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No. 6004: Battle For Ninny Island Comic 1: Take the L Without Debate

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Battle For Ninny Island Comic 1: Take the L Without Debate

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=6004

Strip by: The Book of All Things Preston

{Jon and Garfield, who are now an unlabeled disk and a chocolate bar respectively, stand by the famed counter-esque Ledge}
Disk!Jon: What ever happened to my glory days, Garfield? {he asks, almost absentmindedly, to the "Whatyousay" bar standing next to him}
Bar!Garfield: Wait! Wait! I know!
{The chocolate bar runs off as he/it sees a golden opportunity for a joke at Jon's expense}
SFX: FLUSH
{Barfield laughs gleefully as Jon Laserbuckle facepalms in annoyance, likely thinking something akin to "Why was I teammates with this guy?"}

The author writes:

Okay, this was fun.

There are like 10 comics that specifically reference BFDI [YouTube animation series Battle for Dream Island], like one other (#5731 for those curious) that references another show, and a favorable 2 or 3 comic estimate starring object show style OCs I might have missed. Considering this, I thought "What if these guys were objects?". The rest was a result of that thought possessing me.

The only reason I picked 2004-01-02 to edit was because having a DiscoVision Disc ask about its glory days was almost too good comically to pass up. (Also, Garfield is supposed to be a send-up of an actual chocolate bar that was released the same year as LaserDisc and the initial Garfield strip.)

Points to you if you can figure out the reference in the title and on Garf's wrapper, and no, Ninny Island and Battle for Dream Island don't count. Hint: They’re from different sources altogether.

Pseudo-meta explanation: Due to recent falling interest in Garfield comics (maybe this is around 2053 or not, you be the judge), one of the strip's junior writers pitched the idea upwards after binging BFDI, Inanimate Insanity, Brawl of the Objects, Object Universe, ONE, Animatic Battle, Object Show All-Stars, and a bunch of others to make the main characters objects. This was the first in the brief new direction, as many of the people behind Garfield had arguments about making them contemporary objects most would know or objects of prior years, if Garfield's itemsona had arms or not, whether to make them roommates or pet and owner, and even whether or not to change the strip to be more exciting.

Original strip: 2004-01-02.