Garfield by Jim Davis for December 18, 2022

What about orange, indigo and violet? Then you’ve got a rainbow house!

A perfectionist’s nightmare

hi

yikes

COCD

Oh no!!!!! As a fellow OCD sufferer I can only say one thing. Change that yellow bulb immediately!

Set fire to the house and start over somewhere new

I to have OCD, I know how you’re feelin’, Jon. just one little thing is out of place and you get really anxious and frustrated.

Gotta side with Jon on this one. That’d drive me up the wall too.

This kind of thing is inevitable when you buy Christmas decorations.

That’s why we went all blue.

Weight…Garfield on a scale? Interesting title panel…

That would bother me. Every year, when I watch my favorite movie, “The Gathering”, when Ed Asner’s character is checking the lights, he switches a green bulb that was out with a blue one, but the next bulb is also blue, it bugs me to no end.

I have OCD but it’s so severe I call it CDO. (Have to put it in alphabetical order you know)

Unfortunately, that’s me also.

He should just have all the same color of christmas lights.

Blue, Orange, Green ,Brown, Slate. White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet. Any old phone guys will know.

MEGA OOF!

I go with blue, green, red, yellow, repeat.

Remember that strip when Jon wasn’t sure whether the tree was straight or not and Garfield said “depends on your perspective”……while tilting his head?

I used to know a guy like that. Specific type of bulbs and specific order of colors.

Someone put the wrong bulb on. I hate that.

Then the blinkers need to be spaced so that the colors are right.

Now THIS would make a good Garfield without Garfield.

Life just isn’t fair, isn’t it, Jon?

shouldn’t he be HAPPY that, for ONCE, he isn’t electrified…hanging upside down by the lights while Garfield calls for the news van. or WORSE just before Christmas and this weather killing everyone’s electricity!

Exactly why all of the on the house lights are white. Problem solved. Save all the colorful stuff for where it is easy to reach, repair, replace.

That’s so much my mom. We took out decorations and put them back again and again just because it didn’t please her.

Now that is holiday stress.

We did that with our lights for a couple years. Then we resided the house.

If I knew how I would invent LED Christmas lights to be left up all year. Red and green for Christmas, pastel colors for Easter, red, white and blue for Forth of July, and so on

Forget to take the Xanax Jon?

Sure, it fits with the gag today, but I’m really tired of seeing the exact same poses in multiple panels. So lazy. I know Jim doesn’t pen & ink the strips himself anymore, but come on. Garfield is nothing more than a cash grab now (and more or less has been for two decades).

Jon: “I’m missing some Lucky Charms!”

Next stop: Straightening the tinsel and making sure the Xmas balls are evenly distributed around the tree. (God forbid the angel flumps over a little…)

That should be easy to fix, but then it is Jon.

As long as I can’t see them, if I’m not outside, they are absolutely fine!

That would be me too!

You can never have two of the same color next to each other. Red or green would have been okay.

MY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE IS NOT YOUR GARFIELD END CARD!

Only Jon has that disorder. :)