah blah blah. Just check the latest RNC talking points and Winslow will be out there reciting them.
Is there any reason for Prickly City to exist anymore? For a while at least Carmen and Winslow were characters that had some semblance of personalities - Carmen a conservative puppet, Winslow the silly liberal. But now they're one in the same, except Carmen rolls her eyes every time Winslow does something John McCain just did. Do we really need a comic strip that offers us two conservatives doing dumb things that weren't funny two weeks ago and aren't funny now?
Then again 40% of the population thinks that after 8 years of Bush we should elect two conservatives doing dumb things and pledging to do the same dumb things Bush did, so maybe there's a market for this nonsense.
October 27, 2008
Joey Joe Joe Junior Wurzelbacher
Good news (for Scott Stantis): a marginally good strip.
Bad news (for Scott Stantis): about a topic that was tired the minute it sprang into existence.
Good news (for Shrubville): the election is only eight short days away.
Bad news (for Shrubville): Inauguration Day is 85 long days away.
Posted by CJo at 04:36 PM | Comments (1)October 26, 2008
Where's Obama?
Hmm...Stantis does a strip about how crazy our political world is and mentions all of the major players - except one.
Where's Obama?
Of course there are the wacky pics of Hillary and McCain, and even Nancy Pelosi shows up, but isn't it kind of odd that the frontrunner - the guy who's polling at over 50% in almost every poll right now - isn't anywhere to be seen?
I guess Stantis, like so many other Republicans, is having a tough time coming to terms with the idea that they might not just lose, they might lose huge...to a black guy. Dun dun DUN!!!! Yeah, I said it - I went there. I'm sorry, but if Stantis is going to be sexist with his slams on how Hillary and Nancy Pelosi look as he's done regularly over the last few years, why stop there? Why not crack wise about Obama's looks? Duncan Hunter was more than happy to say that the reason Obama is winning is because he has "great teeth" - why not Stantis? What, suddenly Stantis doesn't want to draw big ears on a character?
Let your racist freak flag fly, Stantis. Come on, we know you wanna. John McCain is giving you permission. The whole "be afraid because he's a Muslim terrorist" thing didn't work, and now they're pushing the whole "be afraid because he's a marxist/communist/socialist" thing but it's not working, so in the last week of the campaign it's pretty obvious that the "be afraid he's a scary black man that will rob your white women and fondle their breasts and carve his name in their milky white flesh" is the next step (and no, it's not a surprise that it happened in Pennsylvania, the state that the Republicans will make sure is this year's Ohio/Florida).
The Republican party is looking to you for leadership, Stantis. You have the floor - a direct method of reaching the public. Come on, you know if it was Hillary you would have already spent several weeks on her thighs and that laugh of hers. It's time to unleash the fury - tap in to your inner REAL Republican. It's okay.
And it's all you have left.
Gonna be a long week.
Posted by The Furnace at 10:46 AM | Comments (0)October 25, 2008
Red Meat
So is "someone mistakes Winslow for a cat" the new running "gag" at Prickly City since Stantis has given up on Winslow trying to fly? He's gone to that well a few times already the last month or so, and it's rarely funny. When an alleged little kid writes in to a public chat and asks Stantis about Winslow the Cat? That's funny. Stantis making jokes about how pathetic his own drawing ability is that other characters have to point it out? Not funny.
As for the rest of today's strip, Stantis is still going on about the bail out, saying we're all Communists now and soon we'll be lining up in bread lines (apparently we're also all now shopping at a 1980s thrift store that specializes in stereotypical Russkie garb).
This is one of those deals where Stantis is accidentally topical and on target with Republican talking points without meaning to be. Two weeks ago all of the politicians in power were socialists bailing out the banks. Now Obama is the only socialist/communist/fascist/marxist (take your pick - conservatives love to mix and match since they don't seem to understand the differences), conveniently forgetting that their guy John McCain also voted for the bail out.
Turns out that Obama made the mistake of giving the Republicans a soundbyte: "spread the wealth." Obviously that makes him a communist who hates America, much like how voting no on Prop 8 in California will mean that men will be having sex with goats on every street corner. There is no gray area in the minds of conservatives - either you're with them or against them, although sometimes you're with them AND against them, depending on how confused they are about the subject (see Michelle Bachmann and her "Obama's not anti-American, he just has anti-American views" for an example).
As I mentioned in the comments the other day, it must be depressing for conservatives like Stantis to realize that their world view is so messed up. Alan Greenspan, a long-time Ayn Rand follower, had this to say the other day in regards to the financial collapse:
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interest of organizations, specifically banks and others, was such as they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders.
And with that, the principles of Rand's free market collapsed much like everything else under the Greatest Conservative President Ever, George W. Bush.
To think - in 8 short years, everything conservatives have spent the last half century working to put in place has proven to be a miserable, undeniable failure. I guess that's why Scott Stantis is such a perfect poster boy for the Republican party.
October 24, 2008
It's the Dickhead Economy
What a Shipdit. What Fumduck. What an Hassole.
Click Me, Scott.
Posted by CJo at 01:16 PM | Comments (3)October 23, 2008
It's the Economy, Dickhead
Scott Stantis, September - November, 2004
John Kerry is a flip-flopper.John Kerry is backed by Hollywood, which is a consortium of pedophilic, vomiting drunks.
Michael Moore, Dan Rather, and Whoopi Goldberg want to dupe you into voting for John Kerry.
Only jagoffs will vote for Kerry.
59,054,087 Real Americans voted along 'moral issues' for George W. Bush; the rest of you can go fuck yourself.
Scott Stantis, October 23, 2008:
I am a conservative. A quality I am afraid the GOP has not shared in a while. And by conservative I mean smaller government, lower taxes and a strong defense.Over the past decade the Republican Party has pretty much turned its back on all of these principals. What is about to happen to them in this election is earned. We pay more in taxes, the federal government is the largest it has ever been and the military is stretched to the breaking point.
I am not so delusional to think that the democrats will reverse this trend but I do hope that the republicans time in the wilderness will force reflection and recommitting to their core values.
Bob Dylan, 1965
You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging for your next meal.Posted by CJo at 10:52 AM | Comments (1)How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
October 22, 2008
Stone Cold Stoopit
After a 'good' 4 years, and as the clock is ticking here at Shrubville (just 13 more days! and I voted yesterday!), it becomes more and more clear what the whole Prickly City experience is about: getting liquored up and shouting nonsense. (And it's a wonder these folks support Palin.) To this end, let us observe the synopsis of Prickly City at its gocomics.com webpage.
"Prickly City is a comic strip about the friendship between Winslow, a coyote pup, and Carmen, a straight and narrow kind of kid...Their high jinks provide endless laughs as Winslow gets into trouble and Carmen follows...."
High jinks. "High jinks (1700) originally was a drinking game." This explains a lot.
And as I'm already gnawing on that bone of contention, did you see that? "Carmen follows." Is this the same character who "fights tooth and nail against a society that wants her and her friends to grow up much too fast...a rock, certain of her place on the moral high ground"? (She reminds me of a young gorgon - or maybe David Gergen - with the fighting and the teeth and nails and the hair of serpents and the stoniness.)
I fear there are at least 13 more days of this.
Posted by Sacki at 10:27 AM | Comments (1)October 21, 2008
Playing The Blame Game
It's always fun watching conservatives try to find someone to blame when odds are they're the reason things got screwed up in the first place. Today Stantis grapples with the financial crisis, with typical results.
First he tries to blame the loan officer - but Conservative Carmen explains that away by saying "he just sold the stinky loan." I've long said that's part of the problem: people treated their loan officers and mortgage brokers like they were doctors who were compelled to do what's best for the client, but in reality they're more like used car salesman doing whatever they can to make money.
Next up: blame the banks. Nope, Carmen tells us, they just made the loan. Because they bear no responsibility in figuring out if these loans can ever be paid back. Stantis then glosses over the whole part where the banks repackaged these bad loans over and over again and sold them to each other and a nice profit.
How about Wall Street? Carmen doesn't answer, because she's upset that nobody wants to take responsibility. That's right - in George W. Bush's America, a conservative can't believe that someone won't take responsibility for this mess. Let that soak in a bit, while I try to find who we can blame for invading Iraq, torturing our enemies, and Osama bin Laden still running around free.
Ultimately I think Stantis is like all the other conservatives, who want to blame it on poor people and minorities. They should have known better, the government shouldn't have forced banks and Fannie and Freddie to make loans to them, blah blah blah. The usual "blame the poor brown people" because lord knows none of them are "real Americans" like Sarah Palin would say.
I'll just refer back to a Shrubville post I put up a few weeks ago (you know, when this was a big story) as a bit of a refresher course in understanding where things went wrong.
It's a shame that Winslow didn't blame John "Keating 5" McCain and Phil Gramm - I would have loved to have seen Carmen's response to them being accused of having anything to do with this.
Oh, and about the Gold Standard? Who was our wise and wonderful president who took us off it because we were up to our eyeballs in debt thanks to another war of choice? That's right, Richard M. Nixon in 1971. Thanks Republicans - is there anything you can't screw up?
October 20, 2008
No Parachute
The clock is ticking, Stantis. The website that brings two (and sometimes even three!) daily webclicks to your strip is nearing the end. With those two (or three!) clicks gone, your audience will dramatically shrink.
You'd better start negotiating your own golden parachute with
Universal Press Syndicate.
Might I recommend you start the negotiations with demanding the rights to the pallets full of rotting Winslow stuffed animals in the warehouse in China.
Posted by CJo at 10:15 AM | Comments (5)October 19, 2008
Who Is This "Dr. Pepper?" Is He A....TERRORIST????
Colbert did it:
Maybe this is the new trend for Stantis: just rip off better comics and pass it off to the great unwashed masses as "original." Heck, it's better than any of the crap he comes up with on his own (brainwashed Commie Carmen, anyone?).
October 18, 2008
Hello Coyote
Prickly City isn't bad today.
Yeah, the artwork is terrible. Winslow's arm is way too long in the first panel, he's a bunch of scribbles in the second, and Carmen is smelling her finger in the third.
And Stantis does stereotype the elderly by saying they all love cats.
But for Prickly City, this is a strip that doesn't suck too hard. And that's a major accomplishment for Scott Stantis.
Who knows - maybe he'll pull a Chicago Tribune tomorrow and surprise everyone by endorsing Barack Obama. Now that would be a comic worth putting up on the fridge in the morning.
Posted by The Furnace at 11:09 AM | Comments (1)October 17, 2008
I Love Math, Myself
Winslow3 + 1 and (Carmen4x2 + 2Vaughn – Dio)/(KevinLBOTA – 1) = SUCKS!
Posted by CJo at 07:46 PM | Comments (0)October 16, 2008
Let's Have a Little Perspective, My Friends
Fun Fact About the US Treasury Building
Each of the 30 columns is 36 feet tall and was carved out of a single block of granite.
Fun Fact About Nancy Pelosi
She is estimated to be around five feet tall.
Fun Fact About Correspondence Art School
You can take a 10-Lesson course for $495.
October 15, 2008
Gonna Dig Me A Hole, Gonna Put A Turd In It
Today's Prickly City above will be ignored while we take a peek in at Scott Stantis wishing he hadn't been misled when he moved to Alabama. No outhouses?!?
I have to believe the sewer pipes are made of many layers; start with a thick layer of stupid covered with equal parts of what's-in-it-for-me and how-much-do-my-friends-get. Add an outer layer of the-public-be-damned and there ya go!
Solution: Move to Alaska, home of your darling Miss Congeniality, where I believe that you can just drop trou anywhere and then blame it on the nearest moose, and then shoot the nearest moose, and then eat the moose, and then let the cycle repeat itself. None of that mainstream elite East Coast media's indoor plumbing necessary.
Posted by Sacki at 10:28 AM | Comments (2)October 14, 2008
Bailing On Responsibility
Meh, just watch this take on the bailout instead (warning: naughty language):
Posted by The Furnace at 11:41 AM | Comments (1)October 13, 2008
Oh, Prickly City is Still Running?
As Christopher Columbus might say, "Only in America."
Posted by CJo at 04:35 PM | Comments (0)October 12, 2008
Sunday School
Since Stantis is going to waste the day on a lame "Winslow tries to fly/I can't even draw the moon" strip, let's use the Shrubville webspace to help educate some of our Republican friends on this whole economic crisis. From the good folks at McClatchy:
Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis
By David Goldstein and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens and Election Day approaches, a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.
Commentators say that's what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They've specifically targeted the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the federal government seized on Sept. 6, contending that lending to poor and minority Americans caused Fannie's and Freddie's financial problems.
Federal housing data reveal that the charges aren't true, and that the private sector, not the government or government-backed companies, was behind the soaring subprime lending at the core of the crisis.
Subprime lending offered high-cost loans to the weakest borrowers during the housing boom that lasted from 2001 to 2007. Subprime lending was at its height vrom 2004 to 2006.
Federal Reserve Board data show that:
_ More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions.
_ Private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year.
_ Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that's being lambasted by conservative critics.
The "turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007," the President's Working Group on Financial Markets reported Friday.
Conservative critics claim that the Clinton administration pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make home ownership more available to riskier borrowers with little concern for their ability to pay the mortgages.
"I don't remember a clarion call that said Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster," said Neil Cavuto of Fox News.
Fannie, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and Freddie, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., don't lend money, to minorities or anyone else, however. They purchase loans from the private lenders who actually underwrite the loans.
It's a process called securitization, and by passing on the loans, banks have more capital on hand so they can lend even more.
This much is true. In an effort to promote affordable home ownership for minorities and rural whites, the Department of Housing and Urban Development set targets for Fannie and Freddie in 1992 to purchase low-income loans for sale into the secondary market that eventually reached this number: 52 percent of loans given to low-to moderate-income families.
To be sure, encouraging lower-income Americans to become homeowners gave unsophisticated borrowers and unscrupulous lenders and mortgage brokers more chances to turn dreams of homeownership in nightmares.
But these loans, and those to low- and moderate-income families represent a small portion of overall lending. And at the height of the housing boom in 2005 and 2006, Republicans and their party's standard bearer, President Bush, didn't criticize any sort of lending, frequently boasting that they were presiding over the highest-ever rates of U.S. homeownership.
Between 2004 and 2006, when subprime lending was exploding, Fannie and Freddie went from holding a high of 48 percent of the subprime loans that were sold into the secondary market to holding about 24 percent, according to data from Inside Mortgage Finance, a specialty publication. One reason is that Fannie and Freddie were subject to tougher standards than many of the unregulated players in the private sector who weakened lending standards, most of whom have gone bankrupt or are now in deep trouble.
During those same explosive three years, private investment banks — not Fannie and Freddie — dominated the mortgage loans that were packaged and sold into the secondary mortgage market. In 2005 and 2006, the private sector securitized almost two thirds of all U.S. mortgages, supplanting Fannie and Freddie, according to a number of specialty publications that track this data.
In 1999, the year many critics charge that the Clinton administration pressured Fannie and Freddie, the private sector sold into the secondary market just 18 percent of all mortgages.
Fueled by low interest rates and cheap credit, home prices between 2001 and 2007 galloped beyond anything ever seen, and that fueled demand for mortgage-backed securities, the technical term for mortgages that are sold to a company, usually an investment bank, which then pools and sells them into the secondary mortgage market.
About 70 percent of all U.S. mortgages are in this secondary mortgage market, according to the Federal Reserve.
Conservative critics also blame the subprime lending mess on the Community Reinvestment Act, a 31-year-old law aimed at freeing credit for underserved neighborhoods.
Congress created the CRA in 1977 to reverse years of redlining and other restrictive banking practices that locked the poor, and especially minorities, out of homeownership and the tax breaks and wealth creation it affords. The CRA requires federally regulated and insured financial institutions to show that they're lending and investing in their communities.
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote recently that while the goal of the CRA was admirable, "it led to tremendous pressure on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — who in turn pressured banks and other lenders — to extend mortgages to people who were borrowing over their heads. That's called subprime lending. It lies at the root of our current calamity."
Fannie and Freddie, however, didn't pressure lenders to sell them more loans; they struggled to keep pace with their private sector competitors. In fact, their regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, imposed new restrictions in 2006 that led to Fannie and Freddie losing even more market share in the booming subprime market.
What's more, only commercial banks and thrifts must follow CRA rules. The investment banks don't, nor did the now-bankrupt non-bank lenders such as New Century Financial Corp. and Ameriquest that underwrote most of the subprime loans.
These private non-bank lenders enjoyed a regulatory gap, allowing them to be regulated by 50 different state banking supervisors instead of the federal government. And mortgage brokers, who also weren't subject to federal regulation or the CRA, originated most of the subprime loans.
In a speech last March, Janet Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, debunked the notion that the push for affordable housing created today's problems.
"Most of the loans made by depository institutions examined under the CRA have not been higher-priced loans," she said. "The CRA has increased the volume of responsible lending to low- and moderate-income households."
In a book on the sub-prime lending collapse published in June 2007, the late Federal Reserve Governor Ed Gramlich wrote that only one-third of all CRA loans had interest rates high enough to be considered sub-prime and that to the pleasant surprise of commercial banks there were low default rates. Banks that participated in CRA lending had found, he wrote, "that this new lending is good business."
(e-mail: khall )at)mcclatchydc.com)
McClatchy Newspapers 2008
October 11, 2008
I Myself Celebrate Smithers' Birthday
Oh great. I get stuck with the Pat DiNizio birthday strip this year? For those of you new to Prickly City and Shrubville, Scott Stantis is a fan of The Smithereens so every year he has an entire strip dedicated to his idol. This time around Winslow suspends his campaign to celebrate - even though he said he was suspending it earlier this week because he wasn't invited to the presidential debate (why would that matter? Carmen WAS invited to the VP debate and they just didn't let her in).
Mr. Stantis, I don't know The Smithereens. The Smithereens are not a band I listen to. So you, sir, can waste a Saturday talking about them, since I don't care. At least you're not trying to rile up the lynch mob like McCain/Palin, so I'll happily take a strip about a washed up "rock" star instead.
October 10, 2008
What a Dick [Morris]!
Dumb strip. Makes no sense. Not sure if this is a Dick Morris gag or a comment on the perceived general Clinton family perversity.
If it's a Dick Morris gag, it's silly to pin the title "Clinton Campaign Advisor" on him in this time and place. He's nothing but a Fox News Smear Queen now. Fox now owns his peccadilloes, not the Clintons.
If it's a Clinton perversity gag, then all I can say is 'screw off, Stantis.' You and your kind are dinosaurs. You're gonna be extinct come November. See 'ya; wouldn't wanna be 'ya. Etc.
Posted by CJo at 12:24 PM | Comments (2)October 09, 2008
Personally I Think She Looks More Like Peggy Hill
I think CJo's head exploded when he realized that in today's strip Scott Stantis indirectly calls John McCain stupid. That or he forgot to post. Either way - Vote for That One!
October 08, 2008
DIY Carnac
Yes, yes...because you're a "girl" Carmine, that's why you're unqualified. Repeat the lie often enough and people might start actually believing you're a girl.
Now on to today's interactive segment, do it yourself Carnac:
One-quarter patronizing, one-quarter inflammatory, and one half-wit.
Illustration: Zina Saunders.
October 07, 2008
Duck Duck Noose
So close, yet so far.
I like most of today's Prickly City. It's a decent swipe at Sarah Palin's ducking of questions from reporters. But then this happens:
I think that's supposed to be Carmen rolling up her sleeves so she can punch Winslow. Although it looks more like she's dislocated her shoulder and is trying to pop it back into place.
Leave aside that once again Stantis has his neo-con child resorting to violence because she's mad (she's a little John McCain). Instead let's keep in mind that Scott Stantis was paid American dollars to draw that. In a month where our country lost the most jobs since 2004, why is Scott Stantis among the employed?
Related to this, am I the only one that's worried about Barack Obama's safety after yesterday? Both John McCain and Sarah Palin are now running around saying that Obama is "pallin' around with terrorists" while their supporters yell out that we should kill him. When Scott Stantis has his main character, who is a child, wanting to attack someone because she doesn't like his politics, what can we expect of Republicans who are encouraged by the leader of their party to think that Obama is a Muslim terrorist? Scary times, folks.
October 06, 2008
Musings Over a Slow Day in Prickly City
Shouldn't Scott start hammering away at Ayers and Wright? Or did he get booted off the Wackjob Cabal Listserv?
His tame approach to this election (versus his flailing tantrums of 2004) is really something to behold.
Alas, the more impotent Scott Stantis becomes, the less relevant he is as a mouthpiece for the Right and, thus, the anti-Stantis fever that was once sweeping the nation has all but died. If the Right is not there to cheer his every scribble and the Left is not there to jeer his every dribble, who IS the Prickly City reader of Tomorrow?
Posted by CJo at 03:07 PM | Comments (0)October 05, 2008
The Real McCain
October 04, 2008
Mavericky Mavericks and the Mavericks Who Maverick Them. Also.
Hey, remember yesterday when Stantis joked that Joe Biden stole Winslow's campaign rascal? Yeah, forget that happened. Stantis needs to make a last second joke about the bail out, so Winslow needs his rascal back. In a way, Stantis got himself into a jam and rather than actually plan ahead and do his job, he instead takes the easy way out and wants his readers to forgive him for his past mistakes and simply pretend none of that other stuff happened and let's just start over. You know, kinda like the shadow banking industry getting bailed out by the government.
I can't believe I actually looked forward to this storyline. Instead of thrusting Carmen into the middle of his own version of the Biden/Palin debate, Stantis once again took the lazy way out and even though Carmen was invited said she couldn't be in the debate. Why? Because he knows nothing is expected of him. Today's strip is probably going to be considered a good one by most, just because Stantis takes an easy jab at the bail out. It's just like Palin on Thursday - since she didn't completely lose it on stage it was considered a great performance. Since when have conservatives lowered their expectations so much?
I guess after 8 years of George W. Bush will make you think anything is better than what we have now - even if it's Scott Stantis and Sarah Palin.
October 03, 2008
Friday Faiku
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October 02, 2008
Grand Master (De)Bater
What on earth is John Kerry doing working security at the VP debate?!
While we all try to think of an appropriate answer, I'll turn today's post over to the folk who comment on the Prickly City website:
Runar says, "Let her in. She’s more qualified than Palin." Sounds like my kind of guy.
But then GBruceWilson rebuts, "And Obama!" Zing!
Finally, the sublime DerekA finishes it off with, "And Biden! Those two helped get us in this financial mess."
Good one, sir! Your debating skills are top-notch. Maybe YOU, DerekA of the Prickly City/GoComics Message Board, are qualified for VP.
Posted by CJo at 01:52 PM | Comments (2)October 01, 2008
In Loving Memory Of Ursula
Instant revision
Carmine: Pull, baby, pull!
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Welcome to October - only 36 days til the end of Prickly City as we know it.
Posted by Sacki at 01:50 PM | Comments (2)
picture courtesy of JB