• @KnightontheSun
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    357 months ago

    This is my favorite Garfield (without Garfield) comic.

    • @Pothetato
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      167 months ago

      I love those. But I think this one might actually have Garfield in it.

        • @Pothetato
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          67 months ago

          Well now I’m getting all philosophical about it. Is it still Garfield if he’s partially digested? Where does Garfield end and snake begin? Maybe it really is Garfield (without Garfield) after all. I know I’ve ruined it either way.

        • @toynbee
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          57 months ago

          While the Heathcliff variant is more prevalent on Lemmy, Garfield Minus Garfield does exist and is highly enjoyable. I haven’t checked, but I suspect it inspired the Heathcliff one.

          • FauxPseudo
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            47 months ago

            Heathcliff without Heathcliff wasn’t inspired by Garfield but I know it seems that way. A friend was posting its Heathcliff each day and I was confounded by the impenetrableness for months. But after I started figuring it out I noticed that Heathcliff was almost completely irrelevant to most of the strips and started removing him to see how often they still worked as designed.

            But since G-G already existed there is no way to remove the idea that one caused the other in most minds. I didn’t really care for G-G because I really never cared for Garfield in the first place.

            • @toynbee
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              27 months ago

              Fair enough. Thank you for the edification.

          • @KnightontheSun
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            7 months ago

            Yes, thank you. If you see my other comment I mentioned it and saw that the original Garfield cartoonist nicely gave it their blessing as well.

            Perhaps we should lobby someone to post the Garfield variant!

            • @toynbee
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              17 months ago

              I apologize for missing your other comment, but isn’t posting the Garfield variant something I already did?

              • @KnightontheSun
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                7 months ago

                Sorry, has it been posted in the comics sub before? I have missed it if so.

                • @toynbee
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                  17 months ago

                  I think at least one of us is confused. I apologize if I was unclear at some point.