It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Snow Babies.
This really isn't a comic strip. It's a lengthy rant with crappy artwork. Hell, it says something that any of the main cast could be saying this to any of the designated worshipful youth. It is that devoid of any personality beyond Muir's.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because where the banshees dwell.
There's always something bitterly amusing in the way Muir imagines the rest of the world united in a cheery evil conspiracy of evil against the American Volk.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because don't try to run, I can keep up with you.
There's a bleak fascination in how in the middle of a crazy racist conspiracy theory, Muir continues to conflate unregistered migrant workers with refugees. He peddles different strands of misinformation at the same time.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because myrtle.
I guess this universe's Elon needed another way to destroy Tesla and Twitter stock's value.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Aggies.
When Muir has his cast give these bigoted brittle speeches, which highlight not only his racism and his amorality, but the cowardice that imagines its courage that underpins it all, I'm reminded of the saying that libertarians are rather like house cats--creatures that fancy themselves independent but are actually utterly dependent on systems they don't understand to survive.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because charcoal.
The admiration on the Right for that 'jury box, ballot box, bullet box' slogan that wasn't clever when it was first made is... well, typical.
For that matter, so is Muir's tortured 'go green' line.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Duke of Bedford.
So, why do they care again, when they feel they just seceded? Because it seems like they imagine secession involves them being able to say they're an independent nation whenever anything is asked of them, but also getting to keep all their present involvement in the US government in a 'heads I win, tails you lose' set up.
Which, to be fair, is how Muir imagines all of society should be run.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that was a good drum break.
This entire strip is the sort of hypocritical, bigoted, misogynistic rant you find on the dingier fashier sections of 4chan and 8kun.
Only in comic form.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Coastal Carolina Chanticleers.
Well, it's finally happened. Despite being the most repugnant straw leftist Muir has created, Xir has finally made an argument that is correct, albeit in the most awful way possible. I suppose if it happened to Skye, who was made of stupid when she was supposed to be a leftist, it would happen to Xir as well. Xir realizes the entire election is absurd, notes that Sam is wrong about everything, and says that the people of Gunpowder are bunch of idiot rednecks, which--again, this is what Muir has written. But of course, Muir thinks that he's written a cast of smart, capable patriots.
That he has plotting a unilateral secession. Again. Because the first one didn't take somehow. Also, why did Xir even stay in the running when the race somehow turned from judge to 'President of our secessionist county'?
Ehh, I'm giving this plot more thought than Muir has.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Nukeface Papers.
Why is Xir even bother running for a nonsensical made-up post in the Redneckistan "government"?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Nine Dragon Shi.
It's startling what a mess this strip is. The election for judge is apparently being discarded, and yet Xir seemingly continues to stand for office, and even makes a common sense argument that the hivemind of course sneers at. I'd argue the fundamentals of the strip haven't changed much, actually--Muir has always argued nonsense, and insisted sensible things stated in reply to this were some kind of idiocy. It's just that the nonsense has gotten crazier and crazier as the strip goes along.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Eye of Night.
So we are starting the secession plotline again, EXCEPT the previous secession apparently didn't happen, though all the stuff connected to it Sam was doing did happen.
At this point, the only in-universe explanation that makes sense is that the twins getting aged up created a time vortex so that causality breaks down in weird ways.
Out of universe, the explanation is that Muir is a crank and a hack, obviously.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Scooter's Coffee.
The tendency of Muir's various baddies to create nonsensical Evil Legions of Evil can really get to you sometimes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bellringer.
Not only do we have Muir making his imagined enemies talk like this, we have him thinking that this makes him sympathetic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because He Walked By Night.
Most of the 'How dare the government persecute us for things we did!" rhetoric is the same old, same old, but I can't help but shake my head at how casually our latest baddie dismisses the robodogs. As if that just, you know, par for the course.
Muir can't help how much he's broken the strip's reality at this point. It's beyond salvage.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because take to the sky with me!
There are two things that make Muir's objections to the security state risible. Firstly, as his protagonists' actions make boundlessly clear, he has no real objection to this sort of behavior, just the idea that it might be aimed at him. The hivemind runs Gunpowder and the Compound as de facto police states, spying and detaining those who oppose them whenever they wish.
The other of course is that the Compound has performed so many baffling illegal actions that there's no reason for the FBI to be acting like dimwitted heavies about this. They've killed people, threatened people, spearheaded a secession attempt, and have made nearly no effort to hide this. Talking about how they're going to have plant evidence on people who loudly shout their plans to break laws is... well, par for the course.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because olive oil.
Muir keeps acting as if it's outrageous his characters would face opposition from the federal government and that only a depraved state would dare act against them. And keeps having them do awful and illegal things that no government would countenance. Which he occasionally retcons in part of his eternal tendency to gaslight.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's a strange invitation.
Ahh. Finding a chance to slam the poor and Blacks while demonstrating that you don't know how the welfare state you rail against works.
Peak Muir right there.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Carolina Chocolate Drops.
Sometimes I think Muir is aiming to face the vengeful revenant of Johnny Cash. And sometimes I know.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that's how it goes.
The man who always accused his opponents of being cowards for not supporting an unjust war, now accuses them of being corrupt deviants for supporting a just war.
Because when you're fascist, that's what you do.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because when life gives lemons, make whiskey sours.
Well, this plot is going to create even more idiocy than Sam being a county chairwoman.
Who engineered a nonsensical unilateral secession that everyone is now pretending never happened.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because DPI.
The hivemind is on full display, along with all its odd little conspiracy theories and strange beliefs.
Like that they can make tequila in Gunpowder.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because absinthe makes the mind go yonder.
I'm really glad Muir hasn't been showing Russian Guyovich lately. He was probably the closest thing Muir has created to a likable character, and of course, he went and ruined him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because youngblood.
There are two interesting aspects to Xir coming back like the jobber heel in a wrestling match to get stomped again. One of course is that Muir is clearly trying to replay the "high" of Sam's victorious campaign for council. The campaign after all required effort from Sam, and let Xir be an actual opponent. Not much effort on Sam's part--indeed, a parody of effort--and Xir's efforts to win were laughably incompetent, and served as nothing but a demonstration of their inferiority. But once Sam was on the council she was the de facto dictator of Gunpowder, able to make nonsense happen on a whim, and Xir was even more of a punching bag, now utterly powerless against any shit Sam did to make their life miserable. This is clearly an effort to go back to that dynamic, all while ignoring the essential problem--victory comes to the cast unearned, against laughably incompetent foes and merely grants them more victory.
The other is that now, Xir is apparently a wealthy member of the elite, something that was nowhere previously indicated. It fits with their protean nature--about the only clear thing about Xir's gender and orientation is they're not straight, and they at least somewhat identify as a woman. Now, to better be the insidious and decadent elite, Xir is rich. But the bad kind of rich, because they don't support fascist values.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because open your heart to me.
Dread it, run from it, Muir using the same stock poses over and over arrives just the same.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because citrus oil.
God knows what Kiko looks like at the moment. Her mother appears to have partially melted and her daughter's off-panel visage seems to have left her stunned.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because till there was you.
It says something that Muir is continuing the Gunpowder County plot, while ignoring that he sort of had Sam commit some light treason, what with the secession and all.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because welp.
Muir's ongoing attempt to revive his latest flailing "cast as reporters" storyline is going in a very weird direction.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because General Ludd.
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The extent to which this strip's politics have morphed from a traditional Right Wing Racism that special-pleaded like crazy to the present naked white supremacism is... well, a thing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because another fine mess.
The noteworthy tendency of Muir to fall in love with the aesthetics of shows and movies while missing their point continues.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because oh.
As I keep noting, there is something almost impressive of what a hash he's made of the entire Gunpowder County plotline, where the secession seems to have been completely forgotten for months, until it is suddenly a thing again.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I can be your armor if you keep me warm.
Right, so on top of all the various kinds of racist awful here, it should be pointed out that tequila is a designation of origin product--it's not just only made in Mexico, it's made in a particular region of Mexico. So, no, they can't make tequila in Redneckistan.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because what's the rumpus?
Boob jokes, bad cheesecake drawings and giving his cast things for free. Three things that Muir will always toss out when he's at a loss for something to do next.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dennis Moore, etc.
The worst part about these slice of life "gag-a-day" strips is they underline what an unlikable bunch of shits the cast is, and how the strip treats being a redneck as a glorious sign of superiority.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because St. Louis Browns.
Like all online fascists, Muir follows an alternative definition of reason that means that all of his nonsense is simply correct, and that the virtues he lacks are actually bad things. It suffers from the weakness of being utterly divorced from reality, but then, so is Muir.
It's the Days Day of Days! Because Miller's Crossing.
There's always a bleak fascination in watching Muir turn world events into the triumph of fascism. Especially as he doesn't realize that's what he's doing because he keeps imagining he's not a fascist.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ariat work boots.
It's the mix of smugness and brittleness that comes through. Underneath the confident misogyny is a man feeding it with any sexist bullshit he reads online, because the moment he stops is the moment he has to admit how far off the reservation he's gone.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because unremarkable coffee.
There is a quiet sort of awful to these slice of life strips. It gets under your skin, and just winds up worse the longer you think about it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Indiana Death Song.
The cast now looks like they should be in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, and no, not as victims.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I don't know what I'm doing, but I gotta get things done, son.
The worst part of the hivemind is how much it celebrates its own awfulness.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daylight Titans.
Sometimes the Sitcom from Hell really winds up emphasizing the last part.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because she's got spiders inside her head.
In the past, pregnancies such as this were bad enough in their blatant design to let Muir indulge both his emotional need to make Captain Mitty a paragon of virility and his barely-hidden breastfeeding fetish. But now that he's fucked up the cast's ages in the manner he has, it becomes a tangled mess that demonstrates what an absolute shambles he's rendered his fictional universe. Remember, aside from aging up the daughters to the point where the year they would have been born is before not only their original in-universe births but before their parents' original in-universe marriage, he's also retconned Sam's age outright once, and I'd argue he's been messing with it subtly since then.
All of which this latest plot puts on display. Not that he cares. I await in a few years when Sam is pregnant again, along with one of her daughters, and one of her granddaughters, who was born three years ago in strip, and is now suddenly eighteen.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because everybody wants to be a cat.
Every time something like this happens, we get reminded that he can't draw attractive characters and he can't write likable characters.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because people everywhere just want to be free.
A reminder that when this work is not being terrible and vile, it is merely being bad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that's ominous.
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Like I said, the worst possible thing to replace his old bad politics with.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Barry Sanders.
It says something that Muir's repudiation of his former politics is based on the worst possible alternative.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because spring collection.
It's fascinating to see Muir's old Clinton hatred mixing with his newfound whiny white supremacism. He always a racist misogynist, but listening to online nutbags has really sent him into very strange directions.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because salted caramel.
I'm starting to imagine Ian as a hideous monstrosity from beyond time and space.
To be fair, I'm only going off his girlfriend.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because citrus.
Muir's little delusional world manages to be insane while being pretty dull at the bottom of it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because neat, sweet, petite.
We are reaching 'dissolve the electorate and install a new one' suggestions in this strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because roundabout.
Obviously, the proof of how severe the problem is lies on how the media isn't reporting this. The absence of evidence is the evidence.
Yes, that's where Muir is right now. At the point where the things that show what he thinks is wrong have become proof to him.
I considered going into the 'why do they care about the elections when they view themselves as a sovereign state?' but again, Muir has pretty much killed that plotline at this point.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because do the mashed potato.
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The thing that gets you over and over is that he thinks this is clever.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ophelia.
I swear, the robots just get more ridiculous every year and a flashing neon sign that shows just how badly this strip has lost what little cohesion it had.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because fruit bat.
After the horrors of the late Solomon Grundy, I do wonder what hideous thing Ian is going to look like, because well, that's what Muir draws now.
I mean, Mia looks like Cousin It in the last panel.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because who's up for golf?
Ahh, look it's Muir's obsessions with bad attempts at softcore that demonstrate his bad grasp of anatomy and tortured French Revolution analogies that demonstrate his bad grasp of history. It's odd how they'll frequently show up together.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because tilt-a-whirl.
It's kind of interesting to watch Muir's crazy conspiracy theories being filtered through his tendency to dress himself up in a higher culture he doesn't understand.
Kind of.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because marbles.
Ahh, the brittle toughness of guy who talks up fights that he's knows will never happen. Oh, well. As regards Puller, I'm sure Chesty would be thrilled that a homegrown fascist who carries water for foreign dictators was misquoting him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you're back at Terrapin Station for good or ill.
He's not only comparing immigration to the Holocaust, he's doing so while creating a conspiracy of evil Jews behind it. And while viewing himself as being persecuted by Nazis.
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I'm trying to decide if this is a new low in his antisemitism and anti-immigration racism. I'm leaning towards 'yes', but he's hit so many lows in them before it's getting hard to track.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because trumpet.
Sometimes, Muir makes a strip like this and you know he's just throwing out someone else's racist bullshit, at best slightly repackaged. Because for all that he likes to imagine he's a bastion of stability, the fact is, it doesn't take much to get Muir to swallow racist crazy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Bird and War.
Muir's eternal declaration that his racist awfulness and desire to kill the government show what a patriot he is has become predictable as it is risible.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because while the storyteller speaks, a door within the fire creaks.
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A reminder that Mia's mother is an Israeli Jewish woman.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Detroit tough.
Ahh, Muir is in fifth-rate stand-up comic rehashing unfunny cliched jokes mode. Joy.
Still, at least he isn't being crazyevil.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because my cakes will burn.
Fundamentally, the worship of asshole Texas judges is just another aspect of Muir's worship of a Texas that only exists in his head. It's just the most nakedly authoritarian aspect.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Ancient City.
It's fascinating how Muir has grown more ignorant and incoherent while growing more arrogant and sure of himself in equal measure. Like any fascist he has not only dehumanized his enemies, but done so to a ludicrous extent, all while losing any ability to understand them. Not that he ever had much to begin with.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Halloween!
As slight as this strip is, it gives you the essence of Muir, these days. A man revealing his own ignorance and vileness in ways that are simply pathetic, and thinking that every time he's just rocking it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because try try try to let it ride.
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It's good to see that becoming an American First isolationist hasn't stopped Muir from returning to his neocon 'forever wars forever' roots when he's in the mood. But why should it? It's not like he bothers to be consistent on any subject. Except for the racism against Muslims. That he's pretty solid on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the winner by a submission.
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There's something bleakly fascinating in how Muir thinks these moronic petty blowhards are likable.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Cooper's Lament.
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I'm offended, and I don't even like Mayor Adams.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because there was Slugger O'Toole, who was drunk as a rule.
It's the sheer levels of awful that Muir reveals here that get you, as the only objection to the... you know, human trafficking offered is that they are doing is that it's part of the evil (((globalist))) conspiracy to replace white people Americans and the reply is 'Ha, those inferior effete urban dwellers are not our countrymen!' It's fractal awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because takin' my time.
Like many fascists, Muir keeps running into two problems. Firstly, for all he likes to imagine himself a patriotic American, he actually hates the nation and views its government as decadent and weak. As usual for his ilk he gets around it by declaring the present government is in fact in hock to foreign powers, so his opposition to it is just him being extra patriotic. Yes, it is those foreign powers who are corrupting the nation's vital essence and doing things Muir doesn't like. But then the second problem rears its head... Muir is a delusional, ignorant, and bigoted reactionary and the things he doesn't like are usually good actions.
And so we get the insidious Chinese plot to vaccinate people and not persecute gay people.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because classic.
The fascinating thing is how we're watching Muir's misunderstandings about how technology works join with his misunderstandings about how politics work and joining with his inability to write consistent premises making this entire plotline a muddle.
At this point, I'm wondering if the damn gold reserve is still in existence, or it's just another thing Muir wrote, then decided didn't matter. And don't get me started on the entire secession.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because fading like a flower.
Sometimes the fact that these characters are surviving because they're the author's pets is made very clear.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because lemons.
The tensions between Muir's desire for his cast to be Far Right everymen suffering under the oppression and misrule of the gubment, and Far Right supermen who the gubment quakes in fear of has gotten very exaggerated in the last few years.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because friendly dog.
The most obnoxious element of Muir's fascism is the George Constanzaish tendency to seek out not very clever loopholes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the glory and the dream.
Well, would you look at that? Muir's whining about the Jan. 6 insurrectionists facing consequences has actually somehow gotten worse. Hard to believe it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because random sample.
This strip underlines how much this allegedly political comic strip has become completely divorced from the actual political events of the day. Muir deals perfunctorily with distorted versions of actual events that seem based on little more than vague impressions, because they don't matter to him. It's the conspiracy theories that count, not the government being unable to pass spending bills.
Which Muir approves of, because the government doing anything but killing brown people is bad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the holly and the ivy.
There's something comical in the fact that Muir's pathetic take on what an evil degenerate Biden has always been involves a bunch of thinly retouched versions of the main cast in stock poses.
Something in this strip has to be.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because in vino veritas.
You can tell that a large part of Muir's increasing acceptance of Nazi rhetoric is reading a lot of online Nazis. This is pretty standard 'Great Replacement' bullshit that you'll find in their corners of the web.
Of course, Muir has always been susceptible to swallowing arguments he likes whole without questioning. It's just that's gone from "And that's why Iraq is actually going well" to this.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because toaster heat level settings.
Huh.
It's interesting. When describing Muir's political changes through the years, I tend to feel it is less a transformation and more a revelation. The basic core has mostly remained the same, but the surrounding levels of bullshit and doublethink have been gradually stripped away. The Muir of a few years ago would have written something similar to this, but more mealy-mouthed. The Muir of a decade ago might have thought things like this, but he wouldn't have put them directly to page. And the Muir of two decades ago might have felt things like this, but had a very careful set of denials in his head that he could trot out and say he wasn't a racist.
All gone now. The essential bigot no longer feels the need to hide.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because all God's chillun got rhythm.
As we stare at this combo of racism, conspiracy nonsense, and more of Muir's old man grumbling, we have to ask... why do they care? They're running a supposedly independent nation that the Feds somehow can't touch, with its own gold-backed currency.
But then, Muir seems to have forgotten that plot--to have realized, on some level, that even in the strip's universe, it isn't real. It wouldn't shock me to see him yank it back into play later, mind you, but for now, it really seems like he just couldn't keep it going.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because total eclipse of the heart.
Somehow, it makes sense for Muir to shout out a shitty incoherent work of art that the Right has gushed over because it fits their worldview and lets them imagine they're owning the libs by insisting it's great.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sad trombone.
Wow. It says something that Muir's present political beliefs have managed to produce the most horrible response imaginable to events in Israel. Actual cheerleading for one side or the other would be less repugnant than this, and that would be hella repugnant.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Black Seal.
The extent to which these people live their lives on the basis of irritating others regardless of the consequences is so pathetic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because old shoe.
As we watch Muir babble his nonsense and imagine it shows what an insightful observer of world politics he is, let us all agree that zombie werehyena Musk just seems to be getting worse and worse with each new appearance.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because they call me the wild rose.
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The utter lack of any real direction for this strip only makes the grotesqueness of the art stand out more.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because exclusive poster inside!
He has the girl he aged up so he could draw softcore of her say this.
While doing a pinup pose on top of it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because cowbell.
Ahh, Muir's insistence that Biden is simply a puppet and his bizarre Schwarzenegger fixation. Two running gags that just... keep on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because old No. 7.
Sometimes Muir just wants to jabber about the made-up hi-tech gizmos he gives the cast like candy, and so you get a strip like this with a lot of that, and then a weak punchline. It's as if E.E. "Doc" Smith were reincarnated and writing a bad political comic strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rockford music.
There is something genuinely nerve-wracking in how off-kilter this strip has gotten, in that it tries something like this as a heartwarming moment.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because spicy hash browns.
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Sometimes you get reminded how bizarre every single decision Muir has made as regards the cast, and the plot are.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because spelunker.
The interesting thing is how vague Muir's complaints are outside the racist nonsense against immigrants. And Muir depicts his cast as among those awoken by this terrible, yet indeterminate oppression, despite the fact that they have literally been living as de facto racist militia for nearly a decade now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because his name was King.
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A reminder both of Muir's essential awfulness, and Muir's ability to ignore natural disasters when they happen to Texas or Florida.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that cow would eat you and your whole family, if it got a chance.
Aside from the slogan that has always at least been at part aimed at the Democratic Party's name--that's what brilliant political insight is encouraged among the right--it's fascinating to see Muir's hatred for ever larger numbers of the population blossom. He's gone from thinking he and his have the right to rule because they are actually the majority, no matter what that lying vote says, to thinking that they have the right to rule because they simply have it, and if the majority doesn't like it, they must be crushed by his side's superior will.
After all, only a Nazi wouldn't allow them to impose their wills on the nation to create an ethnostate and bring back the glorious past that has been denied by the inferior scum that have taken over at the behest of their secret hidden masters.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the page is white.
You know, I was wondering what to focus on... the racism, the ignorant conspiracy theories joined with pseudolaw, the curmudgeony old man feel of the strip, and then I remembered... they think they've seceded from the country they want to toss other states out of.
It hasn't even been a year and that plotline has screeched to a halt, and become an inconvenient elephant in the room.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because mambo number five.
Alas, Kiko now suffers from posititis where a cast member finds themselves in the same exact pose for days on end. How tragic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I'm a dancing fool.
I don't know what's worse, the cloying and obvious attempts to gain sympathy or Muir's overall ineptitude at it. It's not just schmaltz, it's bad schmaltz, and oh, yes, written about a bunch of fictional fascists for a bunch of real fascists.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because hold the lion.
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The strip that not only remains dedicated to fighting the battles of yesterday, but recycling its bad jokes as well.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Galaxian.
Of course, once you pull out Muir's laundry list of Leftist Evil, you realize the behaviors he's talking about match up with... his own. Because the projection is total, and once you decide that your performative, brain-dead cruelty is strength, and also reason and logic, well, nothing will persuade you otherwise. Not arguments, because you know that only the feeble-minded and emotional would dare argue against your genius truth, and not failure, because you know that only happens when the other side cheats.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I cried to the rock please hide me.
Muir will pull out shit like this and then accuse his foes of being Nazis. Over and over again.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because feeling unknown and you're all alone.
Muir's insistence that his cast aren't killing people, wink wink, tends to break down when his not killing people alternatives are all deeply awful. I mean, these shitheads with what is essentially a mind control ray?
Nightmare material.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rockford Files music.
Muir doesn't get how turning his cast into a racist militia guarded by Terminator robots might make them hard to relate to.
Also, his robot sketches seem to be getting worse. Likely because he's tracing over tracings of tracings by this point.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because let George do it.
The reason none of the cast's troubles create sympathy is because they're so deeply awful. Even in what are supposed to be moments of weakness, they are smug, cruel and vicious.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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The blocking has achieved new levels of awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because zig zag.
The incoherence is getting astonishing these days. About the only thing that comes through is Muir's desire for his side to be able to threaten and hurt people he doesn't like.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because whole foods.
I never expected to feel sympathy with Aaron Rodgers, and yet that horrible accident happened. And now this strip has happened, and I'm feeling it again, because his misfortune is being used for a terrible joke in this awful, awful strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because not for all the tea in China.
It has been... a thing to watch Muir's gradual transformation into an alternative medicine boosting paranoid anti-vaxxer. The strangest part is even though it doesn't resemble his initial set of delusions, it makes total sense for him to have adopted such a set of beliefs. It doesn't lead to the bafflement that his turn towards isolationism and intermittent Putin-boosting has.
Probably why you don't see him fidgeting awkwardly on the topic, as we see with the latter.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because side-effects include.
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I'm going to swiftly move on from this strip, aside from noting that Muir clearly thought that this was funny and a good idea to have happen.
Just think about that. Let it sink in.
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Yeah. Yeah. I know.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that was wild.
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The fundamental laziness gets to you, even before the awfulness does.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ammonite.
And the cast has weaponized their hatred of the left, cities, and immigrants.
It's almost impressive, in a disgusting way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ruby red.
The laziness of this strip is almost as offensive as the politics.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ibuprofen.
Ahh, yes, Muir. Allowing random assholes to form what amounts to gangs so they can threaten officials... that's what the 2nd Amendment is for.
Speaking of which, did you know the reason the wording is so awkward is there was originally a clause about exemption of service for religious purposes? But yes, clearly it's about giving random assholes access to guns.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a grim slog of a game.
Ahh, yes, because everyone knows that Washington was such a fan of rural insurrection.
Again, the pose of patriotism from people who think they get to suspend the Constitution or declare themselves a sovereign nation when they lose is... well, sickening.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because wax museum.
Ahh, that general hatred for the government for not being run exactly the way Muir wants it to be.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because JUCO.
That entire strip exists for a terrible and obvious punchline that does not in fact line up with what is said in it at all.
So, yeah, I'm betting Muir ripped off some bad joke an online acquaintance here made and muddled it beyond repair.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because by Vectron!
This is an interesting interplay of several of Muir's dangling plotlines that have gone off. We've got the border nonsense and the robot guards who are implicitly killing immigrants, but who Muir never lets do that onscreen so that he can pretend that nothing terrible is happening. Note that they are still preoccupied with this despite having insisted the county seceded previously, but then that plot was a while ago. We've got the other ranch the family has finagled with the tragic death of Frankenjack, somehow tying into this. We've got the robots that Muir keeps making because he loves Terminator, who keep pretending they're important, yet keeping falling out of the strip, because Muir vaguely seems to realize he has no good use for them and they make it hard to write conflict.
All with bad cheesecake art, because that's what this strip is about.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because can you hear me?
Muir's confused sense of history has only gotten worse as the years roll along, and in this case it's being projected through online misogyny to create a bizarre jumble. Figuring out just when Muir sees this period of men running things ending, and when he sees this period of women ruining things beginning is... well, pretty much impossible, because it's pretty clear Muir has no idea what he's talking about. Just vibes, that he's frequently absorbed second or third-hand.
And goddamn it, those two look so grotesque in that first panel.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the five red herrings.
As we sit staring at all that misogyny, we find ourselves asking if Muir knows that the words he's talking about have actual meanings?
We know he just doesn't get grammar. Look at that period in place of a question mark at the end. Oof.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because always the flip answer.
In strips like this one, you wonder when Muir's going to bring up the whole secession plotline again.
Cause, remember, they were declaring themselves a sovereign nation earlier in the year.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because turkey melt.
This fetid fever dream of a strip has it all--Muir ranting about the immigrants, Muir insisting hysterically that modern America is an evil police state in strife worse than anything in the Middle East, Muir insisting both parties are nothing more than a sinister COMMUNIST conspiracy unable to stand the might of Redneckistan and its mighty heavily armed hunters, Muir's terrible stock caricatures of political figures, and finally, Muir's patented bad softcore, here delivered during all the above.
It's simultaneously pathetic and worrying. This is the ranting of a weak, stupid man who thinks weak things are strong and stupid things are smart, and who writes this strip where he can make this so. Anyone outside the delusional bubble he dwells in realizes that the insurrection he's imagining here would be an utterly overmatched thing that would be crushed by the forces he imagines it would easily defeat. But even though such a group would lose, it would likely cause a great deal of death and misery in its wake. Muir imagines he would get a combination of the American Revolution and the Civil War (only with his version of the "good guys" winning this time). Instead he'd get an American version of the Years of Lead.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because beetle.
About the only point of this particular strip seems to be a vague and unsettling horniness.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because banjo.
If Ashli Babbit wrote a lousy song with a tune lifted from a hymn, the American fash could have their very own Horst-Wessel-lied.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I wish that one were me.
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If this strip is about any one thing, it's that people like Muir think they're owning the libs when they convince themselves to do things like declare bad Right wing art great, and endanger their own health by deciding that vaccines are a conspiracy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the rains came.
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It's been something of a marvel to see Muir's newfound paleocon isolationism become twisted into utter despite towards the nation he imagines he supports.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I like squirrels.
And now Muir is gloating about... a perceived foreign policy failure that is not only based on his misunderstanding of politics but involves him gloating about the US being shown up by states he claims to hate.
His resemblance to the kind of leftist who can praise any dictator, so long as they hate America, is actually kind of amusing.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because here, no further.
How dare they make people pay the consequences for plotting right wing coups! Don't they know that the law only protects and does not bind the fash?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Breakfast Tea.
..You know, the awful art speaks for itself on this one, so I'm going to focus on the bizarre legal shenanigans which I'd argue show Muir's ongoing fall into this weird Sovereign Citizen realm. Part of it is just El Dorado Dad being his usual deus ex machina self, but more and more Muir seems to be certain these magic laws exist and can be used to thwart the sinister pretender state.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because poppies will make her sleep.
Just as Muir gets mad about terrible things that aren't happening, so he also cheers about triumphs that never occurred.
It's really kind of sad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because even cynical members of Generation X.
Apparently he doesn't realize that Shel Silverstein wrote A Boy Named Sue.
It tracks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you can't fight evil with a macaroni duck.
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Sometimes the fact that Muir gets incredibly mad about things that aren't happening gets put into sharp focus.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a constant reminder.
Remember when he liked Abbott instead of viewing him as an evil puppet of globalists?
Won't lie, this is kind of like watching scorpions turn on each other.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Paranoia Agent.
As Muir goes all in on his latest nonsense conspiracy theory, I feel obliged to remind everyone that the people talking about Biden being a traitor are heading a secessionist movement while taking foreign capital to keep it afloat.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ever hear the story of the frog who dreamed of becoming a king, and then he became one?
He's been using that version of Sam a lot these days. And it is one ugly drawing even by his standards.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because along came Bronson.
Leaving aside the obvious argle-bargle pseudo-law of Captain Mitty's arguments, let's note that Muir is having his white character torment a Black enemy that he sees as unworthy to hold her position with threats, while pretending to be a ghost.
Not that Muir supports the Klan, of course.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Black Man with a Horn.
Obviously, Muir hasn't even bothered to study the actual charges, because he doesn't need reality harshing his buzz. But it is somewhat indicative of his mindset that Trump being the sort of guy who has servants to do things for him just shows how awesome he is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because SPOOON!
Watching Muir's transform into an isolationist is always made more amusing by the way he just pretends this is how it's always been, and he hasn't done a 180 on the subject.
And could do it all over again, if he decided that the US needs to bomb some brown people.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that's a rock fact.
Muir's vision of immigration runs so opposite to the way it actually works that I don't know what it can actually be compared to. It actually makes 'welfare is the Democrats keeping Blacks on the plantation' seem coherent.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because FIRE ME BOY!
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There's a certain black comedy in Muir's effort to weasel word it so the statement isn't so bad is clearly nonsense, because Muir doesn't get what words mean, and also doesn't obscure the meaning at all.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because that boy ain't right.
As we watch yet another edition of the Feds being so foolish and weak that the cast have nothing to fear, let's note it's amazing how Muir refuses to let masking go. He is no longer under any obligation to do it anywhere, but he is still bitterly insisting that his refusal makes him superior, and that anyone who does it is his inferior.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because if there's anything that you want.
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A reminder that they are running a secessionist county.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Melmoth the Wanderer.
Putting aside Muir's usual mindless acceptance of whatever nonsense is circulating in the wingnutosphere, and outrage that Far Right Fash have to face consequences for being violent thugs, and you've got the fascinating little bit of how the evil Joe Biden he describes... is pretty much Trump.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Live at the BBC.
The woman who essentially pimped out her daughters says this. But then, the cast's moral rectitude isn't based on action, it's based on just being the cast.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sometimes, we forget to blink.
It's fascinating not only to see the repetition of the stolen election myth, but Muir once again treating El Dorado Dad's utter corruption as a laudable trait.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Sri Lanka.
This is a lazy strip, in so many ways.
Though it is always strangely fascinating when Muir's fanboying of Golden Age comics shows up. It's astonishing how little he seems to have picked up from his admiration of past masters of the craft.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Poroth Farm.
Muir understands how these storylines are supposed to work, at least in the abstract, but it's well beyond his ability to write them, much less draw them, so we get this utterly grotesque simulacrums of the thing.
And the cast acting like assholes, because, well, that's their only setting.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ransom paid the devil.
There's a bleak fascination of Muir going full old-school QAnon well after that aspect of the movement has largely died out, being replaced with a more generalized nuttiness. But then, Muir is not infrequently a bit behind the times in following these online right-wing crazes. It's part of the eclectic feel of his own brand of it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because my baby takes the morning train.
A reminder that as he is stating the importance of constitutional remedies, he is presently residing in a county that maintains it has unilaterally seceded from the rest of the country, somehow, under the leadership of his wife. But maybe they'll just pretend that didn't happen, or that it didn't mean what it meant, or just insist that this is constitutional.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because there goes my hero.
Yep, this isn't Muir demonstrating the essentially impotent whinging nature of the strip these days acting out pathetic revenge fantasies that can only go so far, because in the end, he can't just change who's the President. Nor is it another demonstration of the laughable, childish wish fulfillment of these scenarios, which are those of a twelve-year old boy, being written by an old man. No, it is all totally badass. Really. *snerk*
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because flax.
At this point, the Evil Conspiracy of Evil is so all-encompassing it is essentially 'all of society that isn't paranoid wingnuts, and also, a fair share of the paranoid wingnuts who aren't quite in Muir's camp'.
Which is less a conspiracy, and more just hating everyone.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Pinkie Brown.
As Muir has his imaginary version of himself bitch out his imaginary version of Biden over the imaginary thing that happened to his imaginary daughter due to some imaginary immigrant, let's note that Putin has become a bad guy in the Muirverse again. Man, I can't wait to hear the latest insane bullshit about Ukraine when it comes up. You just know it's going to be utterly bonkers.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Fran Tarkenton.
This is so pathetic, and it's made more pathetic because it thinks it's badass. This is twelve year old boy boasting. This is fat old drunk picking fights because he knows no one actually wants to hit him because it's just not worth it. This is DbD.
It's the Day's Days of Days! Because Magna of Illusion.
Ah, there we go. There's the awful again.
As we watch Muir go gooey for Operation Condor-backed fascism, a reminder that the Dirty War government's great accomplishments, aside from killing thousands of its citizens who were thought to have suspect, anti-dictatorship politics, were destroying the economy of Argentina, and losing a war against Great Britain in a lop-sided fashion.
Clearly, people you want to emulate.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because now in the street there is violence.
...Well, the plotline seems to be taking a breather, and so is giving us the merely bad for a day, doubtless in preparation to dive back into awful in the near future.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rashomon.
You know, as we stare at El Dorado Dad acting as the Daddy Warbucksesque deus ex machina once again, continuing the ongoing breakdown of what little reality remains in this strip, let's take the time to really absorb Samurai Mom's really weird yellow skin tone, and think to ourselves, this is how Muir treats the minority 'characters' who he imagines he likes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I know, it's eclectic.
Ahh, bad blocking, sloppy, manipulative writing, a hideous racist plotline... it really gets you how Muir thinks he's nailing it as he makes something utterly awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mr. Joseph Penfield.
At moment's like this, we're reminded just why Muir's efforts to humanize the cast always fail--because he thinks having them act like obnoxious jackasses makes them likable.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Igziabeher.
Won't lie, this storyline just gets more awful the longer it goes on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because mango.
A reminder that Muir is somehow making drunk driving and traffic accidents the natural result of migration from Mexico.
Again, somehow.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ketchy Shuby.
Muir achieves comic absurdity when he goes for pathos, first from the absurd litany of tragedy being doled out on what amounts to secondary and tertiary characters, second from the Snidley Whiplashing of his federal dupes as they commit the grave sin of not being racist enough.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Big Blue.
Interesting to note that when Muir, after years of fakeouts, finally commits to a bad thing happening to the cast, (maybe he has had pulled the 'all a dream' twist before when things got unstable), he immediately loads it with qualifiers to make sure it's not too bad. At least, not for the main cast.
Of course, the other aspect, once you move past Muir having given a drunk driving accident racist overtones, because of course he has, is that you find yourself wondering where the hell these secessionists are going for medical care. Either Redneckistan has a top notch ER unit, because, sure, why not, it's hole in the wall border county that is somehow an autarky, or they've gone to somewhere which has one, because, yeah, sure, the treason only counts when it's fun and doesn't cost anything.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the 1932 NFL Playoff game.
I won't lie--there's a part of me that wants to see how long Muir can keep this session of dark forebodings going. Probably not much longer, but the idea of him stretching this out for a week or longer has a certain bleak amusement.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because chef's hat.
I swear, every time he pulls this trick, it gets more labored.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sneezing cat.
Oh, how horrible if something were to happen to these young lovers due to the drunken actions of one of the degenerate immigrant filth.
Okay, not really. Honestly, I'd actually be amused if Muir would finally break his streak by having something genuinely bad with real consequences happen to the cast.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because and the sun and moon will shatter, and the signpost cease to sign.
I'm not going to buy this isn't anything but another fakeout to be followed by more racist posturing, but let's note this--Muir is painting drunk driving, one of the most equal opportunity crimes in America, as something distinctly foreign, something 'those people' do.
Cause, yeah, not like you'd see a bunch of Muir's redneck volk driving around drunk.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spanish Moon.
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It's kind of funny how Jack doesn't even look like the young man he's supposed to be, but the old guy pretending to be younger that he is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because gooseberry.
Oddly enough, I'm pretty familiar with Sarah Hoyt, a third-rate Sci-fi author (and that might be a generous estimate) who was part of a right-wing group who used slate voting to sabotage the Hugo nominations for a few years. She's very much Muir's sort of person, and it's safe to say anything she's raising money for is essentially a grift, even if she doesn't see it that way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because if the cap fit.
It's fascinating to witness sensationalized accounts of Blue State "decline" and problems getting filtered by Muir's crazy to the point where said states are on the brink of collapse, and how the red states have to keep their dwellers out or at least safely marginalized less they pollute the Red States.
And yet nothing of Florida's increasing problems with insurers that the state is busily making worse, while picking a fight with one of its largest employers because business is sacred, except when it says the culture war is silly.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because long gone geek.
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It's kind of funny how beneath the bells and whistles, this is just the latest cartoon where Muir explains how rural red states are just superior and that's all there is to it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's easier not to be wise and measure these things with your brain.
At this point, the cast more resemble a bunch of redneck superheroes than human beings.
With the addendum that they're superheroes only to Muir and the Peanut Gallery, and rather dim-witted supervillains being cossetted by a writer who won't let them suffer any consequences or face any real opposition from anyone else.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Nail and the Oracle.
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It's kind of fascinating that Muir just cannot write cokeheads. At all. These are just classic hippy stoners and... well, cokeheads are very different.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bye, bye Bluebeard.
So, the GOP isn't a bunch of pathetic dupes of the Democrats when it performs a partisan act in the House the very nature of which discredited it outside the bubble. Because it makes Muir and the rest feel good and convinced that it made the liberals cry.
Got it.
Also, note how he's actually given Schiff a pretty good pun insult for Skye, and seems entirely oblivious to it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Ice Cream Bunny.
There is something genuinely disconcerting about Muir's conviction that Mitch McConnell's wife is a communist agent and a good part of what makes him a compromised agent of the deep state conspiracy. Partially because of how quickly Muir adopted it and how strongly he sticks to it these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the song of Achilles.
Interesting to see Skye's journalist career and Mia's everything getting joined up, and quite possibly getting tied to Jan's... thing. They've both been spinning their wheels of late, and well, that usually spells the end of them. For storylines, it's frequently a petering out with no conclusion. With non-core cast characters, it's either vanishing into the ether, though sometimes they stumble on a bit on the sidelines.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Miami Connection.
This is almost the prototypical strip of this era--Sam and Jan, in two virtually unconnected panels, sneering at the failures of the imaginary version of the government which have only occurred because Muir wrote them, and implying the Chinese government controls Biden, all while looking like very bad pinup art.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Christopher Walken is McBain.
So... as yesterday's... oddness... continues, let's consider that this supposed to be a parade float that somehow got airborne and traveled from the Texas-Mexican border to Washington, DC thanks to hot air.
There's just so much wrong with this. I mean, fractally wrong.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a Christmas camel.
This is a terrible and baffling strip on so many levels.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Vapors.
You know, the weirdest part is how Muir completely mangles the obvious cocaine joke--Hunter should be manic, not sounding like he has a cold--all to get to the terrible 'Biden as child-sniffing pedo' joke that... honestly, I think he's one of the few people to keep going on about that at this point.
It's just such a strange strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because we're living in bunkers.
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It's bizarre how incoherent this is. You can see that Muir was inspired by the Chinese spy balloons, but there doesn't seem to be any point to all this, besides sneering at his strawman version of the government.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Melmac is really no place for cats.
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And once again, Muir invites us to laugh at the... utterly ridiculous imaginary versions of his opponents he's made as they act ridiculous in a situation he's invented solely for them to act ridiculous in.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spring Collection.
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It says something that it's something of a relief we're just getting another example of Muir's issues with women today.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because stay free.
This is all a pretty good display of Muir's arrogance, ignorance, and warped sensibilities. From his shallow founding father worship that he pretends is patriotism to having Captain Mitty be bitterly offended... at something you'd only get offended at if you were planning to overthrow the government. But then, Muir thinks that makes you likable and sympathetic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because joined a union, paid my dues.
Even Muir's crazy theories are dull these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a distinct smell of Yorkshire pudding.
The tortured explanations of how being absorbed into the hivemind is the truest form of liberation have moved beyond ridiculous into creepy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Stranger to Himself.
It show both how much Muir and the Peanut Gallery are still mad that a Black man got to be President that he's pulling this awfulness out, AND how wrapped in their toxic bubble they are that they think it's funny.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dracula 1931, Spanish Version.
A reminder that Sam, who so glibly nods along at the declaration that the government are all impure degenerate traitors, was when last we checked running her little redneck county as an independent nation with horny monopoly money as the currency.
But then, Muir seemed to get bored by that whole storyline, so who knows if it's still true?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Clash City Rockers.
As Muir trots out the Yellow Peril nonsense about Mitch again, (and yes, this strip is so bad that it makes me defend Professional Awful Person Mitch McConnell) I find myself instead staring at the hideous monstrosities that Jan and Damon become in the second panel. The combination of Jan's Howler Monkey Face, and Damon's increasingly common lapse into what appears to be a gelatinous state makes it look like the pair are blobs trying to badly mimic the human form.
Which is pretty much the case, when you think of it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Meyer lemons.
Muir's ability to feel self-righteous about this even as he makes his terrible pinups only gets worse as the years go on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Equals.
This kind of underlines what an incoherent mess the strip's evil leftists are--they can go from being hypocritical elitists who only serve wealth to weak-minded idealists who eagerly serve minorities because they don't understand the importance of being racist.
Sometimes in the same strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Powell and Pressburger.
As Muir once again indulges in his dream of a reactionary bloodbath that will set everything right, somehow, it's hard not to note how tired this all is. The same stock Nancy and Mitch, Jan and Damon being awful, and the reminder that the infinite money font they've got works through the same authorial fiat that all his characters operate under. They are rich not because of what they do--which is waste money on bad investments--but because Muir wants them to be rich.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Canterbury Tale.
Muir is that little guy at bars who always insists he could take the big guys in a fight, easy.
While never actually getting into a fight, because, well, that would mean shattering that illusion, and he can't have that.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Madame Masque.
In strips like this, the fact that this cast is essentially one character pretending to be many characters really hits you.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because all the pretty horses.
You know, this really underlines why all these media plots always collapse and fade out into nothing after a few months. Muir's cast wins, and wins, and wins some more, without ceasing, and without any real meaning. Eventually, he subconsciously realizes he's essentially written a storyline with no conflict and no acceptable endpoint, and so he stops writing it.
Over and over again.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Animals.
He says this just after the latest lengthy begging bowl session. Denial. Not just a river in Egypt.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Throne of Blood.
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About the only character traits Damon and Jan have left are loathsomeness.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because O Lucky Man!
It's interesting to see that Jan has now fully inherited her husband's role as a minority member who explains how whites really have it the worst and are the most oppressed group of all.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because and no, I don't mean Spider-man and His Amazing Friends, though that show is generally quite charming.
As usual, Muir achieves horrifying when he tries for sexy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the 1981 Spider-man cartoon is surprisingly good.
So much of the strip these days is the characters being smugly wrong about absolutely crazy things, as everyone nods along.
It's quite unnerving, really.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because walnut.
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You know the fascinating thing about both the actual strip and the 'Ha Ha, look how cheeky I am' bad cheesecake is they underline how little Muir understands the capitalism he insists he supports. Putting out the begging bowl once a year to keep the strip afloat, after all, isn't much of a business model.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sorry doesn't cut it with this Pope.
At this point I'm imagining Ian's face as an event horizon that destroys all time and space.
It's more interesting than what's going on in the strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sorry, it's my first day.
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The last few days of the begging bowl are always the worst.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because lightning strikes not once, but twice.
A reminder that one of the major reasons Muir writes minority characters is so he can have them say shit like this.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because to be a pilgrim.
You know, this not only emphasizes how Jan has essentially become the same character as Sam--they're spouting the same drivel while performing the same activity, which is needlessly acting as eye candy--but the extent to which Muir has in essence completely destroyed the original version of Jan to replace it with the bizarre figure we have now.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because there's a hole in my bucket.
Ahh, the old fash trick where you claim to represent the middle because so much of the old Right also hates you... Another confirmation that Muir just doesn't have much in the way of originality. Or self-knowledge.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because rosewood.
The actual Hemingway quote is a character explaining HOW he went bankrupt and is often paraphrased that it was, 'first a little at a time, then all at once', which is clearly closer to what Hemingway meant then Muir's mangled understanding of it. And honestly, Muir's genuine moral bankruptcy is a pretty good example of what Hemingway meant--he shifted from having a strip where every now and then he said something awful or drew a lousy attempt at a pinup, to a strip where he regularly makes nonsensical lunatic declarations and posts bad softcore.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the evening redness in the west.
One day, the public is just going to hit their limit on the ammosexuals shrieking about how their toys are very important and the only way to be free is to let them keep them no matter how many people die.
On that day, I suspect we will realize how we have let a small, weak bunch of blubberers hold the nation hostage for decades, and they will realize how long they have been enjoying our forbearance.
Till then, bullshit like this will proliferate.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you will hear it.
There's something bleakly fascinating in how pathetic Muir's world has become, an endless calvacade of whinging and blubbering that imagines it is demonstrating its fortitude. It's world of weak people who imagine that very weakness is a sign of strength.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
I keep saying it, because it keeps being true--in Muir's eyes, the greatest law is that he and his can do as they wish and the greatest crime is trying to stop them.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sweet fern.
Watching Muir clinging to his 'Biden is a Chinese agent' nonsense, one suddenly remembers that these people are supposed to have seceded from the United States, which makes all the talk about 'true citizens' seem more ridiculous than ever.
But then, expecting consistency from this strip on anything but awfulness is a mug's game.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jim Rockford.
And remember, it took backing a democracy being invaded by a fascist regime for Muir to go pacifist.
Because of course it did.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because by the bright crystal sea.
The truly grotesque thing is that Muir has only turned on the military because it just isn't fascist enough for his taste these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Charlie Brown's more depressed brother.
The ongoing war between Muir's desire to believe every crazy, paranoid theory he reads and his desire for his opponents to be the natural inferiors to his redneck ubermenschen continues.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because war drums.
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Man, Muir's going extra-heavy on the homophobia this year.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because broadsword.
It's the perfect collision of what Muir thinks is sexy, what Muir thinks is witty and what Muir thinks is true.
And also,what Muir thinks is good art, because damn.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because when the eagle flies.
Muir reminding us that he's such a gutless wonder of toxic masculinity that the mere existence of a trans woman officer has him screeching in rage, and producing illustrated paeans to his own warped idea of what proper gender roles look like.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian, Mary Moon, Mary Moon.
The intentionally terrible tv show in Robocop that had the catchphrase "I'll take that for a dollar!" was better presented than this.
And we only saw that in snippets that intentionally made it look like the most awful, vulgar thing ever made.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Devil's Hand.
At this point, it's clear that not only does the character not know what they're saying, neither does Muir.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because wings of silver, nerves of steel, Silverhawks.
It's clear Muir is trying to make Ian's face some kind of suspenseful buildup.
Because he doesn't realize that it doesn't matter, as Ian will be another poorly drawn member of the hivemind who's almost indistinguishable from Solomon Grundy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because shine on brightly.
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And Muir tops off the pervy strips with... this weird nervous breakdown on panel that tops of his continued insistence that Biden has to be working for China because.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again--the strip's crazybad has reached a very odd state these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because tangerine.
You always know that Muir is going to pull out some sort of awfulness like this during the begging bowl comes out, but this year it's been... extra weird.
As awful as ever, mind you, but also... just weird.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because shootout in the fantasy factory.
The eternal brittleness of the Amerifash, who come across as gloating sore winners talking shit in their rare moments of pathetic victory.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's a mistake.
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The lack of effort in this strip is breathtaking.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because you better take off your Homburg, because your overcoat's too long.
In a good example of the exact nature of Muir's increasing nastiness, in the old days, Damon would be the one making these comments because Muir thought this proved he wasn't a racist.
Now, he just doesn't care.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because John Barleycorn must die.
It's not quite a surprise, but it's definitely a thing the way Muir has turned on Abbot.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away.
Guns and women's bodies. Two things Muir is obsessed with, but does not understand and cannot draw.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sailin' shoes.
We all knew this was coming, but it's still shockingly awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because time loves a hero.
I am saying 'what the hell am I looking at?' in multiple ways, including angles I never expected to with this little horror.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Al Capone dancing the Charleston on a flagpole.
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What kind of gets you is that the fictional people in this universe must have put a lot more effort creating this grotesque version of Sam's ass than Muir did.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because scorn not his simplicity.
Cause that's what's important. Not that she's secessionist that runs the county as a one-party state while following insane ideas.
No, it's that she's got hot parade floats of herself.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because fat man in the bathtub.
Enjoy a whiny brittle manbaby dreaming of being able to dismiss people whose bumper stickers he dislikes from his presence, bitterly offended by calls for tolerance and diversity.
While of course viewing trucknuts as something liberals have to suck it up about, with their blatant offensiveness demonstrating what a tough, witty individual he is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Black Cat.
It's fascinating that the Right remains absolutely hung up on the issue of masking, long after most people have moved on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because offense in space.
Muir is sponsoring a crappy treasure hunt.
I see no way this can go badly.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because whispering our goodbyes, waiting for the train, I was dancing with my baby in the summer rain.
You just know this is about to get very icky, with a good chance of getting ickier still when Muir has Zed act as the righteous paterfamilias to this disrespectin' of his AUTHOR-ITIE.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because pebble.
Note that Zed's objections are less actually moral, and more purity ball-type 'my girls belong to me!' shit.
And that Muir is vaguely aware that there's something hypocritical about all this.
In conclusion, let us all stare at the reappearance of the Zed monkey head.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Les Enfants Terrible.
A reminder that Sam is as bad a mother as Muir is an artist.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because ramblin' rose.
I'm so glad that Muir has no children.
And is a deluded gated community shut-in.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Brides of Jesus.
A reminder that in the DbDverse, every Mexican immigrant is an evil gangbanger who should be behind bars, every journalist is a clueless idiot who deserves to be mocked and abused, every redneck is a righteous and unflappable fount of justice and wisdome and every cigar store wooden Indian is harmless and hilarious.
Except not really, because Muir can't even get his bullshit to work in his own universe. He and his fans just tell themselves it does, while willfully blinding themselves to how awful this strip is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Peace Frog.
"Do you have any idea who I am?" asks the latest straw leftie, to be hated, despised and tormented.
"Do you have any idea who you are?" any reader not in the bubble asks of Muir, as Muir's little alleged utopia of liberty continues to act like a single-party dictatorship.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Gorgo.
Muir blabbing about the Dunning-Krueger effect and how out of touch the inferior left is.
In the fictional reality he's made where he always wins.
So sad.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because who will love a little sparrow?
Wow. Muir is definitely rushing through his strips these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because fanfare for the common man.
The sandwich returns, I see.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spearhead from Space.
Ahh, the inevitable point where Muir finds the begging bowl isn't filling so fast as it has in the past. It's kind of amazing how he can have this keep happening for years, and still be surprised when it happens again.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because snakes on everything.
A reminder that this is the woman who is having her girls pose for her breakaway state's porn/money.
