Garfield’s 1989 Week Of Existential Horror
The only thing Garfield hates more than Mondays is the infinite abyss of his own mind.
![Garfield’s 1989 Week Of Existential Horror](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/6/743536_320x180.jpg?v=1)
For the most part, Garfield was a strip about the banalities of life. But Jim Davis would occasionally prove that he was capable of much darker, more terrifying stories.
For a week in 1989, sandwiched between long Sunday stories about hunting birds and drinking coffee, Jim Davis took readers on a week-long roller coaster of existential despair and abject horror:
For a week in 1989, sandwiched between long Sunday stories about hunting birds and drinking coffee, Jim Davis took readers on a week-long roller coaster of existential despair and abject horror:
![BRRR THERE'S A CHILL IN HERE DAL THIS MORNING Something is ...wrong TM DAV95 1023 WHAT AN EERIE SENSATION... Something is off, in his world and in our](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/3/743533.jpg?v=1)
![DAY2 ION? ODIE? The 4th wall shatters When was the last he ANYBODY time you HOME? saw DAL Garfield employ a narrator voice? And when did I'M that narr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/5/743535.jpg?v=1)
![STEADY, GARFIELD THERE MUST BE A GOOD REASON WHY THE HOUSE IS EMPT DA Reality hits JON MUST BE AT THE GROCER4 Like a cat's foot to a dog's ass, realit](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/1/743531.jpg?v=1)
![DAK MY HOME HAS BEEN ABANDONED. NO ONE HAS LIVE HERE FOR YEARS! The abyss gazes back JM DAVYS BUT THAT MEANS I HAVEN' T LIVED WHAT'S HERE FOR YEARS! T](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/9/743529.jpg?v=1)
![JON!ODIE! HELLO BARFIELE 4OU'RE HOME! HAVE SOME FOOD DAS A false hope GARE PM DAV95 10-27 His brain is flailing GARFIEL now, trying anything it can to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/8/743538.jpg?v=1)
![AFTER YEARS OF TAKING LIFE FOR GRANTED GARFIELD IS DAY6 SHAKEN B4 A HORRIFYING VISION OF THE INEVITABLE PROCESS CALLED TIME' U The End...? ONL4 HE HAS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/2/743532.jpg?v=1)
![That Sunday, it was back to banality. GARFLELD 5Co0p YAWN SMIACK SMACK SCOOp ScoP STIR STI Srie SLOOK SPiiiliiint MORNINGS But the question remains: d](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/4/743534.jpg?v=1)