i can confirm they are real.

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is garfield dead? it's a metaphor idjiot

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yeah, idjiot, it's a metajphor.

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I can confirm noone gives a sh*t that you confirm.

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Argh, sh*tty ytmnd resurrection.

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EVERY FRICKIN' THING ON WIKIPEDIA IS TRUE!

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I wrote to Jim Davis a year ago about these. This is his reply: It was Halloween, and I wanted to play with everyone's biggest fear, being alone...I felt that, that was scarier than ghosts and rattling chains. Also, if you go back and look at other years, he sometimes does themed weeks for Halloween and other holidays.

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I remember these from a collection I read while growing up, I never understood and truly didn't read the last two because they were just not funny nor interesting. However Jim Davis said he found the idea of Garfield imagining future strips while starving to death laughable: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/09/death-of-garfield-my.html

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Well of COURSE they are real. Paws Inc hires about a bijillion unknown graduates of that art school where you draw the pirate and the turtle, chains them in a basement, and forces them to draw idiotic jokes about Mondays and Lasagna so that Jim Davis can LIVE IMMORTALLY.

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Of course, this PARTICULAR series was during summer break, when all they could find was Canadian artist Dave Sim...

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yea summer break in october...

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user below me is gay.

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Oh, different artist, that explains it. I was wondering why entire rooms were being drawn, why Garfield was shown from various angles, and generally why this wasn't the usual copy/paste-change-world-bubbles that Jim Davis normally uses. Lazy bastard.

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GARFIELD IS DEAD........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................LANDO IS NOT

"Allegro non troppo" anyone?

16th

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I can confirm that my c*ck is huge.

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old ytmnd is old. but apparently i already voted on it 2 years ago.

Glad somebody mentioned Allegro Non Troppo.

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Ignore this comment, I'm writing to the future: HELLO TWO THOUSAND TEN! REMEMBER TWO THOUSAND EIGHT? YEAH? REMEMBER WHEN THIS CAME BACK ON TOP VIEWED? AGAIN? HA! AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAPPENED AGAIN 'CAUSE YOU'RE READING THIS!! HA!! GUESS ROBOT WIVES HAVEN"T BEEN INVENTED YET, EH? WELL, I'M GONNA GO DO 2008 STUFF NOW. BYE.

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I'm writing to the past. Dear 2005, Gas prices will climb to four dollars a gallon. Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith will die from a drug overdose. Transformers will suck. Remember Democratic vice presidential hopeful John McCain? He's a running as a Republican now. Britney Spears and Tom Cruise will go batsh*t. YTMND will be purchased by Viacom and become YTMNV. Stamps will last forever. Jesus comes back... also c*cks

i can confirm that my penis is soft due to the epic f*ggotry and fail this YTMND exudes

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judged

The comics may be real, but is Garfield dead? I don't know - but I take everything wikipedia says with a pinch of salt.

this ytmnd does not cater to those who read slow. 1star

This YTMND cannot fade into obscurity can it?

They are real, I have the book. Isnt it just a Rip Van Winkle referance though. He slept his life away, or at least he dreamed he did.

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garfield takes up space, his 20th book

ya if u go to the offical garfield site and dearch the dates theyll b found

^^ awesome, thanks for confirmation.

WAYT WUT R POINTING AT??? THOSE EMBEDDED COMMENTS????

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They're real, I have those at home

you suck much cock

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C*ck you must suck

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also reminds me i need to pick up the Twilight Singers album.

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Wow, I've never seen this before, those comics are freaky. Thanks for the presentation!

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he isnt dead you silly goose

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he ithent dead, you thilly gooth!

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*tear* Those like completely ruined my day...

+5

NEDM

+18

NETSM

As real as those are.. it still doesnt make sense how he got there.

hhmm, happy cat will not be amused. but i never really liked garfield so 5'd for his apparent death though he seemed alive in those god awful films.

orginal and well put together earns you a 5.

i would have fived this, but it takes f*cking forever to get to the point, you don't need five title cards at ten seconds apiece

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nedm...:'-(

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slightly too fast.

this is so very strange :'(

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These are very old, so I am gonna say no, he isn't dead.

I ate a pea for your CACK kkk ja pee meee enfkjdnskljfnakldsnfk;nsd;ak

While Garfield has polevaulted over the shark, any theories that he's "really" dead are just that, theories. And yes thats a real line of strips. It apparently scared so many of his readers that Davis never did anything so creative again. A shame.

Oh no! I ordered french fries with my haunted hamburger

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"though he seemed alive in those god awful films." Where is the real ghost of Garfield to destroy every copy of those horrible movies. If any Hollywood execs are reading this DO NOT TURN OLD CARTOONS INTO LIVE ACTION!

Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer!

He's a demon on wheels!

music was so horrible and distracting I had to close it

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let's hope he is...

BEES

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I can confirm they are real, I remember reading them in the paper :D But wow, Wikipedia is WRONG. I followed Garfield untill the mid 1990's when it started to suck, and let me enlighten all: In the beginning, Jim Davis tried to run his comic like For Better or For worse, and have various plots to follow, subtle meanings, ect... Remember Nermal? Layman? Ed? Garfield's mom? Anyway, early in the series, Garfield runs away from home, and really does come close to starving to death, but he just happens

NEDM?

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?MDEN

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to meet his mother and father, who take care of him, and Garfield Mentions how his week of starvation has changed him forever... And he eventually gets home, and every once in a while after that untill Jim Davis turned into a pathetic sell out, if you watch closely you can see he tries to allude back to Garfield and his trauma, and that's what this is, except the most blatant... Davis was trying to get people to realize how important the things we take for granted- food, water, loving family, really are.

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The text kinda falshed too fast for me to read it all ^^;

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funnier than Jim Davis

you ass. now i'm strangely depressed. but nice job anyway 0_o

Hey now, I'm a silly goose, and I say those are intriguing strips. But the most recent story line with the Liz Jon relationship pretty effectively counters any near death delusion explanation. The same may hold true for Lost.

NEDM. That would explain why the movie was such a huge failure.

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I can also confirm that it isn't fake...

Great and insightful presentation.

I actually have the original book where those came from o_O

man thats depressing...Jim Davis must have been having a hard time with Orsn the Pig and Wade the Duck

Garfield is awesome, but yeah. Real.

And aye. Garfield was indeed a great strip in the early years.

Wow, those comics are strange. Great presentation.

"this is a dream..."

I remember these strips.

wow research ... That sent shivers down my spine.

Yup, 100% real. I don't really get it though. Very nice YTMND, very nice theory.

you fail because they are real

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It's pretty obvious that he was imagining the whole thing. Jim Davis actually did a lot of these within the series, where Garfield let his imagination go a little too far. So no, he is a alive, healthy, and still funny.

I remember those comics too, I used to buy the Garfield books and they're in one of them. As for the theory on wikipedia.. bunk.

In any case, I wish he were dead.

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These were the comics Jim Davis created after his cat, who inspired the stip, died.

Garfield isn't based on any Cat Jim Davis owned. In fact, Ironicly I don't think Jim Davis has even owned a cat.

GREAT

The comic was to show that imagination is a powerful tool. as long as garfield use his imagination he lives a good life, but the strip was made in halloween

1'd for fake.

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garfield? DYING?! NEDM!!

+2

1'd for who f*cking cares about garfield

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NARV

i do

Couldn't stand the music =/ and first glance, I wouldn't find them depressing. Reinforcing that people need their families was important in the late 80's.

1978!

It was a dream sequence you moron

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I like Garfield

Who reads garfield? WHERE ARE THE ORIGINAL GOOD YTMND'S

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YTMNDs idiot. Nothing belongs to ytmnd, so nothing is YTMND's.

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"My heart belongs to Ytmnd" -?

+2

I have that series of comics in a garfield book somewhere. Garfield used to actually be pretty funny around this era...now its just lame.

I think it was pretty clear that it was all his over-active imagination. But +4 for finding a few Garfield strips with more resonence and storytelling than the rest of them combined.

That's f*cking crazy.

Oh man, f*ck you. This was the most depressing thing ever. I'm leaving this unvoted.

NEDM!

+1

I think Jim Davis was trying to be profound, by teaching his readers about imagination and taking things for granted....deep.

Either that or he was tripping acid and listening to Pink Floyd albums.

that was amazing

I liked Garfield. The movies sucked dick though.

Yes, they are real. I remember reading these when I was but a little kid, and being like... o_O

f*ck, where the hell was the NEDM? I'm really upset now.

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Yeah, I found those in a garfield book I had when I was a kid and never really "got" them.

whoa.

definetly real

HOLY sh*t

1 for those first 'intro' frames. The reason for the description is so we dont have to wait 30 to 60 seconds to see real content.

I remember the strips where he was lost and found his parents. Still, this was depressing as hell. Thanks a lot. :(

fascinating!

O_O -_- O_O -_- O_O -_- -_- -_- -_- -_-

I dont care too much for garfield.

F'd up! Also 5'd.

"While nobody likes Garfield" lol I think the strip is just about apreciating what you have and not taking it for granted. It would be cool if Garfield starved to death though.

Of course not, he had two sh*tty movies come out recently!

Needs more NEDM

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he's a comic, he was never real. can't have death without life.

I'm sad..

I remember reading those, I had a book that that them actualy, they didnt really confuse me, i thought it was just supposed to be a melodramatic play or somthing 4rd, I liked it

I dont get it. 2/5

I love Garfield. I read the whole wiki section about these strips and I think it was just a dream. But I can't be certain. I hope it is, cause I'll never be able to read Garfield again if it's not.

Garfield could prolly survive on his body fat for at 9 years plus he has nine lives. 5'd nice job man

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These comics really makes me sad, and the music fits....did I mention that it makes me really depressed?

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wow, to think I spent these years reading garfield to think its just a dillusion. this is some trippy sh*t.

Nope, he's alive. Over here we've got newspapers with a fresh strip of Garfield coming out every weekday.

Not Even Twilight Singers Music could justify a starving Garfield. But since Garfield is such an annoying bastard, I bet it could.

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Garfield is an inanimate cartoon, lol, he cant die. :D

strange but change the music to a band that doesnt suck

I remember these comics appearing in the paper, and I guess that my innocent child mind didn't assume that he had died.

NERM!1 Not Even Random Music can justify starving Garfield! Well...Maybe plot twists can...

NEDM

+2

interesting

I remember reading these in the newspaper. Interestingly put, but not much of a YTMND. Woulda' gave it a 3 if not for the noone likes Garfield bit.

I grew up with Jim Davis' son, and when those strips ran, Jim's cat that he modeled after Garfield died earlier that year. He ran those to pay homage to the real Garfield. Nice job.

I remember this strip, saw it in one of the compilations. I don't believe that Garfield is dead. I do believe however that this strip was trying to do something with the Garfield series it hadn't done before and that was to humanize Garfield. It showed a deeper side to the orange cat and not only did it point out his greatest fear, but it did point out one of the largest problems apparent in the cat population, being abandoned. It was a great strip and I wish Jim Davis didn't let his strip get so mediocu

Bah, obviously proven to be fake, 1'd...

Nah, j/k :D

I was expecting a series of photochops depicting Garfield being burnt to death a la the NEDM cat. Fairly depressing.

wow...thats deep...

i f*cking hate garfield

Unfortunately, that's about as funny as Garfield gets.

how very weird

I use to follow The Big Picture comic strip. His cat really did die and he depicted her death in the strip. He was able to go on one week, but being so devestated, he cancelled the strip.

dude, that scared the living sh*t out of me...

Those remind me of the book "The 9 Lives of Garfield", where Garfield lives out and dies 9 times in alternate realities. The message in those strips is similar to one of the lives where he dies in space.

OMG you made me remember seeing that cartoon on tv as a kid where Garfield lives different lives or something... It was like a Christmas special or a short animated feature. Or a movie? Uh, anyway... Depressing as F*CK! Now I remember why I never liked Garfield. ='(

People are really mean to say that nobody really likes Garfield. It's a cool comic. If these mean Jim Davis is going to stop making Garfield, I blame these people. Buttmunchers. Garfield rocks.

NEDM :(

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Not using NEDM when it is expected seems to be a new fad.

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Correction on my part: "Garfield: His 9 Lives" Most of the themes revolve around the life lived, and few focus on death, yet it is most obvious that these are all different lives, complete with birth and death, featured or no.

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dude i remeber that set of comics, i thought it was f*cked up

interesting...

wow. eerie

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I remember finding these among my dad's stuff one day, he must have clipped and saved them. I have to say that's some freaky stuff, but I like it. Too bad Garfield has sucked in recent years.

Its a message about animal abandonment. You know, f*ckwads that just open up the door to the car out in the country and dump a dog out.

Much better than the strips sh*t out these days. A break from what you are used to, it's interesting to see something depressing in a comic that was mainly upbeat and humorous

f*ck you for saying "nobody likes Garfield" (yes, the movies were godawful, I didn't waste my money, but the comic strips could be rpetty neat. And the children's novels about them being a superhero team). Interesting though, and nice presentation, even if it is a little too fast. Unvoted for the sh*tty smack at Garfield at the beginning, though. Or else this would get a 4 or a 5 I guess.

... :O

Sounds like either Donnie Darko ripped off Garfield, or it's a hoax based off of Donnie Darko. Seeing as Wiki can easily be edited, I wouldn't be suprised if it's the latter because Donnie Darko is good...but Garfield is awful painfully unfunny.

i hope so...garfield isnt funny

f*ggy short film

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NEEDS MORE NEDM

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It's just saying the imagination is a powerful tool with a message to not take life for granted.

I have the local papers kept from that series. However, just because Jim Davis wanted to explore a new story and theme...Garfield did not die. I love the style he used. Much better inking than what you see now. Garfield in the 80's was extremely popular...it just has had it's time pass like nearly all entertainment does.

I remember the cartoon having a lot of pretty strange stuff too. Even though I've never really liked Garfield, it's nice to see that this had an important message to say in it. Also nothing justifies starving cats to death, not even Doom music!

...saddest thing...ever...

They're real, I remember reading them out of a Garfield book and not getting them at all. I've never thought of them meaning that Garfield is dead. Now that I think about it, I probably have the book with those strips, I'll go check.

why the f*ck wasn't this an NEDM?

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Of course he's f*cking dead. Garfield's been around since 1978. Cats don't live for 28 years.

Good show, good show.... Poor Garfield....those were rather sombering. I wonder if I'm the only one out there who still likes theis strip..

wow

That was the most depressing... but interesting.

Spoiler: It was a dream

I like Garfield...

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wtf, i love garfield comics. he didn't die it was just a dream.

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Nicely done. You must be very gay.

I like Garfield... but not the movies... anywho... SEVIL DLEIFRAG!

Thanks for resisting NEDM!

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The only reason people don't like people Garfield is cause Maddox doesn't like Garfield. And as we all know, everyone is a slave to that whore.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=garfield_sucks

:o

Needs more NEDM ... but beyond that ... sad and weird.

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That was interesting - I never saw that run of Garfield, but then again, I don't like Garfield.... good work, sir.

I think I just died a little on the inside

Who careS?

Hmm. Then that actually makes the current comics morbidly amusing. The delusions of a dying maddened cat. Not Even Fancy Feast! NEFF.

wheres all the blood and body parts and bombs, garfield blows

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All I have to say is those are really odd for a garfield comic :-o

It's too bad that Garfield doesn't have such great depth anymore.

I also remember reading this in the newspaper when it came out, so it's real. I used to read Garfield all the time when I was younger and even when I was older. I guess those who are hating Garfield are way too young to appreciate it. The site is very depressing, but since it shows a story that makes the reader think it gets a 5/5 and a Fav.

TOO BAD THIS THEORY IS FALSE. The comic strip even says that noone has lived in the house for years and Garfield confirms that must also means he hasn't lived there either. So if he was completely non-existant during this time, then how could he have starved to death. It's a dream fools. But this would be nice if it was true.

superbe

I use to have a bunch of garfield books. now they really suck peanuts > garfield by far and i have this strip in the collection i have. btw i have alot of friends who love garfied and we are going to gank up on you noob

I use to have a bunch of garfield books. now they really suck peanuts > garfield by far and i have this strip in the collection i have. btw i have alot of friends who love garfied and we are going to gank up on you noob

I didn't think the author of "Garfield" was into the whole reality isn't reality fad.

would have 5'd if you just posted the strips, not make a f*ggy short film of it all

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Garfield is still surviving off of fat stores and Thai hookers.

garfield: not dead. not real.

Considering that Garfield has a constand godmode cheat on, you fail...

This gave me the willies :[

1989 coincides about with the time that garfield got way overmarketed, and became soulless and humorless. So yeah, Garfield died but the brand lives on.

-2 for the music

VERDICT: Who cares if Garfield is dead? I don't. Never was a funny strip.

NEDM

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that was amazing. and quite depressing, yes.

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Amazing find. I can't believe these strips slipped by me as a Garfield crazed kid. On the contrary I'd have to say that these comics represent a "birth" of Garfield in the sense that they're so unique and interesting - even poignant. Y'know, aside from that whole "starving to death" theory. (which is misconstrued IMO) Jim Davis was onto something, he should attempt angles like this again.

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Look at all these NEDM f*gs.

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Dholy sh*t! Jim davis had a moment of intellillilligencencence! Nice find.

Considering Garfield stopped being "funny" (if you can call it that) in the early 90's, and the strip has been on autopilot since then- yes, Garfield is dead.

Hmm, i think it shows how bad you need friends. Not starving. (5'd for cat's, minus 1 for no NEDM.)

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Seen this before. But 1'd for the song.

GARFIELD IS NOT DEAD garfieldisntdead.ytmnd.com

Holy sh*t, I COMPLETELY expected NEDM to appear at the end... and then it didn't. I guess that's a good thing. :-P Interesting though... that's not anything like the garfield comics I've seen throughout the year.s

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very trippy, considering that I used to love watch the Garfied and Friends cartoon when I was little

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interesting

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This needs to go back in Up and Coming.

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Not even Bonnie Brae music justifies starving your cat

I think that bit at the end, about how your imagination can be a dream or a nightmare, thats what Davis leaves you with. Depending on who you are, you either see his lonliness as a nightmare, or his waking up from it a dream. Either the good is a delusion or the bad is. Thats why these are so cool. I'm morbid, so he's totally dead.

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The more I watch this, the more emptier I get. In all honesty, he's not real, but it's just so sad. Garfield isn't rotting away in house. He's sat on his happy fat *ss eating lasagne. Yay.

Wow, that Wiki theory is depressing as fawk. What's sadder though is that Garfield at one point actually HAD a point, and wasn't just garbage extruded out every Sunday.

i have them. theyre real

They are 100% real, We had that book in the school library. 'Tis a shame what Garfield has become.

3'd for lack of NEDM

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Every now and then, Davis does seem to slip a little soul back into things. I mean, Jon finally got kissed on a date by a woman who wasn't psycho the other week.

I sort of remember that 9 lives book, that was kind of weird. And yeah, the music sucks. Needs NEDM, or in this case, Doom music might be appropriate... http://nedm-nermal.ytmnd.com/

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:'( lol i know you said nobody really likes garfield, but i do....

Wow, I'm bloody crying from that... Garfield is my favourite of the Daily strips, that is ever since Farside was canceled... wow though, I never thought Id cry from garfield :(

stop crying because it's not true biatches.

5'd for really random conspiracy theory.

Here's what I think Garfield has been being lazy and sitting around most of his life just grubbing around there and eating. He realizes that eating is not as important as spending time with the people he loves. Therefore implying to us that we should spend more time with our own family because time is ticking away and they will be gone soon or later.

creepy

Well, he's a cat, cat's live 16 years tops, i think the longest living cat ever was about thirty, but it looked like sh*t by then, and garfield hasn't aged a bit...hmm..it fits.

someone covered garfield in gasoline and lit him on fire, i saw the vid on myspace

Here is the link to the archives: http://www.garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?1989-ga891023

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thats pretty creepy

i think he had some bad lasanga

-1 for leaving with a cold feeling inside

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Imagine that. An artist creates a world renowned, celebrity like fictional character to teach others life lessons about family love and the power of the human mind. This world must be f*cked up. *Fart*

You took too long to show me what I wanted to see. Also, he's just a cartoon character, who was used in these strips to demonstrate a philosophical point.

When I was younger, I used to read the Garfield archives in those fat paperback copies - I read a bit over 10 years, until Davis got less involved and it sucked, I remember that strip - to me, as a kid, it was somewhat humorous, kind of parodying the Twilight Zone - has nothing to do with death, it's just placing Garfield in his house years after they're all gone, in order to show him what life would be like alone - or to show what will eventually become of his family, so he doesn't take it for granted.

interesting; good presentation; i liked the music

He isn't dead. lol, his sh*tty *ss movie comes out this month.