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.

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[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!!