# Move over, Scylla:  Prickly City waterboards!

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**Created:** [March 2, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-scylla-prickly-city-waterboards/439853 "2008-03-02T16:32:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-scylla-prickly-city-waterboards/439853/1 "2008-03-02T16:32:39Z")

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In the fine tradition of the SDMB’s own **Scylla** , who shared with us [his own investigations into waterboarding](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448717), the comic strip _Prickly City_ has tried it, and didn’t like it.

[Carmen blows it off as “just a little water up the nose.”](http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2008/02/28/)

[Winslow demonstrates – on Carmen.](http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2008/02/29/)

[Carmen revises her opinion; Winslow gets the last laugh.](http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2008/03/01/)

_Prickly City_ is an interesting strip: unashamedly conservative, yet not devoid of humor and tiredly hiveminded like _Mallard Fillmore_. I’ve noticed over the last year or so, while its preferred target remains liberal follies, it’s been taking some shots at the grosser idiocies of the current regime, the ones that a conservative in the pre-neocon, pre-borrow-and-spend mold would find offensive.

This, though – this is, IMO, the strongest anti-Bush statement it’s made to date. I have to wonder what it suggests (if anything, if anything) about opinions in the Republican grassroots.

Another thought just popped up: _Prickly City_ and _Doonesbury_ inhabit opposite ends of the political cartooning spectrum, yet both don’t shy away from zinging dumbassery on their own side, and both are frequently amusing – unlike the aforementioned _Mallard Fillmore_, which is depressingly unfunny. Coincidence? I think not.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-scylla-prickly-city-waterboards/439853/2 "2008-03-03T02:13:17Z")

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I wondered if Stantis picked up the original somewhere on his radar screen.