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.
This deadly sniper and ninja-level master of stealth whom the federal government hates and fears is supposedly the same office schlub who once lackadaisically reflected on feeling over the hill while spending too much time pouring coffee in the breakroom.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, Zed got transformed into what an eternal 12 year old thinks is cool years and years ago. Arguably, his transformation was the font from which every dumbass development of the DbD universe flows.
DeleteIt happened a while ago but it just keeps getting more and more exaggerated. Even a few years ago I don't think this former office schlub would have had the ability to slip in and out of FBI headquarters undetected.
DeleteOne of the two other people I mentioned who used to document DBD had an entry highlighting a scene from around 2005-ish where Zed nonchalantly pulled a gun on a mugger, writing (loosely verbatim from memory) "Zed's long, slow transformation from over-the-hill shlub to deadly ex-sniper badass begins here."
(I wish I could find that guy's Tumblr but it seems to be gone.)
It really was--in my own commentary on that one, I noted that Zed manages to somehow pull the gun effortlessly despite the position of the would-be mugger being such that any move to draw would have likely resulted in Zed's being stabbed.
DeleteOf course, it's a moment that's easy to miss because Zed's drawing the gun is immediately undercut by Sam also drawing a gun. Which she apparently was keeping in hammerspace. And that is also an important moment, because it marks the start of Sam's transformation from 'attractive, aging computer engineer' to 'Right Wing Spitfire' that will take her down a similar path to Zed.
Really, a quietly important strip.