Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 02, 2024

Under the circumstances any other answer would be foolhardy.

Condolences, Janis

Thus speaks the man who has weathered storms of HIS own making!!

Good for you, Janis! Natural gray is beautiful.

Careful Arlo, you could sprain something making a quick turn like that.

Change of hair color for Janis. Does Arlo dye his hair blonde?

Arlo stepped in it.

Arlo is a master at handling dangerous situations like this.

Usually I can answer “do I look good in this” without being in the same room.

Looks good

“Oh, you like it? Then I do too”.

Nice save Arlo

Always wait to determine the correct response. It will usually be given to you.

Arlo should only say he likes it. There’s no down side, only up. If she hates, he can be reassuring to her. If she likes, then her feelings are confirmed.

My wife decided to stop coloring her hair, it is a pleasant shade of white. She looks good!

My mom had her natural hair color well into her ’70’s. My three brothers all inherited her genes. I got my dad’s hair genes which means I’ve lost some and I went gray in my 40s. I was walking someplace with my older brother (by 5 years) and someone who knew him asked if I was his older brother. He laughingly said yes. I didn’t bother to contradict him.

“Oh, I do, too!”

Is there some yiddish word for Janis’ poor posture in the 4th panel?

Go Janis, my wife went to not coloring a year ago and it’s looking great.

Wow something actually happened in this strip

Yes, of course you like it, Janis. How foolish of Arlo not to recognize you as resplendent with happiness in the second panel!

…and then the next time she looks in the mirror, and wonders why she looks so old….then the crying jag will begin.

Never ask a male what he thinks of your hair style. That is the second worst question to ask.. that there is NO good answer. We all know the actual worse question you could ask .. so DON’T ask it. lol

Have you heard the “pink rat” story? When I have my hair color done, I’m mostly white hair now but still have blond streaks done at the salon. It does look brighter and different than when before the salon. My husband smiles with a wink and always says, “pink rat” when I get home. Researchers would put a female rat in with a male rat and he would be very “interested” in his new companion. After a while, his ardor would diminish. The researchers then would take the girl rat and dye her pink. When put back in with the male rat, he was suddenly very amorous again. “Pink rat” always makes me laugh.

My wife has coloured her hair for as long as I’ve known her (34 years). I have sworn to have her hair coloured at the mortuary before the open the casket.

Arlo being quick on his feet. He deftly side-stepped that land mine….

That style make Janis look much older.

I remember once when my unsolicited opinion worked out for me. My boss’ boss’ wife had apparently just come from getting her hair-style changed. I said “You changed your hair! It makes you look ten years younger!” She squealed and threw her arms around me! It was embarrassing, but I guess I scored some Brownie Points that day… ☺

I tell my wife my honest opinion and she is fine with it. I’ve also said I can get used to it

I aged five years reading this…

As a husband, Janis’ look in the second panel is an alarm, not to be ignored. I’m glad she likes it.

Arlo is a jerk at times…….

Well (and carefully) played, Mr. Day!

This kind of change has to make a cartoonist nervous that the colorist will catch on to what he/she’s supposed to do.

Is this April Fools in October? Janis would NEVER do this without weeks, or probably months of whinging and self doubt …… spontaneity just isn’t in her nature.

60 yo boss-lady did that. I guess she finally got out of her cougar mode. Looks a lot more mature

Never dyed my hair, I used to have a lot of natural colors including shiny gold highlights, now have greys and shiny silver highlights and a lot more ‘body’. Loved it then, love it now.

Difference between a bad haircut and a good haircut? Two weeks.

Will she leave it like that or will it turn into a long gray ponytail?

Embrace the gray. I never tried to cover mine.

I wish I could talk my bride into going gray. Purple is expensive.

roses are red/my wife’s hair is blue/she hated her gray/and I did too

SUUUUUUURE he does.

Much better to just let it go gray naturally and gradually than to start coloring and then abruptly stop. I knew a lady whose hair was dark brown…only it wasn’t, and one day she had stopped coloring and went to her natural color which by then was pure white. I initially saw her from a distance and thought she was wearing a bathing cap!!!!! Took a while to get used to it.

My mother developed silver grey hair in her late 30s, until her mother died. Then she began dying it to a “fake” brown. I disliked it a lot and used to tease her that she looked like a painted lady. Nevertheless, she persisted until she was near 80, and then her hair was pure white. It was gorgeous.

What is a crying jag?

Janis looks really good.

I’ve always believed that color does not hurt the operation. That, actually, is a good thing, considering some of the colors I’ve seen on some people’s heads, nowadays!

It’s not a beautiful gray, sorry. Going white would have made more sense, and been in line with her dynamic personality. Here, she is just dull!

Long hair is cheaper to deal with.

When my hair gets too long and annoys me I put it in a pony tail holder, flip it up and over my head and snip. I wear it up in a hair clip (barrette when I do a reenactment as same hides better under my cap) so if it not cut even it is not noticeable.

When husband’s hair gets too long, he puts it into it’s regular que (same as a pony tail, but he fells better calling it by its 18th century name) and I cut it for him – one snip.

Wife was a hairdresser, they ruined her hair one time, I know about the crying.