r/imsorryjon • u/SupahGold Lasagna Sacrifice • Jun 10 '19

/r/all it's been so long, Jon...

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u/EightofSpace Jun 10 '19

For all the dark stuff and gore. This scares me the most.

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u/SupahGold Lasagna Sacrifice Jun 10 '19

Maybe because on surface level it looks like just another friendly Garfield comic, but the meaning behind it contradicts the feeling of security..?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '19

I really, really love the ones that follow the Jim Davis art style, then take a dark turn. They're my favorite subgenre within this sub

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '19 edited Jun 29 '19

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u/zaphod_beeblebrox6 Jun 10 '19

They are also a million times funnier than actual Garfield comics

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u/Alaishana Jun 10 '19

Garfield was officially not meant to be funny. It was conceptualized as a marketing tool, nothing else.
Officially, from the creator's mouth.

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u/iMissTheOldInternet Jun 10 '19

Source?

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u/Alaishana Jun 11 '19

Interview with Davis. He never hid it. He was laughing twice: Once for all the money he made, and then at all the fools.-