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656: Veterans/Memorial Day Garfield

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
Another re-imagining of the infamous "National Stupid Day" strip.
One of my personal pet peeves is Americans who don't know the difference between Memorial Day (established to recognise the war dead right after the American Civil War), and Veterans Day (established to recognise surviving veterans after World War I and scheduled on the date of the WWI Armistice). Yes, in several other countries, the holiday is Remembrance Day, but most of the uproar over the Garfield comic was in the U.S., so I re-dedicated the day in honour of spiders that were not squished. Too subtle?
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Spider {addressing Garfield holding rolled-up newspaper}: If you squish me, I shall become famous!
Spider: They will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honor, you fat slob!
Spider Teacher to Class: Does anyone here know why we celebrate "National Spiders Who Survived Meeting Garfield Day"?
Category:Craig Wittler
657: "Garfield Minus Garfield" Plus Garfield

==Explanation==
Despite not bearing the name, this strip is the fifth strip in the "Changefield" series. Due to this strip not being titled as a numbered Changefield strip, the numbering of subsequent numbered Changefield strips was thrown off; the fifth and tenth numbered Changefield strips (after which the numbering finally stopped) were numbered one less than the actual number of strips in the "Changefield" series to that point as a result.
==The author writes:==
Inspired by No. 564: Changefield #4: Genesis. When I saw that strip, it occurred to me that if the strip were reversed, it would make an interesting spin on the Garfield Minus Garfield premise. In this variation, Jon (who apparently has hidden psychic powers as well as hallucinations) is baffled to find that he has inadvertently manifested a real cat where previously there was only his psychosis...
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Jon: We need to make some changes around here!
SFX: POW!
{Garfield appears out of thin air}
Jon: ?
Category:David Safar
Category:Webcomic references
658: Shipping

==Explanation==
Shipping, in the context of a fandom, is the preference of a fan for (usually) a couple of characters within a body of work to be in a relationship, i.e., dating, married, that sort of thing. This is often without regard for canon; two characters may be shipped by fans even if they have explicitly rejected each other, would never have even considered each other (due to sexual orientation, incest concerns, etc.), have never met, could never meet (outside of dimension-hopping, time travel, or imagination manifestation, which may or may not be a thing in the work), and so on. 
OTP, in the context of shipping, stands for One True Pairing, which is the pair of such characters that a fan believes to be preferable to all others. Pairings are often signified with an "×" or "x" between them (oddly enough, asterisks are rarely if ever used), or nothing at all, or even smashed together so hard that some of the letters are removed.
In this edit of the latter of two strips, the revelation that Kimmy was raised by wolves, rather than repulsing Jon as in the original strip, turns out to be a turn-on for him, as evidenced by the reuse of his leering smile afterward, lifted from two strips earlier in the date.
==The author writes:==
Forget Liz. Jon×Kimmy OTP.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
Kimmy: By the way, Jon, did I tell you I was raised by wolves?</br>
Jon: You're kidding.</br>
{Kimmy scratches her ear with her leg.}</br>
SFX: SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH</br>
{Jon looks shocked.}</br>
{Loose hairs fall from Kimmy's head.}</br>
Kimmy: No, really.</br>
{Jon has a leering smile.}
Category:Thompkins
65: xkcfield

==Explanation==
In the original Garfield strip, Jon tells Garfield they're going to babysit their kitten, and introduces Nermal. Garfield wants to sleep out the duration of Nermal's stay.
In the original xkcd strip, the "Human Proximity to Cat" is the x-axis for a graph plotting the decrease in demonstrated intelligence and the increase in the inanity of one's statements the closer one is to a cat, culminating in the stick-figure human telling the typical felis domesticus: "You're a kitty!".
This strip combines the two by removing the y-axis and plotted lines and the stick-figure cartoon and replacing it with a thought-bubble-removed version of the third panel twice, followed by a version of the second panel with the background color changed, as well as Jon's speech balloon; in addition to a different shape, instead of "Meet Nermal", it now says "You're a kitty!", as copied and pasted from the original comic.
==The author writes:==
Images edited from the Garfield of . Captions and dialogue from xkcd #231... of course.
==Transcript==
{Three panels showing Jon holding Nermal near Garfield's sleeping box}
[Legend below left panel]: FAR
[Legend below middle panel]: HUMAN PROXIMITY TO CAT
[Legend below left panel]: NEAR
Jon: You're a kitty!
Category:Dataphile
Category:Titles permuting "Garfield"
Category:Webcomic references
661: Simon

==Explanation==
This comic is a take on Garfield Minus Garfield - it takes the cover of the Simon & Garfunkel album Sounds of Silence (which features both of them facing the camera) and deletes Garfunkel from it. It's a pretty simple pun, really.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: well there isn't an original strip, I just nicked the cover . Gosh.
==Transcript==
{Paul Simon runs away from the camera. Art Garfunkel is conspicuous by his absence.}
Category:Manyhills
Category:Garfield Minus Garfield
Category:Music references
Category:Non-Garfield comics
Category:No original strip
662: Grinfield II

==Explanation==
This strip continues this author's theme of taking a panel in which Garfield grins, replicating it three times, adding frames where customary, and removing and putting back the information, as appropriate.
==The author writes:==
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{Garfield stares at a Christmas ornament, grinning}
{Garfield stares at a Christmas ornament, grinning}
{Garfield stares at a Christmas ornament, grinning}
Category:Siosilvar
663: A Human Woman

==Explanation==
In the original, Garfield thought the last three words, but as a question. Here, Jon thinks them, as a statement. In both cases, it's likely that each thinker is uncertain whether a human woman would respect him; it's certainly the case with Garfield as the thinker.
==The author writes:==
Interesting how a shift of one word balloon can make a big difference in Garfield but goes totally unnoticed every day in Mark Trail.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Besides beauty and intelligence...
Jon: I need a woman who will respect me.
Jon: {thinking to himself} A human woman.
Category:Thompkins
664: Garfbert

==Explanation==
No explanation required: This strip simply substitutes Garfield in for Catbert, the Evil Director of Human Resources, a character from Dilbert (as as his title states, he's a cat, he's evil, and he's director of HR for Dilbert's company).
==The author writes:==
Some substitutions are too easy, and Garfield for Catbert is one of them. (In fact, I thought somebody had done this before me, but couldn't find it in the archive. If you do, never mind.)
Original Dilbert strip: 2009-04-18.
==Transcript==
Caption: Garfield: Evil Director of Human Resources</br>
Garfield (to Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss): Being evil used to mean something.</br>
Garfield: These days I can cut salaries by 10% and people will thank me for not firing them!</br>
Pointy Haired Boss:Do you want to help me eat employee lunches from the break room fridge?</br>
Garfield: I'd like that.
==Trivia==
* The author's notes were prescient: As it turns out, this is a duplicate of 288: Garbert, Evil Director of Human Resources, down to using the exact same Dilbert strip (though the two use different images for Garfield).
* The link to the original Dilbert strip no longer works as originally intended due to the Dilbert site being restructured after that strip was dropped by its syndicate amidst its cartoonist's controversies.
Category:Comic strip references
Category:Craig Wittler
Category:No original strip
665: Lean on Me

==Explanation==
The author, aside from correcting the color of Garfield's muzzle in the second panel, decided to orient the panels so that the halftone would be level, based on a practice he used to employ with just his head. He also evened them up, because it looks better that way.
==The author writes:==
One thing I always liked about the old Garfield comics was the lopsided background. It would invariably be at an angle in the first panel, straight in the second, then crooked again in the third. It's very rare that the backgrounds would be different in every panel. I liked to tilt my head when seeing these panels, and this strip seemed like the best example to employ it, having all of them be even. I also recoloured Garfield's lips to make them more visible.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Nermal: Hey! Quit leaning on me.
Garfield: I am not leaning on you.
SFX: PLOP {Garfield falls over}
Nermal: See?
Garfield: The wind shifted, that's all.
Category:DanielBT
Category:Corrections
666: 3:16

==Explanation==
This strip attempts to use semi-random sampling to determine if the artistic quality of Garfield has gone down in recent times. This is done by taking the strips from March 16 of each year up to that point (furthered by the SRoMG strip being published on that date as well). The origin of this method is Don Knuth, who published a book declaring that chapter 3, verse 16 of most every book in the Bible was significant in some way.
For mezzacotta forumites, this strip was slightly disappointing - it was the fabled 666th one, corresponding to the Number of the Beast - yet it has no real reference to Satan or anything apocalyptic. That is, until Makholm revealed that the "lukewarm, neither hot nor cold" of the description was a reference to Revelations 3:16:
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
==The author writes:==
Averages and other statistical methods tend to overstate the staticness of Garfield strips. It's actually not all just the talking heads of Jon and Garfield. Perhaps random sampling will give a fairer impression? Here I'm trying a sampling method pioneered by Don Knuth, the patron saint of computer science.
The results are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold. But they do seem to suggest a slight tendency for Garfield to become less visually interesting since about the millennium.
Original strips: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .
==Transcript==
Garfield: Thanks for the exercise.
SFX: PUNT!
{Garfield on a ladder, reaching for a cooked chicken}
Garfield: It's time Jon had another date.
SFX: Kiss
Jon: Z
Garfield: Very few people can wear a mustache.
Jon: What does that mean?
Garfield: These game shows are disgusting.
SFX: CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Odie: YIP!
Jon: Hello? Uh, I think you have the wrong number.
{Odie bounces past Garfield}
{Odie bends under backwards to follow a spider}
Garfield: I've lengthened my name ...
Garfield: Dogs are nature's way of telling us we could be worse off.
Irma: We're a bit slow today, hon.
Garfield: The late cat would prefer coffee, pancakes and a side of bacon.
SFX: Munch munch munch
Jon: Cream in you coffee, Garfield?
Jon: Your family never forgets.
Policeman: I'd say they've broken at least three city ordinances. Right, Bubba?
Other policeman: I didn't see nothin'. Let's get a doughnut.
Jon: GARFIELD!
{Odie with Garfield on fence-top, thinking deeply}
Jon: It's an endangered species list.
Garfield: Oh, it's not a menu?
Jon: There are many, many things I will never understand.
SFX: SLAM
Jon: AAAGGGHHHHH
Garfield: Only 59 minutes and 45 seconds to go.
Jon: ... or not ...
SFX: Doy-oy-oy-oing
Snail: I guess I'll park it here for tonight.
Jon: Ellen, I'm your man!
Spider: Boy howdy, he wasn't kidding.
{Jon listens to a somebody on the phone, smiling}
Garfield: This is it.
Jon: I'm looking mine up.
Category:Henning Makholm
668: Garfield Minus Two Panels

==Explanation==
In the original comic, Jon's statement in the first panel spurred Garfield to leave in the second, and come back with a tuba in the third. This strip puts Garfield with a tuba in the first panel and gets rid of the others. The author's note gives the reasoning, doahomework.com offered by the character of Polonius in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In this case, it may well work; everything we need to know about the scene is encapsulated in one panel: Jon is bored, and Garfield is about to shake Jon out of his doldrums, not by offering any pleasant pastime, but by launching a surprise assault on his eardrums.
==The author writes:==
After seeing the strip for this day, I realised that most of the panels in the three-panel-a-day comic were completely unnecessary to the joke. Seeing how brevity is the soul of wit, I've cut the unnecessary panels out of the strip.
I think the final result is much improved.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: What a boring day.</br>
{Garfield prepares to blow a tuba behind Jon}
Category:Introbulus
66: Broken Vertical Hold Garfield

==Explanation==
Well-explained in the author's note, and the Wikipedia article if that's not detailed enough.
==The author writes:==
Old CRT televisions used to have an adjustment (called Vertical Hold) to tweak the synchronisation of the broadcast signal to the electron beam's refresh rate. If this control was out of alignment, the TV would refresh the screen a different number of times per second than the signal was being broadcast, which would cause the image to "wrap around" the set. Since a lot of Garfield strips revolve around watching television, it seemed like a good idea to apply this to the strip itself. (And what annotation would be complete without a Wikipedia link?)
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: Boys, it's a beautiful day! Why don't we drive out to the beach?
{beat}
Jon: Besides, the TV is broken.
Garfield: Surf's up!
Category:Bill Gilliland
Category:Animated comics
670: Spell-checked Garfield

==Explanation==
For this strip, the author didn't explain what was done, so one might be tempted to think that the original dialogue was fed as-is into the world's worst spell checker, but one would hope that the real answer is that the author retyped it from scratch, leaving in all errors and seeing what a spell checker suggests. This would be a preferable alternative to the existence of a spell checker that doesn't know some extremely common words, such as "there", "cat", and "feed".
==The author writes:==
Original strip from .
==Transcript==
Jon: Hi, tire... I'm Jolt Truckle. I'm a canonist, and this is my cart, Afield.</br>
Garfield: Hi, throe. I'm Gained. I'm a coat, and this is my cartelist, Joint.</br>
Jon: Our only tooth is to entreat you.</br>
Garfield: Fed me.
Category:I. D. Asmith
672: Dismal February

==Explanation==
In the original strip, Jon apparently rescued Garfield from intentionally killing himself with the footrest of a recliner. This comic makes Jon only discover it after the deed has been done. Reusing a flipped version of the arm from the first panel, the author depicts Garfield after he has let go of the lever and died. Apparently, Jon is now carrying him away in a box (which, in that panel's original strip, contained Christmas decorations... and a spider).
==The author writes:==
In February of 1989, Garfield attempted suicide. Fortunately Jon was there to stop him. But what if Jon had been one panel too late?
Original strip: , .
==Transcript==
Garfield: I can't bear the thought of trudging through another dismal February.</br>
{Garfield notices the recliner.}</br>
{Garfield puts his head into the recliner and pulls the lever.}</br>
{Jon notices Garfield motionless with his head trapped in the now closed recliner.}</br>
{Later, Jon is whistling and carrying a box away.}
Category:Thompkins
673: Garfield!

==Explanation==
A factorial, written as x! is the product of all the integers between 1 and x, inclusive. For this strip, the author took the "!" and interpreted it in this way, rather than its use as language punctuation. The panel number is used for x, and the result becomes how many times the same panel is put into the same space as the original panel. But, as x increases, the result increases greatly, requiring the panels to be shrunk to accommodate them more and more. By the fourth panel, we can no longer read thoughts (though we can still see that Garfield now has the birdhouse on his head), and from the fifth panel on, we can longer tell what's going on.
==The author writes:==
Garfield factorial - I can't believe nobody else did this one yet! Especially with all the times Jon shouts "GARFIELD!"
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: GARFIELD!
Garfield: Who else?
{The second panel is split into two smaller, identical panels}
Garfield: Hmmm.
{The third panel is divided in the same way, this time in six pieces}
Garfield: You are about to witness my finest hour.
{The fourth panel is in 24 pieces}
Garfield: [illegible]
{The fifth panel is in 120 pieces}
[illegible]
{The sixth panel is in 720 pieces}
[illegible]
{The seventh panel is in 5,040 pieces}
[illegible]
{The eighth panel is in 40,320 pieces}
[illegible]
Category:Vic Fieger
Category:Math-based comics
675: Jon and Lyman 1: How it began

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 675: Jon and Lyman #1: How it began.
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==Explanation==
Similar to the Imaginary Garfield series, in which Garfield doesn't exist and his thoughts originate with Jon, this series also removes Lyman's dog, Odie. This particular edit puts Jon from the first panel of the August 23rd comic in the "Ding-dong" panel, puts the first panel of the August 8th comic in the third panel's position, makes Lyman's answer "Yes", and appends Garfield's "sandbox" thought to Jon's speech balloon. This has the effect of making Jon either use the sandbox as Garfield is implied to in canon, or imagine Garfield does so, while in reality, it remains unused.
Lyman, on the other hand, doesn't seem to behave as if Odie exists.
==The author writes:==
What if Jon didn't have a cat and Lyman didn't have a dog? I felt it would be interesting to briefly explore what that setting might bring. For one, it does apparently give Jon some pretty strange habits...
Original strips: , , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is drinking coffee}
SFX: Ding dong
{Jon opens the front door, Lyman enters.}
Jon: Lyman.
Lyman: Jon.
Lyman: I'm cold. I'm hungry. I'm weak. Take me in!
Jon: Is that all you have, the one suitcase?
Lyman: Yes.
Jon: Sure, Lyman. You know my home is your home.
Jon: {thinking} But my sandbox is off-limits.
Category:Vigintiseptem
67: Signal to Noise

==Explanation==
==The author writes:==
This was generated by performing a Blur filter, followed by a Sharpen filter, 60 times, recording every tenth iteration.
Source image: 
==Transcript==
Jon: I like to visualize these rice cakes as a juicy steak dinner.
Garfield: I don't have your imagination.
Garfield: So I have to visualize this juicy steak dinner as a juicy steak dinner!
Category:Matt Albrecht
688: Jon's New Cologne

==Explanation==
The author retyped the original strip's dialogue for the first two panels, probably to make it consistent with the new dialogue. It and the splashes of red indicate that Garfield has eaten Jon, where in the original, he merely bit him and was disappointed.
==The author writes:==
Just read this strip and knew someone had to riff it.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: I'm wearing a new cologne: Eau De Bacon.</br>
(Garfield is walking away from a blood-splatted area with blood around his mouth)</br>
Garfield: A bit fleshy, but still got that bacony taste!
Category:tardis2334
689: How to Get Jon Arrested

==Explanation==
In the original, Jon merely didn't have pants on, and was wearing underwear, albeit of the Goofy Print Underwear variety. And he could, with difficulty, take Garfield's advice.
Here, well, Garfield has taken the extra step of boarding up the pet door. Additionally, Jon went outside without anything on below the waist for reasons known only to him, and now will almost certainly be caught running afoul of indecent exposure laws.
So the author's assessment is correct, but in this situation, it's partly Jon's own fault.
==The author writes:==
This trick only works on people called Jon. It's worse than what happened to him in the original strip!
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
{The pet door has a plank of wood nailed over it}</br>
Jon: Garfield, help! I locked myself out getting the paper!</br>
Jon: Hurry! I don't have any underpants on!</br>
Garfield: Come in through the pet door. {walks away}</br>
{silent beat}</br>
Jon: Garfield!
Category:Stephen Mercer
68: Welsh Sound Effect Garfield

==Explanation==
Well-explained in the author's note.
==The author writes:==
I love the place name of Splott in Cardiff. It apparently comes from "God's Plot". My original idea was to put "splat" into that Garfield search engine thing and then use Photoshop to alter it to Splot. I accidentally put "splot" rather than "splat" into the search field and discovered that the word is actually used quite a bit in Garfield as it is anyway. And then I found that there are more Splotts in the UK. So I went for this pun instead.
And there are four places called Splatt.
Garfield images from , , , , , and . The other image is from streetmap.co.uk.
==Transcript==
[SFX]: Splot
[caption]: Splot
[SFX]: Splot
[SFX]: Splot
[SFX]: Splot
[SFX]: Splot
[SFX]: Splot
[caption]: More splots
{map of Splotts Moor, in Glastonbury}
[caption]: Splotts Moor
Category:John Callaghan
694: Jon and Lyman 2: Movie?

:This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is 694: Jon and Lyman #2: Movie?.
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==Explanation==
In the original April 1st strip, the pets also joined, and vocalized displeasure at the idea of switching over to the movie. In the original August 5th strip, Jon's bonk was incited by Garfield spitting a small round object at Odie, making him yip, which surprised Lyman into throwing coffee in Jon's face.
In this edit, with the pets removed, Jon appears to be bonking Lyman's head for not wanting to switch to the movie.
==The author writes:==
Here the exploration of Jon and Lyman's catless and dogless friendship needed a bonkier punchline.
Original strips: , .
==Transcript==
{Jon is watching TV by himself, looking bored.}
{Lyman enters and sits on the couch.}
Jon: What say I switch over to the movie?
Lyman: Nah.
{Beat}
SFX: Bonk! {Jon hits Lyman in the head.}
Category:Vigintiseptem
699: Learfield

==Explanation==
This is a regular Garfield strip with a limerick relating to its subject matter placed underneath it, an homage to the (now defunct) blog Limerixkcd, which did the same thing to xkcd comics. The title refers to Edward Lear, a pioneer of the genre (and namesake for the person who did Limerixkcd).
==The author writes:==
I read Limerixkcd and recommend you do too.
Original strip: .
==Transcript==
Jon: Garfield...
Jon: What kind of birthday cake would you like this year, Garfield?
Garfield: Glad you asked.
{Garfield retrieves a blueprint}
Jon: I've never seen a blueprint for a cake before.
Garfield: And this is the electrical schematic.
Caption: A birthday's approaching quite quickly / Demands cake that's so sweet
that it's sickly / For this task we have hired / Engineers; they're required /
For icing laid on super-thickly
Category:Manyhills
Category:Poems