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No. 5468: How Ol' Gnorm Met His Doom

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How Ol' Gnorm Met His Doom

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5468

Strip by: Trevor

{Nine different ideas for Garfield plush dolls—er, I mean, uh, nine different Garfields, with a square root sign and a minus sign tacked on}
{Cut to that Muncie-born blimp-turned-basketball of a cat on a table outside}
Jon: Dinnertime!
{Jonny boy brings in a glass}
Jon: Who wants a nice, refreshing glass of lukewarm tap water? {As if Odie were in here right now}
{Jon freaks out at an ungodly creature}
Jon: Yaaah! A gnat! A gnat! A gnat!
{Closeup of that ungodly creature—oh, it’s just Gnorm. Never mind then}
Gnorm: Hark! Do my ears deceive me or is there a scaredy—{Look out!}
SPLAT!
{Oh my Jim, Garfield killed Gnorm! You BLEEP!}
Garfield: No one can relate to bugs {Unless you're reading The Far Side}
{Cut to our Holy Almighty Creator on his drawing table, as if he even draws the comics anymore}
Our Holy Almighty Creator {getting kinda old, wouldn’t you say? (sighs) Alright, fine} Jock Ewing: Ain't I a stinker? {Yes. Yes you are.}
{And I'm totally not trying to cram as many shout-outs here right now. Honest! (nose grows with slide whistle noise)}

The author writes:

Essentially my version of how ol' Gnorm met his doom. See, Jim claimed for years he ended his first strip Gnorm Gnat by having a giant human foot fall out of the sky, killing that gnat. Obviously we know that wasn't how it ended. My guess is that he wanted to tell a more interesting story than Gnorm thanking Pendleton next to a "Merry Christmas" message. But I digress.

Also, I started this strip months ago (March 6) but kinda lost interest in it. Only just now (September 18 [2022 -Ed]) did I decide to finish it.

Original Gnorm Gnat strip: 1973-03-22.

Original strips: 2002-07-21, 2016-10-25.