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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[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.