317: The Thing
| The Thing |
 Made by: NES Boy |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip takes a quote on Facebook in which Garfield says he'd want to be like The Thing if he were to be a superhero, and puts it with a Garfield title panel in which he is actually depicted as The Thing, with Arlene as the Invisible Woman, Nermal as the Human (Feline?) Torch, and Odie as Mr. Fantastic.
The Thing is the superhero persona of Benjamin Grimm, who, along with Susan Storm, her brother Jonathan Storm, and Reed Richards were exposed to cosmic rays, causing them to develop superpowers; this led them to join together into a superhero team called The Fantastic Four. The Thing's power is that he's incredibly hard, thus resistant to physical attack, and capable of delivering powerful physical attacks of his own.
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Image taken from title panel of 1997-01-05. Source of quote here.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Image showing Garfield as The Thing.}
"If I had to be a superhero, I'd be like The Thing because he's orange and craggy. I can relate to orange and craggy. In the meantime, I'll just stick with being a super star."
— Garfield
