1928: And so it begins...
| And so it begins... |
 Made by: Ryan North |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In this strip, Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics fame uses his comic to make a jab at the infamous "Constantly changing/Garfield [something that sounds like minus] Garfield" edits. The strip shows the dinosaurs (T. rex, Dromiceiomimus, and Utahraptor) creating the joke and its subsequent imitators, resulting in descent into insanity. The date this was published matches up with the date when the gag becomes sentient, as mentioned in #625.
Dinosaur Comics is a constrained comic; in its case, the same six-panel layout and artwork of the titular dinosaurs is reused in every strip, with only dialogue changing (the above strip being an exception). It is an absurdist comic featuring three species of dinosaurs as its characters:
- T-Rex is the de facto main character; only T-Rex appears in all six panels.
- Utahraptor serves as T-Rex's foil; he appears on panels 4 and 5.
- Dromiceiomimus appears in the third panel. She serves as a friendly, yet mildly critical, straight woman.
Perhaps as a joke, this strip lists the 2001-11-28 Garfield strip as its source.
Also of note is that mezzacotta hosts its own version of Dinosaur Comics titled The Dinosaur Whiteboard.
The author writes[edit | edit source]
Original strip: 2001-11-28.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
T-Rex: Garfield Minus Garfield! PFFT.
T-Rex: More like Garfield LINUS Garfield!
T-Rex: More like Garfield FINEST Garfield!
Dromiceiomimus: More like Garfield WRYNESS Garfield!
T-Rex: MORE LIKE GARFIELD SLYNESS GARFIELD!!
Dromiceiomimus: MORE LIKE GARFIELD SILENCE GARFIELD!
{the comic begins breaking up with pixelated noise}
T-Rex: MORE LIKE GARFIELD HIGHNESS GARFIELD
Utahraptor: MORE LIKE GARFIELD VIRUS GARFIELD
{the breakup gets worse and it becomes difficult to read the text}
T-Rex: MORE LIKE GARFIELD CORONARY SINUS GARFIELD
Utahraptor: MORE LIKE GARFIELD [SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE MINUS] GARFIELD
{a weird overlay of cascading symbols partly obscured by digital noise covers the final frame}
Caption: {barely legible} THE MADNESS IS INSIDE YOU NOW
