Prickly City

A comic strip of a conservative/libertarian bent by Scott Stantis set in the eponymous Southwestern town. The main characters(frequently the only characters who appear for weeks at a time) are Carmen, a young Hispanic girl, representing the conservative point of view and Winslow, a coyote pup representing the liberal view.

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Tropes used in Prickly City include:

• A Friend in Need: Winslow and Carmen
• Anxiety Dreams: After supporting Kevin's election
• Author Avatar
• Author On Board
• Bad Dreams: After supporting Kevin's election
• Big Red Button: Which disappoints Winslow: no boom.
• Blah Blah Blah
• Blatant Lies: Covering up Kevin's disappearance.
• Breakout Character: Kevin.
• Briar Patching: When Kevin angles for the VP nomination.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Kevin, Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: A large chunk of the cast disappeared in the first couple years.
  • Kevin the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse reappeared after a long absence (with a different design) and has become a regular again since the 2010 election.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Winslow, sometimes.
• Dirty Business: The Blatant Lies, according to Carmen.
• Fire and Brimstone Hell: Where you can find a sincere supporter of Kevin
• Follow the Leader: After La Cucaracha and of course Calvin and Hobbes (with switched personalities).
  • And Winslow's life-long dream of flying. If that's not blatantly copying Opus, I don't know what it is.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Opie the alien calls off his invasion of Earth because he doesn't want to catch the self-destructive thing we have.
• It's the Journey That Counts: Winslow offers this as an Aesop
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
• Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!
• Loophole Abuse
• Missing White Woman Syndrome: Kevin's disappearance manages to attract attention despite not being blond.
• Moses in the Bulrushes: Winslow claims this is how his story starts, with a basket in the rushes...
• Multiple Choice Past: ...until he starts making contrary claims.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Why, you've gotten the Lost Bunny of the Apocalypse elected to the Senate, what else?
• The Nose Knows: Winslow claims it as a superpower
• Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
• Only Sane Man: Carmen... usually.
• Only Smart People May Pass
• Paper-Thin Disguise
• Pretty Butterflies: Carmen and Winslow admire one one lazy day.
• Raised by Wolves: Reversed. Winslow is so humanized that an attempt to live with wild coyotes failed miserably.
• Ripped from the Headlines: As with most political comics. For example, in one story Winslow refused to let Carmen buy football cards just because she's a conservative; meanwhile, she pointed out that the football players are far worse ("drug abuser... deadbeat dad... adulterer...!"). This was based on the controversy over Rush Limbaugh wanting to buy a football team.
• Running Gag: Winslow trying to fly, for one.
• Schmuck Bait: Unsatisfactory for Winslow, since it does nothing.

If you break the rules you deserve a boom.

• Screwy Squirrel: Winslow sometimes
• Shout-Out: "Speaking is Action! Spending is Saving! Debt is Stimulus!"
  • "Real Reality is for Suckers!"
  • Winslow's Multiple Choice Past includes references to Spider-Man and The Godfather.
• Strawman Political
• Talk About the Weather
• Talking Animal: Winslow the coyote and other desert-dwellers.
• Torches and Pitchforks
• Vitriolic Best Buds
• Vote Early, Vote Often: Rejected. The dead voted only once for Kevin.
• Wall of Blather
• Your Head Asplode