5536: Garfield Plus Meta

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Garfield Plus Meta

Made by: Reisen U. Inaba

Explanation

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Alternate transcript:

{Poor Garfield, he isn't real. He lives in a comic series; everything he loves, he hates, he thought is true, is fake. All the colorful world is just the entertainment of those existing above, a very toy of gods that could be abandoned anytime. Whatever, it's time Jon breaks this to him} Jon: This isn't real {Jon said the words calmly and smiled. As if what he said is not meta, is as normal as "I'm home" or "Dinner is served". Garfield, sure, he certainly can't believe this. How could someone who feeds him lasagna be unreal? He stares at Jon's face: big eyeballs takes up half his face, nose and mouth are one fold line, hair is unnaturally curly, not to mention the speech bubble that just disappeared. A standard comic character, explanationlessly} {Among the shock, one sentence appears in his brain, "Our only thought is to entertain you". Whoever "you" is? Who is above the screen? What do gods look like? The answers are on his left, outside the panel borders and out of the screen. Turn his head right and ignore, the story ends, he will wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe: Pooky, lasagnas, his mom... Turn his head left, he stays in Garfield, and he will be shown how deep the comic strip goes. After this, there is NO turning back} {After fierce tussling with himself, curiosity about real life beats all he believes. Garfield turns his head to the left, looks beyond the screen which separates real and fake, and sees...} {H E S E E S A N O T H E R S C R E E N}

Original strip: 2002-09-28.

Transcript

Jon: This isn't real
{Garfield stares at Jon, shocked}
{Garfield looks out of the fourth wall}
{Over the eight wall, we see Garfield watching out from the screen of a mobile phone, which is displaying the comic strip}