2005: 27th Birthday Special: Supercat

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27th Birthday Special: Supercat

Made by: BlueDude

Explanation

The original strip had Garfield attempting to reverse time by walking backwards. This edit changes the final panel into a still from the 1978 Superman movie, which had a famous scene where the title hero's love interest Lois Lane dies, and thus he flies into space and pushes the Earth backwards to wind back time and save her.

Incidentally, the description was intended to mirror the mod note for strip 1137, which, after running two superhero-themed strips in a row, wondered if there was "something about Garfield we don't know". (Admittedly, it was rather ambiguously phrased.)

The author writes:

Hopefully most people will get the joke. If not, then the transcript should tell you. Perhaps we don't know as much about Garfield as we think we do...

Original strip: 2005-06-19.

Transcript

{Garfield is sitting in bed, looking morose}
Garfield: Sigh...
Garfield: Another birthday.
{Garfield stands up, still bearing the same expression as before}
Garfield: This one's number 27...
{Garfield begins walking away from his bed}
Garfield: And that's pretty old for a cat.
{Garfield raises a finger to his chin}
Garfield: If only there were something I could do...
{Close-up on Garfield as he suddenly has an idea}
{Cut to the Earth, being pushed backwards by an unseen force - perhaps Garfield himself? - to turn time back as well}