Marmaduke

"How's the campout going?" Phil asks Marmaduke.
Marmaduke is inside his doghouse which is itself inside a tent.

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Pondering Wizard of Id

So, computers don't exist in Wizard of Id then? As I've previously discussed, Wizard of Id definitely takes place in roughly the modern day, but in an alternate reality where technology has regressed to pre-industrial levels (at least in the kingdom of Id), and this strip suggests that it has almost certainly regressed in the rest of the world as well, otherwise the citizens of Id (at least the wealthy and privileged ones) would know about modern technology.

Magic appears to work in the comic, but perhaps the wizards and psychics really just have access to forgotten technology. This fortune-teller knows about computers because she uses them, but to Bung they're completely unknown.

But the big question is, if the wizard remembers the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, what year is this comic set in and how did the world fall into such a state within his lifetime?

Improving Garfield

Based on this recent Garfield strip.

Ziggy

"..you don't have the authority to negotiate a cease-fire!" says Ziggy to his cat and the two mice he clearly intended for the cat to kill. The animals don't respect his claims of authority at all.

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Hi and Lois

"I guess I haven't cleaned in a while..." says Lois to herself.
She runs her finger across the windowsill, collecting some dust.
"Window silt." she says to herself glumly.

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