It's the Day's Day of Days! Because A Man Called Spade.
I can't help but suspect that Muir has decided the robots are becoming something a burden and a distraction to the story, and this is an effort to at least partially sideline them.
It's more elegant that the entire Gunpowder secession just suddenly not being a thing. Alongside the Gunpowder gold depository. Remember the gold depository? I'm not sure Muir does.
ReplyDeleteI don’t envy Gould have having created all that. Things like that are an albatross. Once they’re there, they’re there. You can sideline them, even abandon them, but they’re still there. You can’t pull a “Crisis on Infinite Earths” and go “Oh, wouldja look at that. None of that ever happened. Oh, well.”
(Why that Crisis comment showed up as Anonymous I don’t know.)
DeleteThe impression I get is that you or this site's wonky mechanics posted that comment under your name, then deleted it, then posted it again anonymously.
DeleteNow as to your comment--the fascinating thing is Gould didn't even seem to try. He had been fond of hell of the whole Moon plot when he was running, and when he dropped it, he still kept Moon Maid around on the edges of the strip. She only got formerly removed (through getting murdered) by the next artist, who also did the Obvious Thing and had Junior and Sparkle Plenty hook up.
I think the thing with Gould is, he didn't mind that the strip's reality was a surreal fever dream, and he never had. An astonishing attitude from the guy who gave us the midget crime boss who rode a St. Bernard, I know.