Prickly City by Scott Stantis for July 13, 2017

Of late I’d been critical of Stantis for chasing motes in his eye while ignoring the logs lodged there, but I think that I was giving poor advice to the guy when I suggested he change his focus. His metier is trying to be an illogical Conservative voice in a funnies page where most comics tend to have a sharp liberal sense of humor (perhaps due to the fact that both truth and humor have liberal biases). He’s never been terribly funny, witty or charming, but at least he’s saying something that others aren’t. When on occasion he does go after Trump it lacks a sense of irony and wit in the same way that his attacks on the press and on the Clintons have that lack (Really? Still fighting the Clintons? Really?) and his strip suffers by comparison to those that do political satire well. So please, accept my apologies and go back to your usual targets. That Bill Clinton sure is a devil (tee hee hee sigh hee). At least you’ll remain unique on the comic pages.