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No. 1549: Backfield Minus Back

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Backfield Minus Back

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Strip by: D. Gates

Garfield: Snails are slow.
Snail: You
Snail: take
Snail: that

The author writes:

The original crammed a four-word phrase into three panels. Backfield improved it by substituting a three-word phrase. Then I thought to myself, "Is a four-panel punchline in a three-panel strip a problem... or an opportunity?"

[[Original strip: 2005-03-14.]]

Original strip: 2005-03-14.