[2012-Jun-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

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Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by I see now.....(also, my grammar sucks) » Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:57 am

It appears in this strip that Garfield is suffering from severe anguish after losing his best friend. The fact that he typically did not demonstrate this feeling of friendship to Odie further conflicts the pain he is going through, and therefore blames himself for Odie's death. In an attempt to escape the pain, he eats his favorite food to cope, often binging uncontrollably to find himself in a greater state of regret, but justifying it on the grounds of an existential perspective he has developed from contemplating the incident. Greatly complicating his emotions, his constant fear of being to blame for Odie's death has caused him to in turn blame the incident on the day of the week that the incident occurred on, Monday, declaring his eternal hate for it. His knowledge of the fact that he can never tell Odie exactly how he feels has driven him to a deranged mental state where he relies on an irrational solution (but the most likely way to resolve his overwhelming pain), which he will most likely attempt to carry out until he suffers complications and dies alone.

Poignancy is a beautiful thing. It is something that all humans can relate to on a deeper level, and therefore brings us closer to one another through empathy. Despite these events, we are mentally hardwired to accept the loss of hopes and dreams and carry forward, as we are forced to do regardless of the way we feel. The pangs of life can take a multitude of forms, many of them musical, and many of them humorous. It is our choice to decide how we cope with the inevitable loneliness of death.


.....or the author was just showing a creative twist to an otherwise 'used to be funny' cartoon. Either way, job well done. Golf claps

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Salacious Schoolmate » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:44 am

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Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Apocalyptus » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:43 am

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Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Salacious Schoolmate » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:39 am

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Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Apocalyptus » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:19 am

You've cried enough this lifetime, my beloved polar bear
Tears to fill a sea to drown a beacon
To start anew all over, remove those scars from your arms
To start anew all over more enlightened
Two more yeeeears

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Salacious Schoolmate » Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:23 pm

We've got fiiiiiive years, stuck on my eyes
Fiiiiiive years, what a surprise
We've got fiiiiiive years, my brain hurts a lot
Fiiiiiiive years, that's all we've got

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Apocalyptus » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:55 pm

The cat's in the cradle, and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Salacious Schoolmate » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:59 pm

Sunrise Sunset
Sunrise Sunset
when did I get so taaaaaaaaall

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Apocalyptus » Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:49 am

It's the circle of life.
It, if you will, rules us all.

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Salacious Schoolmate » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:53 pm

Ah, the webcomic ecosystem, first a humble artist draws a joke, Zach Weiner reads it and some time later draws a comic very similar to it.

Weeks later he forgets he did that comic and then draws that same comic again. And then two days later Randall Munroe does a comic with the same premise, but very poorly worded and with not enough effort put into the art to even make the heads connect to the bodies.

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by jazzhands » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:30 pm

Did anyone else notice that this strip seems very ripped-off from DFW's "The Broom of the System"? The premise (of someone trying to take up all of the space in the universe via gluttony) and some of the wordings appear to be exactly the same

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Woden » Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:34 am

It's happening on the comic before that, too, even though it had previously been displaying the whole thing. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I'm glad I'm not the only person experiencing it... I was already wracking my brain trying to figure out what could be wrong with my computer.

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Gila Monster » Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:26 am

That's how the strip is supposed to look. Don't you get the joke? It's an invisible foe. When you look for the rest of the comic you find emptiness. I shouldn't have to spell this out for you.

Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Dontwannaregister » Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:35 am

Is the image on this strip broken? I only see the first 100 or so pixels vertically from the top, then nothing but white space.

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Re: [2012-June-16] Not Quite Copyright Infringement

by Gila Monster » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:36 pm

That's not true! I love all North American venomous lizards! All two of them, the Mexican Bearded Lizard included!
Now, let us have a conversation based entirely on us having read the same two wikipedia pages.

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