Garfield the cat enjoyed a long run at the top of the comic strip crop, but with the advent of webcomics, his pointless relevance wanes. That was, until Dan Walsh got the brilliant notion to remove the titular feline from every strip, leaving his already pathetic owner Jon Arbuckle to talk to himself in panel after panel of introverted sadness.

Well now this experiment has been turned into a book by both Walsh and series creator, Jim Davis, and this write-up of the whole thing by PLAYBACK:stl’s Gabe Bullard offers a very intriguing view of the reimagining of a true classic.