• @toynbee
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    56 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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      46 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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        26 months ago

        Fair enough. Thank you for the edification.

    • @KnightontheSun
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      6 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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        16 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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          6 months ago

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

          • @toynbee
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            16 months ago

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