Ralph sounds like a girl.
It’s my opinion, and I don’t have to argue it. But, yes, I find Garfield more depressingly unfunny and ill conceived than any of the cartoons you mention, albeit not by much.
I liked the ones where they still had Garfield, but removed his thought bubbles. Is there an archive of those?
Whether a boy or a girl, I think the name makes the character. Nermal.
I always figured that Nermal was a boy because of how Garfield treated him.
Like, why would Garfield hate a little girl who was trading on her cuteness?
It only makes sense for Garfield to hate on that shit if Nermal’s a dandy little fop, right?
Nermal is Krazy Kat’s love child, if you ask me.
I’m waiting for the brick.