Garfield’s 1989 Week Of Existential Horror

The only thing Garfield hates more than Mondays is the infinite abyss of his own mind.
Garfield’s 1989 Week Of Existential Horror
For the most part, Garfield was a strip about the banalities of life. But Jim Davis would occasionally prove that he was capable of much darker, more terrifying stories.

For a week in 1989, sandwiched between long Sunday stories about hunting birds and drinking coffee, Jim Davis took readers on a week-long roller coaster of existential despair and abject horror:
DAY2 ION? ODIE? The 4th wall shatters When was the last he ANYBODY time you HOME? saw DAL Garfield employ a narrator voice? And when did I'M that narr
STEADY, GARFIELD THERE MUST BE A GOOD REASON WHY THE HOUSE IS EMPT DA Reality hits JON MUST BE AT THE GROCER4 Like a cat's foot to a dog's ass, realit
DAK MY HOME HAS BEEN ABANDONED. NO ONE HAS LIVE HERE FOR YEARS! The abyss gazes back JM DAVYS BUT THAT MEANS I HAVEN' T LIVED WHAT'S HERE FOR YEARS! T
JON!ODIE! HELLO BARFIELE 4OU'RE HOME! HAVE SOME FOOD DAS A false hope GARE PM DAV95 10-27 His brain is flailing GARFIEL now, trying anything it can to
AFTER YEARS OF TAKING LIFE FOR GRANTED GARFIELD IS DAY6 SHAKEN B4 A HORRIFYING VISION OF THE INEVITABLE PROCESS CALLED TIME' U The End...? ONL4 HE HAS
That Sunday, it was back to banality. GARFLELD 5Co0p YAWN SMIACK SMACK SCOOp ScoP STIR STI Srie SLOOK SPiiiliiint MORNINGS But the question remains: d

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