5340: Spot the Difference with Garfield 16: New Year's Edition

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Spot the Difference with Garfield 16: New Year's Edition
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Made by: U. N. Owen


Explanation[edit | edit source]

Contrary to the author's intent in the presentation of a reused joke run in the original strip a year apart, the final result of this strip is based on an error in the GoComics archives; the strip credited to 1996-01-01 is actually the 1997-01-01 strip colored differently, even bearing a 1997 copyright date. The Garfield wiki on Fandom has a copy of the actual 1996-01-01 strip, drawn from the former garfield.com site, here.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Ring out the old, ring in the new, eh Jim?

Original strips: 1996-01-01, 1997-01-01.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Caption: January 1, 1996
{Garfield is chilling, holding a cup of coffee}
{A spider wearing a party hat bungee-jumps down from the ceiling}
Spider: Whoo! What a night!
Garfield: Happy new year
Caption: January 1, 1997
{Garfield is chilling, holding a cup of coffee}
{A spider wearing a party hat bungee-jumps down from the ceiling}
Spider: Whoo! What a night!
Garfield: Happy new year