It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Hidden Dangers.
A less paranoid man might realize that this is because he's chosen a fundraising model that closely resembles many forms of financial fraud and adjust his methods accordingly, possibly by seeking out a respected organization to handle this for him.
But obviously, Muir knows better than that.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Black Coin.
Remember what I said yesterday?
Because if anything, this is worse. Muir is desperately putting his hope that some grand plan, some cagey scheme is going on and soon, SOON, the Democratic Party shall pay! What is it? He doesn't know. But something has to happen, because otherwise, things are looking very grim for his side.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Clutching Hand.
Man. As vile and morally bankrupt as all this is, it's also just so pathetic. This is Muir crashing out in real time, staring at a reality that looks very bad for him, shutting his eyes, and desperately trying to insist that it is something else entirely. The last time I saw him this bad was way back in 2020 when he was trying to convince himself that no, no, Biden hadn't won, it was all a trick, all a trick, Trump was going to throw all the Democrats in prison any day now.
It's gonna be a crazy year, folks.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Captain America.
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It says something that even when Muir entertains a delusional Gnostic-style reality behind reality that turns strategic idiocy into some greater plan, doubts about Trump creep in. The simple fact is, once you start suspecting you've been had, it's hard to stop suspecting that.
No matter how many crazy theories about the UK you start entertaining.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Perils of Nyoka.
Some people cook to calm an unsteady mind. Others play chess, or listen to calming music. Muir contemplates robot sex.
And also, draws his super creepy but very bad pinup art.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Calling Philo Vance.
Won't lie, there's always a good chance when Muir goes into one of these weird rants that he hits a new vein of awful, and yep, this is one of those times.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Cole Murder Case.
There's something almost awe-inspiring in the number of times Muir has declared the conspiracy theory of the day proven, and then just moved on when, no, it wasn't, actually, in fact it was bullshit.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Dragon Murder Case.
You know, I'm genuinely torn as to what's the most fascinating part of all this wall of crazyfail, that Muir doesn't realize he's swapped out how the Evil Conspiracy of Evil works yet again, that Russia's back to being a bad guy, or that at the bottom lies Muir's eternal conviction that the things he wants just CAN'T be unpopular, that the Democrats can't just win elections, that it has to be an evil plot that gets them back into power and makes things he supports fail. (And when he himself finally acknowledges something he supported failed, this does not lead to any general reevaluation of his beliefs.) This is a man who feels powerless when those he supports hold power. And again, he just can never ask himself why that is, because the actual answer would destroy him.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because save the life of my child, cried the desperate mother.
Man, never thought I'd miss the days when Muir was merely a cryptofascist...
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Heroes and Villains.
You know as this more argle-bargle nonsense about business, I'm going to focus on the one fascinating thing here, which is Muir's constant back and forth on AI. When he's imagining business and moguls using it to show the serfs and the dusky hordes their place, he's all for it. When he realizes it's swiping his shitty art to make even shittier art, he's against it.
And he can do this sort of pivot because Muir never thinks about things in any sort of depth.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Fantom of the Fair.
Remember the bit in The Lego Movie where Princess Unikitty's pose as a business woman consists of her shouting gibberish while carrying a briefcase?
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because a screen door slams.
I have to say, the confident declarations of how things work that are not how they work are reaching a sort of fever pitch in the strip these days.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Death and Company.
Man, haven't seen Javier for awhile. Amazing for the guy who literally provides the Compound with all its ludicrous tech. And it's interesting to see that now Muir draws him as this strange distorted goblin figure, no doubt partially because, well, he hasn't drawn him for awhile.
As I keep noting it's fascinating how Damon and Jan, once a major part of the strip, have all but disappeared, and those characters connected with them are seen even less. (A reminder that Javier has a sister.) As I've noted before, a modern day Barney Google.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Fly Paper.
At this point, I'm fairly certain the Kentucky Gentleman is telling Muir this is a brilliant move, top notch.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Dain Curse--Black Riddle.
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If you were writing a work of fiction where a cartoonist did a strip that revealed all his deep-rooted psychological issues...
It'd be this, but more subtle.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Creeping Siamese.
Won't lie, there's something both amusing and disturbing about how Muir went from an AI-booster, to an AI-skeptic, to a ranting AI-paranoid in a fairly short period of time. As I keep noting, pliable as ever. (Though part of this seems to have been spurred by realizing that he was among those being ripped off, so... good on him? Maybe? Look, it's Muir actually acting in his own interests for once instead of just placidly assuming his fascist and corporate overlords are on his side. The problem is so much of his basic functions have rotted to this present level of crazy.)
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Dead Yellow Women.
...You know the layers of awful here are kind of impressive, like a sort of parfait of insane bullshit. Muir's unsettling ideas of how parenthood should function giving way casually to his batshit conspiracy theories about the Evil Conspiracy of Evil.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Night Shots.
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Remember what I was just saying about Muir's whole robot thing just being so completely bizarre?
Yeah, that was prophetic.
It's the Day's Day of Days! Because The Big Sleep.
And another small fry crazy Right-winger whose name Muir has misspelled, though Elizabeth belongs to the 'once respectable(ish) journalist who got the brainworms' school. She's also largely a Canadian crazy, so I blame the shockingly significant Far Right Canadian contingent of the Peanut Gallery for this.
