From the salmon-colored sofa that is the center of the Arlo & Janis universe, this unique and quixotic comic strip has been just about everywhere. From unvarnished human drama to flights of unfettered comic fantasy, from unabashed pathos to unsurpassed observational wit, Arlo & Janis is perhaps the most unpigenholeable comic strip ever. It also invents new words!
The characters Arlo and Janis have played the parts of mermaids, squirrels, alligators and grasshoppers over the years, all while exploring the unexaggerated human condition and managing to become, with their son Gene, perhaps the most believable family in the funny pages. This unique approach has garnered Arlo & Janis an intelligent and engaged readership and guaranteed that a percentage of it will be confused at any given moment. However, readers eagerly return every day for another quaff from what has been the holy grail for a generation of comic-strip authors: quintessential Boomer humor.
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JimT8 said, 12 months ago
Arms still folded, but the provisions are encouraging.
chireef said, 12 months ago
she’s going to propose to him
Woody 157
said, 12 months ago
‘Spontaneity’ does not ‘just happen’. It has to be painfully pre-planned.
rusty gate said, 12 months ago
I’ve been wrong in my thinking. Thought Gene’s part of the story was on a lake or ocean. River is mentioned here, so appears the setting is not what I had imagined. I must have missed that strip that originally introduced where Gene was at.
water_moon said, 12 months ago
@rusty gate
They’re seaside as I recall, but most rivers flow into the ocean….
Jetjocky738 said, 12 months ago
I, too, thought that Gus’s restaurant is at the beach on the ocean. Maybe there is a river as well or perhaps the river is at the farm. Wonder how Gene will react to planned spontaneity?
JoeStoppinghem
said, 12 months ago
See, she does care for him as a partner, not as a puppet.
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The arms could be folded because she’s a little cool or maybe even cold.
StoicLion said, 12 months ago
@JoeStoppinghem
I see her arms folded as tacit admission that she was wrong, too.
Alyre
said, 12 months ago
nah…she’s playing it cool. My bet is things are going to heat up by the river…she misses him as much as he missed her…food, wine and a blanket spells nookie to me…..as the saying goes " It’s hotter than young love out there!"
chicken 33 said, 12 months ago
Is she piggy?
nighthawks
said, 12 months ago
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou …
Ah, my Belovèd, fill the Cup that clears / TO-DAY of past
Jenn said, 12 months ago
A ‘pre-put-together-picnic’ ensemble is not spontaneous. But once she relaxes those arms, maybe she’ll be willing to admit she’s too intense.
Matthew Davis said, 12 months ago
RE: river/lake/ocean – I believe her parents (and the restaurant and the schooner) are at the ocean, but in this scene I’m pretty sure they’re at the farm. I don’t know where the farm is, but I’ve always thought of it as more inland.
Paul Roese
said, 12 months ago
looks promising. maybe she did listen to Big Yellow Taxi a few times and heard “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” and took the lyrics to heart and doesn’t want to lose the good thing she has. Mary Lou also has to be aware that she would not be the only one hurt if she ended things with Gene. Meg would also be hurt by the fallout..
whmIII said, 12 months ago
It;s always better out doors…