Garfield's Judgment Day

"Garfield's Judgment Day" is a Garfield book based on an unproduced theatrical animated feature, published in 1990. Unlike the television special adaptions, this book is in a picture book format rather than the comic book format.

Plot

A terrible storm is heading towards their town and only the pets can sense it. They must all convince their owners to seek refuge in a building down town for the duration.

Trivia

* Jim Davis wrote this story as the script for a feature-lenght theatrical Garfield cartoon when the prime time animated specials were still in production. The voices and songs were recorded for the film, but no studios were interested in funding the animation, apparently because of the dark, serious tone of the story. After pitching it to studios and as a television special for several years, Davis tried writing a few other feature-lenght scripts, but still no funders showed interest.
* The book is notable as being the only Garfield book in which the animals talk, aside from "" which was intended as "entertainment" according to Jim Davis.

* The book establishes Arlene as being a stray cat.