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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:
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