Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 29, 2016

janis just does not understand the real pleasure of the season.

Don’t think about it, its a scream saver.

“Intense” — I do not think it means what Arlo thinks it means.

“intense”? doesn’t that have something to do with camping?

Nope. Just the plug.

Why not get a blinker bulb….? Other than that I don’t understand this one at all……Did Arlo get dosed or something? Who says “little ones”? I thought they didn’t get high anymore…..

I don’t get it either

Usually I can get something out of Jimmy J’s more esoteric strips. This one is pretty thin on subtleties. I wish he’d resurrect the ghost arc from 2005.http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2005/03/05 etseq.

Years ago, while in my teens, my buddy and I were going out for some Halloween mischief. I had a Jack-o-lantern with a bulb and battery setup, So I was prepared. My buddy lived in a converted barracks building with the high windows.As I walked up to the house, in the dark, I stuck my jack-o-lantern up in front of the window and flipped the switch to ON.

That was the exact same moment his baby brother climbed on a chair in front of that same window to see if his daddy was coming home.

The light appeared in front of him, he screamed loudly, fell over backwards off the chair, hit his head, and was knock out.

Luckily he was not hurt seriously, just a bruise knot on his head.

Arlo’s being facetious,he knows the decoration is lame.

At first I thought it was the Geech strip…

Now if only its expressions changed. Now that would scare them white.

M y wife has a motion activated cackling witch decoration that she puts out on the steps every Halloween to scare the kiddies.Its kinda lame too,but the rest of the year she stores it downstairs in the bar,and since I only occasionally visit the bar ( honestly) it never fails to scare the bejesus out of me!

Well, it isn’t flashing on and off — Arlo is plugging it in and unplugging it — an act of indecision.

Comicsssfan… Or Wendy the “Wicked” witch!

That is all the Halloween decorations you got? Where are the orange and green lights, the ghosts and witches? Spider webs?

My dad brought home a 1950’s style 2 way intercom. I made a dummy, with a pumpkin head, and put the speaker behind it…I could say something stupid, and I could hear their response….and then respond back…They would actually look at the dummy when they answered back….

Varnes…So they were looking at you? Ha,just kidding!

Judging from the look on J’s face & her posture, I think this is sarcasm on A’s part.