The reign of terror of the “fat” tabby known as Garfield has finally ended in the Boston Globe’s daily comics, er, Sidekick
section. After tormenting my morning ritual for decades, the cat
finally got the boot. I like to imagine that this strip sealed the
warrant:
The
Indonesian writer posing as “Jim Davis” doesn’t even bother to hide the
fact that the entire strip has been phoned in since the Reagan
administration. Glad the Globe finally got the message — 20 years
later. (Isn’t it freaky to compare Dag’s blackened eyesockets with
Jon’s, um, well if you stare at them long enough you could imagine
those eyes being quite a lot of things…)
Strangely, after allowing readers to vote between “Pardon
My Planet” and “Red and Rover,” the benevolent dictators at the Globe
comics editorial department pulled some Egyptian-style democracy by
pulling Garfield and, er, that one-panel thing by that guy who
occassionally shows up in the New Yorker and replacing them with reruns
of Calvin and Hobbes and some other negligible one-panel thing. Better
reruns of a great comic strip than also-ran comics… though it’s sad
if the state of comics is such that only C&H can fill the void left
by Garfield.
btw… my new favorite comic strip. Read it now.
