Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 22, 2015

Janis thinks you made it up! Let’s check Wikipedia!

(And while we’re at it, let’s make a donation to Wikipedia.)

Thanks. Now I know what goes on at the thing my daughter attended.

Time to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh.

Like many things Roman (and Greek), Saturnalia is NSFW in the authentic version.

Which is why there’s no fifth panel.

TOGA!

Why is she not pulling the knot?

What ever Arlo is planning, Janis better be prepared for a Nero escape.

And then the Christians started the War on Saturnalia, covered by Fox News.

Arlo needs a “fibula,” and not the leg bone kind. It was an ancient type of safety pin that the Romans used to secure their togas.

And, no, that’s not going to be on the mid-term. Just a factoid I picked up when I lived in Jerusalem.

The winter solstice is the longest night of the year, Janis. What do you think happens? One must spend the time somehow or other…

Toga or not toga that is the question…

What else is there to do when its dark and cold out?

Euhoe Euhoe Bacche!

Is it just my overactive imagination or is the material in Janis’ sweater in panel two tautly stretched between her high beams?

It was Saturnalia long before Christmas and pagans still celebrate it. So no, you don’t get to just pretend those people don’t exist. I applaud the effort, though.

boy! to go back to the days of widespread slavery and pedophilia in ancient Rome before the Christians came and were such downers about everything.

I have been an H. P, Lovecraft fan for many years. I have not, up to this time, seen this bit of poetry. Thank you for sharing this bit from one of the masters of the dark and macabre.

WHOA!!! Go for it Arlo TOGA!, TOGA!, TOGA!, Pagan sex rituals are always fun.