New Garfield series still a go

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I know there hasn't been much discussion about the new Garfield series, but I spoke to Mark Evanier last night on Shokus radio, and he was talking about how it's being produced for Europe, but it should be airing sometime in the US soon.

He also said Frank Welker is still voicing Garfield, however, he's not trying to imitate Lorenzo anymore, he is trying to do his own thing.

God help us all.
 
I dunno, I think that when Lorenzo Music died, any and all efforts to put Garfield into animation should have died with him. The man was Garfield.
 
I don't see why it should have. He just did the voice, as memorable as it was, he didn't create the character. Having a project die with a key figure is always a good way to make sure the character is a relic, and not an ever grene figure. I concur. That's as bas as saying there shouldn't be any Bugs Bunny or Mickey mouse since the voice actors are dead.

This is great, and I really hope they can find a US market for it. I wonder if they're going to at least have throwbacks and references to the US Acres segment. Though no one could do justic to Wade Duck like Howie Morris could. I think if they had to, Tom Kenny or Billy West would sound close enough.
 
A new Garfield series? This doesn't look good. I really like Lorenzo Music's voice portraying Garfield and the entire Garfield and Friends series. I understand he's dead and the series completition in 1995, but I'm beginning to feel that Jim Davis is trying to get every cent of the franchise for all it's worth through any means. The strip has become dull compared to what Pearls Before Swine, Zits, Funky Winkerbean, Doonesbury, Get Fuzzy, etc. offers. Garfield isn't what it is anymore.:(
 
First off, I just don't Get Fuzzy myself. it started out fresh, hip and Anti-garfield, but it's basically the same thing. Wisecracking cat, dumb dog. At least the owner sort of has his head together. But then again, Garfield has always been better in animation than as a comic strip. At least for me. I've heard nothing but positive things about "Garfield Gets Real" (yet to see it), and Jim wrote that script himself.

Now, I really have faith in the writer, Mark Evanier, who as we all know wrote the original Garfield cartoon series. So having a returning talent in a new show is always a good sign.
 
Well, it's not like Garfield exists only in animation - he's a comic strip character first and foremost. I just think it seems awkward to revive the animated incarnation of the character with a completely different voice, especially when the first voice is the one so commonly and memorably associated with him.
 
I'd love to see a new Garfield series, so I hope things go well.

However, the further this new series puts itself from U.S. Acres the better, IMO.
 
Well he has been voiced in videogames and a DTV, Garfield does not die with Lorenzo. I love Lorenzo and Garfield and Friends so I kind of want a new series, I have faith in it for some reason. Although he already got a great animation run that'd be hard to follow so who knows.
 
Untrue, but recapturing the spirit of the 80s/early 90s Garfield would be great. And I think that any Garfield voice should at least resemble Lorenzo Music's, as he did originate the character in animation.
 
Respectfully, I must disagree. While Lorenzo Music was indeed a memorable voice actor and his vocal talents will be hard to replace, but that doesn't mean that the Garfield animated franchise should die with him. Like Dr. Tooth already said, Music didn't create the character, he only voiced him. The Flintstones didn't end after Alan Reed's (and later Henry Cordon)'s deaths. Elmer Fudd didn't die after Arthur Q. Bryan's passing in 1959. Looney Tunes continued after Mel Blanc's death. As long as Jim Davis is still willing and able to do it, there's no reason not to continue with Garfield.



What makes you so sure that it would be 1 of those 2? Because CN and TD each aired the reruns of Garfield & Friends? But we're not talking about Garfield & Friends here, now are we? This is a new Garfield project. It's not like Jim Davis has a life time contract with either channel. When it's known where it will air, there will be a press release about it.
 
Yeah, I doubt it'll be on Saturday mornings, since, in a little while (sadly), the only companies doing broadcast blocks on Saturday mornings will be DiC, NBC, and 4Kids, and none of them want to do a show that's not owned by them (4Kids will have a slight exception with CW, but that'll only be out of the current KWB shows).

Toon Disney seems to be focusing more on older completed shows and their own original series (and Digimon, but that's a different matter altogether), so that's out too.

I'd guess this series'll go to Cartoon Network (since just the name Garfield alone would give them the ratings they hunger for, plus they'd be able to use it as an excuse to show at least the first live-action movie) or Nicktoons Network (which is currently proving to be dead-set on reviving the glory days CN once had).
 
Well, it worked for the new George of the Jungle series.:sweat:

Although, I agree that when it does come here, CN or Nicktoons Network will probably air it.
 
I think the strips are still funny! It's the only thing in my life that makes me laugh. I tried everything else like Adult Swim and Family Guy, and they were all terrible!

Give peace a chance, people!
 
But, here's the thing, with new voice actors for those characters, they at least TRIED to get them to sound much like the originals.

Frank Welker did an excellent Garfield in Garfield Gets Real, but Welker now trying to develope his own style, I just don't the sounds of that. I;d really rather it sounded like Lorenzo.
 
I've always liked the Garfield TV specials as well as Garfield and Friends (yes,including US Acres)....I must be one of the few that likes it...I still love the running gag they had with Booker and Sheldon,where they'd ask Orson to put ninjas into whatever story he was reading them (usually a fairy tale like Cinderella or Rumplestiltskin)...
As for replacement voice actors,I usually don't mind them,though I do prefer that they at least sound something like the person they're replacing...

As for the original comics,I used to really love the series as a kid,and looking at some of the books I have,the comics back then were funnier(I also have one of the US Acres comic strip books,which I find hilarious;I'd like to find more,but I'm not even sure how long the comic strip ran)....Nowadays,it can be funny at times,but it seems more hit-or-miss (though I do like that Jon and Liz ended up getting together)....I'm a big comic strip fan,my all-time fave is Calvin and Hobbes,though currently I also love Pearls Before Swine (I love all the references to other comic strips/characters,plus that the creator is also a character),Get Fuzzy,Fox Trot,For Better or Worse,and Frazz,to name a few...
 
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