Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 12, 2014

Hail, hail, the gangs all here! ;)

That’s a mighty long line, for a class with about 10 people in it.

Dad, stop watching YouTube videos of other high school graduations and watch Luann’s class of 12 people graduate!

Waldo….Carmen Sandiego….and now…. Luann…

The interesting thing here is that Toni has her arm around Brad, while he sits there with his arms crossed.

Always an interesting relationship, that one.

hard to tell when all the graduates are in the same cap and down

That’s exactly how it is lol

Sigh. I’ll be attending my son’s graduation this weekend. I’m afraid it will be just like this.

Actually Brad and Toni are on duty on account of the annual ritual in which Pitt H.S. graduates pick up their diplomas and then go back and torch the school.

Its in-and-out today…’Nite all, see you later in the funny papers… ;)-———————————————————————————-“In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.” (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

“Catching A Wave”“A Face In The Crowd”“You Are Here… Or Maybe Here”“Lost In The Sauce”“Focusing Up A Storm”“♫….I Cant Tell A One From Another…♫”“Goodnight Mrs. Callabash, Wherever You Are”or “Ain’t No Zoom Level High Enough”

Everyone: What was the size of your H.S. graduating class? Mine was 500-some (can’t remember the exact number of graduates).

e. Having to use the large wooden cable spools to keep the high pressure hoses under control…

I’m surprised that no one here has been speculating on where this strip is going to go now that the kids have graduated and will be splitting up. It’s hard to see how the current cast can rationally be continued: Ms Phelps, Mr Fogarty, Leslie and Ox, and even Bernice, Delta, Rosa and Gunther will all be widely separated.

They may be interacting for the rest of the summer but come fall what will be the storyline?Follow Luann at MU with a new cast of characters?

Try to keep some semblance of interaction via technology?

Or after some 30 years of Luann will Greg just retire?

(It would seem to be an appropriate closing point)

My HS graduating class was about 155 students, which was almost exactly the same as the size of my freshman class at college a few months later. (None of the same folks, though.)

Looks like an army of thousands!

I bet Greg and Karen are laughing in their beers reading all the comments wondering where this strip is headed. My bet it’ll be something no one thought of or mentioned so far.

Apparently, Frank tried to take a picture of the graduation, and ended up with one of the iconic shots of the 1930 version of “All Quiet on the Western Front”.

http://www.gocomics.com/luann/1999/05/28#.U5ljA0CKJ-s

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I was hoping for better at Luann’s big moment, drat. IMO, Greg delivered one of his finest strips at Brad’s graduation on 5-28-99 (see above link).

Oops—this is a picture of all the kids that were lined up to audition for American Idol a couple years ago!

I do feel we’ve turned High Schools into the mass production processes, thinking it will be less costly..But I do question the idea of more or bigger is better.That’s a lot of people to keep an eye on.

That seems to be a surprisingly large graduating class for the high school; and it’s being held in the athletic stadium (more fitting for a very large class, as, e.g., at a state university). But maybe it’s best that neither parents nor students can be sure who they are (or are not) looking at in the other group. I note that Quill is getting an American h.s. diploma, too….

looks like a very large class, we have a high school in our area that has 1600 seniors graduating this year……..gonna be a long day.

“…,You Know, as I look at You Young Graduates I’m reminded of what PT Barnum once said: That There’s a SUCKER Born EVERY Minute! (Scattered Laughter, Wild Applause)”

“So Go FORTH, Ye Strapping Millennials, and LEAD America by her Nose to the Great Steaming COFFEE Pot of KNOWLEDGE and GULP thereof its BOILING Contents! And Drag Our Great Nation, Kicking and Screaming into the Light of a New Day! Now GO! And May the NSA Continue to WATCH over Each and Everyone of YOU!!!” -- Professor Mordock of the (Federally Subsidized) American Institute of Caffeine Studies and Pitts High School 2014 Commencement Speaker.

What’s Quill doing there? I thought he’s been off at acting school or whatever the last five months.

Good heavens, that’s some class. IIRC mine was less than 100 (semi-rural school).

Since in all these years we’ve seen exactly one teacher (and one guidance counselor, and one principal) at Pitt, and maybe a dozen students, it’s amazing to see all these other folks show up for graduation. Are there enough Weenie World franchises in town to employ all these people for the next 50 years?

Continued from yesterday*Plan C = Deferment. They each put off college for two years and spend it setting up an orphanage in her uncle’s home own.*Then they decide to adopt one of the kids.

“Class of…..oh, maybe 100.”*Lassie - wow! We had a big class the year I graduated- almost 40. And we were all high performers in our public school. At graduation, parents humiliated each one of us by jumping up and taking our picture as we marched in. :) (Thanks, Dad)

Greg retire from the strip? Few cartoonists get into it to retire from it. It’s a lifestyle, not a job. Now watch him pull a blockbuster move.

Sigh … If only ClydeFrog was here (under that name) to rip Brad and Toni for showing up in their dress uniforms. It would be Thanksgiving dinner all over again.

This is why my parents waited until after the ceremony to take pictures of me when I graduated.

-Our senior class was also in the 600s, not sure how many graduated. But a bunch marched off the Vietnam just a few weeks later, and I know how few of those returned…

-Right. Today, they are dark 3D figures….

My grandson, “K,” graduated on June 1st. His dad got a crummy phone picture, but the local newspaper happened to pick him as one of a very few graduates to get his photo online while he was getting his handshake from the principal.

I just did a count of the total number of graduates in my class (went by the program that I still have) and found out that there were actually 454 of us who got our diplomas that night. My bad.

If they were hand-holding, their hands would be out of sight, behind the front spectators. We’d just see Brad and Toni’s arms looking like they’re joined at the hands. I guess Greg wanted to show their affection with a line-of-sight!

Heh, heh!!! – …And true!!!!

And add to that Mr. Unger (of Herman fame)….

“Have you asked Greg Evans about his future plans? Has he told anyone?”^Those links (in blue) I posted above… – And there’s a few more articles floating around….

“*really glad. I’ve got graduation on the mind.”*RB – that’s ko.

Are you sure you weren’t just trying to be…. a Pun-dit?

The reason I say her arm is around Brad is that the fingers on the inside of his left arm seem to be his own. Thus. Toni’s hand is on his back somewhere.

Equally telling is that Luann’s sister in law to be is acting as a good sister in law should and coming to a graduation that she herself isn’t technically involved in. Yet.

Maybe it is time to retire “Luann” and start a sequel strip featuring the other 490 Pitt H.S. graduating seniors whom we see for the first time ever, today. Actually, I expect that this is sort of what in fact will happen, when Lu’s current classmates start in at Mooney Uni and elsewhere, leaving our heroine to meet a whole new group of people at Pitt CC.

Ha ha!!! I don’t think he’d even let anyone take over his spot in line at the grocery store!!! – Funny thing, I haven’t even been able to get to the Motor Trend Show in a long time! The year that the Mach 5 and the General Lee was there?…. I wasn’t!….. :-(

Every time I say: “I’m going, this year!”, I don’t!… Apart from some strips, and if there will be a Trek element this go ‘round, it’s usually just a bunch of “Hentai Bugs” floating around and crowding it up, anyway… the Convention Center in Baltimore is decent, but not as big as the one in Philly, LA, San Diego, even Detroit, I believe!

Them, and the “Zombie Cheerleader Puberty Squad” roaming around… they don’t always make room to squeeze through the places…

LOL! I hope JPW doesn’t get mad if I do some puzzles in crayon….

I have no graduation pictures. My parents were divorced and sat on opposite sides of the auditorium. When I was handed my diploma they both stood up click and both cameras malfunctioned!