3618: Japanfield v2

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Japanfield v2

Made by: Cdudeiscool

Explanation

This strip takes 2403: Japanfield and restacks the panels to more resemble a Japanese newspaper comic strip, which are typically read in vertical format; Japanese-originated newspaper comic strips rarely get published in the west due to their very nature, as supplemental material typically seen to the side would not make sense to reformat in a western format.

Sadly, this strip's author made a critical blunder: based on how Japanese is typically read right-to-left as opposed to left-to-right in western languages, they restacked the strip from bottom to top--which is not how Japanese is read in print (Japanese is only reversed horizontally in print from a western perspective, vertically it is read top-to-bottom much like in the west). This blunder was ultimately addressed in 5548: Japanfield v2.5, which properly stacks the panels from top-to-bottom to match Japanese newspaper comic strips.

The author writes:

I had to do it.

Original strip: 1990-12-10.

Transcript

{Note: Read from bottom to top}
{Jon and Garfield are driving down a one-way road in the car}
{Jon notices Garfield is sticking his head out the window with his eyes closed, and does that too}
{His face is struck by a Japanese stop sign}
SFX: スマック！

Trivia

This strip's transcript was hit with mojbake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript unaffected by mojibake is currently lost to the public due to this.