Is Garfield really bad? Or is it just trendy to snark it?

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

I don't know, but we can judge for ourselves now:

27 years of GARFIELD on three CD-ROMS:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001307835

-Augie

[Madame Manga]

I hope my children don't hear about this, because they're already addicted to Garfield collections from the library...and yeah, that's a strip made just for 7-year-olds! I get the jokes recited to me several times a day. :p

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

You poor, poor thing.

LASAGNA!

BWAH-HA-HA-HA ----- HA?

-Augie

[Deathstroke]

Garfield is comfort food, but it's no longer actually funny.

[Sanagi]

It was really only funny for about the first two books.

[Sabrina_Fried]

Garfield is one of those comics that somehow I always read but never really saw the point of even when I was a kid. It's not that I am bashing it, but the comic just couldn't decide what it wanted to be. Did it want to be a funny comic about a cat who liked lasagna and was perpetually playing pranks on Odie, or was it a quasai dramatic comic about a single man who lived alone with his dog and cat and didn't have much luck with the ladies?

The comic was kind of like lasagna for me: Tasted good enough when I was reading it, left me satisfied when it was over, but wasn't exactly the best thing I could be having. (Especially after I found it the hard way that the cheese in the lasagna really WAS the thing that was making me sick...but I digress...)

Sabrina

[Zack]

I think Mark Evanier did better than Jim Davis with GARFIELD AND FRIENDS...

Collections of the strip were something I used to look forward to from the Scholastic Book Club in elementary school (that and CALVIN AND HOBBES). The problem was, the strip became kind of stagnant over time, they cut back on longer storylines (always a debit in my book) and once they stopped producing new specials/ GARFIELD AND FRIENDS eps, it had less of a novelty to it.

Plus the death of Lorenzo Music kind of killed the character for me, to be honest. His work just added a lot of levels to Garfield -- be honest, you heard that voice when you read the strips.

My two cents, anyway.

Zack Smith

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

The end of GARFIELD for me was when a Garfield comic strip artist (Gary Barker, was it?) drew an issue of THE INCREDIBLE HULK. After that, I just wanted to see "Garfield Smash!" in my newspaper. . .

-Augie

P.S. Yes, I'm joking.

[SoulOnIce]

This will be the last Garfield strip.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/SoulOnIce/lastgarfield.jpg

[mgs]

This will be the last Garfield strip.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/SoulOnIce/lastgarfield.jpg
hahaha!!!! :D