The six-day mini-series ended on October 28, 1989 — just a few days before Halloween. Davis, for reasons untold, wanted to do something “legitimately scary, as opposed to Halloween-scary,”
per BoingBoing. As he further expanded on in the
Garfield‘s
Twentieth Anniversary Collection, he asked some people what scared them, and being alone (or dying alone) came up near the top of most everyone’s list. He never intended the segment to be a canonical take on what’s actually happening in Garfield’s world — consider it a dream sequence, if you will. And it most definitely did not mean for it to be funny, which is good, because it plainly isn’t.