Garfield Without Garfield was kind of lame anyway. Before it there was a page that just wiped out Garfield's thought bubbles, which was actually funnier and cleverer because it didn't change what was actually happening in the comic, it just made you look at it from a different angle. You don't need to wipe out Garfield entirely to make Jon look like an alienated man on the edge. He basically was that already, just ranting at his cat.
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Originally Posted by Martin Blank  Whoever did that strip, I read it as a comment on how overmedication can kill the imagination of all the Calvins out there. On that level it works for me. I'm not saying it's genius on the level of Watterson. But it is, plausibly, a line that Watterson himself might've followed for a week if he'd been in a really dark mood.
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Exactly. It's twisting the premise of Calvin and Hobbes to take a snipe at the culture of medicating children for every perceived disorder, not to take a snipe against the comic or characters themselves. It's hardly worth throwing a tantrum over.
