Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 07, 2014

Goldilocks and the seasons

Janis gets to be a bear.

Someone’s been sitting in it….

The chair could not stand the test of time.

Huh? Do not understand.

Grottylocks and the Four Seasons (That’d be a good name for a band)

It was too soft.

Why is there an upside down tree in the last panel?

Is JJ is a Dylan fan? Has gravity failed and Janis’ negativity won’t pull her through. Oh wait, that would mean it’s Eastertime too. Never mind.

I would say in spring and fall the temperature is just right. The hours of daylight can never be long enough.

That is one homely Goldilocks.

The retro strip today should be the one we Arlo is talking to Ludwig about the football teams, of which all are having bad years, that Ludwig likes. Naturally they are all NFL teams named after felines (Bengals, Lions, etc.) Ludwig’s look is precious.

@codger1944—-No upside down tree. Just a bush with the base of a tree rising behind it. The top is not shown, but you can see 2 branches rising upward in the correct direction.

‘If Arlielocks had lived in Florida in the 1940’s and earlier, he wouldn’t have said that about September. In St. Petersburg no one had A/C, save for the occasional movie theater (“20° cooler inside”) or store (or maybe a rich person’s mansion – I dunno). By September we were thoroughly sick of the heat, and the sun beat down on us at a sizzling angle. Maybe by the end of October, it might start to get a little decent.

Bed in SummerBy Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.