Garfield redux

For some reason, I've been getting a lot of Garfield from the internet lately. So I figured I'd share. Lasagna Cat is a series of video tributes to Garfield creator Jim Davis. They've got live action reenactments of Garfield strips and often bizarre tribute sections set to music. Check out the one from 05/16/1987, set to "Suicide is Painless" for an example. From there we move to Arbuckle. By removingGarfield's thought balloons, these redrawn Garfield strips offer a very different comic, a look at Jon Arbuckle's life from his own perspective (apparently according to Garfield canon, he cannot hear Garfield's thought balloons). I had a lot of snappy comments to make on the sad and lonely state of Jon's life before I realized that there's not a lot of difference between many of those strips and life in my own home where I talk to the pets with similar results. Garfield minus garfield goes one step further and removses the cat entirely from the panels of the comic. Instead of sad and lonely, Jon comes across as crazed and psychotic, talking to himself out of desperate loneliness and reacting to things no one else can see. Many of these are flat out hysterical. Finally, I'll give you an old favorite. I found my first Garfield randomizer a long time ago. It's a program that takes individual panels from Garfield strips at random and fashions a new strip out of them. Often these randomized strips are funnier than the original, and occasionally make a scary amount of sense. The original one I used to visit is long since gone, as is the way of the internet, but I found a pretty good one at The Garfield Generator 2.