5486: Elo-dead
Elo-dead |
Made by: PriffyViole |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip is essentially a mashup of two previous Square Root of Minus Garfield strips, 4738: OD D.O.! and 4876: Where's Elodie?; the latter had itself reused the first panel from the former, thus this strip included three panels in total (one shared, one specifically from #4876, and one specifically from #4738, in that order). Some additional effort in presentation was made in this mashup, moving the "thot" effect from the #4738-specific panel to the #4876-specific panel and adding a new reference unique to this strip (the Team Fortress 2 killfeed, added to the #4738-specific panel); the overall effect thus shows an even grimmer picture than #4876 did by itself, Princess Elodie dead by arrow by a known assassin. As the new reference specific to this strip is in the same medium as the reference carried over from #4876 (both a different medium from the one carried over from #4738), only two medium reference categories are included at the bottom of this very page.
This strip's transcript does not write out the "twang" and "thot" effects, unlike #4738's transcript; it is unknown whether the author consciously decided to not write them out to begin with, or whether the author chose not to include the effects due to #4738's transcript containing a "♪" mojibake in it (a mojibake created by a later site recoding effort, and one still in place at the time this strip ran--in fact, #4738 is the most recent Square Root of Minus Garfield strip known to have been hit by such mojibake errors) and not wanting to copy-paste it without knowing how to repair it.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Of all the ways to die in Long Live the Queen, Abu Dhabi decided to pick the one death that I could link these two versions with.
I thought about having Jon yell in the last panel (he'd see the killfeed, after all), but I figured the panel was busy enough already (at least for a Garfield strip).
Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strips: 2022-05-09, 2022-09-24.
Original strips: 1998-05-01, 2001-12-03.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: Where's Elodie?
{In the next two panels we find our answer. Princess Elodie has been shot to death by an arrow, fired by Garfield, who is dressed as OK KO's Elodie. This is shown with a Team Fortress 2 Killfeed, for some reason}