It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger.
The most interesting thing about this is I've had to swap days because Muir took down Sunday's strip, then put up Monday's, then published Sunday's on Monday, then swapped them again because nothing in the operations of this strip make any sense.
I mean, take that out and there's not much to say about this strip. Muir is once again whining about an imaginary version of events that lets him be mad about things.
You want to talk about things that make no sense? The entire way the website is designed is a haphazard, dysfunctional mess. It seems to have been set up by three different people, none of whom were communicating with each other and all of whom were drunk. Navigating the site is absurdly difficult, especially if you're trying to read older strips. Roads lead to dead ends where there should be an exit. There's no quick, easy way to access or search the entire archive. The way the backlog is categorized is obscure and confusing, everything is out of order and arranged in bizarrely random ways, and some months aren't even on the menu at all.
ReplyDeleteOh, God, it's a mess. I keep working on and off to fix up older entries because Muir changed how strips are addressed, and never figured out how to add simple redirects.
DeleteAnd then there's the ton of lost strips caused by Muir's almost casual irresponsibility with his creations. Almost all of 'Redvolution 1776' and the entirety of its very brief replacement strip 'Time After Time' are gone. (It almost makes me wish I'd done something to preserve the damn things, but then, the damn thing was painful to read and the site was getting buggy and dangerous towards the end.) Years back, Muir tried having special subscription Sunday strips--the two panel opener was up for free, but only subscribers could see the full Sunday strip. The free ones are up, but those full Sundays from that era are, so far as I can tell, just gone. I've never seen them. It's kind of amazing how sloppy and careless he is about those things. It's almost as if Muir knows on some level how crap it is.
Oh, wow, Time After Time came and went so quickly I completely forgot about it. I can't even remember what distinguished it from DBD. Was it another fictional epic Sam was writing?
DeleteI assume you did the same thing I've done and tried to piece Redvolution1776 together from Wayback Machine captures, but very few of those pages are intact. (Which, not gonna lie, makes me uneasy --- I don't know why the WM is so inconsistent on some things.)
Yeah, it's amazing how he just lets this stuff wither and disappear. Most creators would not voluntarily let that happen unless it was something they wanted people to forget about. Somehow I doubt Muir has "shame" about any of this stuff.
Didn't even know about the "subscription only" Sundays. When was that a thing?
Remember when I briefly did "DaybyNight" --- fake DBD strips that I tried to make as indistinguishable from the real thing as possible? I stopped right after the "massacring Muslims in Christchurch is a 'good start'" strip --- it was just too repulsive to even keep playing pretend like that. That said, I still think I did a pretty job with these. Always wished there was a way to see if they'd fool the Peanut Gallery.
https://daybynightcartoon.blogspot.com/
Exactly--most artists would want to preserve his work. Muir... seems to just cheerfully let it vanish.
DeleteOh, and the special Sundays were for a while in 2006, I believe, and were part of Muir shifting from Sundays just being normal-sized strips to being the traditional extra-large strip. Though I could be getting the dates wrong.
At any rate, I keep forgetting how much these guys i the Peanut Gallery have grown to hate the FBI. At least one of them is musing that Ryan Routh will mysteriously vanish from FBI custody and never be heard from again.
ReplyDeleteIf you had told me ten years ago that the far right would someday hate the FBI more than the left...