Reading Garfield without Garfield's wisecracking really gives the entire strip a bold new flavor.
An interesting thing...if you remove Garfield's thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat.
Now it's an even sadder story about a lonely man who wastes his life drawing a comic about a lonely man who wastes his life talking to his cat.
Jon actually seems crazy and, perhaps, a bit schizophrenic. But, when you think about the fact that he hears what Garfield has to say... isn't that a bit schizo as well?
Nice find though