Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 21, 2014

Had it actually been huge, she would not have taken time to grab a towel.

@ArloNext time act heroically to do battle with the monster spider; it may be that which will tickle her funny bone.

Most house spiders are harmless. Those that hitch a ride on the banana boat are another mater.

The price for killing this spider is one towel please.

Even my wife agrees: we try to avoid killing spiders because we would rather have the spiders than whatever they are eating.

Practice catch and release outside the house.

Just think. If they dod not need us to deal with the spiders, snakes, and other creepy-crawalies, they would probably run us off as useless.

….did not…

Don’t throw in the towel, Arlo. Ask Janis to do that.

I had a similar issue a few weeks back and my husband told me to kill it, he got “THE” look and finally got out of bed to kill it…….. (difference was mine was a “water bug” roach in the shower…..ick, I hate those things.)

http://news.discovery.com/animals/puppy-sized-spider-surprises-scientist-in-rainforest-141020.htm

Q4horse. I have two round white scars, about half an inch apart, on my arm leftover from a nasty spider bite. I woke up one morning to red holes in my arm. Pretty soon they were nasty looking and had black centers, the whole area was inflamed. Went to the doctor. He said, “yup, you got a spider bite!” He didn’t even DO anything about it. Evidentially you can get some pretty nasty bites that are just that…plain old spider bites.

Great drawing in the first panel.

Judge much,M? Some,perhaps most people have major beef against spiders,for one reason or another,and there’s just NO turning that fear around. I myself have been arachnaphobic all my life,yet I seem to have the power to spot the things a mile away,and in the dark! I finally made some peace with them by realizing that as long as they don’t bother me,I don’t bother them. I STILL get creeped out by them,but ignore them ‘til they go away. As for running to Arlo,I think the joke was that Arlo asked a really dumb question ("I’m dripping wet,dude,where do you THINK it is?"). And not everyone can live your life any more than you can live anyone else’s. So I guess that makes us all wusses,don’t it? BTW,you DO realize this is a comic strip,right?

so we are back to the same old gags from years gone by. zzzzzzzzzzz!

You do realize that this is a stereotype, don’t you? There are plenty of women who are not afraid of “creepy crawlies” (and I have known men who were). Phobias are not gender specific.

The spider is about to be shoed away…

In London the other day, a very poisonous Brazilian spider hitchhiked into a family home on a bunch of bananas…

Easy enough to catch bugs with a plastic cup and a sheet of cardboard and release ‘em outside. They’re just trying to live, too.

A few years ago, I was given what I thought was a worthless gift…..an electric flyswatter. Well, I love it! Nothing like zapping an insect with 10,000 volts.

Roaches were what I couldn’t cotton to, especially the giant Florida palmetto bugs.

Funny, I kill the spiders in our house because my husband is more freaked out than me. Now snakes I can’t abide and we were BOTH freaked out the scorpian in the bathroom.