What do you guys think of this "trend" of art that Garfield is an eldritch, unstoppable being whose hunger can never be sated?
What do you guys think of this "trend" of art that Garfield is an eldritch...
Camden Martinez
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Levi Gomez
Art reflects life.
Jackson Reed
It's even less funny than the actual strip.
Nicholas Collins
It's a natural progression and a reflection of Garfield's current state as an actual franchise.
Soon we will embrace the Garfield energy and become one with the lasagna.
PilotRedSun was merely a prophet.
Landon Bell
It was neat when it first cropped up years ago.
It's stupid that it's getting a push now.
Camden Reyes
It reminds me of ZALGO strips except somehow less creative.
Adrian Long
It was funny when there was a bit more subtlety to it, like this one from a few years back before it became a "trend".
>Garfield was so hungry, he ate the entire house.
sounds both like a garfield joke and horrifying at the same time.
The one in OP is literally just
>A grotqsque garfield because haha, wouldn't it be funny if he was like CHTULU!?!? LOOK, IT'S GOT OTHER CHARACTERS IN IT!
Elijah Perez
Didn't official Garfield stuff do this too?
Nathaniel Cox
What is the juxtaposition commenting on? The intrinsic lack of meaning in a Garfield strip? So that this version of the character is virtually identical to the other in all ways but visual? Seems vapid at best, created out of boredom I would assume.
Juan Myers
It's likely a reference to the decay of the Garfield brand and how it's become so rotten and forgetabble yet can still be remembered as an icon. As Jon reflects Jim Davis, Garfield reflects the franchise and how it's structure is independent of Jim and his decisions, as it will continue to live, even as a decaying entity, long after he dies.
Christian Harris
>not including fist of the borf star
Colton Flores
this
Camden Jones
Yes. Garfield is an avatar of God, according to Garfield's Nine Lives. This is God himself by the way.
Robert Gomez
What in God's name am I looking at?
Sebastian Young
The work of the lord.
Charles Ward
It's purging time, it seems. But seriously, what comic book was that?
Jordan Murphy
Garfield's Nine Lives.
Carson Brooks
Huh. I thought said comic was some Parody book and that was the name of the story.
Kayden Sanchez
I fucking love it.
Colton Ross
It's an official book and a TV special.
youtube.com
I haven't been able to find and read the comic, but it appears to have its differences compared to the TV special.
On the cartoon, life number six (at 21:47 on the video above) and number seven (at 27:29) are the ones that people tend to talk about, and I think at least those two are worth watching. Also, the ending that implies God is a cat (which apparently the comic does too).
Nolan Powell
Not as forced or cringy as demigod Shaggy at least
Isaiah Moore
It helps that Lasagna Cat mutated Garfield's whole existence into weird meta meme-ish non-humor. Also those sketchy MS Paint voiced comics on Youtube helped as well.
Adrian Murphy
This. Too bad the creator had a meltdown. His art was getting really good near the end.
Henry Garcia
The concept is getting really god damn old but the art is pretty good on its own merits.
Garfield is for shitposting, any attempt that takes itself seriously is doomed to failure.
>using a 2010 picture for the 1970s-2000s era
Ian Baker
>Chucky Barnes is the first to go, as usual
Colton Young
>I haven't been able to find and read the comic, but it appears to have its differences compared to the TV special.
The special leaves out Primal Self, written by Jim Davis himself.
1/5
James Torres
Angel Turner
Andrew Davis
Cooper Ward
Andrew Moore
End.
Hunter Thompson
On the other hand I've also understood the comic version doesn't have a take on "Diana's piano". The comic and special seem to be two different products doing their own spin on the same basic concept.
Now that this thread reminded me of it, I just ordered the comic. If it fits on my scanner without having to break the book's spine, maybe I might share it here once it arrives.
Adam White
>The day Tigger tapped into his primal self was the same day he died.
>And on his next life, all those previous lives and the dead cats of the ages were mixed into something greater. Something grandiose. Something horrifying. Something with the power, the terror, the rage, and the endless hunger of all those dead felines. Garfield.
Elijah Young
Anyone got that screencap were jon goes crazy and starts rambling weird shit?
Andrew Hall
Hurr hurr Garfield is a cosmic horror! That's why he eats so much lol!
>But you see the grotesque Garfield and his unending hunger is a subtle commentary on the degradation of the comic strip and property as a whole! It is akin to an HP Lovecraft legend, as in it is so removed from normal comedy that it is a walking corpse that cannot ever die!
Dumb fucking meme
Kayden Robinson
Dead meme
It was mildly amusing when I first saw it a few years ago but it's long since stopped being novel. Like with Shaggy Blanco, there's nothing less funny than digging up a stale meme and continuing to run with jt
Dominic Cruz
>formula has become barren
>decades of stagnation
That's why things have to end and new things start.
That's why having the same comic characters being prominent decades after decades for more that half a century will never rejuvenate the comic industry.
Ian Stewart
I think it's pretty in-character
Cooper Hall
>Try-hard Zalgo rip-off shit.
We did this years ago, and we did it better and funnier.
Grayson Carter
And the Boom comics did a third spin on it.
Joshua Cruz
user, why did you make an info graphic about the current trajectory of my life?
Nicholas Williams
>ITT: Yea Forumstards get angered by a meme made for an already long-dead brand whilst otherwise continuing to unironically fellate even worse shit thorughout the rest of the board