Conversations with Mike: Garfield
Rob: I found that I can get Promethea at my library.

Mike:REALLY? Your library rocks man. The comic, or the trades?

Rob: The first trade. Weirder still is that it's in the young reader's section.

Mike: HA HA HA. No young reader would get it, and it contains sex and nudity. Well, maybe not in the first trade but...

Rob: Heh. Indeed. *shrugs* I guess that they don't read 'the comics. Stranger still, stuff like Garfield is put in the non-fiction section.

Mike: Weird. your library is nutty. Maybe they think garfield is intellectual and promethea is kids stuff...Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Rob:There's obviously some sub-text in Garfield that must be even beyond Alan Moore. Perhaps Garfield represents Freudian psychology.

Mike: Jon is a repressed homosexual, Odie looks like a shlong and Garfield is ... well he has no subtext,..

Rob: Garfield represents Jon's fear of the vagina.

Mike:ha ha ha Jon is garfield's bitch. Maybe he's not homosexual, but he's definately repressed. he can't even talk to the vet without making a primo ass of himself
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Rob:Nah, I think that you're onto something about his homo-sexuality. He's just doing it to cover up his shame for having deviant thoughts.

Mike: I mean, I can identify wth tat to a degree, but Jon's been doing it for decades... at this point he's just a creepy guy on the verge of stalking.

Rob: He grew up on a farm surrounded by animals. Maybe there's more to his sexual deprivity than we know of. Look at his brothers, man.

Mike: He only has one

Mike: Brother, then.

Mike: Who looks exactly like his father and is a momma's boy. with no sign of women or prospects of having any, although I think he's very oedipa. Jon's borther totally wnats to take his dad's place, and marry his mother. right down to the sahving of his head. his father is bald, Doc-Boy (the brother) shaves his head. you can see the drawing dots on his head which represent that in cartoons.

Rob: Man, Garfield *is* Freud, man. That's why Jon can't date. He wants to secretly fuck his mother. There's a strip where his mom phones him up and he calls her sexy, thinking that he's one of the girls that he's interested in. All the kids have an oedipal complex, it seems.

Mike:gramma's the only normal one of the bunch. and maybe the dad, he seems. Man that is a fucked up farm family.