1968: Garfield's Not Moving!!
Garfield's Not Moving!! |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip is based on a misinterpretation of 1871: Jon's Perception, where this strip's author misread Jon's second line as not including the comma and implying that the Sun was inside Garfield. As such, this strip reworks the original Garfield strip further, retaining most of #1871's alterations to the first two panels, only removing the comma from the second line; the third panel had Jon notice Garfield not moving as opposed to asking if Garfield was moving as in #1871.
The intended interpretation of this strip as a "dead Garfield" strip is, however, undermined by this strip retaining Garfield having a thought bubble from the original Garfield strip (which #1871 deleted); if Garfield were really dead, he wouldn't be able to think, and thus wouldn't have a thought bubble outright stating that he was dead and insulting Jon for thinking otherwise.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
After waking up and misreading SRoMG #1871, this was the inevitable result.
Original strip: 2014-03-21.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: The air is shining;
Jon: The sun is inside Garfield!
Jon: He's not moving!!
Garfield: I'm dead, you idiot.