Read the Garfield comics here: one, two.
Unbelievable, on two levels. One, Liz finally admits she likes Jon. And two, there's continuity now? Where's Eric Burns when we need him?
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Rambling About Garfield
I saw this thread pop up on the "what's popular" block today -- huh?
But whatever. While I'm here -- has everyone seen "Lasanga Cat" yet -- it's this weird live reanactment of Garfield strips - word for word that ends with a bit of canned laughter and then seques into some trippy music video spin-off. The first and best one I saw was "You Can't Eat a Purse".
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Permanent Monday
Permanent Monday has great color commentary on the new storyline. Actually, it looks like this blog has been providing color commentary on Garfield for a long time.
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Nerdcore: The Core Wars
The Trifecta
I know!
Flo divorces Andy Cap! Yay!
It can happen
Not without a shovel and the black arts, at least.
Re: It can happen
 Um, if by "continuity" you
Um, if by "continuity" you mean eleven succesive strips following the same plotline, Garfield's done that before.
I remember them doing storylines where they go on vacation, go visit Jon's family on the farm, etc. etc.
In Ancient Times
Yes, but they haven't done that in years. Much of the criticism of Garfield's modern strips is that it has become nothing but repeat gags that take place in Jon's house. (See David Malki!'s excellent feature The Comic Strip Doctor)
This storyline could signify a return to a slightly less pointless version of Garfield.
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Nerdcore: The Core Wars
It's actually been a rather long storyline...
I checked the ucomics archives calendar thing to see how long the continuity has been going on, and it seems to start here:
http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2006/07/17/
That's about a week and a half of Garfield stories relating to each other. That's probably a record in the entire history of Garfield. Or something.
 Edit: ah, I see scarybug has beat me to the punch.Â
Liz doesn't like Jon.
Liz doesn't like Jon. She's using him.
Duh.
Exactly!
To get to Garfield of course...
Three, A Garfield strip that
Three, A Garfield strip that actually doesn't take place in Jon's kitchen or living room!
I noticed a few months ago a Garfield strip where Garfield had no dialogue. I wondered if the team of writers had been looking at critisism on the internet and using it to improve the strip.
Or if there was just a gaffe and the dialogue had been taken out.
 Edit: This storyline actually starts here That's 11 strips of continuity! (increment the 17 in the URL to keep reading)