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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exoticdoc2 said, 4 months ago
There aren’t because they (flying saucers) aren’t.
Pharmakeus Ubik said, 4 months ago
With ever improving resolution, the paper plates are readily identified.
NebulousRikulau
said, 4 months ago
People are too busy looking down at their phones texting to notice the UFOs.
Or anything else, like oncoming traffic.
win said, 4 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
huzzah!
win said, 4 months ago
I have a picture of Bigfoot riding The Loch Ness Monster taken from a UFO. I swapped a probe for the pic. No, don’t ask…
Burnside217 said, 4 months ago
So true Arlo! Be sure to enjoy the photo,and look out the window too.
win said, 4 months ago
@rollsroyce
I don’t rearmember.
wcorvi said, 4 months ago
There is an Android app called camera360 which adds a perfect flying saucer into the sky. The taker has no idea where it came from, and doesn’t even remember seeing anything unusual until later. See
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2013/02/08/372022_tasmania-news.html
and read the comments.
bawana said, 4 months ago
There are fewer UFOs flying today due to mergers and the price of fuel….
bagbalm said, 4 months ago
car hob caps look a lot different
Gee Man said, 4 months ago
@bagbalm
Most of the hubcaps are plastic, or aluminum wheels. Most garbage bins are plastic. Fewer and fewer sources for shiny metal disks…
riverhawk
said, 4 months ago
How nice that his wife does that. I wonder if it happens in real life.
princevaliant
said, 4 months ago
Exactly and it proves the point that ufos, big foot, nessie, et al are figments of our fertile imaginations.
doublepaw said, 4 months ago
Guess he never heard of stealth UFOs. Saucers supposedly have been around since about 1948 or so, you would assume they have improved their tech in 65 years or so.
finale said, 4 months ago
Fireballs.