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Garfield Gains Weight: His Second Book (Garfield (Numbered Paperback))

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Contains all the daily and Sunday strips January 23, 1979 through August 26, 1979.

Garfield, Jon Arbuckle, Odie, and Lyman return in this second installment of the hugely successful "Garfield" comics. Here we get to see the introduction to Irma the waitress ("Bad Potato! Bad Potato!"), the first failures of Jon getting a date, and the introduction to Liz the veterinarian, who becomes Jon's biggest crush. We also get to see "Garfield's History of Cats," which are obviously inaccurate, but that's what makes them funny. And finally, we get to see some unusual social commentary on the strip that's published 3/18/1979. This is one of the few times that the comic delves into social issues in general.

Tons and tons of visual gags and slapstick humor all around. It's essential to the world of "Garfield".

This is probably the best Garfield collection assembled. Mr Davis is comfortable with his fat cat and the jokes are fresh.

"Garfield At Large" introduced the public to a fat, orange tabby cat named Garfield who has an enormous appetite for everything that is pasta, has a dork for an owner, and loves to sleep as much as he hates Mondays. The animation is a lot different from the Garfield we all know and love today. His body is bigger, smaller eyes, a t-shaped nose but his personality remains the same. "Garfield Gains Weight" is the second book of Garfield comic strips. Towards the end of "Garfield At Large", the animation begins to slowly evolve. In "Garfield Gains Weight", you can see the difference between the Garfield of the late '70s and the Garfield of the early '80s. The eyes are bigger and the ears are more pointy but Garfield's sharp wit remains firmly intact. One of my favorite strips in the book is when Jon makes a fat joke about Garfield and Garfield kicks Jon so hard that he spins. The reader is introduced to two new characters; Liz, Garfield's vet and Jon's unrequited love interest, and Irma, the sassy diner waitress. No matter how many times Jon asks Liz out for a date, Liz always finds a way to shoot Jon down which is always hilarious. I also love those moments when Jon tries to give Garfield a bath and Garfield fights back. Other great moments in the book is when Jon has Garfield performing tricks. That is probably the most exercise I have seen Garfield do in the 20 plus some years I have been reading the popular comic strip. My favorite strip in this book has to be when Garfield was so bored that he shoots a small pebble through a straw at Odie and total chaos breaks loose. That still cracks me up to this very day. Although I am a dog person at heart, Garfield the cat is my favorite cat. I have yet to be tired of the sarcastic fat cat.

This book is the best Garfield book of them all. Garfield is always embarrasing Jon and punting Odie. If you ask me my favorite strips are where he destroies the mailman and punts Odie.

This is a great Garfield book! One of my favorites! Classic and Newie Garfield are both awsome. Some of the coolest strips eva in this one!! I love the one where Garfield sticks the chicken leg in Jon's ear: Jon: "Stay Away from my chicken leg, Garfield." Garfield: "Aw, stuff it in your ear! ROWR, FFT!" Jon: "What was that?! (chicken leg gets stuffed in his ear) Oh." Hahahahaha!!! How can you not laugh at that? I also like it when Jon tells this joke about Garfield sitting on the sofa: Jon: "Now Garfield, I wouldnt say that you're fat... But when you sit aroung the sofa, you SIT AROUND the sofa!" Garfield: (kicks Jon in the air) "Heads, he lives, tails, he dies!" Now, that was violent of Garfield 2 do dat, but, it wuz hilarious. Oh, its also funny when Irma first comes and finds a bad potato.

OK, thats all im doing for now. Buy this, NOW! Its the best classic ever!

I remember the first time I read this book 10 and 1/2 years ago. It is true 'classic' Garfield at his best. This is a must for any hardcore Garfield fan. New fans of Garfield will probably like this book, even though Garfield looks a lot of different as compared to his 'modern' look. I guess that goes to show how much Garfield has evolved in his 21 years, without losing his witty and sarcastic humor. If you do not have this book, then what are waiting for, buy it now! :)

This is just the second collection of Garfield comics, back when Davis was witty instead of just observant. Davis captures cat characteristics perfectly in these strips, and Garfield still represents a mixture of cat motivations in addition to his human thoughts. In the modern Garfield comics, Davis has forgotten that Garfield is a -cat-. It is mostly his cat foibles that make Garfield funny, and this collection is hilarious.

For those of you who have only read the strip in the last few years, I highly recommend reading this old collection, with wit reminiscient of Bloom County.

this is a book that you would realy like and I think this is a great book to read.