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1198: Comments on a Garfield Postcard
Comments on a Garfield Postcard |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip takes the original Garfield strip, originally about Jon embellishing his blog, and reworks the premise into Jon coming across Comments on a Postcard #1332, published on the same day and written by the same author. Comments on a Postcard's primary gimmick is that its "imagery" appears to be broken and its "strips" lack titles and transcripts (essentially, every strip save for one April Fools' strip is a content-free strip), leaving their author's notes to tell the story; this SRoMG strip thus depicts the "broken" "image" common to most Comments on a Postcard strip displays as its middle panel.
The author's notes for Comments on a Postcard #1332 read as follows (the higher-ups opted to state that it was "rescued from a corrupted hard drive"):
- The ending cutaway gag of Garfield doing a hand-stand on the moon was borrowed from Square Root of Minus Garfield (another great webcomic).
That strip thus alludes to borrowing imagery from this very SRoMG strip, thus coming across as both strips depicting the same pose of Garfield doing a hand-stand on the moon. It is unknown what, if anything, was intended to precede Garfield hand-standing on the moon in-universe within the Comments on a Postcard mythos; no Square Root of Minus Garfield strip to date has attempted to "replicate" the gag "depicted" in this pair of strips, and in fact only 1245: Reversed has even gone as far as to depict a hand-stand.
This would not be the last time a Square Root of Minus Garfield strip would be twinned with a strip from another mezzacotta feature; SRoMG strip #1693 and Lightning Made of Owls strip #604 (both also written by the same author as the SRoMG #1198/Postcard #1332 twinning, and published on the same day as one another) are essentially strips in each others' features trading places with one another.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
This and today's Comments on a Postcard were intended to crossover. The bizarre thing is that in Comments, the cutaway gag was borrowed from Square Root of Minus Garfield (this strip). The centre frame isn't shown, which is where the cutaway came from (makes sense, considering that Comments was taken down, so we'll never see anything from it, not even in SRoMG). More bizarre still is that Comments borrowed the cutaway gag from today's strip and in turn both strips were published on the same day. Even more bizarre is that Comments mentioned SRoMG, borrowing the cutaway from here, yet SRoMG implies that it's showing Comments. Confused yet? Me too...
Original strip: 2010-04-19.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: Check out this neat little web comic I found.
{middle panel is a broken website image}
Garfield: I'd never do a hand-stand on the moon.
Jon: It's called "Postcard".