Prickly City by Scott Stantis for June 04, 2011

Sometimes this comic is funny, sometimes it’s profound, and other times,like now, it’s just plain strange.

@ubbm, I think this just shows that Scott makes this up as he goes along. It’s a way to close up the “Kevin Missing” sequence and make a comment about the bin Laden capture. It appears this cartoon is produced with a 2-3 week lead time, though Chris Mathews’ “interview” of Winslow was eerily timely given the NY-26 special election.

This doesn’t seem to be relevant to anything.

Yeah; the previous guy believed in celebrating victories that weren’t even victories—COUGH-COUGH landing on aircraft carrier playing dress-up flyboy with a codpiece “Mission Accomplished” COUGH-COUGH

@Andy, Obama had his own “Mission Accomplished” moment this week when he did his “victory lap” at GM and Fiat plants.

This guy has a burr up his arse…and daily brain farts. Zzzzzzzz

Obama doesn’t want to “spike the ball” because as a good elite leftist he thinks patriotism is gauche.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?!?

Stantis seems easier to understand, if you view his cartooning like a parody of the alternative reality show he sees on FOX ‘News’ Channel.That’s got to be the only place you’d still hear a manufactured non-troversy like “The President is spiking the ball”.

This is very funny to those who understand the context.

I know what it means to spike the ball in football, but I’ve never seen it as a figure of speech. What does it mean?

@Stephen Gilberg, the expression is similar to “rubbing it in.” In college FB, for instance, it is considered “excessive celebration” and subject to a penalty. In the pros it’s OK. Actually, Obama would have been justified in “spiking the ball” after killing OBL, but he somehow managed to partially neutralize a major foreign policy victory because he couldn’t get the story straight afterward about what really happened. Plus, even though he has kept rendition, “enhanced interrogation,” and Gitmo, he has struggled to distance himself from those decisions (to mollify the true believers to his left who think he’s “too moderate”), which has further muddied his foreign policy positions.