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.
