4355: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

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Your Guess Is As Good As Mine

Made by: Camwoodstock & Tori

Explanation

The author's notes tend to explain most of this strip's premise. The fact that the original dream involved the Square Root of Minus Garfield strip presumably explains why this strip was submitted to Square Root of Minus Garfield as opposed to iToons, although the strip-within-a-strip would have likely not have been accepted on its own merit even there. Tori was presumably uninvolved, as the strip-within-a-strip credits Camwoodstock alone.

The editing to the Square Root of Minus Garfield interface makes clear that the strip-within-a-strip is not the main interface; the actual strip's title uses the same number as the strip-within-a-strip's title's number (and was likely coordinated to run as such), but the URL of the strip-within-a-strip does not match that of the actual strip--the URL was nonfunctional at the time the strip was submitted and first ran, and later led to 4435: Garkiplier once the strip ran far enough to make that URL functional. The strip-within-a-strip's title is blurred as it was likely never properly titled; the strip-within-a-strip's run date is also blurred as it likely was not imaged within the author's dream, but also served as a safeguard just in case Square Root of Minus Garfield somehow suffered a major enough schedule slip between creation/submission and runtime (although the strip has indeed come through daily since it first went daily with 251: Beware, there have been a few cases of minor slips where the strip did not make it at precisely 9:10 AM UTC for some reason or another).

The author writes:

I had a dream that I went to Square Root of Minus Garfield and that this was apparently something I had submitted to the site, as it was published. So I just thought I'd make it reality, because it confused me after waking up as much as it probably confuses you.

Transcript

{The Square Root of Minus Garfield website}
{Menu bar}

No. 4355: {garbled text}
{A picture of 3 stock renders of Goombas}