Even if you possess the absolute baseline of pop cultural literacy , you ’re probably cognizant of Garfield , that orange comic strip cat who ’s spend the past thirty - peculiar years terrorizing his man - child owner .
Garfield strips are n’t heavy reading whatsoever — in fact , they make Marmaduke expect like obscurantist carrying into action art . This was n’t the typeface when cartoonist Jim Davis save “ Primal Self , ” a shockingly creepy-crawly sketch for the 1984 book Garfield : His 9 life .
Most of the news report in His 9 Lives are light - hearted comics about Garfield ’s past incarnation throughout history ( for instance , as a cave cat or a viking ) . But in “ Primal ego ” — which sport graphics by Jim Clements , Gary Barker , and Larry Fentz — thing go off the deep remnant without warning . I read “ Primal Self ” when I was seven , and it mess up me up for a solid workweek .
For the last few decades , that scene of the Sabertooth Tiger Volcano Hell Dimension has been tattooed onto my subconscious . Can you imagine Ziggy or Hi and Lois pull this off ? I mean , Mark Trail ’s beating the hell out of pot farmers these days , but even his joint - busting ca n’t hold a candle to this .
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Of course , the flight strip that prompted this berth was the infamous Halloween 1989 Garfield arc ( at left , viaLaughing Squid ) , wherein the lasagna - loving Arabian tea wakes up one morning to divulge his life never subsist .
And for more genial scarring , see “ The Lab fauna ” from the 1988 television receiver special adaptation of His 9 Lives . They did n’t exalt “ Primal Self , ” for rationality obvious and childhood - destroying .
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