The Importance of Humor in Comic Strips

Watterson is very good at having a plot move through multiple days, but using the first and second panels to reestablish whatever facts you need to also set up a joke. There are some bits where it's like, here's five days in a row where Garfield stomach got so big as feet don't touch the floor. On Wednesday or Thursday of that week, Garfield sticks his head in the oven and then bemoans that it's an electric oven. This liberals are coming for your gas stove. Even as far back as 1979 Jimmy Carter was trying to take your gas stove for me.