5017: Set It To Reverse, Jon (featuring Snoopy from Peanuts)
- This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 5017: Set It To Reverse, Jon [featuring Snoopy from Peanuts].
| Set It To Reverse, Jon [featuring Snoopy from Peanuts] |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
The original strip was a tribute to Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, first running on what would have been his 100th birthday. This remix turns the premise into a jab toward Schulz and Peanuts, being further exemplified by running 23 years after Schulz's death. The editor's note is a standard-issue one that appears whenever the remixed strip includes opinions that could unsettle readers.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
I detest sentimentality, and the original strip overflowed with it. So, let's try and see what the exact opposite of sentimentality looks like.
[Ed: Views expressed, inasmuch as they are expressed, are author's own and do not necessarily represent those of Square Root of Minus Garfield.]
Original strip: 2022-11-26.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon {reading from a book}: Once upon a time, there was a boy named Sparky who created a comic strip with very simple art.
Jon: Nobody ever found it funny, and it was so bland nobody ever objected.
Jon: And he died the day before his retirement strip ran.
Garfield {to Snoopy, holding a 100th birthday cake}: I always admired how completely you sold out, dawg.
Text: Charles Schulz, November 26 1922 - February 12, 2000
Trivia[edit | edit source]
Later references[edit | edit source]
- This strip received two responses, both of which criticize it: 5269: You Redeemed Yourself, Jon (featuring Snoopy from Peanuts) and 5276: The Fallacy of Glass Houses.
