Marmaduke Explained

Here’s the second of two blogs about comic sites. I hope you enjoyed the Garfield-Minus-Garfield site I wrote about yesterday. Joe Mathlete has created a blog dedicated to the worst comic of all time, Marmaduke. That’s right, the mischievous large brown dog that causes nothing but trouble.

Joe Mathlete takes the Marmaduke strip and explains the actions and comments in the strip in a humorous fashion in less than 500 words.

Here’s a couple examples:

1. Marmaduke has been given a pet frog, despite being a pet himself.
2. Marmaduke takes this pet frog on walks, complete with tiny collar and leash.
3. These walks are conducted when Marmaduke himself is taken for a walk (by his owner-man).
4. As a frog travels via hopping (rather than walking), Marmaduke is seen hopping (rather than walking) during this particular walk/hop, most likely to mimic his pet's movement rather than out of necessity.
5. Marmaduke's owner-man is seen hopping as well, despite the fact that such hopping is embarrassing (explicitly) and unnecessary/inconvenient (implicitly).
6. Marmaduke is now published in color, even on weekdays.

All of this is absurd.

Marmaduke is about to go on a date. His owner-lady makes an unfathomably distasteful double entendre about Marmaduke's girlfriend, Snyder.

Go ahead and click on the link below to check it out!

http://www.marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com

Garfield-Minus-Garfield

I'm going to blog about some funny comic sites for the next couple of days.... I appreciate Garfield for what it is.... Jim Davis created a comic strip about a cranky orange cat that loves lasagna.... Every once in a while you'll get a great Garfield comic, but even I know that it's difficult to create comic gold every day!

An artist and musician from Ireland named Dan Walsh has created a website called Garfield-Minus-Garfield. The title of the site explains everything. Dan Walsh takes the three panel strip and takes out Garfield. To tell you the truth, the strip is as least as funny, or even funnier, without Garfield.

Dan describes the site as "a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb."

Here are some samples from the site:

Click on the banner below to go to the site to see the rest of the comics: