Light On Dark Water

Arlo and Janis is pretty much my favorite comic strip; Dilbert is the only near competitor. My wife and children have often accused me of secretly being its author, or at least the model for Arlo. He’s not actually that much like me, but we have enough in common that it’s occasionally startling.

My wife and I disagreed about the intention of the Christmas Day strip. She thinks (or at least thought at first—I may have talked her out of it) that the emergence of the sloppy, sleepy, coffee-sipping Janis is a joke at Janis’s expense and an expression of disappointment on the part of Arlo. I say Arlo is delighted by the sight of Janis, even when she’s sloppy and sleepy and clinging desperately to her coffee mug.

I mean, see the look on the guy’s face.

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