The Morning Line: One Order of Crushed Garfield, Please

'GARFIELD' (UFS)

Garfield sometimes entertains, more often rankles and irritates -- but today, he flat-out mystifies. Or rather, the artwork flat-out mystifies.
In today's final panel, Garfield -- at least in black-and-white -- is apparently supposed to be costumed as some sort of chocolate chip. But in truth, he looks little like a chunk o' chocolate (a melted Hershey's Kiss, at best). Really, no, the fat cat looks much more like an immense chopped garlic clove -- ready to be stuffed into a lasagna. ... If only.
So the Official 'Riffs Reader Question of the Day is: What do YOU think Garfield looks like?
ELSEWHERE...

'JUDGE PARKER' (NAS)

JUDGE PARKER: These days, Sophie and the Cheerleaders-O-Menace have it all over "Mean Girls." I don't care how played out the phrase is: Every Sophie strip should conclude with two words: "Oh, SNAP!"

'MARK TRAIL' (NAS)

MARK TRAIL: Dead trees, dead trees, dead trees! Oh, we're on to you, Mr. Trail. These whole week about toppled dead-tree products is a metaphor for the print journalism industry, is it not? Otherwise, who else would write such stiff, stilted unnatural dialogue? Really?

'LIO' (UPS)

LIO: And finally: Our early leader for Visual Gag of the Week (aka, the VGOW).
By
Michael Cavna
| May 11, 2009; 7:30 AM ET
Categories:
The Morning Line
Save & Share:
Previous: Box Office Poll: Just How Much Will 'Star Trek' Prosper?
Next: 'Superhero' Michelle Obama: Armed & Dangerous
Posted by: oldgal49er | May 11, 2009 8:06 AM | Report abuse
Frazz definitely needs to be 7x52.
At least the Parker death threat thread has subsided and we're back to the kiddie porn. Any chance of a wardrobe malfunction?
Posted by: filfeit | May 11, 2009 8:58 AM | Report abuse
Garfield is camouflaged as "Duke", the mascot for the Java computing platform? See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(Sun)
Posted by: seismic-2 | May 11, 2009 10:15 AM | Report abuse
Umm, he looks like a chocolate chip. Don't get near the kitchen much, do you? 8;)
Posted by: pltrgyst | May 11, 2009 10:27 AM | Report abuse
Any word on moving Frazz to the main page and moving one of the dead comics to the kids page?
Posted by: buckeye96 | May 11, 2009 11:01 AM | Report abuse
Garfield looks like Randy the Raindrop.
Posted by: yellojkt | May 11, 2009 11:20 AM | Report abuse
I think Garfield has the shape of a chocolate chip. I can also see what seismic-2 means about the Java symbol. A clove of garlic? No. If I squint I might possibly go for the badly drawn shape of a garlic bulb, but that's about it.
Posted by: elyrest | May 11, 2009 11:57 AM | Report abuse
After seeing Mark Trail with the ongoing line for the third time and women with pet deer at least twice I can not understand the two day absence of a real comic and a strip anyone who went to school would understand.
Posted by: frazzfan | May 11, 2009 2:02 PM | Report abuse
Garfield looks like a raindrop, and can somebody please tell me who the 10year old is who is drawing Adam now? Even I can do better than that!
Posted by: 2old2readcomics | May 12, 2009 3:20 AM | Report abuse
The comments to this entry are closed.
Well, at least Frazz and a Children's Page is back.