I love Lyman. He’s a normal guy against Jon’s creeping insanity.
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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Rare appearance of Jon’s friend Lyman, who doesn’t appear in hardly anything after 1980.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe I’m explaining the joke, but Jon is supposed to be an Everyman.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tell that to Garfield Minus Garfield
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He has a peculiar face
Laser@feddit.org 4 months ago
A kind of interesting phenomenon. He comes in with his dog, cries that he doesn’t have a place to stay, Jon allows it for as long as needed and then… he just vanishes one day, leaving Odie with Jon, never to contact them again. Did something happen between the two? Was he ever real or a product of Jon’s mind? A wiki states:
It doesn’t reveal who gave Lyman that purpose; it could be that it was Jon himself who, over the years, got less attached to reality, so he got done with talking to and interacting with Garfield.
That or it’s just a lazy uninspired comic that only has a minimum level of continuity and doesn’t care to explain why a former choir character suddenly vanishes.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m a huge long-term fan of the Garfield comics. Lyman basically ditches Jon with Odie. It’s never explained in detail because it’s a 3 frame comic. More optimistically, and “cannon” Jon was enthusiastic about inheriting Odie while Lymon left for unexplained reasons. Jon thought owning a dog would help him meet women.
errer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It never occurred to me how weird it is they can talk via thought bubbles in Garfield but you’re right, now I can’t unsee it.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jon took a level in druid
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Garfield ate him