318: Garfield in Haiku 2
| Garfield in Haiku 2 |
 Made by: Nyperold |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The author's notes reference the very first SRoMG strip, in which a strip was rewritten -- while maintaining the basic meaning of the dialogue -- to fit the structure of a haiku. This strip, on the other hand, takes panels where the dialogue already has the requisite syllables, and puts them together without regard for story... though it kind of makes one, anyway.
Jon offers a sausage (the "dog"?), apparently named "Odie", and Garfield sits on it. For some reason. In the original strips:
- Garfield swiped at Jon's leg, making him drop the sausage, and took said sausage.
- Lyman introduced his dog, setting up the second panel, and Garfield walked off, referring to a blimp named Hindenburg, a ship named Titanic, a car named Edsel, and possibly other things that become impossible to read.
- Jon wants to weigh Garfield, but wonders where the scale is.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
For the first Garfield in Haiku strip, David McLeish rewrote the dialogue to fit the syllable structure of a haiku.
For this one, I took a first panel that had 5 syllables, a second panel that had 7, and a final panel that had 5, and put them together. It definitely makes for a different story...
Original strips: 1978-06-28, 1978-08-10, and 1978-09-02.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: Here, Garfield, ...beg.
Garfield: Odie... a dog named Odie...
Garfield: I'm sitting on it.
