Of the many things I admire about Berkeley Breathed, his enduring disdain for Jim Davis and Garfield is my favorite.

No. There was an infamous Halloween storyline that posited this (which I believe is what O’Neal is referring to here), but it was, as one might expect, ultimately revealed to have been “all a dream.”

This is just a bad idea, although it might have good intentions. When you sue someone, it is for money. If the person pays, that is justice for that person. If you say you cannot settle without everyone knowing, all that will happen is the person will never admit it and drag everyone through the courts for years.…

But you were fine with the ambulatory egg shell?

You know, Garfield turned into a hard core sex comic strip so gradually, I didn’t even notice.

Ah yes, US Acres—the unfunny middle third of the Garfield and Friends cartoon show.

But didn’t Jon grow up on a farm? Doesn’t it stand to reason that he’d know from a mug of animal semen if it were right there in front of him?

I remember this strip. I thought Jon drank a mug of dog pee, assuming they use urine to test for canine pregnancy as they do for humans. That’s also pretty gross...or funny...or not. Didn’t pregnancy tests used to involve murdering a rabbit? Maybe Jon drank a mug of dead rabbit?

I thought that the actual drawing in the final strip was done by an assistant at Paws Inc. (in the early ‘90s, anyways), with Davis doing the writing and rough sketches. I was under the impression that total ghostwriting, with Davis giving not much more than final approval and a signature on individual strips, was a…

Why is that obvious? You can’t be progressive unless you’re a POC or LGBT or any other marginalized part of society?

I think you guys forgot the part where our legal tender is just a convenient stand-in for goods and/or services. The physical currency itself has no value beyond that of the materials it is constructed from.

I never ever thought that taxpayer money was an elitist term, because it isn’t.

I'm off to misgender all of the characters on the U.S. Acres entry.

If "Kill" isn't Nermal, then to hell with you people.

The Man in the Yellow Hat is totally dating Professor Weisman, but the show is about George, so you only see stuff from the monkey's point of view.

she used to appear in the comics pretty regularly. like in the early 80s.

It seems Binkley has replaced Hodge-Podge, which is a bit ominous.

I would presume that they fell prey to that which fells all bassalopes - clogged arteries (unless Hodge-Podge's rabbit DNA fixed that unfortunate genetic trait).

he's not buckling to anything. he made kind of an airheaded comment in one interview one time. literally every other statement, interview response, cartoon, movie, or comic or whatever over the past almost 40 years has portrayed Garfield with a male identity.

I was always confused more about Nermal.