5474: Empress Garblax
Empress Garblax |
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Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip takes the original Garfield strip, originally from the first-person view of a doughnut, and makes a scene of Garfield snacking on two Pikmin out of it. The Pikmin were visibly added to the five panels--top right, the entire center row, and bottom left--and the bottom center panel was replaced with a depiction of two Pikmin ghosts. The bottom right panel has been reworded to imply that Garfield did not actually like the taste of the Pikmin.
The strip's title is a play on the Empress Bulblax, a boss in the Pikmin series first fought in Pikmin 2, however failing to account for the difference in gender between an Empress Bulblax (a female) and Garfield (a male).
5772: Empress Garblax (Remastered) would later take this Square Root of Minus Garfield strip and rework it so Garfield's primary focus was on the blue Pikmin.
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Original strip: 1996-01-21.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield title card}
{Garfield is big, as a Red and Blue Pikmin can be seen}
{Garfield notices the Pikmin, and they notice him}
{Garfield looks left, and the Pikmin are confused}
{Garfield looks right, and the Pikmin look back at him}
{Garfield reaches out to get the Pikmin, and they are frightened}
{The comic strip cuts to black, and two Pikmin Ghosts can be seen, presuming that they died}
{The strip cuts back to the usual view, showing a plate with crumbs}
Garfield: Pikmin do NOT taste good...