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skeleton_richard's review
4.0
I'm not sure what to say about this that hasn't already been said. This book is a brilliant combination of storytelling styles and is a fascinating, slightly bent look at a character we all grew up reading in the funnies. For me, probably because I am also slightly bent, the best part was "Lab Animal" and a possible callback in "Garfield." "Primal Self" is indeed terrifying. All together, it's a weird book with both incredibly dark stories contrasting with the goofy cartoon hijinks we expect from Garfield. My only real complaint was it's so short, though that may be for the best, considering what makes "Self" and "Animal" so creepy is in part their abruptness and open-endedness.
...What makes this really... creepy? is that Jim Davis wrote almost all of these, including "Primal Self" and "Lab Animal." Is there something in the water down there in Muncie?
...What makes this really... creepy? is that Jim Davis wrote almost all of these, including "Primal Self" and "Lab Animal." Is there something in the water down there in Muncie?
ederwin's review
2.0
For kids, but I needed a break from my heavy reading!
Brief descriptions of Garfield's past lives. Most are uninteresting and unimaginative. In all eras he loved sleeping and lasagna and hated Mondays and Nermal. Gets better in the episode where he lived as detective "Sam Spayed", and the one where he was used in laboratory testing. (That one has art and theme that may frighten children.)
Brief descriptions of Garfield's past lives. Most are uninteresting and unimaginative. In all eras he loved sleeping and lasagna and hated Mondays and Nermal. Gets better in the episode where he lived as detective "Sam Spayed", and the one where he was used in laboratory testing. (That one has art and theme that may frighten children.)
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