I'm curious

[yendi]

Whatever happened to Garfield's Lyman?

Comments

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

According to Mayberry Melonpool (http://www.melonpool.com/), he fell into a void between comic strips along with other "missing" strip characters.

According to ... well ... they have a rather darker take in highly questionable taste. But then, everything about Deep Fried is in highly questionable taste. (http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/)

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Wow... someone who gave the answers I would've given!

[ewin.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered that too. I liked him.

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

Odie's original owner!

I always thought it was rather nasty of Jon to evict Lyman and keep his dog.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Well, when they broke up, Lyman moved home with his parents, and couldn't take Odie.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

He just stopped showing up after about book 3. I don't remember an explanation.

[28bytes.livejournal.com]

I know they refer to him a lot in Sprite commercials.

[yendi]

Heh.

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

If I had a trophy it would now be yours

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere that Jim Davis says that Lyman left the strip because too many people wondered if he and Jon were a couple.

[yendi]

Hunh. I figured that A) they certainly were, and B) anyone old enough to wonder was too old for the strip anyway.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Well, it was the 80's....

The travels of Lyman

[ottergrrl.livejournal.com]

He left to go find himself. Turned out he was in the Gobi Desert the whole time.

Re: The travels of Lyman

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

So *that's* who keeps mailing Nermal back!

[ersatzinsomnia.livejournal.com]

He wandered to a place primarily defined by people wondering where he went. It's sort of recursive, but he gets by.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

He made delicious lasagna.

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

Oh so he opened a resturant?

waaaaait a minute.. thats not what you meant

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

He's down in Mexico working for Chuck Cunningham...

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Or maybe he made the amazing transformation into Sondra Huxtable, because she didn't exist the first 10 episodes of The Cosby Show...

[drshoggoth.livejournal.com]

Two tongue-in-cheek explanations offered by Jim Davis:

1) Buried under the floorboards.

2) Wandered off to explore different strips. After a brief fling with Cathy, was never seen again.

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

I often thought Jon killed him and buried him under the house.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

my real question, since i missed the start of it, is why jon and liz are now a couple? i thought the point of the comic was that single men who own cats are crazy and cant get dates with successful women, thanks to their own failings

[ersatzinsomnia.livejournal.com]

The same way that Cathy managed to get married.

...and yet they all end up just as tiresome as ever.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

From [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], a Garfield authority: http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/04/you_had_me_and_3.html
(Not that he wrote the essay, just that he had it ready when I asked him this question)