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No. 5603: The Tragic End of an Old Friend

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The Tragic End of an Old Friend

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5603

Strip by: Rusty Ralston

Jon: Hmm hmm...
{Jon turns around and looks at Balloony from Phineas and Ferb with wide eyes, as if in shock}
{Big letters "BOOM" on a blue background, signifying the tragic death of Balloony}
{Another blue background with the text: "Jon Arbuckle later appeared in Danville Superior Court for the murder of Balloony "Colin" Doofenschmirtz. In a moment, the results of that trial."}

The author writes:

I was kind of stuck on this one. I knew I wanted to make the Balloon into Balloony from Phineas and Ferb, considering I've been watching a lot of that lately, BUT I didn't want to reuse the ending from the other SRoMG strip, so I was just kind of figuring out an ending. I don't know what possessed me to make a Dragnet reference, probably the ghost of Jack Webb, but I'm glad I did, because it made the strip that much better.

{Rusty, the Author, hammers a giant "VII" stamp onto your computer screen, just to be cute}

Original Phineas and Ferb episode: "The Chronicles of Meap".

Original Square Root of Minus Garfield strip: 2024-01-03.

Original strips: 1999-03-24, 2011-07-12.