Has Garfield gotten umm... BORING???

[sharpei_nat]

Or am I just getting older? my cousins and friends agree with me, and a while ago, I saw a Garfield comic and there were 4 panels or garfield just standing there then a black one then the last one is Garfield saying "Ha! you blinked" Garfield has just seemed to be going downhill lately. It used to be my favorite comic of all time, now it's like number 6 on my list.

[LadyM]

I haven't really liked it since the late 80s (I think . . . I'd have to check the dates of my anthologies to be sure). Not that I necessarily dislike it all the time, but I don't like it either.

Remember when it actually had . . . plotlines? Like Garfield goes off and finds his mom? I really liked that one.

~LM~

[Daniel P]

It was 1999. Jim must have run out of jokes or something. Ever since 1999, it's been boring and I don't pay attention to it.

All he does is lie around and he and Jon throw sarcastic insults at each other.

No Odie, Nermal, Pooky, Liz, Irma, the farm, or anyone else. No more "continued" strips, like stretching an event for a whole week.

[BeastBoyWonder]

I used to be a big Garfield fan when I was a kid, but they started getting dumb a while ago. I thought it was just because I was getting older, but now I'm not so sure.

[Storm]

I think it's because Jim is getting older. I haven't read Garfield in a while so I can't judge but maybe is time to put the cat to sleep (no pun intended).

[Sugar Daddy]

Garfield needs to go to the farm or a on a vacation again..soon.

[The Guard]

Garfield was boring a decade ago. The earlier stuff was great, the stuff with Nermal, extended storylines, trips to the farm, stuff about he and Arlene. But the last five years have just sucked. I mean, he doesn't leave the house. There aren't even Lasagna jokes. I prefer FOX TROT.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Gotta go with Guard. Nermal and Arlene don't even appear anymore. I don't think Jim even writes or draws his strip anymore. Garfield is churned out through a factory of assistants now.

Garfield was good up to 1990. After then it was downhill.

Even Peanuts at its worst had more material than Garfield. Maybe if Jim got interested again and started WRITING and DRAWING his strips again it would enjoy a renewal of creativity, like Peanuts did in the late 90s (when Schultz "rediscovered" the strip through Rerun)

[BLACKHEART]

I don't like Jim Davis. My encounter with him makes me wish his comic finally bites the big one.

[Storm]

Originally posted by SLIPKNOT
I don't like Jim Davis. My encounter with him makes me wish his comic finally bites the big one.

What happened????

[Frank White]

Originally posted by dacp3
It was 1999. Jim must have run out of jokes or something. Ever since 1999, it's been boring and I don't pay attention to it.

All he does is lie around and he and Jon throw sarcastic insults at each other.

No Odie, Nermal, Pooky, Liz, Irma, the farm, or anyone else. No more "continued" strips, like stretching an event for a whole week.

Someone refresh my memory, who are Liz and Irma?

[Matt Hazuda]

Originally posted by storm1288
What happened???? I'd like to know as well.
Anyways Garfield has sucked since the early 90s, before the cartoon was cancelled. It's time for Jum Davis to call it quits. We had to suffer through over 10 years of bad 'Peanuts' because Schultz wouldn't give up. The only smart modern cartoonist is Bill Waterson. He got out before Calvin and Hobbes started to suck and the world thanks him for that even if it meant the lose of one of the best comic strips ever.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by MDawg957
I'd like to know as well.
Anyways Garfield has sucked since the early 90s, before the cartoon was cancelled. It's time for Jum Davis to call it quits. We had to suffer through over 10 years of bad 'Peanuts' because Schultz wouldn't give up. The only smart modern cartoonist is Bill Waterson. He got out before Calvin and Hobbes started to suck and the world thanks him for that even if it meant the lose of one of the best comic strips ever.

Peanuts did get good again near the end. Schultz took a character he neglected and hated for many years (Rerun) and redesigned the strip around him and created some fresh new material. No kidding. When he started redeveloping Rerun and put him into kindergarten, the strip seemed to catch on a last, final burst of energy from 1996-2000. Cool stuff like the nameless girl to Rerun's ambition to be an underground comic artist were gems during this run. Check out Peanuts 2000 and The World According to Lucy and you'll see some actual creativity again.

Oh, and by the way, Davis has already quit. He doesn't really do the strip anymore. His assistants do.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by Frank White
Someone refresh my memory, who are Liz and Irma?

Liz is Garfield's vet whom Jon used to date and Irma is a waitress Jon and Garfield used to visit at a coffee shop.

[Reed Richards]

the OLD comics of Garfield ROCKED

his cartoon was one of the greatest ever

his current stuff BLOWS

Davis' assitants are really lame if thats the case-- why bother even having a strip if the "main man" doesnt even do it anymore?

thats why I admired Shultz so much-- he put so much of himself into peanuts it was hard not to

[Anthonynotes]

Liked "Garfield" as a kid.... also liked the "Garfield and Friends" cartoon series (as well as the animated specials); however, gotta go with what Jojo said. The comic strip's been suffering for quite some time now. Seems most of the jokes these days are: Jon's a pathetic loser, Garfield swattting his 847 trillionth spider of the year, and Garfield's lying flat on his back facing the ceiling and not moving an inch, complaining about how bored he is (ironically enough).

-B.

[Watermelon]

Originally posted by Frank White
Someone refresh my memory, who are Liz and Irma?

Irma was the wacky Cafe girl that served Jon ang Garfield
Liz was the veteranarian that Jon constantly tried to date.

*sigh* Garfield ain't what it used to be. Eithier Jim Davis has gotten old, or we have. What happend to trips to the farm? What happened to chasing mice? What happened to Garfield kicking Oddie? All those good memories seem to be gone know...

:moon: :moon2:

[Dee]

we dont get newspapers in college so I miss seeing Garfield.

[Jin Kazama]

That must suck not to get a newspaper. I make the trek up to 7-11 daily to get one, and not just for the comics. I hate being un-informed of the events.

As for Garfeild, I've noticed a downfall. I mean, the jokes with the spiders and mice are good now and then, but it's daily anymore. I still read it, but it's more so because it's right under Peanuts and next to The Boondocks.

[Daniel P]

I mean, how long is it since we've seen Arlene?

Jim Davis is also doing a strip about Mr. Potato Head. I saw a compilation book at Barnes & Noble and it was as boring as the current Garfield.

[Anarky]

actually, Garfield is one of the better strips out right now.

I read a funny one where he got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
Jon laughed and asked how he'd get out of that predicament. Next panel: SMASH!!!. Final panel: Garfield walking away with the cookies after having smashed the cookie jar upside Jon's head. :D :D :D

and they still run week-long series
the other week they were looking at Jon's family scrap book, talking about his backwoods relatives.

Then there was the week when he and the spider conversed
then there's the mouse-chasing
and the bird bath mishaps
then there's garfield watching bad television (other than Binky)

Liz and Irma have been on recently.
Not too long ago, Jon and Garfield were at the diner.
true, Nerml hasn't been on. Maybe because he shipped her to Madagascar or Bombay or the Yucatan.

it has been awhile since he's attacked the mailman

you should be complaining about wastes of space like LUANN, Fred Bassett, & BALDO. You can always bet on those to be un-funny. My paper dropped the Lockhorns. Wanna know how bad the funnies are in my town? I've been doing the Jumble, Word Search, AND the crossword puzzles on my lunch hour. For every minus, there is a plus: I've boosted my incredible brain meats. Now I'm a bigger oddball at the office than ever before.

Garfield Forever!!!

[Sir Gatts]

Online comic (www.garfield.com) :rolleyes:

Anyway, I would have to say that Jim's work seems more recycled than boring. Maybe it's writers block or something.

[Reed Richards]

Originally posted by Anarky
you should be complaining about wastes of space like LUANN.


how can you EVEN think that of LUANN? its one of the better strips out there right now-- i wish DESPERATLY that my paper carried it. I became hooked on it while living in Indiana and none of the current papers run it :(

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by Reed Richards
how can you EVEN think that of LUANN? its one of the better strips out there right now-- i wish DESPERATLY that my paper carried it. I became hooked on it while living in Indiana and none of the current papers run it :(

Agree that "Luann" (despite its tendencies toward improbable melodramatics) beats "Garfield"'s repetitiveness nowadays...

You can read "Luann" (and various other comic strips) online...try the Houston Chronicle's website (where you can create your own comic strip page and bookmark it)...

-B.

[Daniel P]

Originally posted by Sir Gatts
Online comic (www.garfield.com) :rolleyes: Woah, today's comic sucks... Maybe it should go into re-runs for a while so Jim can think some new, better gags up.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by dacp3
Woah, today's comic sucks... Maybe it should go into re-runs for a while so Jim can think some new, better gags up.

This assumes Jim even writes or draws the strip anymore.

Assistant factory, folks.