Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 17, 2014

…Dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNN!

Hey, Arlo. Stop eating & listen. Baby on board!!!

Whole new can of worms just got opened!

But Arlo’s the one eating for two!

The secrets are just flyin’ around….

So Gus doesn’t want to worry her with the restaurant news cos she’s pregnant?

Good thinkin’. Not like they need to plan or anything.

They will be getting some $$$ from the sale, as Gus promised…

Gene’s genes.

Hope it makes them millionaires. I remember the bills from my kids’ births. Thank God we had insurance…

no ones pregnant, Arlo is eating like two people.

I think the primary arc is Arlo is eating like two but Gene doesn’t know that and will announce there is a # 6.

Watch – next strip everyone’ll be covered with the kernels that Arlo spat out when the penny dropped…

They’re counting Luddie, whose eating his meal under the table.

It seems like it is a good thing that Gus is selling the restaurant. With the farm and a new baby, they will not have the time to work the business.

Beauty of the comics, everything always works out to every one’s benefit. This will all work out.

Though I still wonder why Arlo has not gone near the boat he owns. Those things are like women (why ships are called “She.”), they require constant attention and maintenance.

Yes, Arlo is clearly eating for two.

Maybe Gus is not the fool after all. Go back to April 23, 2014: just 3 months ago.

I’m thinking Arlo continues to eat cause this in not “news” to him – he already knows!

Any chance Gus will sell to Gene?

Yikes! So much stress! Baby on the way jobs lost, what else could happen?

I knew it!

Nah, she’s not pregnant, Gene just can’t count.

Judging by the size of that boneyard, Arlo eats at least enough for two.

Oh you crazy people. That’s not it at all. Gene & Mary Lou are finally getting a CAT!

Jaw dropper!!!

Well I’ll be dogged, I guessed it right on July 9th.

MayKitten: In Texas, the law gives you 30 days to vacate. When my bookstore landlord sold out, the new one gave me seven (for a bookstore? only hardware would take longer). I gave him a quick education in the law, and he behaved thereafter. After that, his wife divorced him for spending all her money; the town rulers stopped worshiping him for his never-completed “renovation” plans; the bookstore was replaced by a loan shark, then, nail salon, then collapsed in a heap of rubble. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Gene is indeed grown up.

Whoa!

Clever, hon. Very clever.

A youngling on the way?