It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Diary of Mr. Poynter.
It's fascinating to see Muir indulge in his "Western Civilization" nonsense at the same time as he pretends to understand Argentina, and pretends to care about one of the cast members he more or less forgot existed for years.
I still can't believe he actually has people in the Peanut Gallery browsing the archives looking for the kids' birth dates.
ReplyDeleteFind your own characters' birth dates, you absolute weirdo. You owe them that much.
To be fair, plenty of cartoon artists have done things like that over the years, because, well, it can be hard to keep track of this stuff. For me the comedy is what made the pregnancies multiply in such a comical manner, and what has completely messed up the age situation. (Incidentally Kiko and Mari are apparently both supposed to be 18, despite having been aged up for three years at this point. Comedy gold.)
DeleteLike I've said before, Mari and Kiko being soap-opera aged up is particularly egregious because DBD, by definition, moves along with real-world chronological time. You don't get to use the excuse, as Muir has several times, that "cartoon time is different from real time". You can't have it both ways, you weirdo.
DeleteThis is like if a soap opera had kids age rapidly like soaps were infamous for, but this particular soap was wedded to real-world events/politics.
That said, in complete fairness, Garry Trudeau has done the same thing in the past decade, which is bizarre since he literally never did anything like that in the entire four decade-plus run of Doonesbury before that. Alex's kids were born at the end of 2012, but by 2014 they appeared to be six or seven already, when they should have been not even two yet.
Characters in Doonesbury have always inexplicably aged at different rates, but none of them have ever been soap-opera aged up. Can't imagine what led him to a decision like that. (We sure know it wasn't what led Muir to it.)