The A.V. Club has dug up a funny spin on the popular Garfield Minus Garfield blog that first popped up on the internet back in 2008 — it’s called “Garfield Without Garfield’s Thought Balloons,” and as stated on the Tumblr site Bogleech, “I know Garfield Minus Garfield was the one that got a real book and everything, but Garfield Without Garfield’s Thought Balloons is way funnier to me. Especially because Jon can’t hear Garfield’s dialog, so what we see in these strips is the actual canon…this is actually the shit this man does with his fucking cat.”

Here are eight of the strips below: