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No. 5294: Party Like It's 2008-11-14!

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Party Like It's 2008-11-14!

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5294

Strip by: shiningpikablu252

{Garfield is holding up and peering into a bottle labelled 葡萄汁}
Garfield: In honor of the 15th anniversary strip of SRoMG!
Fine print in lower-left corner: Professional stunt animal. Do not attempt.
{Garfield pours grape juice onto himself}
SFX: SPLOOCH!
Garfield: What's the use... They never let amateurs do the milestones...

The author writes:

WARNING: Exposing your cat to grape juice, Japanese in origin or otherwise, will likely result in detrimental effects to your cat's health. Do not let your cat try this at home.

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled author note...

Major milestones. They're the time when we typically get the cream of the crop of high-quality celebratory material from the heart of the Square Root of Minus Garfield team. A low-rank amateur may hope to shoot for these milestones, but one who does is usually doomed to land far from their mark if it ever lands at all. About the only instances of an amateur potentially hitting a major milestone marker was at the 5th anniversary due to calculation error, and at strip #2000 as part of a coordinated multi-strip effort being one of 38 strips marking the milestone in question. Such a pursuit of shooting for and missing the milestones is in and of itself an excellent opportunity for being riffed with material clearly unfit to be major-milestone material. This particular piece was actually made and submitted in the lead-up to the major milestone of 5000 strips, but at that point strip 5000 itself and its surrounding strips had presumably already been queued up — thus my decision to aim at deliberately missing the 15th anniversary milestone instead (that should, at current pace, be strip #5293, which may very well have itself also been already planned at the point this strip was whipped up). Such a waste of Japanese grape juice...

And yes, I checked, that is indeed grape juice. Same kind Phoenix Wright has been known to chug. Never mind the fact it comes in a weird bottle...

Original strip: 1979-05-22.