48: Garfield Minus Jon
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 Made by: Johan Tenge |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In the original strip, the "psycho" was a cat Jon had back on the farm who caught rats. Here, Garfield's remark seems to be an explanation for why Jon is nowhere around.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Original strip: 2001-10-13.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield looking bored}
{Garfield looking bored}
Garfield: I don't hang with psychos.
Later references[edit | edit source]
- #53 removes Jon from a different strip.
- #77 removes Garfield, too, leaving only Odie.
- #79 takes two strips with Jon in them, removes Jon, and combines them.
- #84 replaces Jon with Calvin, but the "minus Jon"ness remains in the title.
- #152 claims to have removed several characters explicitly, including Jon. (The only character removed from its original strip was Garfield, however.)
- #160 removes Jon from its original strip and divides Garfield by himself.
- #363 removes Jon, and additionally, Garfield's thought bubble.
- #494 removes Jon, his father, and Garfield from their original strip, leaving only Doc Boy.
- Similar to #84, #502 replaces Jon with Dr. Eggman, but the title has "minus Jon" in it.
- In a twist, #1840 "removes" Jon's mother (though she wasn't present in the strip) by making Jon the knitter of the sweater instead of her.
