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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Nos Nevets said, 4 months ago
Looks mighty suspicious, but I guess I’m too naive to know what it means.
beviek
said, 4 months ago
I think she needs a bigger screen to be able to read and doesn’t want anyone to know.
Agent54 said, 4 months ago
@beviek
I do not know, I have seen her wear reading glasses before while reading on the couch, so I think it is a something else.
afficionado said, 4 months ago
What bev said
thebird55 said, 4 months ago
She does not want to let on that the computer is better at something that her smartphone.
Varnes said, 4 months ago
Dear part time colorist…THE COUCH IS PINK, ON WEEKDAYS AND SHOULD BE, EVEN ON THE WEEKENDS!! ..Did you ever read the strip? Somebody call the Sheriff…. Mordecai you out there?
jeffc42
said, 4 months ago
She can’t read it on the phone, so she has to go to a bigger screen. I’ve had to do that, and go to either my iPad or my computer. My eyes never were what they should have been. I can’t imagine watching TV or movies on the iphone, although I have watched baseball and football, due to no other options.
cabalonrye said, 4 months ago
She is ashamed to be caught using a dinosaur computer instead of a hip and trendy smartphone. I have friends like that (sigh).
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
Maybe she just needs longer arms.
Jimmeh said, 4 months ago
One of the joys of aging. Bi-focals can’t be avoided Janice!
ScullyUFO said, 4 months ago
@Jimmeh
Does laser surgery cure that?
BRIPHILL said, 4 months ago
She took a picture of herself and sent it to the desktot to view
gir63 said, 4 months ago
@ScullyUFO
Nope. From what I’ve read the only vision corrective procedure that fixes both the far and near (old age near vision), is where they replace the eye’s lens, like in cataract surgery.
poihths said, 4 months ago
It’s the fact that your eyes get worse as you get older. That’s why the grampa box is still so popular among, well, grampas.
Burnside217 said, 4 months ago
The bigger tablets will be the new smart phones for the 40+.