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No. 5996: Kirby on the Scale

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Kirby on the Scale

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5996

Strip by: ChipGarf

{Kirby, pixelated like in Kirby's Adventure for the NES, is standing on RX2, the talking scale, and looking down, as if to see his weight reading. He has no clue about what RX2 actually has to offer...}
RX2: You farmers are the salt of the earth
RX2: Working sunup to sundown...
RX2 {snarking}: Yessiree, that's a fine crop of chins you got there
Kirby {angry}: You die

The author writes:

First, let me tell you why I made this strip: both Garfield and Kirby like food. See the 2nd Garfield strip in his-tory (pun intended) and Kirby's first game ever for context. Putting Kirby instead of Garfield here, though, was 100% spontaneous. There's no body shaming in his games as far as I know. Secondly, you can imagine whatever happened in the aftermath and post it as your very own strip. Remember to make your Nom de Plume! Lastly, if you do try and post an aftermath, a few tips: 1. Credit me, because it's not nice to not credit the original creator in your edit. Please include a link to this strip on yours if it's an edit. 2. Resize the pixelated image, because resizing a 16 x 16 sprite fresh from the sprite sheet to 128 x 128 with Nearest Neighbor sampling allows you to move the eyes and mouth wherever you want easily. I did so while making this strip. Remember to use Nearest Neighbor or similar to avoid blurring. And 3: Don't use only the existing sprites. There's no sprite like the sprite used in the 3rd panel in Kirby's Adventure. I just took out my pencil tool, made a few edits so the eyes are angry and the mouth open, and upscaled it. On a final note, thank you for reading.

Original strip: 2008-01-18.