3549: "Hello? Is this Jim Davis? Yes, I'd like to report a bug."

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"Hello? Is this Jim Davis? Yes, I'd like to report a bug."
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Made by: Super SpongeBob 64


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip is a presentation of a glitched presentation of the original Garfield strip on GoComics; it essentially presented the color elements without the black-and-white elements the color elements were supposed to be applied on top of, leaving the impression of a dialogue-free strip without any black outlines.

At the time this strip was submitted and first ran, Square Root of Minus Garfield's strip credits system linked back to garfield.com, which has since been taken down (its version of the original strip has been preserved on the Garfield wiki on Fandom); after the garfield.com takedown, SRoMG spent some time linking to the now-busted "images.ucomics.com" domain (its secure-domain mirror is still operational), switching to the GoComics presentations once that domain busted.

As of this writing, GoComics has since dispensed with the erroneous presentation that inspired this SRoMG strip; however, their presentation now consists of the black-and-white version of the strip without any color, presumably still not the intended presentation, which subsequently spurred the creation of 5591: Hey GoComics, I've given you a corrected coloured strip.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Yes, what you see is real. Somehow GoComics screwed up this particular strip, leaving this strip devoid of any black. I actually stumbled upon this while searching for ideas for a SRoMG strip, clicking the "Random" button until I got an idea.

So in a way, thanks, GoComics. You made a SRoMG strip for me. (Actually, I checked back on it the day I submitted this. It's still glitched.)

Original strip: 2000-01-13.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

{A three-panel Garfield strip with speech bubbles, but no dialog. Garfield can be seen lying on the floor in all three panels. He and Jon are outlined in white}
Jon: {blank}
{Jon walks away}
Garfield: {blank}
Garfield: {blank}