It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the furthest we got was a pilot program in Yeovil.
Every now and then, Muir does one of these odd tribute strips to a late individual (implicitly a former member of the DbD fandom, but the oddness of every aspect of the strip these days doesn't make that a certainty). They're almost invariably like this... not objectionable, but weird, fumbling attempts at sentiment.
I googled this woman in total confusion, anticipating that she'd be someone who was tragically murdered by a migrant or an illegal immigrant, as that would befit the standard approach taken by Muir's ilk. Nope. She just...seems to be some random person. I hadn't thought of your guess that she was a former reader. Guess that makes as much sense as anything else. Because otherwise this is just a headscratcher.
ReplyDeleteThat was just a guess. It could be any number of things--a friend of the family, some online acquaintance, something that came up on his Facebook feed. It's impossible to know, because things like this underline how the strip is largely just one man howling at the world without much outside reference these days.
DeleteAs it was put by the other (now defunct) chronicler I've mentioned a few times, people familiar with the modern, uber-insular incarnation of DBD would be surprised at how relatively mainstream it once was. There was a point, apparently, where there were plans for the strip to be linked on the front page of the GOP's website in 2004. To say nothing of the small number of actual newspapers that picked it up at some point.
DeleteNeither scenario is remotely imaginable now, ironically despite the actual GOP becoming almost as crazy as DBD has.
Oh, yeah. Mind you, this was always a doomed endeavor fueled by the eternal search for a "Right Wing Doonesbury", that always floundered on Muir's lack of talent and exceedingly odd views.
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