Garfield by Jim Davis for October 30, 2023

If Monday were a Halloween costume, it would win scariest costume contest!

Disco and man perms — VERY scary!

laser disc?

My aunt had a mood ring. When she was in a good mood it was blue, when she was in a bad mood it left a big red mark on my cousin’s forehead! Tru story!

Thank God that help was on the way in the form of the punk/new wave revolution that year. For those of us who saw the ’70s to date as more of an endurance test than anything, that movement was answered prayer.

And in another 45 years, people will find ghosts of 2023 very scary.

The sad thing for Garfield is he was debuted in the (late) 70’s, so no doubt he remembers all that.

The Monday before Halloween! Very scary!

Mood rings, scary?? In the 2000’s when I was in primary school, around 7 years old we had ‘secs’ bands bracelets. I can’t say the name here and I definitely can’t say what you had to do if you broke the glittery blue one off another kids arm. I don’t know who came up for this stuff for kids or how they got so wide spread but the horrors of the 2000’s are only just being understood.

The Ghostest, with the mostest.

I wouldn’t mind going back to 1978 and making corrections.

Prom date wearing a blue polyester tux and ruffled shirt. Yes. He was my date.

I read the other day mood rings were making a comeback.

If not for leisure suits, we’d never have gotten Leisure Suit Larry!

If you think that’s bad… wait until you are visited by The Ghost of Monday Present and even worse… Mondays Yet to Be. YIPES!

What about the clothes that Jon wears? That would be considered scary.

Disco? Nooooooooooo.

Anyone remember the Disco demolition night at Comiskey Park on July 12 1979, when people blew up disco records and a riot broke out at a baseball game?

Those who did disco back in ’78 are probably now worrying about slipped discos…

I had a laserdisc player in the 1980’s.I still have some movies on that format.

I never got to try a mood ring back then. Maybe I’ll order one on the you-know-what site, they’re pretty cheap. (As for disco, just listen to Daft Punk, it’s the same music.)

Man-perms not nearly as scary (or disgusting) as man-buns.

You can also throw in “every fiber saturated with cigarette odor”

Let’s see… Was it the Monday where Garfield got run over by a lawnmower or the Monday where he felled into the toilet?

Man perms—awful. But Disco music was bright, upbeat and happy and full of fun. I loved the 70’s.

Laser discs are cool!!

Leisure suits and man perms – gotta watch some Brady Bunch!

Laser Disks were cool. I still wish I had the original Star Wars trilogy on Laser Disk. It’s the best version you can get if you want the non-digitally edited one. It’s either Laser Disk or VHS, and Laser Disk has better quality.

I wonder what his next option was if Garfield wasn’t scared by that?

“Disco will never die!” ha. Piffle. The only good thing about the 70’s music scene is that it provided a steppingstone for the big hair 80’s. …disco duck, indeed.. humph.

Hold on there, Ghost. Laser discs were so cool. But, I could never afford them, so, yeah, real scary.

1978 was the year Garfield was launched.

Those laserdiscs didn’t take off too well. Especially when DVDs came out.

I don’t want to see my ghost from my birth year.

Aw come on, laserdisc aren’t that scary (P.S. I know what they are)

Laser discs? I get the rest of them, but laser discs are just vintage these days – like vinyl records, but for video (and rarer).

Garfield should say, “I come from 1978 too, you can’t scare me!”

I worked at Wards t the time. I vaguely recall buying several sand-colored leisure suits for about $10 each.. I now understand why my one big sale came back the next day… The mind-stun wore off.

Mood rings were earlier 70s. By 1978 they were pretty much ignored and passed off to your younger siblings. Now, pet rocks, 1975 or so, were popular with kids and adults

OK, OK, a non boring Monday strip…

They weren’t just leisure suits – they were polyester leisure suits! Yep, wrinkle-free ugly.

Pet rocks??

Heyy what’s wrong with mood rings?

coffee cups without lids!

Leisure suit was even a huge contradiction. if you wanted to be leisurely, why wear a suit?

Don’t forget Chia Pets.

How many youngsters reading this would even know what any of those things are?

Yes that was VERY scary.

Bell bottoms were the scariest!

Man perms were the worst!!

Sadly, I kept my man perm for WAY longer than style dictated. Thank God for my second wife to correct that abomination.

Hmm? What is a “mood ring”? Never heard of… Wikipedia knows, I was to young, or it wasn’t popular in Europe? https://en.wikipedia.oRg/wiki/Mood_ring

“MAN PERMS?”

(imagines a different version of this part of the dialogue of this cartoon)

PERMS?

The nice part about the 70’s was that it was a more optimistic time.

Of course, everyone was wrong and things turned out horrible.

Bell-bottom pants, platform shoes, garish plaid clothing, gigantic ties, collars and lapels were the hideous fashion statements of the 70s. It was mass insanity.

All scary, except maybe the laser discs. They were amazing for the era. Now they’re just obsolete, not scary. ;>)

No, no…not the leisure suits!!! (I actually had one once. Thought it was cool at the time. But that was, you know, in the 1970s). :-) I still have a few laser discs and even the player, but who knows whether they still work.

No, that’s CREEPY!!!

Jon doing his version of disco dancing…

Doubleknit Polyester jumpsuits. Herculon upholstery.

What about that earthquake that killed 25,000 people? Personally, I think that’s much scarier. But then again, I wasn’t around at the time for any of that other stuff. Anyway, have a happy day!

“Thats not groovy man”"

Jon must have made one of those weird recipes from ‘Garfield and Friends’ for dinner the night before.

LaserDisc is cool, change my mind.

Disco, Communism, Punk Rock, World War III, Rap Music, etc