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No. 2552: But This Wasn't One Of Them

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But This Wasn't One Of Them

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2552

Strip by: KelpTheGreat

{Garfield is tying an unravelled string from his sweater to a table leg}
{Garfield starts running as fast as he can}
Garfield: There's more than one way to skin a cat.
SFX: TWANG
{Garfield is dead}

The author writes:

I suggest you don't look at the artwork in this one too closely. For the joke to work, I had to erase both Garfield's line in the last panel, and his outstretched arm. I ran into problems when I realized there was no easy way for me to erase his arm without making the black dots background pattern present in most of the strips look weird. Thus I decided to erase the background itself. Then I realized that made the other panels look weird, so I erased it from those panels too... but then I had motion lines to deal with. And I only have MS Paint. Anyway, if you look at the art (which I recommend you don't), you'll notice my amateurish image manipulation pretty easily.

[[Original strip: 1983-03-11.]]

Original strip: 1983-03-11.