The Reality Of Comic Strips

So, when a human character talks to an animal character, typically, the human gets a dialogue balloon and the animal gets a thought balloon (except for "Get Fuzzy", "Pooch Cafe" and a few other outcasts, where apparently the humans and animals just outright talk to each other), something that always puzzled me. Can Jon actually hear what Garfield is saying? Sometimes it seems so, and sometimes, if you just block out Garfield altogether, Jon does seem to gibber on by himself quite often. He's a pretty lonely guy. For a cat owner.

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