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[misterqueue]

Arbuckle is a work where a bunch of artists are doing Garfield in a realistic style.  (That is to say, "Garfield" doesn't talk and everything tends to look a bit less cartoony.)

The interesting thing, I think, is that it turns from a comic about a "sassy" lazy cat with punchlines, to a story about a completely sad and lonely guy who's quite possibly delusional.


Which is, of course, waaaay more interesting methinks.

[wombat]

a story about a completely sad and lonely guy who's quite possibly delusional.


Which is, of course, waaaay more interesting methinks.

Gosh, I wonder why.   

[misterqueue]

We are always able to smell our own.


Speaking of which I have to feed my cat when I get home.

[Drygioni]

I've seen this somewhere before, and it's no less funny now than it was then. Did Garfield actually ever talk to John anyway? Wasn't it was all thought bubbles, that implied Jon was some kind of psychic?

[side_show]

I love this.  Love it.

I am so into the idea of adapting the old strips that I just might do.  Actually do it.

Also, as a kid I was totally crazy about Garfield.  And he definitly never spoke - it was all thought bubbles.

[V-Adore]

I've seen this somewhere before, and it's no less funny now than it was then. Did Garfield actually ever talk to John anyway? Wasn't it was all thought bubbles, that implied Jon was some kind of psychic?

As far as I'm aware, going back to my old-school childhood Garfield-geek days, Garfield has never actually talked; all of his dialogue has always been in thought bubbles. This means one of two things:

1) Jon is an unusually good judge of Garfield's character, since he can have coherent one-sided conversations; or
2) The thought bubbles are Jon hallucinating or otherwise being delusional.

Anyway, this is a great concept. It's both more pitiful than the original and more endearing, since the behavior can actually be mapped to something a real cat would do. I'm intrigued to see if they attempt to render any of the strips that don't involve Jon at all, just to see how it'd end up working out. Along those lines already is this one, in which Jon's lack of dialogue turns things modern-artsy very, very fast.

[CortJstr]

Garfield did speak in one of the (text) books. It was revealed all cats can talk but they usually don't because then nobody would like them. This book is so obscure that the Garfield entry in wikipedia doesn't even mention it.

There was a Garfield Randomizer a few weeks ago that came down almost immediately. It would pull up 3 random Garfield panels which often made about as much sense as the regular strip. This inspired the Dinosaur Comics Randomizer which I believe is still up.

Then over at truthandbeautybombs.com  (the Dino Comics forum) they decided to do the Garfield Existentializer where they removed all animal thought bubbles so you got to see the strip from John's actual perspective. It was depressing as hell but I think they were forced to pull it down.

[wombat]

It was revealed all cats can talk but they usually don't because then nobody would like them.

Eh, then they'd have to get jobs and pull their own damn weight, the lousy parasites.

[lprkn]

Remember, if you died, your cat would eat you. So make sure you feed it. A lot.

[rumpy doppelganger]

ahaha http://www.tailsteak.com/arbuckle/index.php?date=030215

[side_show]

Remember, if you died, your cat would eat you. So make sure you feed it. A lot.

But really, wouldn't it be better to not feed your cat a lot, so that, you know... they'd have less of an appetite in general?

My SO and I talk about this... perhaps more than we should, but there are three of them and two of us so, we worry.  We figure it would take some time for them.  He says it would take only 2-3 days!  I think it would take more than that - at least a week or more.  We've concluded one thing that we do agree on:  they'd probably start with our eye balls, being that they are soft and moist.

[lprkn]

Apparently if you're stranded and you manage to catch a rabbit, you should make sure to eat the eyeballs, as they contain valuable electrolytes.

This is what someone who went to survival school told me. He also said the eyeballs taste really bad.

[misterqueue]

Back in Scouts we had this thing called the Rangers.  I was in it one year and they were basically like the Navy Seals of Scouts.

Long story short I survived for a couple days off ants and sassafras leaves (which taste like orange peels).  I was not happy at all, this is not me.

I also cooked a potato in mud so it would not burn and heated an egg using a rock like a pan.  You have to make sure it isn't flint first though.


Did I mention I hated Scouts?

[theinevitable]

oh man, sassafras! the only plant I can identify!

didn't it make your spit all wierd?

[misterqueue]

Yes.. but I don't think anyone on here really wants me to describe my spit.


Remember: Football, Ghost, Mitten.  That's how you know it's sassafras.