Dilbert Minus Dilbert

1. Edman
   August 6th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

   Box Brown seems to be missing the point of Garfield Minus Garfield: removing Garfield (or just his thought bubbles, if you count the idea from CastleZZT) makes John's talking to himself and zany antics look truly insane and downright depressing at times. He completely overlooks this, and thinks that:

   1. Take comic strip
   2. Remove main character
   3. Profit!

   His results with Dilbert are mediocre at best, at would only really parallel G-G if he removed everyone *but* Dilbert, or some other selected character.

   Honestly, I think he sounds a bit jealous that this guy had a funny idea, and is making some cash from it.

2. Box Brown
   August 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

   oh chill out, it's a joke.

3. anon
   August 6th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

   Kinda lame to cover what's already been done...

4. Box
   August 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

   RINGING MY PARODY BELL

5. Edman
   August 6th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

   Sorry for the nerd rage man, but I just got that impression from reading your comments on there.

6. Tempscire
   August 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

   Edman's nerd rage, aside, yeah, this just doesn't work like the Garfield-less strips.

7. JC
   August 7th, 2008 at 12:15 am

   Who would copy that crap?

8. v.dog
   August 7th, 2008 at 3:32 am

   Ed's right in that with GMG it works because you're left with one man's psychosis, perhaps as a result of living by himself. It sounds plausible.

   In DMD you're left with a whole bunch of people in an office talking to themselves, and there's just on way suspension of belief is going to go that far.

   Also without one strong character, it's just to meandering.

9. ted
   August 7th, 2008 at 5:28 am

   So dude copies someone else's stupid idea - because, let's face it, all those Garfield concoctions are mindless abortions - where am I going with this? Oh yeah, dumb ideas all around.

10. FiZ
    August 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am

    Sorry, but this just doesn't work. Garfield Minus Garfield is genuinely funny because the original comic centers around a cat and his owner (who is the only one that can hear the cat's voice anyway). Remove the "imaginary" component and Jon becomes far more warped that any of us had originally thought when we first read the strip.

    This is just another attempt to cash-in the success of that model, but Dilbert's setup doesn't allow for it to work as well. Even the Garfield that was translated to Chinese and back to English was only funny in one or two instances. Oh well, I suspect we'll see more attempts to steal GMG's spotlight before someone else tries -god forbid- thinking of something new.

11. Box
    August 7th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    THIS WAS (I THOUGHT) CLEAR AND OBVIOUS PARODY. NOT A SERIOUS ATTEMPT TO "MAKE MONEY ON GMG'S POPULARITY"

12. SenorMysterioso
    August 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    somebody make Garfield minus Dilbert quick!

13. clinton labombard
    August 8th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Bill Griffith will always be my pen to non-sequitur.

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