Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 09, 2013
Transcript:
Arlo: Consider the space-time continuum in comic strips... Arlo: It's often problematic, dialogue and action subtly out of sync... Arlo: But we take it for granted, because, after all, it advances the script! Janis: You've lost me. Arlo: How can I illustrate what I'm getting at?
peter over 11 years ago
I see a crack in the Fourth Wall appearing… ;-)
<95> over 11 years ago
All looks perfectly in sync for those four panels. Coffee, Cream, Sugar, Conversation.
frumdebang over 11 years ago
In panel three, it appears that a rip in space time has moved his butt to his front. Shades of President Skroob.
George Alexander over 11 years ago
Arlo, you just did. Sneakingly clever, JJ.
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 11 years ago
Crack in the fourth wall?.Hell it’s nothing but rubble.
StoicLion1973 over 11 years ago
Somewhere Scott McCloud is weeping with laughter.
Doctor_McCoy over 11 years ago
Time is space, space-time. That is all ye know on earth…….
jimpallas over 11 years ago
Self relating musings beats hell out of puns. See also today’s Fusco Brothers.
QuietStorm27 over 11 years ago
I’ll take a cup of coffee minus the cream please Arlo.
DDrazen over 11 years ago
At least they haven’t fallen victim to the Trudeau Conundrum: how to judge the passing of time in an early Doonesbury strip when the artwork in all four panels was identical.
ChessPirate over 11 years ago
In the fifth panel, they are in the garden in different clothes and Arlo says: “I have it!”
Sodaburger over 11 years ago
uh oh, Arlo’s getting existential
themom51 over 11 years ago
I believe this is simply showing that the entire conversation could and should have taken place in the time he took to pour his coffee. In reality, there would have been gaps of up to a minute between sentences if they were stated at the points shown from pouring coffee to already being seated at the table.
Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 11 years ago
Enough of the deep cerebral stuff… comics are supposed to be comical… i.e., funny.
Patricia Pfaff Premium Member over 11 years ago
I don’t care for the way this strip is going, I’d like to know what’s going on with chip and his family etc. I don’t care for all this political and tech stuff. they almost seem angry with each other lately.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 11 years ago
““The Saint” with Sir Roger Moore broke that wall”
I enjoyed that show.-Let us not forget Arlo spent all last week lecturing us regarding the rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence.
SnuffyG over 11 years ago
Then why does my newspaper call them “Funnies”?
water_moon over 11 years ago
arlo likes to makea mockery of the 4th wall, always has