It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ultraman.
And a demonstration of Muir's utter misogyny and his utter ignorance of what communism entails, at the same time.
Also, the extent to which the fictional relationships in this strip all now wave prominent red flags is... well, very much a thing.
Imagine waltzing up to Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and all the other movers and shakers in the Bolshevik Revolution, with all their soldiers and partisans and fighters, and saying "You know what you all are? You're all a bunch of girls!"
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that would have gone over well.
Ahh, but he's not saying that. He's saying that unlike the modern left, they were all butch!
DeleteWe're firmly in 'what a strange, sad little man' territory here.
I would have been more offended by the misogyny, but I was too distracted by their faces melting together in that nightmarish second panel.
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