Comments on: Everybody Loves Janis

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:29:24 +0000

She definitely “knew” him, in the biblical sense, as the previous strips in the arc show. It had to with a Christmas decoration, which she said she earned.

By: Ooten Aboot

Ooten Aboot — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:49:33 +0000

Buzz, you may have confused Arlo Guthrie (born 1947) with his father Woody (1912-1967) whose heyday was indeed 2 to 3 decades before the 1960s.

By: buzz

buzz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:20:14 +0000

C’mon, the name of the strip is Arlo and Janis, two counter-culture idols of the 1960s (altho Guthrie’s heyday was decades earlier). I think it’s safe to assume they’d answer Jimi Hendrix question in the affirmative.

By: Adam!

Adam! — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:12:03 +0000

hahaha, spreadsheet

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:56:28 +0000

@The Bad Seed… My parents were 40 when I was born, so I do not remember my grandfathers’ funerals, and I barely remember my maternal grandmother’s funeral. My immediate family was travelling in Europe when my paternal grandmother passed, so my dad flew back to the US to take of everything. Those were all the funerals I had been to until I was a year and a bit out of high school. One of my closest friends in the grade below mine accidently killed himself. We lived just a few blocks from each other and went to the same 1A school. It hit me HARD… still does to this day, some 30 yrs later.

By: Twailorach Twailonic

Twailorach Twailonic — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:36:45 +0000

I think Arlo’s reaction is sweet, but should be no big deal. Unless one marries one’s high school sweetheart we all come with our complements of experiences, memories, trophies, ghosts, and battle-scars. It’s our past experiences that make us who we are today, and that includes former lovers.

My spouse recently found out that not only an old lover, but the FIRST lover passed away far too young. It sad, and I found the emotional response quite understandable and was happy to be supportive.

In other words, love isn’t a finite resource. Having loved someone else in the past doesn’t mean that one loves ones current lover any less now. If anything, our experiences teach us how to be better lovers - in the romantic and the physical sense.

By: furrykef

furrykef — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:24:51 +0000

I don’t think Janis necessarily means “known” in the biblical sense (although I’m not ruling that out).

I’d say there’s a 95% probability that it’s what she means. The pause followed by emphasis is a common mark of a euphemism (since you’re struggling to find a tactful way to put it). And, considering that she’s talking about an old boyfriend, well, it’s perfectly applicable.

And, of course, this is Arlo & Janis we’re talking about, and Jimmy Johnson is famous on CIDU for slipping details like this past the censors.

- Kef

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:17:52 +0000

Janis is something of a comics-page hottie. One might easily assume she has a litany of former lovers to keep track of.

By: padraig

padraig — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:49:21 +0000

I thought Arlo was just trying to lighten her up with a “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, baby” kind of remark. Good on him. Then again, easy for him to be graceful, he’s the guy that’s still alive.

By: yellojkt

yellojkt — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:50:04 +0000

The whole story line implies that the guy was a fromer lover of Janice, but Arlo is the one she loves now. That doesn’t dim her memory of the other guy.