Garfield by Jim Davis for January 15, 2023

Way to take it like a man, Jon.

Garfield’s phone light in the last panel looks like a person at a side view

time for campfire horror stories

Love the look on Jon’s face, priceless.

Hurray, indeed!

Do you really have power outages that often?

Wind and rain. We had the power go out last week. I found everyone a flashlight. I turned off all the servers(6 Raspberry Pi’s) and my main work station. Shut all the UPS back-ups. I moved the generator out of the garage. Got my two long extension cords, one for the refrigerator and one for the freezer. Got the generator tank filled. Got the fire extinguisher ready just in case. Checked the ground connection to the generator. Grabbed the starting cord and before I could turn the generator over, the power came back.

Then, for the rest of the night I had to resolve a network IP address conflict on two of my servers most probably caused my the power. Of course I had the set-up correct two years ago (sure…you did….). At least a tree branch didn’t come through the roof again.

Hurray for Garfield.

I bought some lanterns online.

Our apartment building is on the same grid as a nearby hospital; in the 22 years we’ve lived here we’ve hardly ever lost power for more than a few minutes.

We spent the build up to Winter being warned about power cuts, yet to have one though (probably jinxed it now of course)

Power blackouts are a rarity in the Netherlands, en brown-outs almost never occur. It is my understanding that in the US, both are a fact of life.

Yeah, Garfield, you may yet need it to order pizza!!

Things that go AAARRRRGGGGHHH, in the night.

Jon’s against phones?

I don’t get it. Why doesn’t Jon want Garfield to use his phone?

Time to sleep when there’s a power outage and everything’s low on battery.

Let’s hope that phone is fully charged.

With Garfield around what happens in the dark, does not stay in the dark.

Use the phone to call 911. From the looks of the 2nd to last panel, there is a mad man loose in the house!

Why do I feel a comment about “lazy cartoonist” coming?

You won’t laughing, Garfield, when it turns out that your phone doesn’t have much battery left and it won’t provide that light for very long.

Better hope there’s plenty of charge in that phone’s battery.

Garfield lives in California?

Yup.. that works so long as there is some battery charge available. Mind, candles only last so long as well. Emergency generators work.. till they run out of fuel. In short, we are poorly equipped for a long term extensive outage.

Jon looks the cutest when he is screaming!

(senses very expressive characters in this cartoon)

“OH, GREAT, ANOTHER POWER OUTAGE”

(imagines a different version of this dialogue in this cartoon)

HUH, ANOTHER POWER OUTAGE

More often than not, I forget that my phone even has a flashlight feature, until I turn it on by accident!

“HURRAY FOR TECHNOLOGY”

(imagines a different version of this dialogue in this cartoon)

I’M GLAD TO HAVE IT

I’m sorry, I absolutely don’t get it…

anyone bother to check the light switch?

Finally, a use for those silly smartphones.

I guess, it feels cozy when you don’t see THE FACE OF THE MONSTER CALLED JON…

I once had a power outage on a Sunday that occurred before dusk. I phoned my parents to pick me up and bring me to their unaffected house so I wouldn’t feel bored in my dark apartment. Went back to my place a few hours later after phoning the nearby grocery store (the same I work at) which was also affected to see if power was back, which it was.

Everything happens so quickly, at a BWINK of an eye.

Guess cartoonist didn’t feel like drawing alot this Sunday and used this old trick.

Great topic for the artist, little work.

Where I live right now power outages are rare. But we had one recently that really freaked me out. We had no running water for 3 days.

great