Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 30, 2024

ARLO!!

Really, Marilyn Monroe Janis? We’re talking Playboy Issue 1. She died about when you started grammar school. I’m guessing you surprised Arlo.

If you want to feel better Janis look at these bubble butt women.

“She was pretty enough in her own way, but she was no Janis, Janis.”

Totally wrong response Arlo. This could spell trouble.

That’s our Arlo!

strike three; yer out

Janis needs to spend more time in the shower, Calm down.

Oh gosh, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Ann Margaret. Those were women!

Janice, at least you are not Kardashian

You’re in a hole, Arlo. Stop digging!

He’s a dead man.

It was nice knowing ya, Arlo!

D*mn Madison Avenue, getting women to think they must look a certain way to be considered beautiful.

You know, Janis has a hubby who adores her figure just as she is. Not many women have a guy, after so many years of marriage, who caters to her with a glass of wine unbidden as she bathes, and then sits on the edge of the tub to appreciate the gal he has in his life. However much they share with one another, though, he should have kept the nose/coffee statement to himself.

Time to tug on that towel Arlo and start kissing.

“Arlo, is that a cigar in your pocket or are you just happy to see me”?

I always thought Audrey Hepburn the most beautiful

Where’s a subway grate when you need one? And Arlo, do you have an itch that needs scratching?

So many words get taken away! “Curvy” used to be a good thing, now it’s a borderline insult, along with zaftig and voluptuous. I’ve never been, um, outstanding enough for any of those adjectives. “Cute” was the best I got.

Danger, Will Robinson!

Arlo, you better head on outside and cut the grass.

Arlo… Shut up. You’re only digging yourself in deeper.

Watched a Marilyn Monroe movie last week. She spent nearly the entire movie in a tight white evening gown. What a sight to behold!

I think the guest bedroom is open

I’ve heard a big difference between men and women is the fact that when most men look in the mirror they’ll say to themselves “not bad…”

….and when most women look in the mirror they’ll find fault. It appears Janis exemplifies this in today’s strip.

And once again, Jane Mansfield gets no love.

He’s in trouble now

Janis remember that line about coffee coming out of his nose when he is in an amorous mood…….

Marilyn was chubby by this millennium’s standards. We’ve spent the last 25 years or so starving ourselves to try to look like a Dauchu escapee. We also wore shoes with toes so pointed they could could cause bleeding if you kicked anyone, and permanent damage to the foot inside. And, we are appalled by Chinese foot binding. It’s amazing what women will do to themselves to try meet the current idea of beauty.

LOL! Janis is hardly “Rubenesque”! Regardless, I’ve always found her character alluring.

Ya know, Jansie Poo should try living with Hagar the Horrible for a while. Or Mr. Lockhorn. She’s so self-absorbed, she doesn’t know what she’s got.

Arlo, next time lead with Bettie Page!

Somewhere between fashion magazine thin and Marilyn are the most near “normally shaped” stars of past and present like Grace Kelly and now Scarlett Johansen. Lasting beauty.

Is Janis trying to say that Marilyn Monroe was unattractive?

THAT’S probably one of the funniest strips (pardon the pun) I have read in a very long time!

More like a Mae West.

Arlo, I agree. Mariyln Monroe was ugly in my eyes. I think your wife looks way better.

Yesterday dd1297 commented, “More recently than Rubens’ day, ever seen Marilyn Monroe at the height of her movie career? Curves that today would require Spanx, at the very least!”

A prophet has written!

Someone once pointed out that it should be Rubensesque because the painter’s name was Peter Paul Rubens. The s somehow got dropped from Rubens in making up the description.

I would have just coughed to cover my laugh …..

At least he was honest, coffee thru the nose and all.

Coffee I had this morning? Really, Arlo, drinking means swallowing in the end. How can you keep it in your throat for that long?

Is she — or he — skirting the issue?

I am short. I am fat. I wear eyeglasses most of the time (gave up on contact lenses decades ago). My mind works oddly. I am annoying (yes, I know this). I am officially old for several years now.

But none of that matters to me or has done so in decades. My husband thinks I’m cute. He likes that know things that no one else (including him) knows. He likes that I look at most things differently than other people. If I so much as say that I read about something we will going to see it or buying supplies to do it, even if I was just interested in knowing info about it.

This is all that matters. (Well, that and he puts up with my 95 mom when we see her or need to take her to a doctor or such.)

Marilyn Monroe was officially 5’ 4’’ and 118 pounds, according to the studio and the dresses she wore which are still on display.