The Incredibly Dark Garfield Strip You’ve Never Seen
Maw Maw just wanted to play!
![The Incredibly Dark Garfield Strip You’ve Never Seen](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/5/0/741250_320x180.jpg?v=1)
We recently told you about the Garfield-themed restaurant that had fallen on hard times. Well, that's not even the darkest moment in Garfield's long history.
Creepy Garfield tributes are an internet staple, but there's a real strip from 1984 wherein Garfield is tormented by the spirits of his big cat ancestors, and takes bloody revenge on their behalf:
Creepy Garfield tributes are an internet staple, but there's a real strip from 1984 wherein Garfield is tormented by the spirits of his big cat ancestors, and takes bloody revenge on their behalf:
![You remember Garfield. The grumpy goof from the funny pages. Loves lasagna. Hates Mondays. GARFIELD HATES MONDAYS I HATE BONK! MONDAYS 4-7 JRM DAVS Ki](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/4/741234.jpg?v=2)
![Actually, Garfield has some very grim canon. Garfield atis Lives Iustrated sheodt tstorir heood on Gartlald ottor oight BYS JiM DAVIS e NAW IN SPECTAC](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/5/741245.jpg?v=2)
![It starts out predictably cute: Aho iking GAVE BOOGA! CATE CAVE CAT GAVE BIG BOB A PIECE oF HIS MIND SNOOGA POP- POP O0 CUR POOP SPACECAT THATS EETTTE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/2/741232.jpg?v=2)
![But it takes a hard left turn into bonkersville with the story Primal Self. PRIMAE from blast A past the utLh A ON DAY... BEGAN T WINTER'S CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/5/741235.jpg?v=2)
![We begin our journey with a familiar sleepy orange cat... TIGGER OGER ORACKEDEOM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/8/741238.jpg?v=2)
![( But something's... wrong. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/7/741237.jpg?v=2)
![A dark force beckons.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/6/741236.jpg?v=2)
![TIGGER Garfield faces the spirits of his ancestors. They are furious at what he has become. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/4/3/741243.jpg?v=2)
![Furious at what they have done to him. The humans. COME HERE, TIGGER](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/2/9/741229.jpg?v=2)
![COME PLAY WITH MAW MAW Yes. Tigger lives to play with Maw Maw... CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/3/741233.jpg?v=2)
![Today we play a new game. Grand CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/3/1/741231.jpg?v=2)
![That's it! That's the end! Each chapter is prefaced with a snide remark from modern Garfield. THERE ARE SOME FORCES WITHIN A CAT THAT SHOULD NEVER BE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/6/5/741265.jpg?v=1)