Marmaduke has turned into a comic strip starring an angry old codger who yells at gigantic floating onomatopoeias. This (possibly autobiographical) format will most likely be short-lived, and the comic will resume its normal routine of recycling the same eight "abnormally large dog inconveniences family" jokes as soon as Marmaduke creator Brad Anderson comes down off of the fistful of psychedelic mushrooms he ate last night.