1198: Comments on a Garfield Postcard

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Comments on a Garfield Postcard

Made by: LittleLooney

Explanation

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 "images" are broken and its "strips" lack titles and transcripts (basically, every strip but one April Fools' strip is content-free), leaving their author's notes to tell the story; this SRoMG strip thus depicts the "broken" image common to most Comments strips as its middle panel.

The author's notes for the Comments strip read as follows:

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 from this exact SRoMG strip, thus coming across as both strips depicting the same pose of Garfield doing a handstand on the moon. It is unknown what, if anything, was intended to precede Garfield hand-standing on the moon in-universe in the Comments strip, since no SRoMG strip to date has attempted to "replicate" it and, in fact, only 1245: Reversed has even gone as far as to depict a handstand.

This would not be the last time a SRoMG strip would be paired with another mezzacotta strip; SRoMG strip #1693 and Lightning Made of Owls strip #604 (both also written by the same author as this pair of strips and published on the exact same date) are essentially strips in each other's features trading places with one another.

The author writes:

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

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".