Hetfield: A Brief Review Of Garfield The Cat

Thirty-one years after the release of Ride the Lightning, Metallica’s second studio album – and the record that arguable established them as one of the greatest bands of all time - the heavy-metal band can now be found as the subject of a comic-strip mash-up with Garfield the Cat. Artist and creator, Jimmy Two Hands, has recently been drawing up strips which fuse James Hetfield, Metallica’s vocalist and lead-guitarist, with the lazy, orange cat Garfield, in a web-comic titled Hetfield.

Hetfield, of course, isn’t the only Metallica member immortalized in this dry humored comic strip. Garfield’s owner, Jon Arbuckle, is recreated in the form of one Lars Ulrich, Metallica’s founding drummer, complete with receding hair-line. Meanwhile, Kirk Hammet gets a pooch-ified, taking the place of Odie, Garfield’s unintelligent, tongue lolling dog.
Hetfield can be seen kicking Hammet off a cliff while reciting “Disposable Zeroes,” swatting down spiders with a newspaper while drolly quoting “Search and Destroy,” defending his love of junk food and lack of exercise by quoting “My lifestyle determines my deathstyle,” and even referencing “Exit light, enter night,” from “Enter Sandman” as a plea to sleep