It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Charlston Comics.
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The amazing thing is how incoherent this is. It's bleakly fascinating how insular Muir world is these days--even on a subject as general as this, the strip is a dense, talky, oblique mess.
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Yeah, it would at least help his case slightly if we could understand who was talking in which panel.
ReplyDeleteI'll never understand how the peanut gallery never seems to have any trouble following things. The staging is so preposterously incompetent.
DeleteMy own comic doesn't have the strongest staging in the world, I'm the first to admit, but I'm freaking Sergei Eisenstein compared to Muir.
I think that because he is one of "their" people, ideologically speaking, they are willing to overlook any flaws, and to invest large amounts of their time figuring out what is going on in his strips. I'm assuming your strip does not have a neofascist point of view, so I'm sure the Muir peanut gallery would instantly tear apart any small thing that was wrong with it.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Muir is not getting any critical feedback about his work is definitely not helping the quality of it....
No neofascists, though there is an authoritarian-style father.
ReplyDeleteWhat gets me isn't just that they always understand what's going on even when things are extremely muddled, it's that they never seem to have any trouble figuring it out at all. They're all somehow on the same wavelength. They'll all be commiserating about whatever Muir is saying and meanwhile I'll have no idea who's saying what to whom, or what's even supposed to be happening.
Maybe they're all on the same wavelength because they're in a cult...that would explain it.
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