Garfield Minus Garfield was interesting because of the silly situations that came from the otherwise unmodified comics.
Maybe it’s just me, but changing the dialog so that it makes sense without Heathcliff being there feels like it kind of takes away from the whole gimmick.
I’ve been seeing these for ages and I have never understood what’s funny about either the version with or without Heathcliff. It’s quite bizarre to find something so far removed from my sense of humour that I don’t get it even once.
I’d anything this just provided me with a well worded explanation for why I don’t like it:
It’s zany but not fun, there’s no joke, just “Here’s a thing, and here’s another thing, these two things don’t normally go together, but here they are together, isn’t that funny?”
The fact that we have no idea why Iggy lives with his grandparents has caused a lot of speculation. And it’s not even a NAPG thing. It goes back to the beginning in the 70s. Back when a kid living with their grandparents usually meant prison or death took the parents out of the picture.
Yeeeeaah. His instructions are: indoctrinate yourself with standard brainwashing techniques. Read it, even though you don’t like it, and keep reading it, until you do.
It’s nothing really. Heathcliff is a trash comic. The “jokes” are barely jokes. Maybe 1 in 20 get so much as an exhale out of me, let alone actual laughter.
In order to remove Heathcliff I occasionally need to change the text that refers to him to completely remove him. Otherwise there is a ghost of Heathcliff and that won’t do.
Understandable. Except that in the Heathcliff comics. If there is any kind of speech from a character, im this case the butcher swearing, the bottom text is never from the same person.
I like to imagine it like the scene where he levitates the spaceship when he’s training Luke. It’s all serious and focused until the shopkeep spots him then frantic hilarity ensues.
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