Does Not Illustrate: Early Installment Weirdness.Newspaper Comics

Yes, it is weird to see Garfield say "I love Mondays", but I don't think this image fully works.

However, there are two problems:

1. Garfield doesn't say "I hate Mondays" as much anymore, so the fact that it's early-installment weirdness for him to be saying he likes Mondays may be lost on some younger readers.
2. He said "I hate Mondays" in several◊ strips◊ before◊ then◊, so him saying "I love Mondays" is more of an Out-of-Character Moment than Early-Installment Weirdness.

I was thinking of maybe taking part of an early Dilbert strip and putting it up against a new one. Just picking two at random: this vs. this maybe?

Not sure I understand where the "weirdness" in the early-installation manifests, aside from the obvious Art Evolution...

I think the bigger issue here is that that's the entire strip.

The "weirdness" is supposed to be in that Garfield is saying he likes Mondays despite "I hate Mondays" being a Catchphrase of his… but as I pointed out, he had already said "I hate Mondays" at least four times before the page image's strip was printed.

I think he meant the Dilbert suggestion. Or at least, that's what I wonder.

Dilbert went from "Dilbert-and-Dogbert slice of life" to "workplace comic" to the point that many people don't know it was ever anything but a workplace comic.

@5: Yeah, I was referring to the Dilbert suggestion...

Shifting from Slice of Life comic to "specifically-workplace-oriented" isn't too far a stretch to me. But I don't read Dilbert, so what do I know?

To be honest, I am not seeing much illustration in any of the images here.

Can we at least agree on pulling the current one?

That's reasonable. Even if it is a correct example (which it apparently isn't), it's a JAFAAC unless you are familiar with Garfield's Monday-hate.

And, as I stated, it's the entire strip. Isn't that an insta-pull condition?

We could remove panel 1 or 2.

All I can think of would be to show the "I love monday" panel with a date, then a series of "I hate mondays" panels with later dates. It would still be clunky, though.

The "I love Mondays" thing is more a sarcastic jab at the readers than a genuine contradiction of his hating Mondays thing...not sure that it counts.

So can we agree on pulling the current image?

Clock is set.

Closing for inactivity.