I don't like Garfield comics.

What I don't do, is comment on every Garfield comic that I see posted to whine that I don't like Garfield. I don't even feel a hint of desire to do that.

This is why people who see all the anti-Pizzacake comments on every one of her comics know that it's not really about the comics. It's people who are angry at seeing popular comic lady who self-inserts in many of her comics again and need to share that anger. It's just kinda pathetic.

I'll take a stab at explaining myself. I like them OK. I've never followed her or been inclined to reshare her work on social media, but I would describe crossing her work as "generally enjoyable". I think a lot of her work, like the example here, is more of a slice-of-life anecdote about an experience she had, rendered in the medium of the comic strip. It doesn't strike me as a joke, more like "Hey world, here's a thing that happened and my brief reaction to it". And I like it because I recognize the pattern and I feel sympathy for her. Nazis... overreact to things. Being extreme is kinda their signature move, and they seem to feel an obligation to be as unpleasant as possible to anyone being critical of them.

But, they almost always find other excuses to be shitty than "You criticize nazis and it hurts my feelings / makes me feel threatened, because I'm a nazi". They find the easiest excuse they can to bother you with, except the actual reason they're interacting in the first place. If they are harassing a woman, they have a standard variety pack of insults they can pull from. You're a whore, you're ugly, you're shrill or some variant thereof, you're pretending to be a lesbian because no man wants you, etc. I think the strategy is quantity over quality because nazi hatespam is remarkably consistent both in its volume and its unoriginality. It really does happen, and it is hurtful in a kind of "I can't believe humans waste their short lives being this uncreatively shitty" sorta way as well as just being generally mentally taxing, and it's nice to be able to commiserate over it. It's not exactly "ha ha" funny, but it is relatable in a way I appreciate in art.

This one is structured rather like joke, in that the last panel could be interpreted as a punchline to the previous setup, but I didn't read it that way and I don't think the idea of reading it that way would have occurred to me if I weren't analyzing it now. I can see how the last panel could be interpreted as an unfunny joke if that is what was being looked for. That's my hypothesis about why this comic is being received poorly by some, but not all, of the people in this thread. Let me know if I'm right 🙂 or wrong lol.

Is yours better?

She needs to pick a dayof the week to hate to even dream of being on Garfield’s level.

Personally I think at the beginning thely were cute, funny, and at bare minimum I give bonus points to anyone starting out trying to do something rather than listen to di guses who think that there's a hard baseline for content.

But I do think she became some sort of Reddit beast that got stuck in a flattery eddie off to the side of the R/ALL tributary and stopped getting meaningful criticism and it hurt a lot of her output and growth.

And yet she still has more talent and entertainment value then a bunch of slackjawed comment troglydites with the most incredibly iroic sense of mediocre.

Garfield never had the balls to criticize Nazis. She takes risks all the time.

Found the nazi