2631: Max Headfield
| Max Headfield |
 Made by: Abomagoonios |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The author's notes explains the key background to this strip; this strip takes the first panel of the strip that ran on the day of the infamous Max Headroom signal intrusion (whose perpetrators are still unidentified to this day as of this writing), then uses the static effect from another strip to lead into a panel taken from the first part of the hijacked broadcast. The necessary line to be used in the third panel is known due to the second intrusion of the evening (on PBS station WTTW, interrupting a Doctor Who serial) having audible enough sound to discern a line; the first intrusion of the evening (on then-independent station WGN, interrupting the sports segment of the local newscast) had only loud buzzing.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
What if Garfield were interrupted by the Max Headroom Incident of 1987? This would be the result.
Original strips: 1987-11-22, 2004-03-31.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
​Garfield: Out of my way, brie breath!
SFX: PUNT!
{static}
{cuts to the infamous Max Headroom incident.}
Max(?): That does it... he's a frickin' nerd!
Trivia[edit | edit source]
This strip's transcript was hit with mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.
