odie
Original: odie on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (image): An orange cat resembling Garfield and a white-and-yellow dog resembling Odie sit together, with a small yellow puppy in front of them.
Narration: For years, Odie would waggle his tongue in morse code, hoping against all odds that someone would understand.
Narration: They mistook his silence for idiocy, but his mind was so rich and so real, gleaming with a thousand insights from a hermit who walked among men. If only they had ears that could hear, they might have warmed their hearts by the blaze of that great soul before it was too late.
Narration: Everyone piles alone, but seldom had so much been forgotten so quickly.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled "quality of comic". The horizontal (x) axis is labeled "ratio of text to art". A straight line rises steeply from the origin to the upper right, showing quality increasing as the text-to-art ratio increases.
Narration: For years, Odie would waggle his tongue in morse code, hoping against all odds that someone would understand.
Narration: They mistook his silence for idiocy, but his mind was so rich and so real, gleaming with a thousand insights from a hermit who walked among men. If only they had ears that could hear, they might have warmed their hearts by the blaze of that great soul before it was too late.
Narration: Everyone piles alone, but seldom had so much been forgotten so quickly.
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled "quality of comic". The horizontal (x) axis is labeled "ratio of text to art". A straight line rises steeply from the origin to the upper right, showing quality increasing as the text-to-art ratio increases.
Alt text
A panel parodying Garfield: an orange cat (Garfield) and a white-and-yellow dog (Odie) sit side by side with a small yellow puppy in front of them, all drawn in the Garfield art style. Below, dense narration text reads that for years Odie waggled his tongue in morse code hoping someone would understand, that they mistook his silence for idiocy though his mind was rich and gleaming with insight, and that if only they had ears to hear they might have warmed their hearts by his great soul before it was too late — ending, "Everyone piles alone, but seldom had so much been forgotten so quickly." The joke is that the cartoon image is swamped by a wall of overwrought prose. Votey: a hand-drawn line graph whose y-axis is labeled "quality of comic" and x-axis labeled "ratio of text to art," with a line shooting steeply upward — claiming a comic gets better the more text crowds out the drawing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.