Largely the same as the Garfield strip from 1978-08-08:
Confused about what this strip is? See the first post here
First appearance of Odie (née Spot). Fun trivia:
Odie was going to be named Spot until Jim Davis found out this name was being used for another character. This was shown in the original Jon comics and referenced in the August 15th 1978 strip, when Lyman swats Odie for what he “did on the floor”. Garfield looks on in amusement and says “They should have named him Spot”.
If I remember correctly, in the German version of the punchline, it’s “Pissie”
Edit: I kind of wanted to know so I checked in my basement, turns out I still have these and need to regretfully inform you that I remembered correctly:
As a bonus, here is the page with Odie talking (this was something I wrote about on Lemmy some months ago but ultimately didn’t want to check all the boxes in my basement):
It’s the book to the fourth (?) movie, so not sure how official/ canon this is, but it’s credited to Jim Davis.
