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I've always wondered whether Jon can hear what Garfield thinks. I mean, they appear to have conversations sometimes, so if Jon CAN'T hear Garfield's thoughts, doesn't that make him kind of crazy? BoingBoing has a link to this funny site that has taken a number of Garfield strips and removed Garfield's thought balloons, showing the true nature of Jon, at least to an outsider in the "conversation". There are some other sites with these as well, which are linked to from the BoingBoing posting. Update: According to Wikipedia, the trend seems to have originated at this site. Update Again: Wow. It turns out there is even an entire site named "Arbuckle" that is devoted to people redrawing Garfield strips in a "realistic" style without Garfield's thought balloons. From the Arbuckle introduction: In 1978, Jim Davis began a newspaper comic strip called "Garfield". For almost thirty years, this strip has endured, primarily because its inoffensive, storyless humour is immediately accessible. It is, if not quite the Lowest Common Denominator of the comic world, at least as close to it as one can get without being obviously mediocre. The comic changes dramatically when one removes the thought bubbles. "Garfield" changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who talks to his pets. Consider that Jon, according to Garfield canon, cannot hear his cat's thoughts. This is the world as he sees it. This is his story. 
And for the sake of testing the theory, this is today's comic which I have just changed.
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