It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you can be mean.
As we watch Muir project his own superstitious and cult-like behavior as well as its attendant health risks onto his opponents yet again, I should note that the risk of blood-clotting complications with some (not all) Covid vaccines is for an extreme minority of those who take them.
The risk of blood-clotting complications for those who get Covid? Much higher.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Phoenix Park Murders.
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The fascinating thing is while Muir's general statement of superiority is easy to get, what exactly he means by it is... hard to get.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because when you call me baby, I know I'm not the only one.
Remember, Muir loves the military, provided it's willing to perform coups in the service of the Real Muricans' idol of the moment. Otherwise, they're cowardly bureaucrats to be despised, who would doubtless crumble in the face of resistance from the volk!
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Cobra Commander.
Seeing as we have the usual unfunny botched turkey gag, the Thanksgiving treat we do not need or want (sort of like the Lions game), it seems as good a time as any to talk about the failure of DbD as a fictional universe that I tried to start the previous two days but couldn't because, damn, that artwork was especially wretched.
Skye's latest "plotline" is a device that Muir's tossed out countless times before... some of the cast, usually Jan and Damon, start up some sort of career as journalists, where we are assured they will be hard-hitting seekers after 'real news' who skewer the fake liberal media conspiracy. We then get a maybe a story or two of them acting like jackasses to a straw version of a politician, and then... Muir loses interest, and the whole thing dies. Seeing as this keeps happening, you have to wonder why he keeps doing it. The answer, I'd argue is pretty simple--and yet touches on one of DbD's weaknesses as a strip. Muir does this to give members of his cast who are falling to the wayside something to do connected with the political side of the strip. It fails because Muir is a terrible writer who can't do anything with the concept, and so it generally fails to revive his interest in them.
But that's one of the fundamental problems with DbD--it's not really about much of anything anymore. It started it had a simple format--office strip with political humor. It used it badly, but, well, it still used it. Now... now it's a strange lurching thing that bumbles about to let Muir live out his laughable fantasies and spew right wing hate. It is a strip where things simply happen.
Like Sam (or her daughters) destroying a turkey every Thanksgiving.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I hung my head.
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I was going to do that post about the failure of DbD as a fictional universe, but what the hell is up with that last panel? It looks like Muir redid a naked Sam panel as a naked Jan panel.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because many days and months have I waited for the train.
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You know, I was considering posting something about how this latest bad 'cast member tries journalism' plot exemplifies how DbD has failed as a fictional universe, but that can wait, when the cast looks so fugly today. Did Muir mess up his copies today, or what?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because beeswax.
...It's kind of amazing that Muir thinks his cast his sympathetic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because beeswax.
As we watch Muir due the fascist classic of claiming to represent progress and tradition, simultaneously, while being the underdog AND the ubermensch, let's remember the terrible, terrible spinoff strip he's referencing that was supposed to be a book written by Sam and was just awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the soldier lies forgotten in the keep.
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There's nothing I can really say about Muir's awfulness that this brainless fascist strip doesn't say for itself, while thinking it says something different.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because this is the tale of the strange adventures of young Allan Gray.
Muir's ability to mutilate anything--pop culture references, political points, characters--beyond its ability to make any sense is... almost impressive, in a terrible way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's a gas, gas, gasssss.
It's kind of fascinating to watch Muir unleash his latest fantasy of his protagonists' invincibility, because it will go nowhere, the way all of them do. The Compound will destroy countless corrupt federal agents, do whatever it is they are supposed to do with refugees, and win countless victories against the evil forces of the Left... and yet it will never accomplish anything. Even when Muir's champions hold power, they are impotent to his mind because he desires impossible, awful things.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because cheers to the strange woman.
Watching Muir declare every government agency that doesn't just submit to the rule of white supremacists sinister corrupt fascists is a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Philadelphia Stars.
I don't know whether the hideous cast looking even more badly drawn than usual, or Muir's soap opera from hell plot is worse.
Still, no crazy ranting about vaccines this time, so it could be worse.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Voices of Heaven.
It says something that Skye has only gotten worse as she became part of the hivemind. But then, Sam has been the worse sibling the entire time, for all the strip tries to make her the good one.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Yazoo Street Scandal.
Muir's Gnosticism has been a thing for a while. It's just now it extends to things that directly threaten him, instead of things that he can convince himself aren't happening.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because he was somebody's son.
Ahh, that's a fine batch of stupidcrazy. Brings me back to the magic of AM Radio.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Passion of Joan of Arc.
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On the one hand, the Garrisons managed to survive their brush with Covid. On the other, Muir strikes me as probably being in worse shape than them.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because this is Halloween town.
That last panel is a horrific variation of the Muir Woman makes a howler monkey face panel.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it is the nighttime that flatters.
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And remember, it has only been a few days since Sam was elected to the Council. That has how long it took her to turn the county into the Republic of Stupid Rednecks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because how long to the point of no return?
It's kind of fascinating watching Muir still insist he believes in rationality and scientific advancement as this goes on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because better wait for the best part, microwave.
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Muir's real racist straw leftists are getting weird.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm.
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See, if I were one of Sam's fellow town councilors, I would be pulling the brakes on the crazy train about now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Lesley Gore.
You know, that Sam is stupid enough to do this isn't the surprise. It's that Muir thinks that a single member of a town council can that shows how off the deep end he's gone.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because no justice.
The Washington Generals were treated with more respect by the Harlem Globetrotters.
Let's see how messed up Sam has a council member gets, especially with the 'not paying taxes' thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because let's all go to the lobby.
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Muir regurgitating Nordquist's 'starve the beast' bullshit mixed in with sovereign citizen bullshit is... certainly a look.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because smokehouse.
The huge wall of text where Muir spouts white supremacist garbage and objects to being called a right-wing terrorist is a thing. As is the anti-vax nonsense. Yup. Strip full of crazy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because mariachi band.
Muir's ongoing withdrawal from any form of the social contract remains a thing.
