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   The Old Wolf said, about 1 month ago

   And giving us the world’s first opportunity to witness “Garfield Without Garfield Without Garfield.”

   

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   Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

   The OTHER Garfield wouldn’t indulge in homilies.
   He’d just attack that lasagna.

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   jukeofurl said, about 1 month ago

   In the UK lasagna is a grilled cheese w/brown sauce…just kidding Georgina

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   Hugh B. Hayve said, about 1 month ago

   That’s the second time in two weeks Pab has said in the strip that Garfield wasn’t funny. I don’t agree, although some of it is hit and miss. The one last week, with Jon in the muscle suit made me lmao.

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   The Old Wolf said, about 1 month ago

   @Hugh We’re only seeing a slice of life here. In the very early years, I think Garfield was consistently more funny than not. About 5 years into the strip, Davis ran out of clever. ‘Lebenty-zillion years later and after turning the strip over to a stable, it’s about as flat as stale puffed rice cakes. But in homage to your comment, every now and again they do come out with a good one.

   Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn on occasion.

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   Hugh B. Hayve said, about 1 month ago

   I can agree with that, it’s just that I’ve noticed you hardly see one comic artist trash another one, usually it’s more of a shout out to another strip. That doesn’t mean I’m against artists expressing their opinion, just the opposite.

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   missqueenie said, about 1 month ago

   @Hugh Garfield is just a symbol of today’s modern pre-packaged laugh. At least with NAOQV you have to think a bit. Pab always has me hitting up Wikipedia to figure out his punchlines. It’s a great start to an early morning.

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   SQUIDBREAKER said, about 1 month ago

   I aam inspired to make a Peanut butter and fruit lasagna for my next attempt at ‘Unsolved desserts’.

   A.

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   lovelymajorhoople said, about 1 month ago

   hey mr.Hayve (check out the old e.c comic books-when Harvey Kurtzman was editing it-if you want to see some classic very funny lampooning of other comic artists-Bill Elder was a genius-strips like “Mary Worthless” are pure god

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    pabsungenis said, about 1 month ago

    Hugh: It’s more good-natured ribbing than anything else. I’ve heard from fans of mine who work for Jim Davis and while they’ve never said anything about their boss I know that the strip is at least well received within the walls of PAWS, Inc.

    While I will poke at “Garfield” quite often, I will never deny that Jim Davis was inspired when he created the strip, is a good gag writer, and an all around genius, especially at marketing.

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    cwreenactor said, about 1 month ago

    I am not sure how this quote about peanut butter got attributed to James Garfield. While sources don’t completely agree as to the date, the best best date for the invention of peanut butter is c. 1890, about 9 years after James Garfield’s death. I am not faulting you, Pab. I, too, have found that quote attributed to him, and even on some sites dealing with the history of peanut butter. I guess this does make today’s strip the perfect parody. I’ll concede that to you. Your strip is still one of the funniest I have read.

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    Furienna said, about 1 month ago

    I think “Garfield” is funny too.

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    Hugh B. Hayve said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks for clearing that up Pab, because I was wondering if it was a tongue in cheek jab or a comment made out of malice (which seemed out of character here). I have been following Garfield for many years and everyone brings up good point about Mr. Davis “going commercial” and the drop off in the strips quality. BTW love the mix of pop culture and history in NAoQV and I got a good chuckle from Old Wolf’s “G without G without G” spin-off.

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    pabsungenis said, about 1 month ago

    I’ve never been asked to join an awareness campaign before, but I like to think that the real Queen Victoria would appreciate fighting breast cancer: http://tinyurl.com/lr2x3a

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    3hourtour said, about 1 month ago

    Jim Davis makes an anytime/everyday strip almost always funny.A very hard thing to do.Calling him just a marketing genius is missing the point.His daily strip is funnier than 90% of all the other strips out there on a consistant basis.I love’ this’ strip,but lets see were it is in 20 years.Shame on you for putting down a man and a strip that still deserves to be in the funny papers…

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    luckylouie said, about 1 month ago

    Garfield jumped the shark the day he stood up on his hind legs.