Creator Jim Davis’ idea was later turned into a picture book by writer Kim Campbell and … yeah, it’s pretty intense. Imagine Take Shelter, but starring Garfield. The story begins with Garfield succumbing to an inexplicable sense of “dread.” At a secret meeting of all the neighborhood pets, the other animals, too, have psychically sensed a coming storm with the potential to “destroy” the entire town.
Most consequential to the larger Garfield canon, at the meeting, it’s revealed that Garfield and all of the other pets can communicate with humans; they just choose not to because of a “pact with all the other cats and dogs of the world.” Garfield insists that they should break this rule to warn the humans about their impending doom. In order to preserve the conceit of the comic in the wake of this universe-changing development, Garfield suggests that if everyone survives, they simply “stop talking and pretend the whole thing never happened” afterward.
So in this story, Garfield actually talks to Jon, who then A) questions his own sanity and B) presumably wonders why Garfield couldn’t have warned him not to drink a cupful of dog semen.
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Garfield, Jon, and Odie then make their way to an abandoned movie theater to safely hole up, navigating heavy winds and downed power lines.
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After narrowly avoiding total destruction and staring death itself in the face, Garfield discovers a newfound joy of life beyond simply devouring Italian food and loathing days of the week. So yeah, why not make that movie? Or at the very least give us a prestige drama about the ups and downs of Garfield’s failed automated restaurant business.
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