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.
Well, turns out people in different generations, while they may on the whole share various traits, are in fact individuals with different life experiences, temperaments, and attitudes.
That said I am seeing my own Gen-X peers turning "boomer": entitled assholes who also attempt to turn the abuse and neglect we survived into virtues. I think a lot of this is completely literal survivor bias, but also "survivors" in terms of who gets seen and heard.
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.
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.
it's a slice of life comic about pleasant people, like Pickles. i always just kind of liked that one, same reason as yours, but then they did a week where one of the main characters had to get a colonoscopy. and they made it funny!
::: spoiler i'm kind of upset he ''stole'' (read: independently generated, like so many of you) my best joke about them, too
:::
i'm gonna be honest, colonoscopy humor is really good (if you're the type that likes it). one of my friends is a surgeon who covered his office in art of animal butts. he inspired me to get a painting for my home of a pig butt (the actual butt, not the meat cut. but the fact that I have to take the time to explain that makes me love the artwork more). it lived above the mantelpiece until the landlady made us move it (long story, it was good there but it's in a better home now. our Hall of Animal Horrors no i can't call it that my Dear Aunt Ditte painted like three of them our Menagerie ooo that's good i'll run that by the wife as far as renaming the room) i think i was in the middle of a thought but i really forget and cannot find it in the middle of nested statements. i think it was that my buddy went into that field of medicine because he liked the butt jokes
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Wife good? 😮
Ride wife? 🦍
Life good 😎
Wife fight back 😡
Kill wife 😤
Wife dead. Think about wife
uh no. wife stronger. i dead.
Regret. 😔
Get married again
Yeah, your wife's pretty good
Jokes on you, I'm married to your mother
Please tell me all about how you met her.
On grindr
Yes
2009 is "boomer"?
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...
YOU SHUT UP DON'T MAKE ME THINK OF AAAA calvin and hobbes is not a boomer comic but bill watterson is a boomer. discuss.
Well, turns out people in different generations, while they may on the whole share various traits, are in fact individuals with different life experiences, temperaments, and attitudes.
That said I am seeing my own Gen-X peers turning "boomer": entitled assholes who also attempt to turn the abuse and neglect we survived into virtues. I think a lot of this is completely literal survivor bias, but also "survivors" in terms of who gets seen and heard.
i'm just feeling verklempt about it is all
Fair.
TIL all the boomers died before 2009
sorry, dad, you're dead to me now
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.
and it's one of the better ones, too.
I've seen this comic strip thousands of times too, it gets reposted so often.
Yeah well I've seen the sunset thousands of times too!
It's my first time seeing it
Well, you are one of the lucky 10,000 today!
it's my first time seeing this guy's wife too!
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.
Yeah, ain’t that the truth
And I will love you a thousand times more, my unending sunshine*
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".
it's a slice of life comic about pleasant people, like Pickles. i always just kind of liked that one, same reason as yours, but then they did a week where one of the main characters had to get a colonoscopy. and they made it funny!
::: spoiler i'm kind of upset he ''stole'' (read: independently generated, like so many of you) my best joke about them, too :::
Lol, I love this! Some boomer humor is kind of great
i'm gonna be honest, colonoscopy humor is really good (if you're the type that likes it). one of my friends is a surgeon who covered his office in art of animal butts. he inspired me to get a painting for my home of a pig butt (the actual butt, not the meat cut. but the fact that I have to take the time to explain that makes me love the artwork more). it lived above the mantelpiece until the landlady made us move it (long story, it was good there but it's in a better home now. our
Hall of Animal Horrorsno i can't call it that my Dear Aunt Ditte painted like three of them our Menagerie ooo that's good i'll run that by the wife as far as renaming the room) i think i was in the middle of a thought but i really forget and cannot find it in the middle of nested statements. i think it was that my buddy went into that field of medicine because he liked the butt jokesThat is how being married is
being horny is a boomer thing.
i guess that explains the lack of sex and passion in media.
Back in my day we didn't have doomsday rectangles for titillation. We had to go outside and find it ourselves.
In the woods. In a cardboard box.
nothing to brag about.
Been married 20 years, still whistle, still makes me happy
noone said they were all bad. relax kid.
DAE boomers suck amirite