Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 13, 2025

Gus acting like Gus, the seldom appreciated grownup in the room.

I wrote day before yesterday …Arlo being wishy washy. Now I will write Stop it and move.

I had this problem too, when I was young (didn’t many of us?), but thank God, it all worked out.

I’d be a lot happier with a winning lottery ticket.

They all need to be close to each other. Now more than ever. You don’t get a do over on these life experiences. I’m sure Mary Lou wants everyone to be there for this blessed event. I’m surprised Gus hasn’t pointed this out to Arlo, and Gene will definitely benefit by having his father there to relate his own experiences.

Arlo really doesn’t want the change – but apparently, everyone else (including a lot of us readers) do. So…

This story is very powerfully true.

Satisfaction!

Jimmy is being wishy washy. I would think that the comic would be easier to write using all the characters he has created.

Sometimes you can be so afraid to take a step that you loose the opportunity. Knock Knock, Arlo.

After my job was moved to Mexico in ‘22 I decided it was time to get back home near family and friends so I decided to retire and find a place on a lake. It’s nothing fancy but beats living in an apartment.

I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but one has to wonder if this whole plotline is staging Mr. Johnson’s retirement.

I picture A&J finally deciding to move and the final strips are of them packing and saying goodbye to friends and neighbors. We are left behind as they get in the car and follow the moving truck. The very last strip is an epilogue.

It’s actually pretty consistent for someone with decision paralysis to be known as not adulting well, and to postpone big decisions.

Arlo, you’re not being wishy-washy. Your “gut” is telling you that you don’t want to move but the emotional extortion from the others is causing you grief and you’re not man enough to tell them what YOU want, or DON’T want.

Which is you don’t want to up-end your life and cater to those who only want to use you and Gus is a professional manipulator/user. He’ll tell you any lie for his own ends and he’ll pretend to care until the sale is made.

Just where did the pop culture myth BS of the goal of life is to BE HAPPY and to BE HAPPY 24/7? Just who is Gus (as well as Meg and Co.) to tell Arlo what will make him happy? If they really cared about that they’d shut their mouths and let A&J decide what is right for them instead of pressuring them to make Meg & Co. happy (well, happier, they’ll never be happy)

Time to strap on a pair Arlo and stop whining like a little girl.

Think we need to review the meaning of the word “comic”

Make a decision and live with it whether you like it or not. Not making a decision still gets you having to live with it.

I will do anything but make a decision.

But Arlo seems already to have found happiness in his life, just as it is. So why take a risk on losing that, by changing things?

I don’t get it, the house has been lived in and I don’t think the kids would sell Arlo a lemon of a house. So what’s the screw up?

My uncle knew he would go before my aunt. They downsized from a house to a condo together, so that burden wouldn’t be only on her, and they’d have a few happy years together at the new place. It worked out well for them.

You would think a man Arlo’s age would have his act more together. Is the a single reason why they shouldn’t move?

Whatever happened to the sailboat?

Define “happy.”

Only a man who has learned by bitter experience could have created today’s strip.

And only those who have learned by bitter experience can fully understand today’s strip.