Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 31, 2022

Yeah! He know all about that! Now!

Fortunately, reality wears off eventually. For our hero anyway.

And now, back to our usual comic strip, “Arlo”.

Look at him. Arlo’s reality is the way this barefoot woman walks away. Loving this strip maybe because my wife went barefoot every chance she had. In fact my favorite CCR line is from just a few years before this timeline. It went “Barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight.” Always makes me think of her.

Ok, now I see the storyline!

All the tragicomedy of love and marriage in four panels. In its modest way it’s akin to what the Bard did with four or five acts of Othello or Lear.

Aw, it’s not the nose, it’s the blonde hairy legs she can’t get used to.

After this trip down memory lane, Arlo should encourage Janis to dig out some of those old halter tops…

In the vernacular of the day, “The frisbee queered the deal!”

Arlo doesn’t want reality…

The course of true love, etc, etc.

What a mood breaker!

A forgettable incident!

One time I took a girl on a first date….I went to the bathroom, there was a fight, someone knocked over a big fan….I came out from the bathroom and my date had a broken arm! Also last date..lol

Take it to mean she thinks your dreamy.

Yeah, gonna hunt the dude down.

At least offer to walk her back to her dorm to make sure she is alright.

If this story line goes on another week I’m going to drop Arlo and Janis from My Comics.

Ah, so that’s how her face got so deformed.

I would have walked away from him too. No offer to help, to get her ice, no concern for her at all, only his lost chance to get lucky, and that stupid looking mustache makes him look angry all the time. He didn’t even walk her back home. A real jerk, today. That said, I am tired of memory lane.

Don’t know about that last line involving back to reality but a sock in the nose is definitely a wake up…..

“My thoughts exactly. But I figure he didn’t mean to do it.”

Dude … surprised no one has mentioned this yet but

YOU WALK HER BACK TO THE DORM!

Ok, enuf young love. More Ludwig.

Don’t be an April fool, Arlo

Oh my goodness. So this whole comic strip’s existence has been a parallel universe?

Whatever delights Arlo had in mind…..vanished!