Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 11, 2020

Nice juxtaposition. If we didn’t know Janice as well as we do, we might take that the wrong way.

Oops, Janis.

If beer is going to kill me, at least make it a craft brew.

Arlo will do anything you want right now.

Panel #3 , Janis has muscle tone. A wild cat!!!!

I despise people who kill violently small lifeforms!!!

I’m with Janis on this one, as long it’s a cold beer while we enjoy watching the slugs die!

What’s good for the slugs is good for the Arlo.

Those AA meetings for slugs fighting the urge for the Vino and hard stuff are the worst. Never on time as it takes so long for all of them to get there.

Then there are the ones who just don’t get it and talk about wanting to try a brewski (or “ski” for the Kavanaugh slugs) just once.

Better sleep with one eye open tonight, Arlo, until this passes.

Jimmy – Please take the pandemic 15 pounds off Janis. Can’t bear to think of her as anything but perfect.

Damn, these last few comics have hit close to home….

Slugs thinking: All right drink and drown night.

Sure, I’ll have a beer, but please wash your hands for 20 seconds first.

Why? So he can jump in and die as well. Janis is becoming very morbid. Where has the happy, cheerful Janis gone?

Yeah, and while you’re at it, slip into something comfortable, KWIM, doll?

“Sure, but just bring the can. I’ll open it myself.”

It’s amazing how humans are always at war with “inferior” animals like slugs and squirrels … and almost invariably losing

I remember my dad putting out little bowls of beer on our porch back in the ’50s and the slugs drowning themselves.

I’ve had a garden before and beetles invaded. They would burrow into the dirt and decimate the leaves at night. My plants were in pots. One day I left the hose sitting in the sun so the water was almost hot. I found out that watering my pots with near hot water meant that when the beetles crawled out of the ground for air they would essentially boil to death. The water was hot enough to kill them without affecting my plant’s roots. I must have killed dozens of beetles a day that way. It was so satisfying after seeing my strawberry and pepper leaves almost completely eaten off.

Looks like Janis enjoys murdering slugs almost as much as my wife Judy enjoys doing the same thing to flies! ;o] My new avatar is my version of the little sandpipers we enjoy watching at the beach!

Janis was obviously listening to the beer solution.

(Somewhat vindictive, isn’t she?)

This one needs a CLEAR MOUTH OF COFFEE BEFORE READING warning.

After that little display, I’d get my own beer, and hire a food taster. Not sayin’ just sayin’.

I used to work in a hardware store in a very liberal neighborhood. Nice, kind, souls, concerned for everyone and everything. . . . until their house/apartment was infested with some pest. Then they would come in and say “I’ve got fleas/bedbugs/ mosquitoes, whatever, and I’m being eaten alive.” I would offer a non-toxic remedy and caution them that this would take several treatments to be effective. The response was usually “NO! I want them dead! I want them dead now!! I want my house back now!!!”

I love Arlo’s ’she’s gone bananas!’ expression!

Janis embraced the drunken darkness.

Lucretia Borgia was a woman as well. Just sayin’.

Well death by beer seems like a good way to go, but I think I’ll wait for the mood to change.

Beer is poison to slugs not humans.

Watch it Arlo! She wants you to die! die! die!

Hmm. Sure she didn’t intend it, but hope the mantra doesn’t apply to Arlo.

Awesome, totally awesome. It isn’t often that A&J make me guffaw out loud but today is one of those days.

What a lovely woman – inside and out!

That look in Arlo’s eyes!

…a Corona?

A potential black widow in every wife…

I think I might pass right now, thank you.