Lousy Nudity, Wishful Thinking And Robot Stuff Will Help Him Forget His Trump-Based Anomie. He Hopes.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spy Smasher.

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Man, this is getting downright sad. His big defense is "Well, it's been a mixed bag."

A Break From The Muslim-Bashing For The All-Important Bad Nudity.

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Sometimes, the grubbiness of this fictional universe really hits you.

"Again, All Totally True! It Has To Be! I Want To Believe It!"

 It's the Day's Day of Days! Because King of the Texas Rangers.

As we get the usual batshit conspiracies, and being told that the redneck superman is our superior, I feel obligated to note that we haven't seen Muir go this heavy into his evil Muslims in a while. I guess this war is stirring something in him.

"This Is All Totally True! Internet Randos Would Never Lie To Me!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Jungle Girl.

Muir has apparently finally worked out that he can publish a cartoon later, and have it show up on the day he would have liked to have it been published originally. I guess crisis can give birth to creativity.

Which is about the only creative thing in this strip, which is the standard Muir awfulness, racism and pushing conspiracy theories.

The Eras of DbD.

 So, seeing as we're still down, I'm going to explain how I sort the strip's eras these days.

From those few months of 2002 it ran until the very end of 2007 was the Mystery Business(tm) Era, where the strip functioned largely as workplace comedy with increasingly heavier doses of politics.

From 2008 until September in 2014 we see the Transition Era, a strange nebulous time where Muir tried to deal with dropping the workplace format, and also with the idea that Democrats can win. He did not do well at either.

Then, in 2014, Zed moves his family to his father's ranch, and the Compound Era starts. Things get very weird over the tail end of Obama's presidency and Trump's entire first term.

Now, the border between the Compound Era and what I see as the Gunpowder Eras can be tough to discern, since the Compound very much remains a thing in that second era. But around 2021, Zed's family start getting neighbors and interacting with the area around them. And by interact, I mean 'dominate'. And things continue to be odd.

So that's my scheme for the strip's eras. And if this silence continues, I'll go into them a bit deeper in the near future.

Nothing But Static.

 Muir has announced how the strip might pause for a few days as he deals with difficulties, which seems as good an excuse as any to talk about what appears to be a growing number of technical problems on his end. We've seen breakdowns, weird postings, and the Yearly Begging Bowl coming out with more mishaps every year.

Won't lie, sometimes I worry that I'll finally finish the epic work of taking care of all this blog's links to strips, only to watch the entire DbD archive vanish into the digital ether. Which usually makes me go outside and touch grass, so to speak.

"The Straits Can Wait! We Need To Bomb Our Own Soil For Daring To Broadcast The Different Opinions I'm Sure Are Unpopular!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Adventures of Captain Marvel.

This would have always been a repulsive strip, Muir building on whining about how unfair this all is, man, to go up to indulging in pathetic fantasies of using violence to silence voices he doesn't like. All while making bizarre and facetious arguments that awaken my inner Angry Goose. ('Why did the US need to end slavery, Muir? How exactly did they do it? And why have you consistently shown nostalgia for the rebel slavers they fought to do it?')

But then you add in that he's doing this in the middle of this illegal war, and all this other stuff, and it just looks worse. This is Muir's version of an escape for what's happening. This.