5591: Hey GoComics, I've given you a corrected coloured strip

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Hey GoComics, I've given you a corrected coloured strip

Made by: LochlannDS

Explanation

This strip is essentially a subsequent step in the saga begun by 3549: "Hello? Is this Jim Davis? Yes, I'd like to report a bug."; at some point after that strip was first published, GoComics switched out the strip that had been color-elements sans black-and-white elements with the black-and-white version. Although now readable, that still was not the presumed intended presentation of the original Garfield strip, so as such this strip's author took the color elements and the black-and-white version, blended them together, and whipped them up into this strip--what this strip's author presumes is what GoComics intended their presentation of the original Garfield strip to be.

The author writes:

so I came across SRoMG #3549 and naturally the first thing I did is see if the comic had been corrected

And while it HAD been replaced with a version that wasn't broken (yay), it's only in black and white (boo)

But that means we have the ingredients to create a corrected COLOURED version!

All I did was take both versions, use the multiply blend mode in paint.net, touch up the copyright text because they're not the same between versions for some reason and voila! It may not be perfect, but it's as close to perfect as we can reasonably get without just manually recolouring it

Now to see if GoComics will actually use this

Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2019-02-05.

Original strip: 2000-01-13.

Transcript

Jon: I had a busy day
{Jon walks out of frame by the next panel}
Garfield: Me too
Garfield: Mine was about eight years ago