Scott McCloud, eat your heart out. Garfield makes deconstructionist jokes about the relationships of time, sound, and image in comics, and links them to the historical model of silent film, with an eye to the special problems of the slapstick genre.
The Garfield staff researchers would have done well, however, to note the infrequency of sound effects title cards in silent film.
Panel 3 reveals that either the drop from the table is very short, or Odie's front leg is going totally Plastic Man.
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