ok, own up.

[emmelinemay]

which BASTARD was it that linked to the depressing garfield where he wakes up and every one is dead? and then made the suggestion that every garfield following that was garfield retreating into a fantasy world as he slowly starves to death in an empty house?

I can't read garfield anymore without that thought in the back of my mind.

Who ever you are, you are bad, and you get no biscuit.

Comments

[darkapotheosis.livejournal.com]

Eh?

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

Um, kiiiiiiiiind of me. But only after inferis meantioned it (on this post- http://miss-soap.livejournal.com/878510.html)

And I find the Calvin and Hobbes more bleak. But not much.

JmC
Bad and biscuitless

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

But the Calvin and Hobbes is fake. The Garfield one *was* actually written by Davis...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

the calvin and hobbes one was so sad, wether it was fake or not - and that garfield theory will stick in my head, whether Jim Davies meant it or not.

bad brain.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

http://garfieldisdead.ytmnd.com/

and James (below) posted this:

From the Garfield entry in Wikipedia:

One storyline, which lasted a week from October 23, 1989 (possibly to coincide with Halloween, although the 31st actually fell the following week), is unique among Garfield strips in that it is not meant to be humorous. It depicts Garfield awakening in a future in which the house is abandoned and he no longer exists. This is revealed to have been a dream of some kind, and ends with this narration:

"An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice...or terrify, all depending on how we conduct ourselves today."

Alternatively, some theorize that the end of this storyline actually implies that the rest of the series, the more conventional strips, are all 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.

[flywingedmonkey.livejournal.com]

It's been updated- for the better!

One storyline, which ran the week before Halloween in 1989, is unique among Garfield strips in that it is not meant to be humorous. It depicts Garfield awakening in a future in which the house is abandoned and he no longer exists.

In tone and imagery the storyline for this series of strips is very similar to the animation segment for Valse Triste from Allegro Non Troppo, which depicts a ghostly cat roaming around the ruins of the home it once inhabited.

Although there was some speculation about what these strips meant Jim Davis is reported to have actually "laughed loudly" when informed of the rumors circulating on the internet that Garfield was either dead or starving to death in an abandoned house.[16] In Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection, in which the strips are reprinted, Jim Davis discusses the genesis for this series of strips. His caption, in its entirety states:

"During a writing session for Halloween week, I got the idea for this decidedly different series of strips. I wanted to scare people. And what do people fear most? Why, being alone. We carried out the concept to its logical conclusion and got a lot of responses from readers."

There you go. You can be happy again.

JmC
Thank fuck

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

i can read garfield again with relief!!

[altered-state.livejournal.com]

oh please, where can i see this garfield strip?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

http://garfieldisdead.ytmnd.com/


From the Garfield entry in Wikipedia:

One storyline, which lasted a week from October 23, 1989 (possibly to coincide with Halloween, although the 31st actually fell the following week), is unique among Garfield strips in that it is not meant to be humorous. It depicts Garfield awakening in a future in which the house is abandoned and he no longer exists. This is revealed to have been a dream of some kind, and ends with this narration:

"An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice...or terrify, all depending on how we conduct ourselves today."

Alternatively, some theorize that the end of this storyline actually implies that the rest of the series, the more conventional strips, are all 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.

[dangermonkey.livejournal.com]

(http://www.wondermark.com/d/189.html)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

[dangermonkey.livejournal.com]

sorry, text only browser, and you didn't specify an alt tag. So what are you n about? (:

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

you can't see jpg files?

And you claim macs are better?

tch.

[dangermonkey.livejournal.com]

but I'm not reading it on my mac. I'm reading it on a FreeBSD (http://freebsd.org) server in Brighton (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Devil%27s+Dyke+Road,+Brighton+and+Hove,+BN1&ie=UTF8&lr=lang_en&hl=en&z=14&om=1&iwloc=addr), which is running the web browser w3m (http://w3m.sourceforge.net/) which is a Virtual Terminal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console) which can't display inline images.

I connect to that terminal via OpenSSH (http://openssh.com/) which I run on my PowerBook (http://www.apple.com/)

I hope I got all that HTML right

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

and i don't know what an 'alt' tag is.

[hsb.livejournal.com]

When you post an image, HTML gives you the option to specify an alternative for text-only browsers (it's called an alt tag, like the bold tags and all that). So you could just have [alt: emmelinemay is confused] or whatever for each of these jpgs. Only, I've never used one, so don't think that is the appropriate way to lay out an alt tag.

H

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

and it also wouldn't be very funny in this case, seeing as the picture IS the joke, rather than the text ;)