109: April of No Sundays Collection

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April of No Sundays Collection

Made by: qvaak

Explanation

The first of many "No Sundays" SRoMG strips. The goal of these strips is to edit down a certain amount (usually a month's worth) of 7-panel (minus the title) Sunday strips into 3-panel daily strips, preserving the original punchline while cutting out the content unnecessary for setting up and delivering the gag. Any amount of editing can be used to achieve this goal: April 5th and 19th feature no edits besides the rearrangement of panels, while April 12th and 26th have a speech bubble and letter content (respectively) from other panels added to their new first panels. By removing the extended setup of Sunday strip gags, said gags are more quick, to the point, and (to most) humorous, proving once more that brevity is indeed the soul of wit. Curiously, qvaak does not provide an author's note beyond linking the original strips, leaving us with one of the only instances where the "site admin" provides a note for us.

The author writes:

Originals: 2009-04-05, 2009-04-12, 2009-04-19, 2009-04-26.

Comment by site admin: Sometimes the 7-panel Sunday Garfield strips just seem like a bunch of unnecessary filler around the core gag. By taking every Sunday strip from April, 2009, and paring them down to the essentials of the gags in just 3 brief panels each, qvaak here has shown that brevity is indeed the soul of wit.

Transcript

1:
Garfield: {on fence, to Arlene} Jon thinks you're my girlfriend.
Arlene: Am I?
{Garfield goes inside, where Jon is drinking coffee}
Garfield: See what you started?! {angrily smacks Jon across the face}
SFX: SMACK!

2:
TV 1: Holy bovines, corporal! There's a giant monster invading the city!
TV 2: It's just a bad actor in a rubber suit.
TV 1: Egad! A zipper monster! That's the worst kind!
TV 2: And that's not a real city.
Garfield: General Cordwood seems to have buried himself in the part.
TV 2: See?
TV 1: PUT MY HOUSE DOWN!!

3:
SFX: flip {Jon flips a Kitty Treat through the air to Garfield}
SFX: BWOINK DOINK {Garfield athletically bounces it up to his mouth with his foot and buttocks}
SFX: clap {Jon gives a golf clap as Garfield leaves}

4:
Garfield: {typing on computer} Dear Jon, Life here with you has become unbearable, so I am running away to join the French Foreign Legion. Goodbye.
SFX: tic tic tic {typing}
SFX: print print print print {Garfield prints the letter he just typed}
Jon: GARFIELD! {Jon is angry at seeing the letter in the goldfish bowl, which has no fish in it. On the table there is a splash of water, an open jar of tartar sauce, and half a lemon.}