82: xkcd minus Garfield
| xkcd minus Garfield |
 Made by: Chris Mann |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
Rather than editing a Garfield strip, the author instead edited an xkcd strip in which Randall Munroe urges Jim Davis to "make up for it all" by doing something completely unexpected. In the original strip, this was Garfield telling us "The world is burning" and to "RUN" with a smile and a weirdly twitchy eye; here, it's just four panels of the blue background.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
The original comic, from xkcd, is by Randall Munroe and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Licence.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
I want to see something unexpected in the comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
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Jim Davis, throw off your commercial shackles. Challenge us. Go out in a blaze of Dadaist glory. There is still time.
Later references[edit | edit source]
The very next strip, by a different author, shows us (almost) what it might have looked like had Jim Davis simply taken Randall Munroe's idea instead of coming up with his own.
