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No. 4396: Lasagna Six (3-20-11-15-6-3-9-6)

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Lasagna Six (3-20-11-15-6-3-9-6)

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4396

Strip by: Michael Jacoby

{the entire strip is in numerical code}
{Jon is in poor health, in stark contrast to the healthy Lyman}
Jon: 1 1-21-12-8 1-20-18-15-20-16-3-4 14-9-19-24 8-10 7 18-21-17-24.
SFX: 17-7-20-15-9
Lyman: 2-16 6-13-14-14?
{a copyright notice is seen on the bottom of the table alongside a date of 12-2, December 2}
Copyright notice: © 1978 15-7-20-1-10-4 15-5-20-9-26-23-3 2-11-7-25-12-12-7-1-5, 12-15-18.
Jon: 2-16 22-20-13-3 8-5 20 26-6-11-3!
Lyman: 20-20-11-17-26-20?
Jon {aggravated}: 3-20-1-16 2-3 20 7-6-25-16! 3-20-1-16 2-3 20 7-6-25-16!
{Lyman smirks at Jon's expense}
{on the table, some more text is seen}
Text: 26-12-16 17-14-12-12-17

The author writes:

I got the idea for this strip after watching blameitonjorge's video on the Gravity Falls Cipher Hunt from February. Strip #3202 also inspired this strip.

Now let's have some fun. I used four ciphers to encode this strip. See if you can guess what they are. I'll give you a potentially useless and obvious clue: the last one is the A1Z26 cipher. Now try to guess the other three in the correct order!

More info that may assist in solving the ciphers: I encrypted the text in sequential order, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom per panel; that is, in panel one, for example, I encrypted Jon's dialogue first, then the SFX, then Lyman's dialogue, then the copyright date before moving on to the next panel. If there are cases of letters that have repeating numbers, as everyone says there is, that might be the reason why. Remember, I also used a total of four ciphers, one at a time, so things might appear to be jumbled or repetitive because, as I just now found out while checking on the strip to see if I might've made a typo, this would probably happen when using many ciphers one at a time.

Original strip: 1978-12-02.