Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 10, 2013

Looks like most of the people here had this figured out correctly. Good Job People!

Oh, this high-tech stuff jus makes me all WIGGLY!

Clean up in isle 4th wall.

Arlo could be a good companion for the Doctor

Check out Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud. It looks like Arlo has. And if these were mentioned yesterday, sorry for the repeat.

As an actor, I have no trouble performing this sequence in real time. All it takes is a reasonable level of pre-caffeine slow-brained thoughtfulness and you can do quite a bit more than this in the span of one long sentence. Watch what Meryl Streep does in the kitchen scenes in Bridges of Madison County, or how much housekeeping Jack Lemmon gets done in one sentence in The Odd Couple.

That Jimmy, he doesn’t lean against or or breaks the 4th wall; he gleefully deconstructs it.

Wibbley-wobbley, Timey-wimey.

It doesn’t help matters that the size of comic strips has been reduced nearly 40% over the last 20 years. I miss the days when Harold Gray and Walt Kelly were able to fill a whole page with wonderful wackiness…

Completely out of ideas…

P3 – yesterday I thought the joke was he was just doing something entirely different while talking. I thought he was using a paint roller and holding a can of paint.

My wife does this all the time. I never knew there was a scientific term for it.

Oh, I get it, alright. I just have trouble remembering it. I had to go back and re-read yesterday’s strip again. One of the hazards of getting old.

Yesterday’s strip was so cryptic, JJ felt the need to draw another one to explain it. Maybe not doing it in the first place was a better idea.

uh oh, this comic is becoming self-aware!

And. .. actually . . it’s not a run on sentence because there are proper prepositional phrases. So it’s not really amusing on any level.

Oh, that’s right, some people have kitchens that are more than two steps wide. In mine from the coffee counter to the icebox is a simple turn-around. I wasn’t thinking of actually having to take steps.

Why, it’s just like being there!

It’s all about relativity. I’m convinced Einstein worked in an office cube. Surely you’ve noticed that time inside the cube passes much slower than time outside the cube. Same for the comic strip where space and time move at varying rates.

Time travel is also possible in comic strips. However, you can’t change anything.