2722: Garfield Minus Jealousy Plus Sadness

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Garfield Minus Jealousy Plus Sadness

Made by: Chica is my Senpai

Explanation

In the original comic, Garfield's "HA!" was met with anger borne of jealousy, which expressed itself as denying that sprinkles are that great; this was met with Garfield telling Jon to keep telling himself that, indicating that Garfield doesn't believe Jon believes it himself, and has to convince himself that it's the case if he wishes to feel better, as Garfield himself won't be convinced that sprinkles on vanilla ice cream aren't superior to vanilla ice cream without sprinkles.

In this edit, Jon's jealous reactions are replaced by silent sadness, with tears manifesting in the last panel, not commented upon by Garfield.

Art-wise, this was achieved by copying Jon's head to the last panel and drawing tears, and copying his eyes to the second panel and moving his pupils. Also, the speech and thought callouts in the last panel were removed.

The author writes:

Original strip: 2009-02-25.

Transcript

{Garfield has an ice cream with sprinkles, and Jon has plain vanilla.}

Garfield: HA!

{Garfield leaves the room.}

{Jon is left to cry.}