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No. 5942: Odie's Troubled Mind

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Odie's Troubled Mind

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5942

Strip by: ChipGarf

{Odie is standing on a table as usual, albeit depressed}
Odie: I'm depressed
{Jon suddenly walks in, surprised}
Jon: A poacher shot Lyman yesternight
{Cut to Odie, with his upper face obscured and sad eyes whited out and crying, standing at the edge of a cliff, with a sign reading Echo Point, during a storm, as indicated by a bolt of lighting in the background and jittered lines that represent rain}
Odie: Goodbye, cruel world...

The author writes:

On the last panel the rain is supposed to be a metaphor for Odie's pitiful state of mind after receiving such sad news so unexpectedly, and the bolt is supposed to represent how abruptly Jon told Odie about Lyman's death. You never know when lightning will strike you.

Original strips: 2015-02-07, 2019-09-26, 2024-05-09.