The death of Garfield?
Created on: August 2nd, 2006
An examination of a really f*cked up series of Garfield cartoons from 1989. These are 100% legit.
EDIT: ok, thanks to everyone confirming the veracity of these strips.
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Interesting, but I hate these kind of YTMNDs. I'd much rather read about it on a message board. It just doesn't make sense to put this in YTMND form. And the star-ratings for these type of YTMNDs become pretty meaningless -- why would I give YOU a 5? This kind of thing isn't meant to be rated, it's just information.
I checked Wiki. My guess is the author of the comic was getting tired and shifted gears for a moment. Consider it a disguarded story outside the contunity of Garfied. I say this becouse the author makes no ferther mention of it before retiring. I doupt ferther artists have any directions reguarding those spooky strips.
wow, i read downvoter's comments. the number 2 reson for downvoting was "the wikipedia can be edited by anyone" well it's been 4 days and nobody has changed the article on wikipedia and nobody repoted vandalism so therefore it's a plausable theory. Number 1 reason for downvoting...NO NEDM ZOMG. Does every YTMND featuring a cat need NEDM? NO so f*ck off and find a better reason to downvote if any
If it was a more BELIEVABLE conspiracy, this would be cool. But it doesn't leave wtih a question, only back in reality, with a newfound sense of appreciation for what he has. It was well made, so 2, but if you weren't trying to make it so dramatic when it's really a much simpler point then my rating would've been higher.
No, it was just used for a scare before halloween. i can quote why the creator used them in his 20th aniv. book.
"During a writing session for Halloween week, I got the idea for this decidedly different series of strips. I wanted to scare people. And what do people fear most? Why, being alone. We carried the concept out to its logical conclusion and got a lot of responses from readers. Reaction raged from "Right on!" to "This isn't a trend, is it?"
Bah, everyone needs to stop hating on Garfield. They're just jealous because Jim Davis is rich from a rather dead-pan comic, who's humor is way to minimal for them, while they're sitting at home on the computer playing some game they obsess over, or trying to convince the world that their opinions are right, by writing in caps, using typos, and slamming the shift and 1 key to the point of annoyance. (Although I do agree, the movies did suck.)
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So what is the dream? The fifth strip, third pannel shows he's clearly imagining as there is only an outline where he's pretending Jon is. And then Jon suddenly appears out of thin air offering Garfield some food? It's possible he was sleepwalking during a nightmare, or that he woke up in the morning and simply conjured up memories of better days to kill the pain of reality. There is no right or wrong interpretation, the *reader* decides whether Garfield is alive.
The whole idea is many people whould live a lie and a delusions, and they fear the truth. This is another way to look at this strip. There are many possible ways to take this strip and it depends on the person and their own ideas of human nature itself.
Another aspect could be that since he is infact alone, his mind causes a illusion of a life of happiness. Their is not ONE way to look at this their are infact many, so you can take your own and be happy with it.
The comics are real, but they don't signify that Garfield is literally dead, but in fact he is figuratively dead. He feeds himself with physical food and abuses those close to him, when in reality the true food he cannot do without is the companionship of his friends. When they are taken away, he realises that he has nothing, and "starves to death." Garfield is not dead, but how he takes his life for granted, he might as well be.
I had Garfied comics when I was little, and I still remeber those strips. Garfied was being exceptionally mean to his owners, so this was a dream to make Garfield appriciative of his life. And after reading the comics after it, he does act more appriciatve and nicer. It was probly because the author was taking a nicer approach to the comic since kids liked it more. So you lose for not doing your research and highly misinterpriting this.
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