5302: Garfward Jonbles

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Garfward Jonbles

Made by: TPTPWDotACoEMW (but also see the author's note)

Explanation

This comic is unexplained. If you can edit this page to provide an explanation, please do!

The author writes:

Comic authors: TPTPWDotACoEMW, Alastair, Carleah22, chairheir, Iceguppie, JOE, King_Fuffy, ManiacMastR, Nedben, Ninjatwist, pionoplayer, Poe Salazar, Splashcat, The Nonexistent Tazz

Awkward Fumbles is a comic with a simple premise. One user submits a comic without any dialogue, and another user adds dialogue and other text to it. Unfortunately, I wasn't in the mezzacotta/Irregular Webcomic! adjacent sphere when Awkward Fumbles was running actively.

So I decided "fine, I'll do it myself!" I made a funny-looking chopped-up Garfield comic, then asked one of my friends to come up with text to add to it. I then added that dialogue to the spliced comic. It was a pretty cool experiment, if I do say so!

Then I... slipped... and did that with twelve more friends.

The result is Garfward Jonbles! It's not entirely dissimilar to Dinosaur Comics, with a bunch of different contexts given to every element in the comic. A few really pushed the boundaries of what the text was used for. And, interestingly, two of my friends ended up accidentally making very similar comics. Well, you know what they say about great minds.

(Seriously, though, is it a tuba or a sousaphone?)

Original strips: 1989-04-10, 1996-01-13, 2008-04-26, 2009-08-20, 2016-01-07.

Transcript

{Twelve comics are shown. All of them depict the same events, with only the dialogue edited}

Comic 1 {dialogue by Alastair}:
Jon: THE NEXT CAT WHO DOES A "DEEP TOOT" IN MY HOUSE IS GETTING MAILED TO TIMBUKTU!
Garfield {annoyed}: First of all: I resent the implication!
Garfield {pulling out a tuba and approaching Nermal from behind}: Second of all: it does give me an idea...

Comic 2 {dialogue by Carleah22}:
Jon {opening his mouth very wide}: So to operate a tuba, you need to open your mouth thissss wide
Garfield {indignant}: That's so stupid. There's no way you really have to do that
{In the next panel, Garfield is operating a tuba, and he has his mouth open thatttt wide}

Comic 3 {dialogue by chairheir}:
Jon: The beacon is lit! Nermal calls for aid!
Garfield {determined}: And Garfield will answer.
{Garfield reinforces Nermal, a tuba in hand}
Nermal: Thanks, Garfield

Comic 4 {dialogue by Iceguppie}:
Jon: Cats don't dance!
Garfield: We'll see about that...
{Jon approaches Nermal with a tuba, presumably to get him to dance}

Comic 5 {dialogue by JOE}:
Jon: I HAVE THE LOUDEST BIG MOUTH!
Garfield {competitive}: He thinks he has the loudest big mouth?
Garfield {pulling out a tuba}: Now this is the loudest big mouth.

Comic 6 {dialogue by King_Fuffy}:
Jon: GARFIELD! YOU ATE ALL THE FROZEN PUDDING POPS!
Garfield {angry}: It's time to perpetuate the cycle of violence
{Garfield approaches Nermal and prepares to blast him with a tuba}

Comic 7 {dialogue by ManiacMastR}:
Jon {musically}: WAAAAH!
Garfield: Silly Jon, that's not how you sax. Let me show you.
{Garfield pulls out a tuba, presumably about to play some jazz}

Comic 8 {dialogue by Nedben}
Jon: JON!
Garfield {surrealistic}: {megaphone emoji}
{Garfield pulls out a tuba. Or maybe a megaphone? Or maybe a sousaphone. Look, we've had this conversation before, I'm not going to have it again}

Comic 9 {dialogue by Ninjatwist}
Jon: GET OFF THE TABLE
Garfield {angry}: I guess two's going to play at that game
Garfield {about to blast Nermal with a tuba}: GET OFF THE TABLE

Comic 10 {dialogue by pionoplayer}
Jon: {A picture of the Trumpet Boy meme in the place of any dialogue}
Garfield {afflicted}: Well, you know what the right thing to do when you're hit by an awful meme is...
Garfield {about to blast Nermal with a sousaphone}: Inflict it on somebody else too.

Comic 11 {dialogue by Poe Salazar}:
Jon: GARFIELD, I'M TURNING INTO A BRASS INSTRUMENT!
Garfield {thinking}: Hmm... I can use this...
{Garfield prepares to blast Nermal with a brass instrument, presumably the one that Jon turned into}

Comic 12 {dialogue by Splashcat}:
Jon: {a stream of grawlixes}
Garfield: Great, now I've got to go perpetuate the cycle of violence.
{Garfield prepares to blast Nermal with a tuba}

Comic 13 {"dialogue" by The Nonexistent Tazz}:
{Jon has his mouth open as if he is yelling. But rather than yelling, he seems to be eating a stream of Os that are floating by}
{Garfield is too short to reach the Os and eat them, but he has an idea}
{Garfield pulls out a tuba, and the Os fly into it and out the smaller end, where Garfield is able to eat them normally}
{Meanwhile, Nermal watches the stream of Os as they pass by}

Trivia

• The transcript was initially incomplete, breaking at the point of the bullhorn emoji on the eighth line in the strip; the mezzacotta site's workings appear to not support emojis in transcripts, as this was the second time in two days an emoji broke the transcript (the issue also initially appeared in the previous strip). Lines ten and twelve may have also posed posed problems in the presentation of the transcript as well, line ten with its depiction of the Trumpet Boy meme and line twelve with grawlixes, had said presentation gotten that far. These issues have since been addressed and the transcript completed.
  • The two strips' combined incidents would be lampooned and exaggerated in iToons #749: Emoji of the Ci--.
• TPTPWDotACoEMW is the only officially credited author for this strip despite its status as a fourteen-way collaboration; the other thirteen contributors do not have Square Root of Minus Garfield profiles. Had the other thirteen collaborators been given SRoMG profiles, this strip would've officially broken the record for most credited authors on a single strip held by 98: Exquisite Garfield.