I initially didn’t put the “without Garfield” in my comment, but decided to go that route since that’s a comic we see here as well and it would add to the levity.
But now you’ve ruined everything. Ruined, I say.
Edit: And I also realize it is Heathcliff, not Garfield.
Well now I’m getting all philosophical about it. Is it still Garfield if he’s partially digested? Where does Garfield end and snake begin? Maybe it really is Garfield (without Garfield) after all. I know I’ve ruined it either way.
Well, while you sort out the ever shifting snake’s digestive tract, I’ve just spiraled out of control trying to figure out why I conflated Garfield and Heathcliff in the Without comics. As it turns out, both are real comic strips. We see the Heathcliff series here all the time, but I don’t recall ever seeing the Garfield version here.
I am beside myself, so at least I am not Without myself. What a ride.
While the Heathcliff variant is more prevalent on Lemmy, Garfield Minus Garfield does exist and is highly enjoyable. I haven’t checked, but I suspect it inspired the Heathcliff one.
Heathcliff without Heathcliff wasn’t inspired by Garfield but I know it seems that way. A friend was posting its Heathcliff each day and I was confounded by the impenetrableness for months. But after I started figuring it out I noticed that Heathcliff was almost completely irrelevant to most of the strips and started removing him to see how often they still worked as designed.
But since G-G already existed there is no way to remove the idea that one caused the other in most minds. I didn’t really care for G-G because I really never cared for Garfield in the first place.
I initially didn’t put the “without Garfield” in my comment, but decided to go that route since that’s a comic we see here as well and it would add to the levity.
But now you’ve ruined everything. Ruined, I say.
Edit: And I also realize it is Heathcliff, not Garfield.
Well now I’m getting all philosophical about it. Is it still Garfield if he’s partially digested? Where does Garfield end and snake begin? Maybe it really is Garfield (without Garfield) after all. I know I’ve ruined it either way.
Boa constrictor of Theseus
Well, while you sort out the ever shifting snake’s digestive tract, I’ve just spiraled out of control trying to figure out why I conflated Garfield and Heathcliff in the Without comics. As it turns out, both are real comic strips. We see the Heathcliff series here all the time, but I don’t recall ever seeing the Garfield version here.
I am beside myself, so at least I am not Without myself. What a ride.
While the Heathcliff variant is more prevalent on Lemmy, Garfield Minus Garfield does exist and is highly enjoyable. I haven’t checked, but I suspect it inspired the Heathcliff one.
Heathcliff without Heathcliff wasn’t inspired by Garfield but I know it seems that way. A friend was posting its Heathcliff each day and I was confounded by the impenetrableness for months. But after I started figuring it out I noticed that Heathcliff was almost completely irrelevant to most of the strips and started removing him to see how often they still worked as designed.
But since G-G already existed there is no way to remove the idea that one caused the other in most minds. I didn’t really care for G-G because I really never cared for Garfield in the first place.
Fair enough. Thank you for the edification.
Yes, thank you. If you see my other comment I mentioned it and saw that the original Garfield cartoonist nicely gave it their blessing as well.
Perhaps we should lobby someone to post the Garfield variant!
I apologize for missing your other comment, but isn’t posting the Garfield variant something I already did?
Sorry, has it been posted in the comics sub before? I have missed it if so.
I think at least one of us is confused. I apologize if I was unclear at some point.
No apologies necessary as it was probably me. It is late and I have been ill. Cheers.
Totally get it. Hope you feel better soon!