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No. 4880: What's the protomatter with her

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What's the protomatter with her

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4880

Strip by: Sloublues

{Garfield is a ballerina in the title panel}
Phone: RING
Jon: Hello?
Phone: I'll do far worse than kill you, Jon. I'll hurt you. And I wish to go on . . . hurting you.
{Garfield arrives}
Phone: I shall leave you as you left me. Where no one will ever find you.
Phone: Marooned for eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive . . . buried alive.
{Jon hangs up the phone}
Jon {disgustedly, to Garfield}: I liked her better before she died.

The author writes:

This will not be funny if William Shatner is buried alive in the center of a dead planet between the time I submit this and the time it's published. Or if Jim Davis is. I'm really taking a risk here for the sake of art.

Alternate ending, which should not prejudice the reader as to who is on the other end of the call in the version above, is: Jon: {to Garfield} You've got to stay out of Mrs. Feeny's flowers.

Original strips: 2000-03-24, 2000-03-26, 2001-05-20.