Twitter: 
Facebook: 
Comic Riffs is a blog devoted to the comics fan. Come in, sit down and put your feet up as we celebrate, contemplate, eviscerate and pontificate on cartoons.
Enlarge Comic | Dr. Liz may administer her own lip injections, but her shots at Garfield are getting toothless. (Universal Press Syndicate)
Oh, we once had hope for Liz. Given her intelligence, education and access to large animal-prodding implements, we were optimistic that she would one day prove a worthy foe to Garfield. But in her efforts to make it work with Jon, her collagen-lipped self has become too damned, well, tolerant. A declawed enabler. All weak, heavy-lidded rejoinders and a wan smile. Which is why it's time for Jon -- and Jim Davis Inc. -- to dump her.
"Come off it!" some of you yowl. "Fat chance that Jon is ever going to do better than Dr. Liz, let alone Jennifer Love Hewitt." To which we say: "Now-now, trust us, we have just the woman for Jon -- and more important, for Garfield."
Folks, meet the comic-hopping Kelly Welly.
Enlarge Comic | Time for Kelly to train her lens -- and toxic tirades -- on the J. Arbuckle household. (North America Syndicate)
"That dangerous camera-wielding wackjob from 'Mark Trail'?!" you retort. "Exactly," we assure. Because Garfield can cope with sedate comic foils -- eat 'em for breakfast, even. But Kelly would bring the one ingredient that is Garfield's Kryptonite: pure unhinged, unrelenting chaos. She is the Joker to Liz's law-abiding Batman. And the first time K-Well and the G-Cat tangled as a crouched mountain lion looked on from the brush -- well, let's just say we'd relish the kitty kerfuffle.
Right up until Garfield fed Odie to the puma for lunch.
So what say you? Which potential love interest from another strip would get all up in Garfield's grill?
COMING LATER TODAY: "Pearls Before Swine" creator Stephan Pastis chats up films, fuzzy toys and catfights.
Loading...
Comments