Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 19, 2014

After all these years, his wife still looks good to him…

Arlo the lecherous amnesiac. (Janis doesn’t mind.)

You’re right Janis. He likes the spaghetti straps and the braless profile!

Why has she been looking (drawn) so mean when they are together lately? Is the artist or the wife going through menopause, geez…

And if you compliment an article of clothing why do people feel compelled to tell you where they got it and how much it cost? What does that have to do with anything?

I am told Women are gatherers ya’know food , cloth’s kids and men hunt meat ,meat and some time’s women .

I can hardly remember where I bought most of my clothes, never mind asking Hubby.

Oh, Arlo! You didn’t even get a peek this time. You remember the last time she wore it.

Arlo doesn’t really seem to DO anything while Janis works, except leer at her. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

It’s not the spaghetti straps per se. It’s the idea that all you’d have to do is flip them off the shoulder.

MeGoNow: And pull downward? Or is that ignoring the gravity of the situation?

Janis probably couldn’t remember where they bought their car from….

Personally I would have made up an answer to see if SHE knew where and when.

Here’s a tip: don’t compliment an article of clothing (I like that top), compliment the person AND the article of clothing (You look great in that top!).

Happily married in a nutshell.

Men are from Mars, women from Venus. Knowing that and being able to deal with it are two very different things.

Can’t Janis just say Thank You, why does she have to be so mean to him? I can’t recall where or when I got most of my clothing.

Janis has been pretty snarky as of late. I’m starting to really dislike her.

When this strip first started, Janis’s low self esteem was always evident and a big part of the daily stories. She seemed to be growing out of that for the last several years. Now she is regressing, but, as Nicole said, is being snarky in her attitude instead of shy, as she used to be. Maybe it’s an age thing since she became an empty nester? (My computer says that’s not a word (nester), but it’s in my dictionary.)

Lynnskay: Nester is accepted by my Foxfire/Snow Leopard combo, but only with an N, all lower case is rejected by the spell check. Both my ancient (WW-II words are in the addenda) 5-volume unabridged and my collegiate 9th ed, but just for a squatter or small ranch dweller, from 1880. Empty nester is in the recent with a 1968 origin and 1972 for the syndrome. Strange.