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Garfield Minus Garfield

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775 points mike1o1 | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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nickvec ◴[10 Apr 25 17:40 UTC] No.43646286[source]▶
> Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

Did not think I would be relating to Jon on a Thursday morning.

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m463 ◴[10 Apr 25 22:27 UTC] No.43648608[source]▶
Now it makes me wonder what would happen if you did something like removing all the superheroes from a movie.

or took soem movies and made all the villains super-attractive and the heroes ugly and dressed in black.

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1. dfxm12 ◴[11 Apr 25 15:30 UTC] No.43654992[source]▶
I don't think this came about by randomly deciding to take a character out of a strip. The creators of G-G recognized that Jon is a depressing character who has these one way discussions with Garfield. Garfield's inner monologue (that Jon is not aware of) provides all the humor, mostly at Jon's expense. Take the humor out of the comic, and you're left with the depression. It goes straight from a comedy to a tragedy.

This is what's interesting about G-G. The tragedy was always there. We kinda knew the tragedy was always there, but we'd rather laugh at Jon with Garfield than commiserate with Jon.

Taking superheroes out of a random movie would lead to silliness, yes, but nothing poignant.