Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 20, 2023

Janis is sure light on her feet…..

Probably slow dancing in particular. Wise woman.

Everybody get footloose!

Putting the “loose” in “footloose”?

Does the third panel mean Arlo was dancing a little stiffly (so to speak).

Very sweet & romantic!

Well done Jimmy

Hm… I didn’t imagines the height difference that big until now. Standing high on her toes her scalp’s still under his nose – that adds up to at least a full foot less than him.

In Puritan England, having sex standing up used to be banned, in case it led to dancing.

And Arlo is glad Janis didn’t listen.

Slow dancing, swaying to the music…noone else in the whole wide world…just me and my girl.♥︎

Johnson needs to put Janis on a diet. This is a comic, not real life. She shouldn’t have to put up with middle age spread.

A (male) friend said, “I don’t like dancing. I do like holding on to women who are dancing.”

Well I’m sure the warning wasn’t about square dancing.

Awww . . . I love how she’s standing on tippy-toes in panel one.

Unchained Melody playing, Righteous Brothers singing?

Everybody cut, everybody cutEverybody cut footloose

Al Green will do that.

Love this!

They didn’t teach us to dance that way in 8th grade Catholic school Cotillion class.

Even guys with two left feet come out all right if the girl is sweet.

I wish I still had a “dance” partner….menopause took her away.

Why don’t (whatever strict religion) have sex standing up? Because it could lead to dancing.

The Vertical Bop, amiright?

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I love this strip so much ♡.

I miss slow dancing.

I vote for Air Supply!!! I know, this should have been said yesterday… But still, today I vote for Air Supply again!!!

An old statement of slow dancing. “Nothing like a woman that walks right through you!”

Granny, if she’d only known, would have warned her about a lot more. Wouldn’t have mattered. She ended up doing them all, doing most of them very well indeed.

Always have that ability to dance, to let yourself go.

My grandmother thought that dancing was evil. My aunt danced anyway. My father thought that my brother and I should learn how to dance and took us to dancing classes. My husband did not dance and so I forgot how. My grandmother would say that I should never have learned.

Women like to slow dance… for the romance, of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzo-0mnUVFM

Janis is on her toes and still that much shorter than Arlo? I didn’t think they had so great a height difference.

Where’s the mirror ball???

Sure, if you are good at dancing. For myself, I quit dancing with dates because I got tired of embarassing them and I did usually want to talk to them again.

Had you been as clumsy as I am, the warning would have been extremely reasonable.

Slow dancin’ with my baby…

Baptist Grandmother?

Author Tamar Myers says you shouldn’t have sex standing up. It could lead to dancing.

Ritualized foreplay!!

Didn’t she throw out her dishes!?

Well, if grandma hadn’t done what she had done then Janis wouldn’t be here to do it too. <];o) YOWSA!

Hands, Arlo. Keep the hands above the waist.

This is why square dancing was invented.

I grew up in a church that banned dancing of any kind, among many other things.

Fond memory from high school. A girl who was a friend – we never dated – but at dances those we might be dating knew that Kay and I always danced select slow dances together (Sleep Walk, by Santo and Johnny for one). She could melt the buttons on your shirt and fuse your belt buckle.

Gene, Gene, from the dancing machine.