![]() It mostly involved Garfield trying to amass candy. In fact, when I was a kid, I owned a book-length Garfield Halloween story. On the other hand, this seems like a very un-Garfield take on Halloween. Davis is clearly trying to do a Halloween storyline, so that’s a partial explanation. Let me point out that this IS late October. We’re clearly outside of the traditional visual and storytelling worlds of Garfield. And notice the severe cross-hatching in the background, and the off-kilter angles of the door. I’m sure thousands of people stared at this strip for hours, looking for the punchline. But no one could have expected what Monday would bring… Perhaps bit more surreal than normal, with the Seussian menagerie. To put these strips in context, here’s the Sunday strip that ran before the weirdness… I promise, the comics you are about to read are completely real. But Pete’s excellent posts on the cat inspired me to look at them again, and they are freaky. Some of you may already be familiar with the so-called “Death of Garfield” comic strips from 1989.
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