Episode 131 - Friday, October 27, 1978

When Garfield was caught on tape last year bragging to a d-list celebrity on a bus about sexually assaulting Jon Arbuckle, I was, like many of my fellow Americans, shocked and incensed. But then when he reemerged, after several days of strategizing, and produced the ingenious defense that it was "just litter box talk," I decided that it was ok. Now with today's strip we have incontrovertible evidence of his heinous, unspeakable crimes! What's a self-respecting comics purveyor to do? I suppose the obvious course of action is to elect him president, in spite of the fact that he is OBVIOUSLY NOT 35 YEARS OLD. Because facts do not matter any more.

Also, if currently sitting U.S. congress members Odie, Lyman and Nermal feel like doing DICK SQUAT about his many egregious conflicts of interest, even though they are constitutionally and morally obligated to do so, I guess that would be fine too.

Today's strip