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.

"If you break the rules you deserve a boom."
 * 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.


 * 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