The Death of Garfield This YTMND digs up a set of Garfield comic strips from October 23-28, 1989 that are positively bleak. The strips are, indeed, authentic, as you can read them (in color) on the official Garfield web site. As Wikipedia points out, the strips seem to imply that all of the cheery Garfield strips since October ‘89 have been fantasies Garfield is playing out in his head to delude himself from realizing the dark turn his life has taken, as he slowly starves to death in an abandoned house.
(via Boing Boing)
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The Death of Garfield
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Wow… nice video… but I looked a few more days ahead in the comics and finally found this:
November 2, 1989
November 3, 1989
That could be the end of him starving in a house.
Whoops, that second one was supposed to link here:
November 3, 1989
[…] Reports of Garfield’s death greatly exaggerated Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis has refuted speculation that the feline character is slowly starving to death in an abandoned house. The October, 1989 comic strips were simply a Halloween scare. Still, I’ll never be able to look at Garfield the same way again. Link […]
What is the song in the background?