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No. 5018: The Unkindest Cut

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The Unkindest Cut

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5018

Strip by: Sloublues

Mouse: Feel like chasing me?
Garfield: No
Mouse: Awww
Garfield: See you
Garfield {smirking}: Sometimes nature is cruel

The author writes:

I check in on a week's worth of Garfield for the first time in forever and I'm hit with a wall of LAME.

Garfield doesn't chase mice with any intent to harm. The mice know this. This mouse was clearly looking for something to do and wanted to play chase. Here, Garfield shuts him down hard with cool indifference, and the mouse walks away disappointed. A much better story — well, slightly better story — than what we got.

Original strips: 2021-09-07, 2021-09-09.