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.