Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 05, 2018

It certainly does!

Kinda like selling bottled water.

Flashback !!

It doesn’t seem to stop anyone nowadays!

better yet a flying camera to take the picture

Deja vu all over again.

It would and it invariably does. If all you want is a record that “I/we was/were there”, a selfie’s fine. If you actually want a good photo as well, there’s still a place for a tripod and timer. Or a friendly passer-by, at least.

What else was that camera used for?

Yup, that’s how we took selfies in the old good old days and sxorr is correct about why you can’t just hold that kind of camera out in front of you. You also can’t take a picture that close without a special lens.

It’s also hard to frame the shot. With Arlo’s luck he’d cut off his head and forever more be known as the headless photographer.

People were less self-absorbed back than. It’s even called a “selfie.”

I did stuff like that with a cheap point-and-shoot camera. It was almost never framed right and my arms weren’t long enough for it to focus. So I just got blurry images of two faces with no background for context.

The lens on a phone’s front-facing camera is a wider angle and focuses closer, since it is (or was originally) designed for video conferencing and related activities.

We were so much smarter back then

I used to have a hair style like Arlo does in this strip. But then, I used to have hair. Ah well…

Who would do a thing like that?

(He asked while pretending cluelessness)

Because he doesn’t have to

Love it.

Old comic…..look at their hair.

LOL