Heathcliff is about to catch a bird.

>>87478097
Anon who made the meme edit please update

>>87477671
I'm not used to such big close ups in Heathcliff, this is throwing me off

>>87477671
Another biting social commentary from Gallagher!

>>87480744
>mfw to intelligent for bad news

>>87477671
What the fuck Heathcliff? that bird is just trying to learn to program.

>>87481528
>>87481596

It's like Heathcliff started out as a more choleric and violent Garfield, but slowly mutated into an even quirkier version of Snoopy.

>>87481704
You mean Garfield started out as a less choleric and violent Heathcliff

Seriously, does anyone really find humour in Heathcliff cartoons?, It's just nonsense and bland comedy attempts

>>87477671
Is this a programming joke? Have we fully reached a double meaning on a Heathcliff comic? What is this madness?

>>87483538
Most Heathcliff comics have at least a double meaning.

>>87483212
Yeah, the cartoon is pretty generic but the comic is great.

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>>87483212
It's so bad it's great.

>>87485305
We are approaching the very limits of comedy!

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>>87477671

>>87477671
I hate heathcliff with a passion.
I was forced to watch this shitty american cartoon while waiting for 80s anime to run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_YdwpNsGgw

>>87485917
Surprisingly good

>>87481538
underrated.

>>87485427
I'll give my life savings to anyone that can give a plausible explanation of what the joke is even supposed to be here.

>>87478097
What even is the deep mysterious lore behind wearing shirts/helmets with things on them, and that somehow being a prelude to disaster?

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>>87488580
Look at the date. It's saying that the Christmas Season is upon us (or was, when it was released) because the Garbage Ape is wearing a santa hat.

Who isn't hype for the holidays?

>>87489537
Okay, I stand corrected- that really is a pretty funny joke. It's just like how We Wish You a Merry Christmas is the funniest comedy song ever written.

Congratulations, you win nothing.

>>87489660
It's not about winning or losing. It's about having fun with a community of friends.

>>87489660
Understand that Heathcliff jokes are nearly purely self-referential.

Thus, the readers who have followed it over the years will chuckle at the garbage ape, regardless of anything else. Thus, for a holiday strip, all Heathcliff has to have is the Garbage ape in a Santa hat. Then the readers who find it humorous will respond with 'Look at that, there's a Santa hat on the Garbage Ape! That's hil-arious."

>>87489797
I don't care if it's been running since Christ's literal birth- just putting a santa hat on a character and going "Hey look at that!" is not a joke.

>>87489946
I dunno, I thought it was pretty funny.

>>87489946
You haven't been reading enough Heathcliff.
I think we should all be reading more Heathcliff.
Heathcliff is good.

>>87491921
>Heathcliff is good
It really is.

>>87489946
Anon, here's the thing:

Yes, these comics are bad. Like unforgivably bad. Then again, so is The Nutshack. And that gets spam-fucked on this board as well. And like The Nutshack, there's a certain charm in how bad it is. Nobody except old fucks who listen to Bill O'Reilly finds this legit funny. However, unlike The Nutshack, Heathcliff is nowhere near as cancerous and as flavor of the month for memers. Nutshack threads will come and go. Heathcliff we be eternal

>>87491921
We love Heathcliff.

This is exactly why the "funnies" arent funny.
Old baby boomer artists that are unfunny and will never leave because tenure.
Fuck them all. Newspaper comics suck.

>>87493567
Speaking of newspaper comics, has anybody ever read The Phantom long enough to understand a single story arc?

>>87480721
I think Heathcliff is deeper than any of us give him credit. Look at this monster. He could eat them at any time, and has repeatedly been shown to kill the other, smaller animals. Yet half the time he just fucks with them. He terrorizes the townfolk, while wearing hats and shirts that announce that he's going to terrorize them.
Heathcliff is about a sociopathic cat tormenting a small town.

>>87477671
Hello and goodbye.
That was the phrase of famous radio DJ William B. Williams.

>>87496213
This makes NO SENSE

WHY ????

>>87477671
That at least has a joke

>>87480807
That almost feels like something out of farside

>>87501240
It's a euphemism for female masturbation.

>>87486650
Thank you, I take pride in my work on these shameless edits.
God bless anxiety and mild OCD.

>>87486133
I only vaguely remember this, but I remember enjoying it
After watching tom get his ass beat by jerry and getting the shitty end of the stick so many times, it felt a bit cathartic seeing a cat get the better of everyone for a change

>>87493642
honestly I tried and failed on both counts

>Heathcliff was not in fist of the borf star 2
Fuck Lycan for being a faggot and no longer running that amazing cartoon. Although the actual 'animation' he was doing is such a step down from the still frames

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>>87496213
I badly need a shop of them into this scene, including birds and caption.

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>>87506179
Actually this image is way closer to it.

>>87488580
Cats like to go through garbage and eat the left overs so they are the happy the garbage are is there to spread the garbage everywhere plus its Christmas

>>87506241
No they don't, just heathcliff and raccoons.

>>87506280
Maybe Heathcliff is a raccoon in disguise?

Is Heathcliff some kind of commentary on big dog comics like Marmaduke or Howard Huge?

Heathcliff, like Marmaduke, is pure id charging forward to impose his will on his surroundings. The world shifts around him in ways that make no sense. He commands not only his house but the entire town. Marmaduke may be large and out of control, but Heathcliff is practically a reality warper.

Marmaduke frightens local businesses but Heathcliff takes it up a notch and terrorizes the butcher. Marmaduke frightens municipal workers and repairmen. Heathcliff summons supernatural entities like the Garbage Ape.

Heathcliff is cat Marmaduke amped up to 11.

>>87489946
After you read enough Heathcliff, your sanity starts to slip and it becomes funny.

>>87506535

These two
>>87480807
>>87485427
certainly support your theory, but I've seen others that support it as well. You might be on to something, anon.

>>87505845
That's because he wasn't truly aware of Heathcliff