It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Rashomon.
You know, as we stare at El Dorado Dad acting as the Daddy Warbucksesque deus ex machina once again, continuing the ongoing breakdown of what little reality remains in this strip, let's take the time to really absorb Samurai Mom's really weird yellow skin tone, and think to ourselves, this is how Muir treats the minority 'characters' who he imagines he likes.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because I know, it's eclectic.
Ahh, bad blocking, sloppy, manipulative writing, a hideous racist plotline... it really gets you how Muir thinks he's nailing it as he makes something utterly awful.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Mr. Joseph Penfield.
At moment's like this, we're reminded just why Muir's efforts to humanize the cast always fail--because he thinks having them act like obnoxious jackasses makes them likable.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Igziabeher.
Won't lie, this storyline just gets more awful the longer it goes on.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because mango.
A reminder that Muir is somehow making drunk driving and traffic accidents the natural result of migration from Mexico.
Again, somehow.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Ketchy Shuby.
Muir achieves comic absurdity when he goes for pathos, first from the absurd litany of tragedy being doled out on what amounts to secondary and tertiary characters, second from the Snidley Whiplashing of his federal dupes as they commit the grave sin of not being racist enough.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Big Blue.
Interesting to note that when Muir, after years of fakeouts, finally commits to a bad thing happening to the cast, (maybe he has had pulled the 'all a dream' twist before when things got unstable), he immediately loads it with qualifiers to make sure it's not too bad. At least, not for the main cast.
Of course, the other aspect, once you move past Muir having given a drunk driving accident racist overtones, because of course he has, is that you find yourself wondering where the hell these secessionists are going for medical care. Either Redneckistan has a top notch ER unit, because, sure, why not, it's hole in the wall border county that is somehow an autarky, or they've gone to somewhere which has one, because, yeah, sure, the treason only counts when it's fun and doesn't cost anything.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the 1932 NFL Playoff game.
I won't lie--there's a part of me that wants to see how long Muir can keep this session of dark forebodings going. Probably not much longer, but the idea of him stretching this out for a week or longer has a certain bleak amusement.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because chef's hat.
I swear, every time he pulls this trick, it gets more labored.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because sneezing cat.
Oh, how horrible if something were to happen to these young lovers due to the drunken actions of one of the degenerate immigrant filth.
Okay, not really. Honestly, I'd actually be amused if Muir would finally break his streak by having something genuinely bad with real consequences happen to the cast.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because and the sun and moon will shatter, and the signpost cease to sign.
I'm not going to buy this isn't anything but another fakeout to be followed by more racist posturing, but let's note this--Muir is painting drunk driving, one of the most equal opportunity crimes in America, as something distinctly foreign, something 'those people' do.
Cause, yeah, not like you'd see a bunch of Muir's redneck volk driving around drunk.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spanish Moon.
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It's kind of funny how Jack doesn't even look like the young man he's supposed to be, but the old guy pretending to be younger that he is.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because gooseberry.
Oddly enough, I'm pretty familiar with Sarah Hoyt, a third-rate Sci-fi author (and that might be a generous estimate) who was part of a right-wing group who used slate voting to sabotage the Hugo nominations for a few years. She's very much Muir's sort of person, and it's safe to say anything she's raising money for is essentially a grift, even if she doesn't see it that way.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because if the cap fit.
It's fascinating to witness sensationalized accounts of Blue State "decline" and problems getting filtered by Muir's crazy to the point where said states are on the brink of collapse, and how the red states have to keep their dwellers out or at least safely marginalized less they pollute the Red States.
And yet nothing of Florida's increasing problems with insurers that the state is busily making worse, while picking a fight with one of its largest employers because business is sacred, except when it says the culture war is silly.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because long gone geek.
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It's kind of funny how beneath the bells and whistles, this is just the latest cartoon where Muir explains how rural red states are just superior and that's all there is to it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because it's easier not to be wise and measure these things with your brain.
At this point, the cast more resemble a bunch of redneck superheroes than human beings.
With the addendum that they're superheroes only to Muir and the Peanut Gallery, and rather dim-witted supervillains being cossetted by a writer who won't let them suffer any consequences or face any real opposition from anyone else.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Nail and the Oracle.
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It's kind of fascinating that Muir just cannot write cokeheads. At all. These are just classic hippy stoners and... well, cokeheads are very different.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because bye, bye Bluebeard.
So, the GOP isn't a bunch of pathetic dupes of the Democrats when it performs a partisan act in the House the very nature of which discredited it outside the bubble. Because it makes Muir and the rest feel good and convinced that it made the liberals cry.
Got it.
Also, note how he's actually given Schiff a pretty good pun insult for Skye, and seems entirely oblivious to it.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Ice Cream Bunny.
There is something genuinely disconcerting about Muir's conviction that Mitch McConnell's wife is a communist agent and a good part of what makes him a compromised agent of the deep state conspiracy. Partially because of how quickly Muir adopted it and how strongly he sticks to it these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the song of Achilles.
Interesting to see Skye's journalist career and Mia's everything getting joined up, and quite possibly getting tied to Jan's... thing. They've both been spinning their wheels of late, and well, that usually spells the end of them. For storylines, it's frequently a petering out with no conclusion. With non-core cast characters, it's either vanishing into the ether, though sometimes they stumble on a bit on the sidelines.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Miami Connection.
This is almost the prototypical strip of this era--Sam and Jan, in two virtually unconnected panels, sneering at the failures of the imaginary version of the government which have only occurred because Muir wrote them, and implying the Chinese government controls Biden, all while looking like very bad pinup art.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Christopher Walken is McBain.
So... as yesterday's... oddness... continues, let's consider that this supposed to be a parade float that somehow got airborne and traveled from the Texas-Mexican border to Washington, DC thanks to hot air.
There's just so much wrong with this. I mean, fractally wrong.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a Christmas camel.
This is a terrible and baffling strip on so many levels.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the Vapors.
You know, the weirdest part is how Muir completely mangles the obvious cocaine joke--Hunter should be manic, not sounding like he has a cold--all to get to the terrible 'Biden as child-sniffing pedo' joke that... honestly, I think he's one of the few people to keep going on about that at this point.
It's just such a strange strip.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because we're living in bunkers.
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It's bizarre how incoherent this is. You can see that Muir was inspired by the Chinese spy balloons, but there doesn't seem to be any point to all this, besides sneering at his strawman version of the government.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Melmac is really no place for cats.
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And once again, Muir invites us to laugh at the... utterly ridiculous imaginary versions of his opponents he's made as they act ridiculous in a situation he's invented solely for them to act ridiculous in.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Spring Collection.
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It says something that it's something of a relief we're just getting another example of Muir's issues with women today.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because stay free.
This is all a pretty good display of Muir's arrogance, ignorance, and warped sensibilities. From his shallow founding father worship that he pretends is patriotism to having Captain Mitty be bitterly offended... at something you'd only get offended at if you were planning to overthrow the government. But then, Muir thinks that makes you likable and sympathetic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because joined a union, paid my dues.
Even Muir's crazy theories are dull these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a distinct smell of Yorkshire pudding.
The tortured explanations of how being absorbed into the hivemind is the truest form of liberation have moved beyond ridiculous into creepy.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Stranger to Himself.
It show both how much Muir and the Peanut Gallery are still mad that a Black man got to be President that he's pulling this awfulness out, AND how wrapped in their toxic bubble they are that they think it's funny.
