4532: Afoot in the Door
| Afoot in the Door |
 Made by: SonicLover |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This methodology of this strip's creation is well-explained within the author's notes. As they state, the official Garfield printed compilation books are available as digital downloads; the author's choice of storefront is Apple Books. The original Garfield strip in particular was compiled in Garfield Chickens Out: His 61st Book. The author's choice of methods ultimately resulted in a higher resolution than even the version of the strip formerly found on the garfield.com site (archived on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here); this strip is 1534×466 as the author's methodology--presumably the scanning equipment used by the compiler of the electronic book edition of the Garfield strip compilation--ultimately rendered it, whereas the former garfield.com version was only 1200×357 (versions on other archives are smaller than even that).
The link to the Apple Books download is rendered in the style the strip credits worked prior to the Square Root of Minus Garfield site recoding effort that allowed the original strip date search function, as rendered after said recoding effort.
As for the actual remix, its premise is relatively simple: the original had Garfield hiding the car keys, Jon finding them, then Garfield proceeded to hide the car; this strip had Garfield hiding an initially-unmentioned set of keys, Jon finding them, then it be revealed that Garfield somehow hid the house's front door.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Since the strips.garfield.com takedown, I'm experimenting with a new strip source: the digital versions of the Garfield compilation books. I dragged-and-dropped this strip from the free sample of Garfield Chickens Out into my image editor, and made this edit mainly as a test run. I'm not looking forwards to having to pay for the full books, but I suppose that’s the price of quality and reliability.
Notice that the "original strip" date below is accompanied by a linked book number. If I'm going to be getting my material from the compilation books, it's only right that I cite them appropriately.
[[Original strip from book #61.]]
Original strip: 2013-07-12.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Jon and Garfield. Neither looks particularly happy}
Jon {to reader}: Garfield hid my keys
Jon {holding up a keyring and looking satisfied}: But, HA! I found them!
{Jon leaves}
Jon {off-panel}: Uh, Garfield? Where is the front door?
Garfield {suddenly smiling}: The game is afoot!
Trivia[edit | edit source]
The author's notes were affected by a mojibake error during a later site recoding effort; the original author's notes unaffected by mojibake are currently lost to the public due to this.
