I don’t know — Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never really found Garfield that funny.
If you’ve never seen the comic strip before and you start reading it on Monday, you will know all the jokes by Friday. From then on it’s just variations on the same few situations.
Garfield is lazy, he loves to eat, he’s crazy about Lasagna, his master is a dull and dim-witted fellow.
So what could you do to improve Garfield?
Irishman Dan Walsh has a project called “Garfield Minus Garfield” or “G-G” in which — well, I’ll let him explain it.
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
So you might wonder if simply deleting the title character from the strip actually improves it. Maybe — maybe not. But it certainly can’t make it any worse.
WADE
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