4548: gearflid ded lul

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gearflid ded lul

Made by: Xindaris

Explanation

This strip is simply a blown-up version of Garfield's tombstone and a bit of the surroundings from the original strip, at a resolution of 390×490.

The 5× blowup appears to be in reference to the small-sized strips formerly available via the unsecured "images.ucomics.com" domain Square Root of Minus Garfield linked to for original strip credits at the time (that version of the strip is still available via a secure-domain mirror here) as well as the main Garfield archive on GoComics, as those versions could feasibly crop the gravestone and blow up the resulting image to 5× size and get the resulting resolution of this strip; the version formerly available via garfield.com (preserved on the Garfield wiki on Fandom here) crops the gravestone without as much of the surroundings to roughly 150×163 without any blowup, and the version formerly presented through GoComics's now-defunct Garfield Classics archive (not to be confused with the below-mentioned Garfield Classics imprint of printed Garfield comic strip collections; the version of the strip formerly presented through GoComics's Garfield Classics collection is still available directly here, as certain Garfield features still make use of Garfield Classics versions of strips) crops the gravestone without as much of the surroundings to roughly 113×129 without any blowup, both of which would produce larger numbers for both dimensions blown up to 5× size. (The original Garfield strip without any cropping is 1200×352 on the former garfield.com archive, 600×175 on the ucomics/uclick and main GoComics archives, and 900×264 on the defunct Garfield Classics GoComics archive.)

The suggestion in the first sentence of the second paragraph of the author's notes is likely doable. Such a result would presumably involve scanning the correct page of the Garfield Classics imprint version of Garfield Tips the Scales: His Eighth Book (as in, the version of the collected volume that has the strips colorized; the Garfield Classics imprint covers the first thirty-six volumes initially printed in black-and-white and reprinted in color, volumes beyond that in the main imprint feature colorized strips by default) at a very high resolution, then cropping the output to just depict the gravestone. That result could also potentially be further edited to allow customization as suggested further on in the author's notes; however, presenting such a template directly on Square Root of Minus Garfield would potentially cause a dangerous out-of-control running gag.

The author writes:

I cropped out Garfield's tombstone, scaled it up 5x in mspaint, and submitted it as a SRoMG. There you go, the logical conclusion to every strip ever whose punchline is a shot of this tombstone. Not that I'm particularly annoyed by such strips or anything, but doing logical conclusions is a common SRoMG trope, and once I had the idea I decided to jump on it before someone else could. Because it's a very easy, lazy edit to make, after all.

What I would like to see, is someone actually scaling it up properly so it's not so blurry. Maybe rendering it in original artwork that faces the camera head-on and makes it easy to insert your own death date? And then people can use that for those punchlines instead of this. Hey, a guy can dream.

Original strip: 1982-10-28.

Transcript

{It's just Garfield's tombstone}