Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 22, 2019

I do the same thing with my cats!

So do I!

It could be worse; he could be sleeping and making sounds (e.g. snoring, sleep apnea, gurgling stomach, talking about his lover).

Try a mirror under Arlo’s nose next time Janis.

There is NO point in Janis doing that.- if he is alive, then she just disturbs him- if he is dead, then he will still be dead in the morning, and she will have had a night’s sleep

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Now that my husband and I are senior citizens, every time he sleeps later than usual I start wondering if I’m a widow and don’t know it. But I don’t wake him up to find out. It will become obvious soon enough.

Well, as long as you’re up, let’s talk.

JJ didn’t draw a solid line between the back of Arlo’s head and his pillow.

Colorist used a “bucket tool” to “fill” Arlo’s hair with yellow… with no line to separate them, it filled the pillow, too.

Upshot is, for a moment, I thought Arlo suddenly had a full head of long blonde hair.

LOL

BTW… don’t start jumping the colorist….

not only do they only get about 10 minutes to color each daily strip (an hour a week for the six days),

They generally have no way to contact the cartoonist and are under strict orders not to change any of his line work.

This colorist could probably only skip Arlo’s hair in that panel and let it stay white or let the pillow turn yellow.

the warm comfort of a spouse

So Arlo doesn’t sleep so soundly any more? Differently enough to disturb his wife? Try melatonin.

My wife invented the “Sleep of the dead”.

My husband does the same thing. He wakes me if my leg is twitching or my breathing sounds irregular. This insures that I don’t get a good night’s sleep and am grouchy in the morning. Don’t wake sleeping dogs, bear, or spouses!

We need a sailing sequence! Let Arlo go sailing! It doesn’t have to be that long. Just a week.

We do this all the time. We are older you know.

so so funny………my wife gets something out of the refrigerator, smells it and offers me some…..‘this smells funny taste it’. lol why would i do that…..

Sleeping didn’t come easy after we had our first child. I kept waking up when he was crying or fussing. When he wasn’t crying or fussing, I kept getting up to check to see if he was still breathing. Things were more relaxed with our second child.

My new upstairs neighbor works a late shift, and often tromps around until two o’clock in the morning and later. It’s worse on her days off, but I can’t yet tell when those days are. So now I have to take sleeping pills. They say they are not not habit-forming, but how would they know? Welcome to the first day of the rest of my life.

Arlo: “Well, I can snore if makes you feel better.”

I do this with my husband, but I usually just lightly lay a hand on his back to feel for breathing. He has asthma and so I am always checking up on him, especially if he was in a client’s home that day with dogs he had a reaction to.

Necrophiliacs disturb me.

They should have Sunday to go by since that is when the artist colors his own comic. But look a poor Charles Brown. He isn’t bald, he has short blond hair. But the colorists just color him bald.

I have shaken both my children awake when they were very young and I couldn’t tell if they were breathing. I still feel that panic when my eldest is sleeping deeply and I can’t see her chest rising and falling.

What’s the one thing guaranteed to turn a man’s stomach?

Two warm breasts pressed against his back.

Do that Janis, and you will know instantly whether or not Arlo is alive!

My late husband had sleep apnea when he was heavy and I would wake up when he stopped breathing. He slept on his side, so I would put my hand on his back to see if it was moving.

When husband was ill this past fall, I would sometimes put my hand under nose while he was sleeping if he did not seem to be breathing – he always was, luckily.