"Garfield's Death" Explained
Created on: August 6th, 2006
If you people read it for more than 15 seconds, you would have realized its just a dream of the future.
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Yes, it was a vision of the future of what WOULD happen to Garfield. Pay close attention to when Jon asks Garfield if he wants food, instead he wants Jon. We get the impression in this future Jon abondoned him, whereas in the present he is now more thankful so that the potential future doesn't happen.
Drusamson is right, it can be seen either way, what if he is starving to death in the house and the visions he sees are actually his denial of such an event. It would mean that all the other garfield comics are just his imagination. Don't jump to conclusions, some things aren't as simple as they may first be interpreted...
But what if Garfield's entire comic strip life as we know him is the vision, and if that moment in the house is just his return to reality, that, in his attempt to make sense of his life, he sees only as a vision and goes back into the denial he was previously experiencing as he starves to death. (The years of the comic could easily take place in hours in his own mind.)
I remember seeing an old National Lampoon Magazine from the 80's I think. It spoke of the death of Garfield, and the article was several pages long.( I had no idea there was an actual Death in the comic stip, I figured this was a joke, but now I guess it was refering to this contoversy, and the "Back to normal" cover up that followed. The artwork looked authentic, but it showed Garfield being ripped to shreds by an invisible force, which was the Cheshire Cat. If anyone could find it, it'd be YTMND GOLD.
You need to add this: The reason why Jim Davis penned these comics was there was a death in his immediate family that came as a compleate shock to the family, and writing these comics was his way of expressing his grief and trying to get people to realize just how precious family is. Don't belive me? Look it up :-p
It was just Garfield's subcontious. Everyone has this little inner voice of what's right and what's wrong. Garfield's was just telling him that he's rejecting one of his greatest assets (Jon), a friend.
This is just a comic that was supposed to jolt people out of their sense of immortality, that they'll live forever, and to show that if you dont cherish what you have at the moment it'll disapear. Just like that.
This comic was probably out of grief, and I still think it's really genius.
I agree, if people actually kept up with the strip in the 80s and early 90s then they wouldn't be surprised to see something like this from Davis. The 9-lives series is really f*ed up and shows that Davis knows what he’s doing. Sadly today’s Garfield is nothing more then a marketing machine. Also Portugeez doesn't have to ref. his comments. Hes interpreting a piece of literature and doesn't need proof.
You didn't really explain anything, not that it needs much explaining. Quite literally, how could Garfield be in a time where he "hasn't lived there for years," as he quickly realizes, without already being dead? He couldn't JUST start slowly starving to death the moment he woke up several years later. Just pointing out a different perspective for the slow ytmnders
I don't see how "denial" can translate into "refusal" or whatever you want it to be. It seems more likely that "denial" means he's denying his reality -- that is, he's denying that he's starving to death in an abandoned house.
I don't have an opinion on the matter either way, but your logic isn't exactly bulletproof.
I'd think it'd be kickass if, when they decide to finally end the series,the last installment starts normally, but in the second to the last panel, he passes out, with jon saying "garfield, are you all right?". Then the last panel having a skinny, dirty malnourished cat, dead on the floor of that abandoned house...but it has a smile on its face.
I loved that storyline...
Oh OFFICIAL JIM DAVIS MESSAGE
During a writing section for Halloween week, I got the idea for this decidedly different series of strips. I wanted to scare people. And what do people fear the most? Why being alone. We carried the CONCEPT out to its logical conclusion and got a lot of responses from readers. Reactions ranged from "Right on!" to "This isn't a trend, is it?
The comic was a CONCEPT designed to make one think about their life.
It was never a real storyline.
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