It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Knowing Me, Knowing You.
You know, as everything goes exactly as we expected, it's worth noting that Muir's immigrant hordes are essentially depicted with the photographic negative of Muir's own sexual hangups. Where Muir depicts his own obsession with women's bodies as simply natural, and his own misogyny as a proper views arrived at through reason, the hordes are dangerous, reactionary sexual threats. Because, of course, in his mind, Muir can't see how he'd be a threat to women, while being unable to imagine his immigrants as anything but just that.
Said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s difficult to imagine the past decade of DBD having been written by somebody who EVER leaves the house.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm sure he shuffles between one old white people enclave to another. But yes, 2015 does mark the transition to his absolutely batshit phase. (There's an interesting flashforward strip he did in February of that year showing his first grown up version of the Twins which had them in a flying car, memorializing their valiantly slain parents and praising the glories of 'the Second American Revolution.')
DeleteHonestly, of the three (or four) main eras of DbD, the Transition Era, the awkward early Obama Presidency time nestled between the Mystery Business (tm) Era and the Compound Era sticks out because of how formless it was, how Muir struggled to deal with a world where Democrats might actually win sometimes, and clearly was looking for a new format for the strip.