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Penny Arcade - Comic - New To You
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Penny Arcade - Comic - New To You
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Technically, Jerry said you could make the same joke again. I'm not sure how that applies to Garfield.
He's only had Jon drink dog cum once, I know that much
-Tycho Brahe
Maybe. But it's related to lots of other comics, too. They talked about it on the DLC podcasts all the time. They were aware that they repeated themselves (in general terms - nothing like that Garfield travesty), and were always asking if it was too soon.
He drew the same waitress with the same pose and the same name, when anyone could have been asking that question. Unless he has a photographic memory, this means he was looking at the first comic when he drew the second. Yet he still bothered to change up the poses. It's impressive how much the characters are identical despite not being literal copy/pastes. But I guess that jives with the fact that he never set out to make Garfield funny: from the beginning his stated intent was to make him a brand. And I can't deny that as cynical as the whole thing is, he was really, really good at what he set out to do.
And by "he", I don't mean Davis. He hasn't drawn the comic for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
Eh, I don't hate Garfield. I just think it's not funny, and sucks.
We do all agree that Garfield Minus Garfield is great though, right? I feel like it's a weird expression of 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters. A form of art that's improved by taking away from it.
Some of us remember times when newspaper comics didn't... okay, well, they didn't all suck. There were definite good ones: The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, Doonesbury (granted, it's a very specific type of humor, but it wasn't lazy humor), Pogo, The Boondocks, Dilbert (yes, at once time it was funny, and we didn't know Scott Adams was a complete Scott Adams).
Garfield stands out in that it's a model for putting business ahead of content. Many strips have been running for decades past their funny date, with some modest amount of money coming in from licensing. But Davis has openly turned Garfield into a licensing zombie, whose #1 quality is that people know it. It gets grief in the same way The Simpsons has. Both had their funny period, but they've kept it going to keep the money rolling in for so long that the bad outweighs the good.
It's like Minions before Minions.
Sure, but those good ones still existed. And the Complete Calvin & Hobbes and the Mafalda Intégrale now adorn my bookshelf while there is no Garfield product in this apartment.
Even if the gold was buried under 2 layers of shit, the gold was still there for people to find.
The world at large may be full of Garfield, but you can at least curate your own world.
Yes, but none of those other turds built a billion (yes, billion - Jim Davis alone is said to be worth $800 million) dollar empire out of turds. I think this is a valid reason to give Garfield extra hate. It's the same reason we don't hate a local councilmember whose made their career through pathological lies and constantly spinning conspiracy theories quite as much as we hate someone who managed to become president with the same behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
The effect of hearing Jim Davis say, "It's the world's first enter-gaging mobile app for the restaurant business":