The fifteenth comic: #395 Garfield
"Hey, did you know you can find all the Garfield strips online?"
An hour later we read the minimum we wanted. And some more. You can too!
Garfield is such a mainstay in the comic field that it feels like there's little to say about it. The riffs on it - Garfield minus Garfield, and the unnamed trend that started around the same time that just removed Garfield's speech bubbles showing how expressive the cartoon is. Also, great to hear that Jim Davis is not only willing to let those projects be, but even embraces them and enjoys reading them.
Garfield is good, from the early comics to the most recent. It relies heavily on tropes and recurring gags, and while 'fresh' isn't the best word for it, it manages to find enough variation to keep the comics fun. It's all simple and recognisable, both because you recognise the behaviour from cats and because a lot of traits - like hating Mondays - are recognisable in general.
This means that what should be repetitive and boring because of it becomes more familiar - a well executed, nice part of the day - as a newspaper comic that has run for as long really should be.