Thankyou, i agree completely. (btw spellcheck references)

IDK but 5.

true.

huh i didnt get it...(oh well 5 anyway)

Yes, it was a vision of the future of what WOULD happen to Garfield. Pay close attention to when Jon asks Garfield if he wants food, instead he wants Jon. We get the impression in this future Jon abondoned him, whereas in the present he is now more thankful so that the potential future doesn't happen.

Thank you for your hard work into all that effort of explaining, for that I'm gonna give you and 5 and a cookie *reachs into pocket* here ya go!

*claps*

I'm surprised so many people can't comprehend anything they read.

misconstrue* it's ok i forgive you

1 for the depressing fact that the f*cking morons on YTMND have to have this explained to them

I'm afraid I disagree, I think he dispells it in that paragraph, but when he talks about our imagination giving us a future that is either enticing or terrifying, he leaves it open. Perhaps its the enticing future with a family thats the imaginative vision. Its just another way to look at it.

Yeah, I think people read too much into something simple.

nice..but still...NEDM

The REAL dead giveaway is where it says an IMAGINATION can "paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify." In this case, terrify. Imagination should've been assumed.

And? It doesn't make that series of comic strips any less cool...

IMAGINATION could have created the enticing reality of having his family back, retards, stop making interpret sites as though they are fact

Obviously, the writer still puts out comics

Do you honestly think Jim Davis would kill off his main character? Even if Garfield has gone to sh*t?

Meh, not my fault he made the slides go too fast. D:

interesting... meanwhile, garfield is still a crappy comic rated slightly higher than the family circus...

No, dumbass, I'm telling you he leaves it open, but for all the evidence you have that your version is right, I have evidence that mine is, so maybe I should make a stupid site about what I think and have it hit up and coming

Yes, unfortunately my imagination has gotten the best of me many times. :(

Garfield is the worst thing to happen to comics.

You have evidence that he never said it was a vision? Whiteout isn't evidence, sorry

I saw the strip in the vision of that Garfield was about to die alone. The image of him sweating and his eyes being messed up (delusional) would account for him starving and being alone. Therefore, he goes into denial and lives the rest of his life in an imaginary world that he created to keep from being lonely. But the strip was probably written to be from either side (dream or reality). I just happen to agree with those who wrote up the death idea, even though I loved the Garfield strip.

Drusamson is right, it can be seen either way, what if he is starving to death in the house and the visions he sees are actually his denial of such an event. It would mean that all the other garfield comics are just his imagination. Don't jump to conclusions, some things aren't as simple as they may first be interpreted...

It is possible that the Wikipedia theory is true. 1990 til now may all be Garfield's fantasies of life. But then again, Jim Davis isn't one to make something this dark.

I remember when Adverb was witty, what ever happened to that?

Whoa I insulted you so you suddenly think I'm unfunny I'm pretty sure that's the first time that's ever happened

:) Adverb, if you have nothing of importance to add to any of this, please go away

References.* But still, 5'd for truth.

it's up to interpretation. yours isn't necesarrily "right"

Just wanted to add, that since you are just going from one side of the strip (the strip can go either way) I cannot vote on your site since you are basically insulting those who are thinking opposite of your views.

Adverb, when were you ever funny?

I can't believe people are arguing about whether a cartoon cat from a non-continuous comic strip is alive or not. ...okay, maybe I can. GO YTMND GO

"VISION CALLED TIME" he's just emphasizing that time is just a perception.

Well, after this, Garfield went to sh*t. Davis stopped developing Garfield's character and now it's come to what we have today

Can't wait until I finish my "Death of Marmaduke" YTMND... (no, not really)

But what if Garfield's entire comic strip life as we know him is the vision, and if that moment in the house is just his return to reality, that, in his attempt to make sense of his life, he sees only as a vision and goes back into the denial he was previously experiencing as he starves to death. (The years of the comic could easily take place in hours in his own mind.)

Yeah, look on the expression on his master's face. Its suprise, as in "Why are you hugging me?"

KLike I said. I'm not ruling out the abandonment theory, but think about it. Would Jim Davis really be this unbelivably dark with Garfield?

Thank you, one sane person!

Wow.

garfield isn't dead he just sucks ass. NEDM

yeah we knew that already

http://felinefantasies.ytmnd.com/ n*gg* stole my comic

"Would Jim Davis really be this unbelivably dark with Garfield?" I wish. :P But I still think that this does fit in with the "meaningful" story-arcs he used to do, and while he may not mean that Garfield's life is all in his head, he probably left the opportunity open.

His cat did just die, the real garfield, maybe for a bit he could be that dark with garfield the comic

its still debatable

"Jim Davis really be this unbelivably dark with Garfield?" I sure would hate to think that there isn't more to Jim than the happy-go-lucky Garfield crap he pushes out year after year, but yea, it's possible... have you ever broken out of your norm before?

"I'm not ruling out the abandonment theory" Okay, then why have a site that "Explains" the strip if you are not ruling out the other side of it? You need to say "This is my opinion" of the strip instead of acting like it is fact. ;)

"Would Jim Davis really be this unbelivably dark with Garfield?" Also, remember "Garfield: His 9 Lives"? It depicted garfield living out 9 different lives and dying in each one... so yea

^ It's impossible to make it a fact you dumb f*ckhead.

that means, he thought about how the rest of his time will be like... and then he starts to image all that stuff...

I can't believe people are freaking out this much over that YTNMD in the first place...

I really prefer thinking of him as dead. Nothing justifies reviving Garfield. Not even trying to stop NEDM references. (Noone make a NETTSNEDMR please)

Not the YTMND, the actual comic, the YTMND is good either way

the REAL deal when it comes to this whole death thing...it was a parody of a 1977 Italian film...check it out... http://felinefantasies.ytmnd.com/

Feline Fantasies can suck a cock.

Though that could also mean that every comic was the vision of Garfield while he was alone in the house. I kinda like that thinking so I'm sticking to thinking that Garfield isn't dead, just sitting alone in the house going crazy.

dont listen to this *ss f*ck... http://felinefantasies.ytmnd.com/

Way to post the same thing twice. No one cares.

I remember seeing an old National Lampoon Magazine from the 80's I think. It spoke of the death of Garfield, and the article was several pages long.( I had no idea there was an actual Death in the comic stip, I figured this was a joke, but now I guess it was refering to this contoversy, and the "Back to normal" cover up that followed. The artwork looked authentic, but it showed Garfield being ripped to shreds by an invisible force, which was the Cheshire Cat. If anyone could find it, it'd be YTMND GOLD.

It's art and I'll interpret it any way I want douchebag.1'd

It's still better if he did die. :|

you should have made a un funny truth ytmnd

You need to add this: The reason why Jim Davis penned these comics was there was a death in his immediate family that came as a compleate shock to the family, and writing these comics was his way of expressing his grief and trying to get people to realize just how precious family is. Don't belive me? Look it up :-p

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB

Thank You

I still think hes dead.

duh

vision doesn't automatically mean it's not real. Here's how I see it: John abandoned Garfield some time before the events depicted in the strip. Garfield hallucinated that John is still there etc; but for some reason briefly in this strip he momentarily wakes up; only to slip back into fantasy when he realizes how horrific the real world is. like it says, his only weapon is denial. tbh i don't actually believe this theory, but it is one completely possible intepretation.

comic sans ms -_-

thanks for pointing that out (i dont care about garfield, but those comic strips were freaking me out). Also, the NEDM references will never end. This has already become a fad.

NEDM

IT WAS A f*ckING DREAM YOU GOONS! Why are people reading so much into this? The ytmnd that's doing the rounds in the top 15 isn't accurate in the fact that the ordering is all screwed up, it makes it look far more bleak than it actually was.

What's the song in this YTMND?!

it still isnt the lasagna loving garfield i know of, very different mood in this comic

I already knew it was a dream, people are just dumbasses.

Looks like somebody doesn't want garfield to die. STOP WHINING!

5, Because for a starving/dying cat he seems to be doing well 16+ years after that vision...

Finally, Brains.

Misconstrue*

as for the starving thing presumably he gets food from somewhere. he's just barely surviving on bugs and dead mice and so on.

Or he could...you know....LEAVE THE HOUSE.

Call the care police.

Garfield is dead. LOL raged

Now there needs to be someone to add that into the wikipedia page.

I love Garfield. He can't die so long as I'm alive!

Song is "Bonnie Brae" by The Twilight Singers.

i didn't think it possible, but this ytmnd made me want to kill myself even more than the original.

thank you, must be seen.

Hey, f*cktards, it's a garfield comic strip, not a deep thought provoking piece of art. Theres no hidden meaning on death, quit looking too far into sh*t, cause there's nothing there.

How the f*ck do you know Creamy? Also I like Garfield, the only reason you guys don't is cause Maddox said he sucked. "OMG MADDOX SAID SO LOL" not.

I realized it when I first read it 6 years ago.

Whew, I was kinda disturbed this morning.

Uh, guys? Why don't you just e-mail Jim Davis and see what he says?

only good thing about this ytmnd is the song but WTF NO ORIGIN GOD DAMMIT!!!!

mm explains alot

Yeah... I don't like EMO sites like the death of garfield...

RELAX BITCHES

sh*t I emailed Jim Davis and everything. Thank you for pointing this out to me. I would have killed myself otherwise. Im not kidding btw. A world without garfield for me is like a world without food for Garfield.

agreed 4 || -1 for no sound credit ||

1 for lacking a sense of humor. Garfieldisdead is funny because of what it *seems* to say, not what it actually does.

I'm giving you a two. This was a derivative work, and not a particularly inspired piece. You also forgot something very important -- "Denial", (in)conveniently hidden which implies Garfield wasn't facing reality. You wasted your time.

Thank you. Agree, Also cocks.

Thank you. I odn't care much for garfield, but the way he "died" was entirely heartbreaking. I can sleep in peace now. I also wet the bed. And now you know. Win!

because of this discussion

Primary colors are hard on the eyes.

there are so many ways to interprit that series of comics... knowing Garfield, yours seems to be the most likely but it's still your opinion...

the easier explanation is that jim davis continued to write garfield comics after that series. good game?

explains it a bit...

thanks for teaching me nothing asshat

It was just Garfield's subcontious. Everyone has this little inner voice of what's right and what's wrong. Garfield's was just telling him that he's rejecting one of his greatest assets (Jon), a friend. This is just a comic that was supposed to jolt people out of their sense of immortality, that they'll live forever, and to show that if you dont cherish what you have at the moment it'll disapear. Just like that. This comic was probably out of grief, and I still think it's really genius.

I agree with this interpretation.

Gawrsh darn.

I already knew this, but there's so many retards here that didn't know, so 5, because it needs to be said

+1 for not being a gay, irritating slideshow.

In other words, people who think Garfield is so deep and dark that his whole life could be a delusion, they're retarded. It's not possible. If Garfield was starving, he'd steal food. He loves food, and wouldn't stand to be without it for more than 3 hours. He's stolen before.

Nothing justifies dead cartoon cats. Not Even Jim Davis.

NEBM - http://felinefantasies.ytmnd.com

why ya gotta ruin our sweet conspiracy theory?

wikiality

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Yes, but I think we can all agree that it would be a better world if Garfield WERE dead.

It also says his only weapon is Denial... Hmm, his weapon against his lonely ness, and then he starts to imageion after that

Whatever his true reasons for the comic... Reality fails. That's all.

wait, Garfield is humorous?

Swear word, affirmative.

you loose, all of you, this was a parody of a 1977 italian film called FELINE FANTASIES - good day sir

garfield is dead and that now makes the comic awesome

THANK GOD

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING IT TO THE DUMBASSES! :)

I was about to say that...5'd

It's about time somebody pointed this out for the slow kids in the back of the class...

Another explanation, he just ripped it off http://www.cheesebikini.com/2006/08/05/garfield-non-troppo

5'd u said NEDM

i 5'd the other garfield site because it made me think. i 1'd yours because your just trying to prove your right. and thats sad.

even i knew that when i actually read the freakin book. lol

better explanation than those depressing wiki theories/5!... btw NEDM is gay

The theory is false, but not because of this reason. Just because Garfield had a horrifying VISION of TIME does not automatically imply that everything is a vision. A critic could say that it simply means that Garfield finally realized the pain of time after being abandoned. 1'ed.

sage is right lol

fu*k jim davis and garfield. sh*t is lame

Kinda like the comic strip where Garfield has sex with that black and they have mongoloid hucat babies.

It's not that hard to notice what he's implying. I don't know how some can misunderstand it all. Good post!

wtf?

never seen these comics, but you must be a f*cking idiot to think he really died. gg idiots.

/Heil

Nailed it. Good job!

Yeah, vote this into the top 15. Good job, guys. Keep it up, ya know?

1:Hallucinations are not rational. 2:Garfield mysteriously waking up in a bleak future with no explanation as to how he got there is not rational. Therefore 3: Garfield is mysteriously waking up in a bleak future with no explanation as to how he got there is a hallucination, not the reality.

"Please stop the NEDM references." Oh yea, go f*ck yourself!

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:D

Its not his vision, dumbass. It's emphasising that he had a vision, and therefore goes into denial. Tch.

thats good to know

I construed the comic as Garfields imagination allowing him to create a bright delusional future after John has left him forever. It is open to interpretation and I like it better this way.

Reading FTW

Live Garfield FTW

The first YTMND overanalyzed things and I'm not sure that this one helps matters by calling our attention back to it. I'm abstaining from voting, but be warned: I will not tolerate a "Garfield is dead" fad.

site your sources for this information

I agree, if people actually kept up with the strip in the 80s and early 90s then they wouldn't be surprised to see something like this from Davis. The 9-lives series is really f*ed up and shows that Davis knows what he’s doing. Sadly today’s Garfield is nothing more then a marketing machine. Also Portugeez doesn't have to ref. his comments. Hes interpreting a piece of literature and doesn't need proof.

learn to spell you portugese f*ck.

god thank you. hardcore garfield fan here.

LOL out of context.....if that statement was made during the frist strip then I'd agree but he had a short vision after his discovery that he was infacy alone and the comic states that constructed his own futor with his imagination...you lose.

Also Garfield can suck my dick.

Huh....that's pretty cool. 5'd

You didn't really explain anything, not that it needs much explaining. Quite literally, how could Garfield be in a time where he "hasn't lived there for years," as he quickly realizes, without already being dead? He couldn't JUST start slowly starving to death the moment he woke up several years later. Just pointing out a different perspective for the slow ytmnders

and am I the only one who likes Garfield? :< I was practically raised on the tv cartoon

5 for the "Relax Bitches"XD

relax bitches.

RELAX MOTHERf*ckER

the next time any of you make anything half as good as lolsandn****rs (you won't... ever,) you can start talking trash about Adverb.

I thought that was all self explanatory? I mean god damn it's a newspaper strip, no deep meaning to it really.

fived, faved.

you ARE A MOTHERf*ckING n****r. AND IM GLAD U MADE THIS TO MAKE PPL STFU. DAMN BLACKYS

dude.....it's just a stupid comic strip that sucks....who cares?

It's f*cking garfield you retards, not the Matrix.

-2 for ruining a mature explaination with Relax Bitches

alrightie then

you win! hurray

PWNT, NOOBS

jesus, thank you for setting this straight

Garfield sucks, nobody cares.

Nice Wikipedia entry.

portugeez your an utter f*gget

damn it...hes not dead yet...

+6 for explaining the Garfield death crisis, -5 for ripped from 4chan, again

5'd Because you are one of the few who actually understood the comic, unlike the fools that literally thought Garfield had died.

If I could, I would give this a six for the new edit.

i still dont know how people thought that it was part of the real story and not a vision... i mean, damn, he SAYS its a vision.

I got the bottom strip from the Garfield website, not 4chan you c*nt.

I don't see how "denial" can translate into "refusal" or whatever you want it to be. It seems more likely that "denial" means he's denying his reality -- that is, he's denying that he's starving to death in an abandoned house. I don't have an opinion on the matter either way, but your logic isn't exactly bulletproof.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

d'accord

This is the best explanation ive seen. Also the happiest.

1'ed due to involvement of garfield, the sh*ttest comic ever...have we learned nothing from maddox?

Maddox is a f*ggy cockmonger.

that song sucked.

Not once is the word "dead" or "death" or "dying" mentioned in this comic. It's about loneliness, denial, and imagination.

Bolo said it best.

Eh.

NEDM

Nah, it'd be better if Garfield died. 2'd for effort.

The truth must be suppressed!!!

1, because you're a f*cking idiot. 1, because it didn't need explaining, it was nice to feel depressed about this. You're a f*cking idiot.

anyone else getting a 3d visual effect from the blue text on the site?

wait...so an imaginary cartoon cat isn't dead? Huh? 1'd for being incredibly confusing.

Thanks for clearing that up.

lol necsf! not even comic sans font

um i think it's better just to read the wikipedia article

yay!

WHERE THE f*ck IS NEDM

This was a tad uncessary.

I'd say get a life, but I obviously need one too if I have time to read this crap. Its a cartoon though, divert your thoughts elsewhere, like to a classy NEDM site.

uncessary = unnecessary. That was the best typo evar.

Schrodinger's cat IS dead.

Hey! You got reality in my YTMND! 5!

No f*cking durrrrr. Needs NEDM.

go jim davis.

-4 for saying anything good about jim davis

everything pictured is correct except for "jim davis pwns you." jim davis pwns nothing.

NEDM

superbe

1 until you fix all the damn spelling errors. Miscontrue? By the way, "it is" = it's. Isnt = Isn't. wtf

You know what, f*ck you and all your spelling errors. *sshole.

Did you spend more than about 15 seconds actually typing this up? Blah blah blah fyad

yay

I don't hate NEDM, but with all these people crying out for it here where it's not needed, I'm just beginning to. :/ Nice explaination too, the garfield we all know and love is alive and well.

I'd think it'd be kickass if, when they decide to finally end the series,the last installment starts normally, but in the second to the last panel, he passes out, with jon saying "garfield, are you all right?". Then the last panel having a skinny, dirty malnourished cat, dead on the floor of that abandoned house...but it has a smile on its face.

NEDM

the balogna is in the nest, the pastrami is recyclable.

NEDM

yay he's not dead

eh, I guess Garfield was better before Jim Davis turned into a bitch.

Tell it to the idiots on wikipedia.

without garfield dead in a shack, the comic goes back to being gay. quit mellowing our harsh.

SAGE GARFIELD

Thanks for explaining that to everyone who overreacts

NEDM, sorry...

Garfield Rocks !

Wow its wonderfully made, painfully hand drawn in paint, and f*ckING RETARDED, another waste of a good site domain...

^ retard. (Good Explaining, btw! :D)

Thx man!

You're right, but I wish you weren't because if you weren't, than Garfield would be a lot better.