Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 14, 2016

? don’t get it.

Maybe they use those candles as a “marital aid”.

Candles account for a large percentage of house fires, especially around the holidays. Get the fake ones!

Sounds to me that he thinks she usually gets them as a gift. Buying them herself doesn’t sound right to him.

Huh ?

A little romance folks!

“Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness” – and the candle was on the bedside table… (old ’toon}

It is better to light one candle than to just feel around in the dark. Oh, wait. No it’s not.

Men blush. Women glow.

See @ScullyUFO. Whenever you don’t get it, first think it’s about sex. That’s why I love this strip.

Maybe candles are too low-tech for Arlo. I would be like going into a store and buying a Walkman.

My friend’s house on the same block burned down when their teenage daughter lit candles and then fell asleep. Candles in houses are dangerous and evil — that’s why you see them in all the devil-worship ceremonies.

And churches.

Maybe the light used to view their their old home movies…

I’m disappointed! That bag is Tiffany blue! And BIG! Imagine what she could have gotten!

I remember an old strip where Arlo drew her a hot bath and put candles all around the tub.

I’ll bet they get used tonight, or maybe this afternoon!

Even if they, as a couple, share some sexual use of the candles it still doesn’t make sense. That’s their secret. Why would it make Arlo blush?

I don’t get it either. People use candles all the time for non-sexual times. I would never connect buying candles with sex.

The best comic strips reveal only 40% of themselves, and Mr Johnson is very good at that.

He assumes now everyone knows. For him there is only one use for candles. And does anyone remember the “Whoopee Lamp”? As he came into the bedroom Janice is laying on one elbow and he notices, “Hey, the whoopee lamp is lit!”

Must be some of those candles from Gwyneth Paltrow