When I was younger Garfield was my favourite comic strip. I think I liked it for two reasons; Garfield was a cat, and the sight gags were funny. Now that I have a bit more maturity I read such comics as Dilbert and Userfriendly to waste my time.

I was very interested when I came upon a forum post that talked about how Garfield becomes a surrealist comic when you remove Garfield's speech bubbles. I tried it on a few comics from the past few weeks and reached a different conclusion; Garfield becomes the most depressing comic of all time.

Normally Jon falls out of luck and Garfield is there to poke fun at him and turn the situations from awkward to funny. When you remove the speech bubbles to make the comic slightly more realistic, Jon becomes a pathetic loser who talks to his cat hoping that it will respond in some way. Jon becomes even more of a loser than he was before (which most thought could never happen). Whenever Garfield does something other than sit around, it usually involves hurting Jon's feelings or taking advantage of him.

So without further ado, here some depressing cartoons of a pathetic loser and his cat.