I read Garfield as a kid and liked it. I’d scoop up a big bowl of ice cream and read a collection. It’s a comic strip for kids and Davis has never made claims of it being anything more.
And if I did want something more substantial, I’d reach for Bloom County, Far Side, or (of course) Calvin and Hobbes.
I always figured Davis for a commercial hack so I was heartened to see him so eagerly embrace Garfield Minus Garfield. I kinda wish he’d take Garfield in that direction (not literally, just that shade of humor) for, say, the last six weeks of the strip.
