I love this comic and have had this conversation with my wife, pretty much verbatim, many times since the comic came out, because....yeah, that's how it is.
I'd say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven't aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.
It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc.... and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.
Not that I assume the poster knows this, but they're accurate on a technicality. The cartoonist responsible, Jimmy Johnson, is actually of boomer age (born April 20th 1952), so this is a boomer comic.
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I've seen this comic strip thousands of times too, it gets reposted so often.
It's my first time seeing it
Yeah well I've seen the sunset thousands of times too!
Wife good? 😮
Ride wife? 🦍
Life good 😎
Wife fight back 😡
Kill wife 😤
I love this comic and have had this conversation with my wife, pretty much verbatim, many times since the comic came out, because....yeah, that's how it is.
2009 is "boomer"?
TIL all the boomers died before 2009
sorry, dad, you're dead to me now
Arlo and Janis’ author seems to be of the Baby Boomer generation.
Assuming he graduated at 17-18, he’d have been born around 1952.
I'd say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven't aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.
It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc.... and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.
Boomers were Hippies first, then Yuppies in the 1980s...
Not that I assume the poster knows this, but they're accurate on a technicality. The cartoonist responsible, Jimmy Johnson, is actually of boomer age (born April 20th 1952), so this is a boomer comic.
How is that a technicality? It’s a boomer artist making boomer comics.
I loved Arlo and Jannis when I was a kid. I don't even think I know why, I was just like "I like these people".
And I will love you a thousand times more, my unending sunshine*
DAE boomers suck amirite