It's the Day's Day of Days! Because as we look out on Saint Dominic's Preview.
I'm trying to figure out which of these three things are worse--Damon's insufferable shitheelery, the image of Jan's continued subjection to the hivemind, or the dead faces of the twins.
It's a tight contest.
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Could he be ANY more of an obnoxious pig? This is another "waving your dick in women's collective faces" episode. Those seem to occur with semi-regularity these days.
ReplyDeleteI've said this before---in Muirland, #MeToo is obviously something bad. Obviously. So bad, in fact, it merits being mentioned in his trademark first-panel monologues. But he's never said WHY it's bad. It's an article of faith that needs no explanation for either Muir or his readers, who all understand exactly why #MeToo is bad and don't have to even elaborate among themselves. I believe the first mention of it had Damon or Zed [does it even matter which?] reacting to it with "Women, fix thyself." Which is supposed to mean...what, exactly?
It's pretty much a given that you and I think about these things more than he does. All of them. Even the simple craft matters of this strip.
DeleteAlso, Muir continues to be terrible at the craft. I had to read Jan's last line five or six times before I understood why her dialogue was all garbled. I almost googled her sentence expecting it to be some right-wing internet joke. There are no visual cues letting the reader know she swallowed a gulp of wine wrong, and it just looks like she suddenly started talking in an alien language for no reason.
ReplyDeleteI mean, at this point, Jan's complete collapse as a character is beyond complete.
DeleteFor sure. The hive mind, as you say, has eaten her cortex. But in this case I was referring to Muir's incompetence as a craftsman and at basic staging. As someone who works very hard trying to communicate as effectively as I can in my own pictorial endeavors, sometimes having to struggle around the limitations of my talents, this gets under my skin in a big way.
ReplyDeleteMuir is miserable at every aspect of his craft, and has gotten worse at all of it. I keep saying this fact because the depth of his failure is truly remarkable.
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