Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 07, 2016

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    water_moon  over 8 years ago

    Because they’re easiest to remain unidentified fling objects when they’re grainy and blurry and b&w. That and because people tended to look up at the sky rather than down at their phone…

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    unclebob53703 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    They borrowed the camera from the aliens

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    Varnes  over 8 years ago

    Archaeologists sure are going to find a lot of photos layin’ around…….And before the elitist people get going……There is nothing wrong with selfies!…..It’s a new art form. Deal with it, haters!

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    Olddog1  over 8 years ago

    And how many of those pictures were lenticular clouds?

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    jarvisloop  over 8 years ago

    And Bigfoot.

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    jarvisloop  over 8 years ago

    Varnes:

    If I can do it, it ain’t art.

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    DDrazen  over 8 years ago

    If the phone pix are for your own interest, that’s one thing. When people take pictures of their dinner and post it on Twitter, that’s when I thank God I’m not a subscriber.

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    James Wolfenstein  over 8 years ago

    People used to look up and the chances of seeing an UFO… the chances of seeing anything… were higher. Nowadays, they’re all looking at the screen of their phones.

    I’m kidding. Those pictures are all fakes . But ask anyone coming in with a cellphone in his hand how’s the sky out there… he’ll check the weather app…

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    ScullyUFO  over 8 years ago

    The reason that there were proportionally more UFO sightings before smart phones is simple: today people (exactly as depicted in the strip) are moving about with their nose in their phone, or are self-absorbed in some “social media” activity. No one is looking up.

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    Oclvroadbikerider  over 8 years ago

    There was a comic strip I saw where aliens had beamed up/ abducted a millinnial who had no idea anything had happened because he was still staring at his phone.Pretty much says it all: going through life clueless about what is actually going on around them in the real world.

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    ARLOS DAD  over 8 years ago

    Do aliens take selfies?….

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    Triviaguy  over 8 years ago

    They’re actually older than photography. The original selfies were the paintings often referred to as self portraits.

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 8 years ago

    N-G49…. I would say it is the latter (putting ones self into the moment). From my experience of watching a bunch of folks take selfies (my kids, my students, etc) and seeing at least some of these selfies…. it seems most everyone is just trying to be “in the moment”. I have not yet found anyone’s selfie to feel egotistical.

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    hippogriff  over 8 years ago

    As Arthur C. Clark said, “If you haven’t seen a UFO, you just haven’t been looking.” I have seen quite a few, different shapes, did not match the usual suspects, etc. And I find no evidence that they are extraterrestrial space vehicles. Most people have no idea of the vastness of space and the weakness of energy sources even at the impossible 100% Carnot efficiency at E=MC2. UFOs are aerial phenomenon that one is unable to identify; nothing more or less.

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    ChessPirate  over 8 years ago

    I have seen a few “UFOs”, and by that, I mean Unidentified Flying Objects, not alien spacecraft. Undoubtedly they were either planes, “falling stars”, or satellites, but there was one very unusual one. It was the shape of one of those “Flying Wing” aircraft, but I say that only because all that was visible was a ring of glowing orange lights in that shape. It was moving at the speed that an airplane would, not zipping all over at weird angles… :-)

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    Bill Koenig  over 8 years ago

    I used to live in Roswell, NM. One question I was asked frequently was, “Have you ever seen an alien?”

    My answer was always, “Yes! The usually wear funny clothes, carry a camera and have out of state tags on their car.”

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I’ve taken a lot of hoaxes then! My thumb, the ground, a flower that was too close…

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    buzzkillington  over 8 years ago

    Isn’t that Honey from ‘Doonesbury’ in the first panel?

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    fishbulb239  over 8 years ago

    Aliens quite clearly play a version of evolutionary one-upmanship with camera technology. Like the weed that changes to thwart the herbicide or the bacteria that changes to render the over-used antibiotic useless, aliens have become more elusive as cameras have become more pervasive and sophisticated.

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    paul GROSS Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Maybe people were not so self absorbed then and noticed what was happening around them

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Yeah, I was skeptical until I saw one.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 8 years ago

    @netPaul12“Calling anyone “morons” for what they do others don’t approve of is old, very old.”.Yep.Calling others “moron” is a sign of a moron, those morons.Oops, that means I … never mind.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 8 years ago

    @Varnes“You must be young: “selfies” are as old as photography.”.Many of the great painters painted selfies.It made for a cheap model.

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    prince valiant Premium Member over 8 years ago

    And why aren’t there any now?

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