Garfield by Jim Davis for December 07, 2013

Well Jon can’t relate to it, then.

He looks like he is stoned in the first two panels.

Why is Liz reading out loud in the first place? They’re probably watching a horror-movie and she wants to douse the chilly sound-effects…Yet, judging by the others’ expressions, its either a melodramatic movie, or a lengthy commercial.Or maybe the TV is off and Garfield is asking for a remote to turn it on.The possibilities are endless…

Was it also dark?

Smooth, Jon, smooth…

You mean “It was a dark and stormy night…”!

Is she reading them one of Snoopy’s novels?

You’re Clark Kent? Hey, you must be Superman! Can I have your autograph?

“It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.”

― Charles M. Schulz, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopy

Jon is just checking to see if Snoopy is still on his dog house.

Snoopy’s novels always started out “It was a dark and stormy night”….

No… The phrase comes from the original opening sentence of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “Paul Clifford”.

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”

Pictures say a thousand words.

xxx

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.The often-mocked and parodied phrase written by English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the opening sentence of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford

It was a dark and stormy night. I looked out of the window…. it was not a place for me to be….. I stayed indoors. I was glad that I did because, that night the “Madness” struck..Yes…. the ancient band had come to town for a reunion gig.

But not so dark that Garfield failed to find the refrigerated lasagna. And not so cold that he failed to eat it all.

why’s Liz mad???!!!..not every book has pictures