Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 11, 2022

This won’t turn out well

An off shoulder peasant blouse and hoop earrings. She’s a player.

Girls have the screwiest ideas about what they can get boys to do and the off handed ways in which to deliver that message. Then, if the guy doesn’t comply, they get royally pissed!

Being unable to predict the future, he is unable to see the problems with tech he will come to rely on and therefore be forced to live it.

Janis is acting like a moth to Arlo’s candle!

Cassie has her ‘perturbed platypus’ face on display…

Oh, give up, Arlo. This is going nowhere. Find someone else.

In other words, don’t be with another girl, between 7 and 10.

You can tell this was over thirty years ago

I personally ignore my phones (land and cell) unless it is the special ring tones of my husband. Way too many spam calls is why.

Why is Cassie playing the mother hen? Is it jealousy? She seems awfully aggressive towards Arlo.

Role reversal.

She really don’t like him.

Landlines technology rules!

Yeah… sure… just wait for the “smart” phone… :D

The good old touch tone dorm room wall phone, I remember it well. Do they still have those, or did they rip them all out?

Actually, I think Cassie is kind of cute. Maybe Arlo should make a pass at her!

My college roommate got our phone disconnected when he couldn’t pay the big phone bill he ran up talking to his girlfriend. He than kept kicking me out of our room so he could have sex with his new girl friend.

What Marshall McLuhan said about the telephone.

Speaking of girls’ fashions way back when, these two sites might make you smile and/or cringe:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/10/11/girls-of-the-1960s/?chrome=1

https://www.vintag.es/2016/07/polaroid-prints-of-teen-girls-in-1970s.html

Reminds me of my dorm of bout 75 kids and 2 pay phones on 1st floor and just waiting my turn to use it

I’m trying to remember way back, to what it was like waiting by the phone for a call.

I really am enjoying this arc. Glad we’re continuing down memory lane!

This is the same guy who was converting gallons to kilograms on his computer and ended up disgusted with himself for ordering a ten-gallon hat.

Ah, the good old days. Then again, my phone never rings (or anything) just like in those days…

Cassie is a teacher to be.

Reminds me of this classic Up A Tree series:

https://arloandjanis.com/arluddite-iii

Me thinks Cassie is jealous of Janis?

I know it’s only been a few weeks… But this Cassie? I already dislike her a lot! LOL! I know it’s by design, but Mr. Johnson, you are so very good at what you do!

Cassie may have come with the idea she could get Arlo to cheat and flirt with her. Thus keeping Janis to herself.

OK, Arlo, “Life as a Yo-Yo”, aaaand begin! ☺

I never liked the girl friends’ friends.

I just had an idea: is Cassandra Gus’s girlfriend?

Along with being slaves to he elected

aint that prophetic

Cassie is unattractively snarky.

Triangles and T-squares? Are we sure Arlo’s not in the Engineering Sect?

I can’t believe Janis asked Cassie to say this to Arlo. He should just say he has plans tonight and let Janis come to him. Cassie is just a trouble maker.

“….I already intend to let Janis run my life.”

The rule, is a moot point here. Janis ain’t “technology”.

Of course, meeting up in person is out of the question!

Cassie will be making the call tonight, impersonating Janis. Cassie is, in fact, jealous of Janis. And it’s the early adulthood form of jealous, which is the best form of jealous.

What the heck is Cassie’s problem anyway? It’s like it’s nothing personal with Arlo, it would be the same with any man Janis is seeing. Does Cassie just not like men? I mean, not just dislike, but more than that…

Isn’t the joke for today how in present time Arlo still can’t operate a TV remote? Cassie is is just the “straight man” to set up the punch line. So how did this become about her?

418 PM CT..many GoComics are not working, I see no toons.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Whew… Cassie is one perpetually angry, and angry-looking girl!

“She needs to talk to you?” Uh, oh Arlo — have you been taking precautions?

Any one calling me when I was in college (plus before same and after same until we got married) had to call my parents’ house and most likely either talk to the answering machine or my one of my kid sisters.