Last year, I remember reading on BoingBoing that if you remove Garfield’s thought bubbles from the comic strip, then Jon Arbuckle goes from being a single pathetic adult male loser to… well, an even bigger single pathetic adult male loser. Doing this also gives a surrealist effect to the comic, often times making it much funnier, as illustrated by these examples.
Ever since then, I can’t help but mentally remove Garfield’s thought bubbles anytime I read the comic. It doesn’t work with every strip, but sometimes it can be a big hit… like it was a couple days ago!
Below is the altered Garfield comic from last Saturday, Mar 24th. This might be favorite yet. You can see the original here.
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