2403: Japanfield
| Japanfield |
 Made by: Superfoo Turret Opera |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In the original, the car had the steering wheel on the left side of the car, and Jon was driving on the wrong side of the road (for American drivers, of course) when he smacked his face into a stop sign that was facing the wrong way (probably sacrificing realism for ease of recognition, even though the stop sign is the only octagonal road sign in the United States).
No. 1890: One-Wayfield flipped the car horizontally (to appeal to car design in the United Kingdom and other countries), put another curb in to make it a one-way street, and gave us the back side of the stop sign to look at.
This strip keeps most of No. 1890's changes, but changes the octagonal stop sign to the downward-pointing triangle stop sign found in Japan. The "SMACK!" onomatopoeia is replaced with the hiragana "DA-!", which is somewhat inaccurate - it's a copula that only serves to link a sentence's predicate (or subject complement) with its subject (equivalent to the word "is" in the sentence "Today is boring)", and thus has no relevance to the scene at hand. The author also replaced Jim Davis's signature with its corresponding katakana ("ジム*デイビス"), and added the kanji for "month" and "day" after their respective numbers.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
I took the liberty of making the 'expected' sequel to One-Wayfield, remade with a Japanese street sign and onomatopoeia and signature. It can only get better/worse from here.
More to come!
Original strip: 1990-12-10.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Jon and Garfield are driving down a one-way road in the car.}
{Jon notices Garfield is sticking his head out the window with his eyes closed, and does that too.}
{His face is struck by a Japanese stop sign.}
SFX: だ～！
