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Needless to say, it's easy to see how veterans and families of veterans might take the strip the wrong way, this being Veterans Day and all.
The strip's creator, Jim Davis, is understandably mortified and and already released an apology, end of teacup tempest … unless you're an asshole/wingnut who's already bored with being outraged by how the American flag on today's Google.com logo makes the "e" look crescent-shaped.
If this were Memorial Day, then some serious ass would deserve kicking over the GARFIELD strip; today, this is just strange and the meta-event is funnier than anything that's been in the strip itself in years. Two curious things about it remain:
One, literally no one on Davis' team or Universal syndicate noticed that this was the Vet Day strip? Is the strip now so thoroughly packaged by Davis' company, Paws Inc., that only one guy tracks the strip's scheduling?
Two, considering how diligent Davis and his team are about making the strip as non-specific as possible [almost no cultural or seasonal references, those sorts of things] so it literally plays the same all over the world each day, it's remarkable that the GARFIELD team sometimes produce a strip that even has a context. That today's strip has an unwittingly negative context is like seeing a tornado thread a needle while it destroys a barn.
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