Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 24, 2013
Transcript:
Dad: "I just noticedf something. We have hundreds of photos of our kids as infants, but if you're in very few of them. Why is that?" Mom: "I didn't like having my picture taken. I had a post-maternitry body, a sleep-deprived face and one-hand-quick-comb hair. I don't want to be remembered that way" Dad: "Honey, decades from now when our kids look at these old albums, they won't care how you looked. They love you for your inner beauty" Mom: "I see. So why are there so few RECENT photos with YOU in them?" Dad: "Because my hair's thin and my waist isn't. BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT!" Mom: "I love you for your inner beauty" Dad: "Ok, it's the same"
alviebird over 11 years ago
I can’t help about the shape I’m in.I can’t sing, I ain’t pretty and my legs are thin.But don’t ask me what I think of you,I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Oh well
Now, when I talked to God, I knew he’d understand.He said, “Stick by me and I’ll be your guiding hand.But don’t ask me what I think of you,I might not give the answer that you want me to”
Oh well
— Peter Green
firedome over 11 years ago
nah…maybe a montego or a comet, but not a cougar…
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Frank loses; but in losing, wins. What a couple. Luann has nice, slightly normal, parents.
Angelalex242 over 11 years ago
Gotta be remembered this is the same couple that put up with Shannon in order to give Luann her virtual date. Never forget their noble sacrifice!
oldcomicsfan over 11 years ago
Very few pics of me in all the hundreds of my kid. That’s cause “I” was the one who took them!! lol
Mikeyj over 11 years ago
Frank has no choice… inner beauty is all he EVER had :P
Mikeyj over 11 years ago
I can’t be certain about now, but, we do know that in the past (old strips), that Tiff DID stuff… of course she was only 13 at that time
Mikeyj over 11 years ago
If you look at Lu’s parents, imagine Nancy as a blonde, and Frank with curly hair and a slightly smaller nose, and you have Luann & Gunther, in their late 40s
Mordock999 over 11 years ago
“BECAUSE I’m ALWAYS the one Who’s STUCK taking the PICTURE, That’s WHY!!” – Frank
Geeez These Comic Strip Characters are SLOW……,
jeanie5448 over 11 years ago
I agree with Nancy I have been there with the "get out of my face with that da** camera, but I also agree with Brdshtt, I wish I had more pictures of my mom, through the years mom was mostly the one with the camera, ah the memories of that good ole Brownie.
KEA over 11 years ago
I’m not in any pictures of the family ’cuz i was taking the pictures.
Mikeyj over 11 years ago
prrdh over 11 years ago
A “Luann tale” being a tale about the character the strip is named for.
VikThor over 11 years ago
The real reason? 90% of the time, she was the one taking the pictures.
Hoodude over 11 years ago
Our kids were born in early spring,but not so many pics of mom in her bathing suits at the beach later in the summer,darn it. She nursed them and she looked great. Take pics of mom too,dads.
vldazzle over 11 years ago
No WAY she’s a “cougar”. She’s a mature woman who really LOVES her man (like me) ;-)
vldazzle over 11 years ago
I don’t get many photos of myself when “dressed up”. This avatar is from last year (2011) and taken by a fellow reenactor who selt me a copy. I was happy that many photos were taken at my daughter’s “white party” last July but the color in this one make it easier to spot locations of my comments when scrolling. I like to see little Fitzroy, too. His ashes now reside in a pretty brass box next to Cuddles taxidermy.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 11 years ago
“I say they never appear as more than filler. They are filling in the Sunday strip. What they are not doing is having their own story. They appear occasionally to help fill in the blanks on a Luann tale.”-Their problem is that they don’t have enough personal problems. They love each other dearly, all the way to the center. They aren’t sick or sickos. They are satisfied with their place in the Luanniverse, They are models of what life might be for many.-But they would have little to interest most readers. They aren’t conflicted as to with whom to mate. They aren’t doing stupid things such as fill the newspapers and gossip subjects. They aren’t risking incarceration or death by foolish actions.-Yet somehow I like them as they take on supporting roles in the dramas of their children‘s lives.
Mikeyj over 11 years ago
You’re replying to Brdshtt’s comment:
Regarding big cartoon scandal – both comics debuted in 1985…
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Also, he never used a name in “Calvin and Hobbes” – as Dana Carvey used to say, “Well, isn’t that conveeenient?"^^which is why I only refer to him as “Calvin’s Dad”
Mikeyj over 11 years ago
The Pontiacs under Bunkie Knudsens design had ‘split grilles’. Not ‘arrow nose’. LOL!!!^^1966 Arrow nosed Pontiac VVV
AmyGrantfan51774 over 11 years ago
in my pictures mom and dad were in them cause grandma took them the other way around cause mom took them so grandpa and grandma were in them wish I knew how to upload I’d upload a few…plus their ’68 Pontiac Catalina that was a land boat was in two of them