It's the Day's Day of Days! Because City, by Clifford D. Simak.
Remember the last time Muir wrote a batshit insane work under the auspices of it being a novel written by Sam? And how it went off the rails, quickly and finally shut down with no proper conclusion?
I'm saying this because I'm not sure he does.
I don't think I was here for that, and it doesn't sound like I missed much.
ReplyDeleteWhat gets me the most excited about this project, though, is that we will get yet more opinions from Muir about what makes women tick. Yaaaay.
It was a short-lived (maybe about a year) parallel comic that was running around 2017-2018 called "Redvolution 1776". Ostensibly it was a novel Sam was writing, starring a self-insert making her way through some wacked-out future dystopia where she was some kind of secret agent doing....something.....and meeting powerful shadowy operatives working for....some...cause....played by Damon and....Zed, I think. And the plot was....stuff...that was....happening?....and things that were....being...said? Maybe?
DeleteIf you think DBD is muddled, incoherent and disjointed, Redvolution was on a whole other level. It was completely rudderless and impossible to make any sense out of. Whatever was supposed to be going on, damned if I could follow it. Eventually it just petered out with little fanfare. The site's long been down and for some reason the Wayback Machine captures are largely broken and inoperable (that genuinely bothers me, on principle). Here's one of the few intact pages I could find.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180207113319/http://www.redvolution1776.com/comic/walk-dont-run/
Pretty much. As I recall it was supposed to be set in an alternate universe that was a matriarchy. Because reasons. Eventually it petered out... I think Muir had Sam just give up on the book after writing herself into a corner... and then it was supposed to become a place for Muir to do DbD strips that were out of continuity--past eras, that sort of thing--but he lost interest in that idea even faster.
DeleteI don't even remember that. You mean he was going to write strips that took place years earlier? Like back at the office? Or am I totally misinterpreting what you just said?
DeleteWow. Thanks, JLG. My first thought was "this is so messy...I'm seeing this out of context of the larger story." Then I remembered that this is Muir and the larger story would be complete chaos, with boobs.
DeleteNot surprised that he would create a story about a futuristic evil matriarchy. I'm sure brave Sam is trying to destroy it and bring back the patriarchy...which is totally fine, because she is a woman, see.
RE: JLG; You got it. Extra strips written taking place in the earlier times. (Or so I believe. I am working from memory here.) You see the move in the later captures in the Wayback, when the old address bounced you to the new 'Time After Time' site.
DeleteAgain, it didn't last long. He lost interest even faster than he did in the gobbledygook "novel".
That kind of idea could potentially be interesting on principle. In DBD's case, I am kind of morbidly curious what new "office" strips would be like now. That entire setting was dropped (bulldozed) long before Muir became as batshit insane and cartoonishly malevolent as he's become. Returning to that mileu would only highlight, via contrast, just how badly his mind has warped over the past fifteen years. (Oh, lord. He'd immediately start vomiting up vitriol about stuff like DEI, wouldn't he.)
DeleteOn another note, I notice that over the past couple of weeks or so, he seems to have drifted back toward using stock models/poses that are little less, shall we say....melty?
It'd be interesting if he pulls back from that particular abyss of his own volition, since it certainly wouldn't be because he was reacting to criticism from his slobbering, sycophantic readers.