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No. 137: Sixth Roots of Garfield

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Sixth Roots of Garfield

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=137

Strip by: Tom Willis

{Six copies of the same strip, arranged in a circle, with the hue shifted by 60° for each successive strip.}
Garfield: I have this nagging feeling I'm forgetting something.
SFX: WHUMP! {Odie falls on Garfield}
Garfield: Oh yes, I forgot I kicked Odie into next week, last week.

The author writes:

One of the nice things about the nth roots of unity is that they lie equally spaced around a circle in the complex plane. Hue is really a point on a circle, and n=6 because it looks pretty.

Original strip: 1984-07-02.