Square Root of Minus Garfield

A subset of the webcomic Mezzacotta. Essentially, it's a user-submitted Remix Comic inspired by Garfield Minus Garfield, turned Up to Eleven. Each strip is a remixed Garfield strip, but remixed in an entirely different manner to the previous strips. Launched on 21 November 2008.

View it here.

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Tropes used in Square Root of Minus Garfield include:

• And Call Him George: Parodied here.
• Ascended Meme: Dan Walsh, creator of Garfield Minus Garfield, submitted a strip.
  • May also count as a Throw the Dog a Bone.
• Based on a Dream: This strip.
• Beat Panel: Garfield Plus Penultimate Beat Panel.
• Black Comedy: "You may prefer to remain unhappy."
• Blind Idiot Translation: If you know you live forever to get.
  • This is a reoccurring theme.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: Garfield Meets Zeus.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: #1452 "Names".

Jon: {reading from book} Jon Arbuckle: idiot, moron, idiotic moron, dork. @#$%?!

• Brevity Is Wit:
  • Sunday strips condensed to three panels while retaining gags, such as April of No Sundays Collection, Random No Sundays, Seven More No Sundays, April of No Sundays: 2006, May of No Sundays 2013,Waste of Sunday Space, Garfield Minus Three Filler Panels, and Quicker Sunday Quickies
  • Less Humor, More Story!
• Brick Joke: The apteryx.
  • Also parodied
  • Also both parodied and played straight.
• Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Invisifield and the Pudding Cup
• Dada Comics
• Darker and Edgier: Dark Side of the Lasagne.
  • And Darkfield.
• Deconstruction: Of the blender Running Gag.
• Dialogue Tree: Cats of the Old Republic.
• Dinner Deformation: Somewhat.
• Driven to Suicide: Used a few times.
• Face Palm: A collection.
• For Science!: used as a title.
• Future Imperfect: The Garfield Code.
• Genre Savvy: Genre Savvy Garfield
• Gratuitous Spanish: ¡Garfield Mexicano!, La Version Mejorada!
• Here We Go Again: Just as it seemed the pudding pops meme was finally over, the blender meme had to purge the Strip Buffer.
• Just One Second Out of Sync: The author made the trope, plus a Shout-Out.
• Long Title: Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon Minus Odie Minus Nermal Minus Arlene Minus Lyman Minus Liz Minus Pookie [sic].
• Magic Ampersand: No. 2666: Lasagnas & Litterboxes Revisited, a retelling of a Garfield Sunday strip as a tabletop RPG session.
• Milestone Celebration: 1000th Root of Minus Garfield
• Mind Screw: GARFFITI.
• Must Have Caffeine: An occasional theme, just like in the real strip.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Discussed Trope in relation to Odie in this strip.
• Orange-Blue Contrast: Invoked in #2052 "Dog Vision". Canine deuteranopia is depicted as a world of blues, grays, browns, and golds.
• Overly Long Gag: A Strip. With. A Snail.
  • Invoked and defied in Déjà Vu All Over Again, complete with a link back to us.
  • Looky Looky
  • Overly Long Walk
  • Dull and Repetitive
• Painting the Medium: Small Talk, Variations on a Haircut #1, and Melt.
• Paranoia Fuel: (Jon, Paranoid)
• Race Lift: Garfield Recoloured, which leads up to a pun.
• Recycled in Space: Garfield IN SPACE! They even linked to us!
• Recycled Script: Duly noted and mocked several times over.
• Recursive Reality: Recursive Garfield Redux and Recursive Thinking Garfield.
• Reference Overdosed
• Remix Comic
• Retraux: Silent-Era Garfield.
• Running Gag: Garfield Linus Garfield began a series of derivatives featuring Garfield replaced in the middle panel by someone or something (usually) rhyming with "Minus".
  • Has since been inverted, subverted, parodied, deconstructed, averted, played for laughs, lampshaded, defied, discussed, and exploited. Needless to say, it's seen very extensive use.
  • Overused Running Gag: The voluminous number of "Garfield (pun for Minus) Garfield" comics has now reached this, to the point of Seasonal Rot for some.
    • Hopefully as of strip 625 we should be seeing far less of them now.
    • But however it's started all over again with "I glued a blender to my face." Which is itself crossing over with the "pudding pops" strip used for the "Garfield ___ Garfield" meme.
    • Also beginning to trend is "Garfield's X Theater"
    • Another recent one is Changefield, which resulted in this hilarious blend.
  • All the running gags were combined in Strip #1049.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Garfield Leaves Garfield
• Self-Deprecation: Attack of the Memes.
• Series Minus Series Core: Taken Up to Eleven. There's been Garfield Minus Jon, Garfield Minus Jon (again), Garfield Minus Garfield Minus Jon, xkcd Minus Garfield, Garfield Minus Characters, Krazy minus Kat, Hark! a Vagarant minus Garfield!, Nermal Minus Garfield, Odie Minus Garfield, and Garfield minus Liz.
• The Un-Smile / Slasher Smile: These are rather disturbingly common.
• Shout-Out: A whole page of them.
• Similarly Named Works: Butterfield and Butterfield.
  • Also, Mirror Universe Garfield and Mirror Universe Garfield.
  • Smile and Smile.
• Slow-Loading Internet Image: While there's no punchline, and it's a non-pornographic image, the spirit is certainly there in this strip.
• Something Completely Different: It was more common in the early days of the strip, but there are a few strips that are not Garfield edits: Edits of other comics (Xkcd here, Krazy Kat here, Bob and George here, and Hark! A Vagrant here.), unedited pages about Garfield from comic books or magazines (this from a Ren and Stimpy comic book, and this from a The Electric Company magazine), and, on one occasion, a printing error a newspaper made when publishing a Garfield comic. Possibly lampshaded in the author's notes for the Krazy Kat strip, which said about the strip "This one may be too meta to fly.".
• Sphere Eyes: Lampshaded here.
• Sprite Comic: Garfield: The Video Game.
  • Also used here and here.
• Symbol Swearing: Lampshaded in Grawfield.
• That's What She Said: Rubbery Arugula.
  • Comes with a bonus strip that the editor deemed too risqué.
• Toilet Humour: Potty Humour, naturally.
• Visual Pun: Square Root of Minus Garfield, of course.
• We're Still Relevant, Dammit!: Mentioned and lampshaded.
• A Worldwide Punomenon: Garfield Linus Garfield.
• Your Head Asplode: This happens to Garfield at the end of Coffee!
• Your Television Hates You: This strip, where Garfield watches TV and every show on is something that has been referenced at least once in an earlier SRoMG comic.
• You Talkin' to Me?: This strip accurately quotes the original film for once.