I think they mean more that the panels were lazily copy/pasted, instead of drawn each time. Even old Garfield strips aren’t as lazy. I’ve superimposed these 3 panels to show that they’re identical except for the arm in the last panel:
Compare that to today’s old strip superimposed on itself, you can tell that Jim Davis drew each panel separately and didn’t copy/paste it:
It’s a newspaper comic strip and you’re critiquing the art style?
I think they mean more that the panels were lazily copy/pasted, instead of drawn each time. Even old Garfield strips aren’t as lazy. I’ve superimposed these 3 panels to show that they’re identical except for the arm in the last panel:
Compare that to today’s old strip superimposed on itself, you can tell that Jim Davis drew each panel separately and didn’t copy/paste it:
There was a time when they used to at least try.