Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 10, 2013
Transcript:
Arlo: OK, in the first panel, Arlo begins a sentence as he is pouring a cup of coffee...* * From Yesterday Arlo: Mid-sentence he's across the kitchen digging in the refrigerator... Arlo: As he finishes his thought, he's back across the room at the sugar bowl!! Janis: Run-on sentence! Arlo: Comic strip space-time continuum!!
KenTheCoffinDweller over 11 years ago
Looks like most of the people here had this figured out correctly. Good Job People!
pegleglester over 11 years ago
Oh, this high-tech stuff jus makes me all WIGGLY!
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 11 years ago
Clean up in isle 4th wall.
Devils Knight over 11 years ago
Arlo could be a good companion for the Doctor
BillWa over 11 years ago
Check out Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud. It looks like Arlo has. And if these were mentioned yesterday, sorry for the repeat.
rugeirn over 11 years ago
As an actor, I have no trouble performing this sequence in real time. All it takes is a reasonable level of pre-caffeine slow-brained thoughtfulness and you can do quite a bit more than this in the span of one long sentence. Watch what Meryl Streep does in the kitchen scenes in Bridges of Madison County, or how much housekeeping Jack Lemmon gets done in one sentence in The Odd Couple.
StoicLion1973 over 11 years ago
That Jimmy, he doesn’t lean against or or breaks the 4th wall; he gleefully deconstructs it.
KEStuck over 11 years ago
Wibbley-wobbley, Timey-wimey.
Dampwaffle over 11 years ago
It doesn’t help matters that the size of comic strips has been reduced nearly 40% over the last 20 years. I miss the days when Harold Gray and Walt Kelly were able to fill a whole page with wonderful wackiness…
sbchamp over 11 years ago
Completely out of ideas…
Mopman over 11 years ago
P3 – yesterday I thought the joke was he was just doing something entirely different while talking. I thought he was using a paint roller and holding a can of paint.
daveoverpar over 11 years ago
My wife does this all the time. I never knew there was a scientific term for it.
Retired Dude over 11 years ago
Oh, I get it, alright. I just have trouble remembering it. I had to go back and re-read yesterday’s strip again. One of the hazards of getting old.
Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 11 years ago
Yesterday’s strip was so cryptic, JJ felt the need to draw another one to explain it. Maybe not doing it in the first place was a better idea.
Sodaburger over 11 years ago
uh oh, this comic is becoming self-aware!
coffee_mom11 over 11 years ago
And. .. actually . . it’s not a run on sentence because there are proper prepositional phrases. So it’s not really amusing on any level.
Llywus over 11 years ago
Oh, that’s right, some people have kitchens that are more than two steps wide. In mine from the coffee counter to the icebox is a simple turn-around. I wasn’t thinking of actually having to take steps.
topbunk over 11 years ago
Why, it’s just like being there!
demorodney over 11 years ago
It’s all about relativity. I’m convinced Einstein worked in an office cube. Surely you’ve noticed that time inside the cube passes much slower than time outside the cube. Same for the comic strip where space and time move at varying rates.
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 7 years ago
Time travel is also possible in comic strips. However, you can’t change anything.