It's the Day's Day of Days! Because King of the Royal Mounted.
I do appreciate the occasional reminder that despite purporting to be the same characters who started out in 2002, we're actually dealing with some alternate universe version of them with similar but not identical backgrounds, where events happened differently than we saw, and may have had a different emphasis on things.
I don't think Muir realizes that, mind you, but that only adds to the unintentional comedy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Adventures of Red Ryder.
...Won't lie, there's something quietly disconcerting in how Zed insists SARCOM is a 'militia', instead of using the term 'state guard'. It's technically correct, but that word has picked up some baggage, and Muir's the sort who sees that baggage as medals of honor.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Drums of Fu Manchu.
As Muir tries to shrug his way out of his present mental difficulties, I feel obliged to chime in with this... no, she's not real, Muir. Your pretend wife doesn't actually exist. And neither does the version of you that's a badass ex Special Forces guy that all the ladies want.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Zorro's Fighting Legion.
It's always tiresome when Muir launches yet another pseudointellectual explanation of history and strategy, as it's invariably a demonstration that he knows next to nothing about either of those things, and is frequently transparently cribbing from someone else who knows only a little more.
But this time, we have the added wrinkle of Muir trying to make a silk purse out of the pig's ear of Trump's chaos, and we can see the flaw he and his idol share. Muir applauds Trump for ambitions... that are a lessening of the US's power. Because of course, he cannot see power based on mutually beneficial alliances as real. Like most fascists, he mistakes violence and cruelty for power. Thus, like Trump, he stares at the fading regional hegemony of Putin's Russia, and because of its naked thuggery, assumes this is the real deal, and like, an extra-stupid version of Buck Turgidson, says "Man, I wish we had one of those!"
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dick Tracy's G-Men.
As the interminable car drive continues, Zed goes all in on painting a series of ill-advised moves as foreign policy triumphs, doubtless based on dim-witted spin pieces from the Wingnut Welfare Circuit. Muir can by this because he really does think that bullying and cruelty are signs of power and thus will buy anything telling him what he wants to believe.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Daredevils of the Red Circle.
This is interesting. I think this is the first genuine political discussion in DbD. Prior to this, such discussions were always illusory, the Straw Liberal/Left Wing punching bag giving what were supposed to be cartoonishly weak arguments to be swatted aside, or on rare occasions, an otherwise right-thinking individual letting sentiment cloud their judgement.
Now, these often didn't work the way Muir intended (at least, not to anyone outside the bubble), because Muir possesses very warped perspectives on matters, and is a sloppy debater and writer to boot. Frequently, what he'd imagine would be a weak argument was a good one phrased badly, and what he thought was common sense was horrifying bigoted sociopathy. But it was still obvious that this was supposed to be a sham argument, that in Muir's head, it was all as scripted as a pro-wrestling match.
This is different. Muir seems to be genuinely unsure of where he stands on this, and so has given different stances to Sam and Zed, the first time in a while they've acted as genuine characters. Hell, as opposed to previous occasions of Sam suddenly showing shock at some comment from Zed, the arguments actually follow based on past character traits. On those prior times, it was obvious Muir was just working on the old standby of the female character clearly being the more sentimental one, and so Sam objected to something she'd been fine about previously and would go back to being fine about afterwards. Here, this is honestly organic. It's the first time Muir's shown actual growth as an artist in... well, ever.
Which it makes quietly hilarious that the two viewpoints they're hashing out Sam's rehashed Nazi bullshit, and Zed's desperate looking for esoteric victory in this mess of administration. The essential awful always shines through in this strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Lone Ranger Rides Again.
And Muir once again indulges in this bathetic whining, insisting that the only reason electing an incompetent, clownishly corrupt narcissist hasn't worked out is some evil conspiracy, and insisting that his people don't really control things, and also, all his opponents are pedophiles.
All of which is a bit much in the present circumstances.
