4707: Suit Suit Jonic Borier

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Suit Suit Jonic Borier
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Made by: Nyperold


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Garfield's original guess was that all his other clothes were dirty. Here, it's that Jon wanted to look like Green Hill Zone.

Green Hill Zone is the first zone in the SEGA Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog, the first game in the Sonic series. The ground there, as seen in Sonic Adventure 2 by players who A-rank every mission in every stage and get all the other emblems besides, is light-and-dark-green-checkered, much like Jon's jacket and pants. (In Sonic the Hedgehog, we only see the edge of the ground, so for all we knew, it was just striped.)

The author's note makes a stealth pun by referring to the possibility that, were readers to race to be the first to figure out what was wrong with the original, two or more might figure it out at the same time; this event is called a tie, and Jon's tie is what was wrong.

In the original second panel, Jon's tie in the mirror was magenta-striped, despite being light blue with black spots everywhere else, including the other panel where it shows up in the mirror. The author likely copied and flipped the original image of the tie, copied and isolated what he needed to have in front of it (such as the hairbrush), pasted it in the appropriate spot, and pasted the other stuff over it.

The third panel has been removed.

The title is a pun on the title of the Japanese version of Sonic CD's theme song.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Bonus: There's a really weird error in the original. Here's hoping the fix is seamless enough. I'm not making it a competition, but if I did, two or more people might come up with the answer at the same time.

Original strip: 1992-01-20.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{Jon is wearing a suit checked in green and lighter green. Or, if you prefer, green and darker green. Also of note, a light blue tie with black spots, which he's adjusting in the mirror. The tie, not just the spots. Less interesting is the pair of brown shoes}
Jon: Know why I'm wearing a suit, Garfield?
{Jon pokes at his teeth or something}
Garfield: You wanted to look like Green Hill Zone?