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arborelia
@arborelia

A wild tangent in a conversation with my wife led me to bring up that, canonically, Garfield has outwitted God. I said this based on my memory of the Garfield: His 9 Lives TV special.

Then I checked my facts by reading the Wikipedia article, and the writers of that article grappled with more of the implications of the end of that show than I did as a kid: their interpretation is that Garfield is God, there have been several Earthly incarnations of Garfield created in God's image who do not know they are God (the one who lives with Jon and loves lasagna is the eighth), and there will be more in the future because God has no intention to hold Himself to the nine-lives limit.

I know this all originates from the TV writers deciding, hey, we can't have this end with Garfield dying forever, that would make children cry, so let's come up with a loophole. But the theological implications in canon are astounding

(Update: Garfield's divinity is not an encyclopedic fact)


namelessWrench
@namelessWrench

He deadass lied to God's face and got away with it. This suggests that, as an entity, he exists somewhere outside the percept of the Demiurge. He is aware of the ignorance of the Demiurge, and therefore must be an entity that is free from the occlusion of divine light. Therefore, it's not Garfield the Cat, it's Garfield the Da'at.


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Wow I should watch this lol

Always wonder what Jim Davis’s actual contribution is to any given piece of Garfield media. Did Jim Davis propose that Garfield is God himself, or just rubber stamp it as Rule of Funny?

My own, unproven belief is Jim Davis wrote Garfield personally up until the Halloween 1989 arc, and after that it was written collectively by the corporation.

Mostly I base this on my impression that in the '90s it got more "safe" and formulaic than it already was, and the fact that the Halloween 1989 arc was a wild individual decision that could not have been a corporation's idea.

(Jim Davis was interviewed on it, and he said he was thinking, how do I tell a truly scary story about Garfield? so he wrote an arc where Garfield gets abandoned. As a kid I was scared to even open the Garfield collection that contained that part)

That sounds about right to me lol. He’s still claiming that he writes and rough sketches every strip, then hands it off for finishing, and I’m like, you expect me to believe that 80-90% of Garfield’s art isn’t copy-pasted at this point?

He did finish the interview by saying that Garfield would have absolutely no trouble continuing when he did retire though haha

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