924: Crossfield
Crossfield |
![]() Made by: crashsuit |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip's premise is sufficiently explained in the author's notes.
Contrary to the author's statement that they didn't know which strips the panels were taken from, the original Garfield strips are in fact credited.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
I'm not sure if this has done before? It's sort of a "Crossfield" strip idea I came up with while playing with the Garfield randomiser. I realised that while many of the random strips don't flow perfectly, it shouldn't be too hard to make a crossword puzzle-style strip with random or semi-random strips running horizontally or vertically. This one took me about an hour or two of screen-grabbing, pasting, cutting, moving around, etc. I don't know what strips any of these panels are from, I got them all from the randomiser. To improve readability, I trimmed them all slightly and framed them with thick black borders. As a bonus, this creates a slight Hermann-grid illusion at the intersections. There are nine strips total: 3 down, 3 across, 1 diagonally down from top left, 1 diagonally down from top right, and 1 diagonally up from bottom left.
Original strips: 2001-07-21, 2002-10-05, 2002-11-18, 2002-12-07, 2003-08-26, 2003-11-01, 2004-03-15, 2004-08-21, 2004-12-22.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
[top left]
From off-panel: CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH
{Garfield looks off-panel in surprise}
[top centre]
{Jon has a plunger stuck to his face. Garfield stares.}
[top right]
{Garfield is talking to a sock puppet on his hand.}
Garfield: There's something wrong with that man.
Puppet: You said it.
[middle left]
{Jon boggles at his toaster. Garfield stares.}
Jon: What does one do with a toaster that's possessed?
[middle centre]
{Entire panel filled with dust clouds.}
SFX: ZIP ZIP
[middle right]
{Garfield strolls away, pointing off-panel.}
Garfield: And that's why I'm going to hide behind the couch.
[bottom left]
{Jon turns and yells at Garfield, startling him.}
Jon: STOP STARING AT ME!
[bottom centre]
{Garfield stares at a single grape on a plate.}
[bottom right]
{Garfield is in his bed. He has just awoken in surprise.}