Why Does Garfield Hate The Troops?

The whole world has gone crazy, right? It’s not just me?

The creator of the widely syndicated comic “Garfield” has apologized for a strip that ran on Veterans Day that some critics saw as making fun of the holiday honoring those who served in the U.S. military.

Thursday’s strip showed a spider warning the comic’s featured cat, the lazy and overweight Garfield, that if the feline “squishes” him, an annual day of remembrance will be held in his honor.

Garfield, who frequently crushes spiders in the series, apparently is undeterred and the strip closes with a classroom of spiders being asked why they celebrate “National Stupid Day.”

I never thought I would come to praise the predictive powers of Jim Davis, but you’ve got to hand it to him: now every day is National Stupid Day.

Photo by Brendan Adkins, from Flickr.