Get Fuzzy is what Garfield would be if it were written by a collaboration of Gary Trudeau and Gary Larson. I can never remember Garfield being funny, but Get Fuzzy is one of the best strips I have ever read.
I can remember, way back many many years ago, when Garfield was actually funny and “cool” (although the art was always bad). That period only lasted for a year or two but it’s frightening to think that in another twenty years Get Fuzzy may become as bad as Garfield is now.
If Nermal is Tubby Huggs, that what major character vanishes never to be seen again, a la’ Lyman, Odie’s original owner.
P.S. This might be obvious to everyone, but I don’t read it regularly.
I thought it was Because Odie never thought anything, (Not sure of this, however) that Get Fuzzy was more than enough “away” from Garfield. Also, I doubt that Rob would take kindly to being compared to Jon. Obviously I haven’t been reading the strip as often as most others… but I get a certain feeling that Fuzzy is not Garfield. From what I read… Bucky rarely runs the show by himself.
Dare I ask:
Does “Pearls before Swine” = “Peanuts”?
Slight hijack… Wasn’t it Foxtrot that had a strip about starting to carry around a Stuffed Tiger?
Meeko, are you thinking of "Calvin and Hobbes?
No, I’m pretty sure he’s right. It was a tribute strip to C&H.
Ouch. I hate that I can never remember which it is.
No, but I’ve thought for a long time that Dilbert is the Peanuts gang all grown up.
Dilbert - Charlie Brown
Dogbert - Snoopy
Wally - Linus
Alice - Lucy
Ratbert - Woodstock
Isn’t Garfield’s dog next door the big bulldog on the 25-foot leash, that Garfield always stays 26 feet away from? And isn’t Snoopy’s cat next door seen once carried by one of the humans (Marcy?), completely limp, prompting a remark from Snoopy about “boneless cat”? Nah, Snoopy and Garfield aren’t neighbors.
Meanwhile, I don’t think a comparison between Get Fuzzy and Garfield is apt. You’ve got a cat and a dog owned by a bachelor, but after there, everything breaks down.
That’s a completely different cat.
I believe it was Patty, of the naturally curley red hair (not Peppermint Patty) who had the boneless cat. Unless it was Violet (who went invisible, just like Sherman).
Sorry, Frieda had the naturally curly red hair and the “boneless cat” was named Faron.
(I love living in the Information Age. God Bless Al Gore!)
Something about this discussion seems a little too Positive.
I was thinking the same thing.
But that is a cute cat 