History WebComic / SquareRootOfMinusGarfield

*** [[DatedHistory And then almost seven years later]], the author resubmitted the strip without the FramingDevice as "[[[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 Death of the Author]]", purely on the grounds that they no longer care about their original stance on the comic.

*** Similarly, from the same author, there's "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2812 Meta Commentary]]", as it is a strip built around a ''different'' strip that was intented to be submitted before they realized it was bad.
---->'''Jon''': (at the computer, talking to Garfield) Check out this [=SRoMG=] strip I made, Garfield!
---->(cut to the strip, where Garfield enters his "time travel machine", causing the strip's date to change... and nothing else)
---->'''Jon''': (blankly staring at the computer) No, wait, this is terrible...
*** [[HistoryMarchesOn And then almost seven years later]], the author resubmitted the strip without the FramingDevice as "[[[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 Death of the Author]]", purely on the grounds that they no longer care about their original stance on the comic.

* DeathOfTheAuthor: {{Invoked}} in [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5261 this]] strip aptly named "Death of the Author", which simply consists of the strip Jon made in "[[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2812 Meta Commentary]]". The author admits that "death of the author" may not apply given they originally wrote the strip in question, but decided that enough time had passed and that their original opinion no longer mattered.

* FutureImperfect: The premise of [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=17 The Garfield Code]] is that [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] belonged to the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Boston Red Sox]], and that Einstein and [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] memorized ''Garfield'' strips. ''The Garfield Code'' is future fiction from 2529, and will ignore real history as much as ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' does today.

* MuggedForDisguise: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2570 Garfield does this to]] [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Ness]] of all people, so he can get into a bakery.

*** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=511 Garfield Plus 88 MPH]], in which Garfield throws [[Film/BackToTheFuture the DeLorean]] on Nermal, is made from the 10/25/1985 strip, the date it was successfully tested in the first movie.

* OffModel: Many of the strips either [[StylisticSuck intentionally add this to the comic]] (eg, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=845 "No. 845: Garfield as a Penguin"]]) or lampshade and/or discuss instances present in the original material (eg, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=888 here]], with authors notes skewering the jogging Jon drawn "like some kind of ostrich-man... with [=[his right arm]=] arm coming out of/wrapped around his neck").

* {{Retconjuration}}: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4903 Earth Angel]] has Jon using his power to alter the timeline and erase the day of January 22, 2001.

*** [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3557 "Jon's Boo-Boo, Reversed" Remake]] came out on the three-year anniversary of [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2461 the strip that it remasters.]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5135 This strip]] is inspired by Creator/BillMurray (who voiced Garfield in the live-action films) dating Music/{{Kelis}} (who's best known for her song "Milkshake").

* LongTitle: Several:
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=152 Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie]] [sic], which is a parody removing every single recurring character leaving just the dog. (Although Garfield was the only other character present in the unedited strip).
** Those "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=855 Transplanted Sight Gag Garfield]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=892 Plus Penultimate Beat Panel" strips]].
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1175 This]] Spanish translation of the very first ''Garfield'' strip, titled "Una traducción al español de la primera tira de Garfield cómic, que data del 19 de junio 1978".
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1420 "Garfield Plus Updated Palaeontology Minus Dinosaurs Plus Corrected Biogeography"]]
** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1421 Two Often Used Square Root Of Minus Garfield Memes Combined To Make a Strip of Square Root of Minus Garfield]]", a "Donut Wars" strip where "Stephano" from the "Jon's Chat Screen" strip ate the donut. This is lampshaded in the author's notes.
** Grand prize goes to "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1473 The Webcomic That Lived on the Internet, Behind a Pop-Up, Next to the Scroll Bar, and to the Left of a Long Title]]", referencing the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' toon "The Creature That Lived in the Refrigerator, Behind the Mayonnaise, Next to the Ketchup, and to the Left of the Coleslaw".
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1823 Their Name Starts With C-A-T And Contains 'Leopard', So It's Only Natural, Really]]
** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3215 #3215]] has the [[BlatantLies simple title]] "Sorry, Guys, But You Can't Just Laugh Hysterically At Every Stupid Thing And Assume It's Funny. ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' This Is Not. You Brought This Upon Yourselves."
** Although it's a NoDialogueEpisode, [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=4843 "From the Network That Couldn't Be Bothered to Spell "Beckett" Correctly In The Closing Minutes"]] apparently chose to offset the wordcount difference via the title.

* SerialEscalation: Some of the comics do this with the removal of characters. The pinnacle is (possibly) reached in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=152 strip #152]], [[OverlyLongTitle Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie]], which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin removes every recurring character]], leaving only the dog from one strip. (Although, of course, the joke there is that the only recurring character to appear in the original strip WAS Garfield.)

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Heavily implied in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2316 Garfield's Love Life]].

* RaceLift: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=141 Garfield Recoloured]], which [[{{Feghoot}} leads up to a pun]].

** A completely coincidental one, pointed in the editor's note, is formed with [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2234 Spritefield]] and [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2238 Garfield Entertainment System]], both of which were drawn in pixel art and published four days apart from each other, but created by different people. In the former, Garfield goes to look for a present that Jon has hidden; in the latter, he surprises Jon by beating a video game, which was apparently his present.

** A completely coincidental one, pointed in the editor's note, is formed with [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2234 Spritefield]] and [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=2238 Garfield Entertainment System]], both of which were drawn in pixel art and published four days apart from each other. In the former, Garfield goes to look for a present that Jon has hidden; in the latter, he surprises Jon by beating a video game, which was apparently his present.

* HollywoodBoardGames: In the 1381st strip, Jon and a pissed (probably losing) Garfield are playing ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}''. Garfield then steps over the [[ArtStyleDissonance rather realistic board]], which breaks it in half. Jon then complains that he "sunk his battleship", just like the people in the commercials. Garfield snarkily rebukes him that he should have put it on the edge of the grid, which is generally a bad strategy. In the original strip, Garfield ruined Jon's lasagna.

* NonIndicativeName: Among others, [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1626 Garfield Meets the Thin Man]], actually a crossover with Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos. The strip was specifically named to avoid spoiling Slendy's presence.