Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 22, 2013

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    DaJellyBelly  over 11 years ago

    Luann, I am ashamed of you for blabbing like that about your brother. What if he went and told Quill about all the things you have fretted about!

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    Faux Real  over 11 years ago

    Well that eliminated the suspense in a hurry.

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Best part of strip: butterfly on Puddles’ nose. :-)

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    jeff_e  over 11 years ago

    That butterfly must have done some nasty business in Puddles’ left eye, poor pup.

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    Comicman424  over 11 years ago

    Does Luann never know when to shut up?

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    Namrepus  over 11 years ago

    Just watch your step this time, ’kay?

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    That silhouette of Toni in the 3rd panel looks kind of…..phallic! 0.o

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    barbarasbrute  over 11 years ago

    Luann, don’t jinx things now.

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    All last week I was waiting to see Lu do one of her “happy dances”; what a letdown! :s

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    yeah, a BIG cork

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    TooOldToCare  over 11 years ago

    When did they switch sides of the path they were walking on?

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    Comicman424  over 11 years ago

    I don’t think that’s gonna be big enough… she’ll need one the size of a beer keg.

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    alviebird  over 11 years ago

    Puddles: Did I catch it, or has it caught me?

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    The Old Wolf  over 11 years ago

    Yeah, not classy Luann… but this kind of thing happens in families all the time, so not totally unexpected.

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    I SWEAR, of ALL the NERVE.

    Luann callin’ Her Brother a “Basket Case”?

    Luann, the Gal that’s too SCARED to have a REAL Up Close and Personal Relationship so She waits til the guy gets shipped thousands of miles away to OZ THEN has an IMAGINARY Red Hot Love Affair with the SAME Joker via Laptop??? And She’s Got the STONES to Call Someone Else a “BASKET CASE”?!!?

    Stand Back, Toni.

    Stand WAAAAAAAAAAY back, for the Good Lord’s about hurl a Righteous Ball of Fire Down, and We Wanna be SURE He SMOTES the RIGHT Blonde.

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    kenhense  over 11 years ago

    The shadows in the third frame are an interesting touch. However I don’t know that I would go as far with it as MikeyJ.

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    gkid  over 11 years ago

    Family strip, ok? We enjoy clean. Some people have difficulty in a wholesome environment.

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    horseygirl Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Now, let’s find someone for TJ.

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    redwinger  over 11 years ago

    funny, i am saving this one

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    yankeetexan  over 11 years ago

    starts out with Luann on the left but as they walk she ends up on the right in last panel?

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    CP Justy  over 11 years ago

    @yankeetexan They’re walking away from the reader in that last panel. Luann—2 years’ tops. Luann readers—10 years? Prediction I forgot to mention: TJ hires Ann Eiffel as his manager and possible romance?

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    This seems to have been drawn to allow us to raise our OWN conclusions… that, either: A. Luann WAS in on it, and WAS motivated to keep a lid on it, out of her “gratefulness” for Brad’s change, as referenced in today’s strip….B. She had already seen it coming, as she noticed Brad’s changesC. Toni did tell her either now or sooner….D. And of course, all of the above, or….E. None of the above-———-Either way, half of us get half credit for being half right….. ha ha!

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Or you could say Don’t count your chickens before they….

    (My answer would be: Before people change their mind and want burgers, instead…)

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    merci for the mercy

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    JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 11 years ago

    That’s what sisters do. Since Luann did have a sister and now she does, it’s all coming out.

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    schmid13  over 11 years ago

    Seems like everyone is a-growing n maturing an here’s L staying kinda one dimensional. Her crises and all just haven’t seemed real. She’s solid a as rock on somethings, like baby sitting, but ambivalent on everything else. Heck even her romance is virtual. I hope we get more from Luann on the wedding then this sweet humiliation that should be saved for 5 years into their marriage.

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    TORAD_07  over 11 years ago

    Just curious… Do you think Luann & Gunther might still have a shot in the future? Say, she has an Epiphany at B & T’s wedding.We know that Gunther’s future with Rosa is uncertain, since Greg planted that seed about Rosa going off to college elsewhere, and Gunther may not follow her.

    So might Luann/Gunther get it together? Eventually?

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    Sangelia  over 11 years ago

    you males may think that you are hiding it about your fears that the gal you like may not like you back.news flash here, you are unable to hide your anxiety from your family members. especially if we watch you trying to make that first phone call to her…….Luann is just letting Toni know what Brad went thru.

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    dvoyack  over 11 years ago

    Jeez Louise Luann..Some family secrets should be kept secret..

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    rocky_rand  over 11 years ago

    I hated this strip until Greg made the characters grow up. Hopefully this continues as the best laughs are real life situations that occur in daily life; even in the comic strip world! Viva Calvin!!

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    Fredcritter  over 11 years ago

    I purely love Puddles…

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    w2lj  over 11 years ago

    Nothing Toni probably didn’t know already – but Luann, really ….. people who live in glass houses ………….

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    frightenup Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Oh chill out, people. This is just what siblings do (not just sisters or brothers… both). No one can believe that anyone would want to be with their sibling for that long, let alone marry him/her! My sister totally did this. She tried to embarrass me when she first met my husband by telling him a story about me and an ex-boyfriend that I brought to her wedding. The hysterical part was he already was friends with my ex- and he ended up unwittingly defending us (“oh, he’s a great guy!”). Her “balloon” was popped quickly as I laughed.

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    PMark  over 11 years ago

    Hey Guys, lay off Luann! Do you honestly think for one second that she is telling Toni anything she doesn’t already know?

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    PMark  over 11 years ago

    So why did Greg not show Luann’s reaction at the news? I can think of at least two reasons:

    •(1) He’s already milked this for three weeks of reactions. He want to move one.•(2) He’s smart enough to know that we all had our images of how it would be, and he was afraid that nothing he did would live up to what we expected.

    I love the silhouette effect of the last panel. It really emphasizes the sisterly bond these two share.

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    Runforson  over 11 years ago

    Now Toni will get cold feet. Thanks Luann

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    Dragongourd Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Well now I’m really disappointed to have not seen Lu get the news.. REALLY.

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    davidpepper  over 11 years ago

    Sister-in-law to sister bonding time? Soon think of each other as sisters? Neither Luann nor Toni had a sister, only an older brother.

    Speaking of brothers, will we ever see more of Toni’s brother? I know that eventually he’ll skip town and leave Shannon behind with Brad and Toni, but will we see more of him?

    It’s many years in the future, but don’t think Luann has met her future hubby yet. Lots of things to do yet: graduate high school, enter college, decide on a major, graduate college, get a job (probably in a new city), meet new people, etc. etc.

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    Faux Real  over 11 years ago

    …"" “OK she knows, now let’s go on to other things” like her and Quill. Wouldn’t surprise me if she and Toni discuss Quill tomorrow."….On that note did the boomerang appear extra prominent today?

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Luann! Brought to you, by…. Honest Tee’s Poly-Tea. (fade, cue 2:20 of commercials, starting with H.T.’s…)

    (cue commercial) Honest Tee’s Poly-Tea … Honest Tea’s the best Poly. See?

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    Fuddy Duddy  over 11 years ago

    jpirard, did you feel the same uneasy sense of finality being conveyed in that scene?-Some strips use silhouettes frequently, and readers get used to seeing them. Seems to me this strip uses them infrequently. Whether intentional or not, the silhouettes convey a sense of foreboding, or at least, a passage completed.

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    ACTIVIST1234  over 11 years ago

    Just read yesterday’s strip— yeah, aunty climatic, it is!*Does this mean Sunday-only readers will NOT know about the big engagement?*I’m so glad Puddles has returned— I’ve missed him. But am jealous about the butterfly. I go in the Butterfly House at the zoo, and none of them will ever land on me. (Maybe it’s because the human-philic butterflies have all been squashed.)

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    Chana Fisher  over 11 years ago

    Dissapointing I really wanted Luann and Toni to have some kind of moment. Yes anti Climatic.

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    ACTIVIST1234  over 11 years ago

    Dave, I think Gunther is here forever. The quiet, nerdy guy in every strip is the author’s alter ego. Can’t surrender that. Unless the feminine part of Team Evans takes over.

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    ACTIVIST1234  over 11 years ago

    Levi & Donny, in the Comments Competition, how on Earth did Night Gaunt get 64,000? That’s not humanly possible, is it? Did she invent an algorithm to implant comments in each day’s strip?

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    Fuddy Duddy  over 11 years ago

    About mid-to-late-May, 2014-I see Gunther making prom dresses for Rosa and Crystal. Luann doesn’t have a date. Tiffany buys a spendy dress, but also ends up with no date because all the boys assume she’ll have plenty of offers.-At literally the last minute, Oxford invites Luann to the prom, and she borrows a dress from Toni. Meanwhile T.J. spots a devastated Tiffany at the supermarket, buying a gallon of Rocky Road ice cream. He has a sample tux he’s considering wearing at his new cafe’. Tiff sniffs, and gets into her dress. They head for the prom together.-Schmaltz ensues

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    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member over 11 years ago

    You actually wrote “nay” - cool.

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    biftastic  over 11 years ago

    As I read some of these comments, I am confused. Ganging up on Luann for “trashing” her brother? Really? Luann and Toni know each other well; they have a dynamic. Plus, Brad expressed to Toni a long time ago about how he felt “deficient”. Nothing that Luann said was a surprise to Toni. Besides, Luann loves Brad, so she wouldn’t slight him to his new fiancee. While everyone is crying “DOOMED!”, I am rooting for a happy ending for Team Broni. Heck, if Dirk sought help and found love, ANYTHING is poosible!

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    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Sheriff Mordecai said, less than a minute ago

    @Fuddy Duddy

    Sihouettes convey a sense of, “I’m in a hurry and there’s no time to putz around drawing these two.”

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    Baci22  over 11 years ago

    That’s just the way younger siblings are…

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    jonnijones  over 11 years ago

    Great! LOL!!!

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    jonnijones  over 11 years ago

    All the comments today are better than the strip.

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    Ryan Plut  over 11 years ago

    Toni is a Star Trek Medical Officer?!?!

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    katina.cooper  over 11 years ago

    Luann is just getting back at Brad for all the things he did when they were younger.

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    draksig  over 11 years ago

    For years, and yet everyone is still in the same grade?

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    Argy.Bargy2  over 11 years ago

    @Mordock, Comicman42485, Brdshtt and especially Tim Bishop:

    Sit down. Take a deep breath. Now repeat three times: “This is a comic strip. It is NOT real life. This is a comic strip. It is NOT….” etc.

    It is a real puzzle to me why someone would continue to read a comic when they clearly dislike the main character. (And since the strip has her name on it, yes, she is supposed to be the main character.) There are lots of comics with teen boys as main characters – why not just read those if you hate this character so much?

    Try ZITS. You’ll like that one.

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    “It is a good thing she is not wearing the red operations division uniform”

    If you’re talking Original Series, yeah….beware the “reshirt” factor….good thing her paramedic skills lands her in the good ol’ safe blue zone in the middle, but the firefighter part, I’m not so sure of…. where that one would fall…. sometimes ops, sometimes command… (now people will say “aaargh!! how’d that show get back into this?”)

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    sarafaye  over 11 years ago

    Puddles: “I chased the butterfly until it caught me.”

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    Faux Real  over 11 years ago

    “…We will know someday. I figure I have a 50/50 shot at being right.”.That means you figure you’ve a 50/50 shot at being wrong. My hope for that springs eternal.

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    sarafaye  over 11 years ago

    The last time Luann considered Gunther romantically she tried to change almost everything about him. She thought his hobbies and interests were not manly enough. They both realized they have almost nothing in common. Gunther has even occasionally admitted to finding her selfish and shallow. Yes, she has improved in these areas, but she is still behind where he was when they were children.

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    schmid13  over 11 years ago

    I know I often knock Luann for not having enough passion or focus. She’s more of an Everywoman. Gunther has something Luann lacks: flair. Gunther makes things, designs, follows his artistic passions, is driven. Again Luann might have some creative talent as actress or song writer, but where is the drive? The most energy she shows is when Tiff gets involved. Now Gunther, while shy with the ladies, stays busy. Later, the ladies will find him. I LIKE Luann – she’s a good girl/woman – nothing wrong with reliable and predictable. You know, she does seem like Quill. Laid back (but with minor flare ups). They are good together. But who can overcome 4000 miles.

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    sarafaye  over 11 years ago

    So in the strip he would have to change to be less nerdy. In your fantasy she would change to be more nerdy (and, for some reason, 7 years old). For them to be together, one or the other has to not be who they are. That is a very peculiar idea of soul mates.

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    sarafaye  over 11 years ago

    Again, being embarrassed to be seen with someone because you think he is beneath you is not my idea of soul mates.

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    For the record, Evans used silhouettes quite a bit in the early days, but, they weren’t used for any kind of nuances, other than emphasizing a little bit of 3-D effect

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    fredville  over 11 years ago

    Is he good enough? No. Is she out of his league? Yes. Does he deserve her? No. Well, that’s in the real world, of course, where looks matter more than everything else put together to most people, lol. I like Luann’s world better. I do wonder this, though….obviously Toni isn’t shallow at all……but if she had been average looking, do you think Brad (Mr. Love-me-for-my-inner-qualities) DeGroot would have still been enthalled by her..or even given her a chance? Don’t know…but I wonder……

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    I wanted to wait until later to say this, so it wouldn’t get turned into anything more than a funny coincidence, and nothing base, but I realized just a little while ago, that if you turned down the sound (or in this case, the word balloons), and voiced over this, this walk- it could be and looks just like those “women’s” type of commercials from a long time ago, with two females talking privately….

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    So, what’s gonna be for tomorrow?

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    I know that the world (and many here) feel there should be one less S. T. reference, but I just caught this on F.B.:

    Starfleet: the International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. shared George Takei’s photo.

    There will be a picture meme, let it be.

    https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/936887_649367278426062_388167798_n.jpg

    and in the words of Larry the Cablre Guy, I don’t care who you are-that’s funny, right there!

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    The link wouldn’t take, so I’ll give you the description: Superimposed on Kirk’s body, is Sir Paul, in the famous (or infamous) scene, buried in Tribbles, with the Meme: Yesterday…. all my Tribbles seemed so far away…..

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    I myself don’t know what to expect exactly for tomorrow, but some earlier were mentioning the Boomerang pendant, and I wondered if that was presented on purpose to give a hint. I’m guessing that a new story is coming tomorrow, or perhaps a story to involve last week’s unfortunate events….

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    AmyGrantfan51774  over 11 years ago

    so Luann knows now I relieved she welcomed Toni to the family, eh????!!!!

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    Fuddy Duddy  over 11 years ago

    That’s right, rub it in. The upper midwest has its advantages . . . just give me an hour or so to think of a few. :-)

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    specinss  over 11 years ago

    Big let down. Expected LuAnn to jump for joy! Be excited.

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    Chana Fisher  about 11 years ago

    are you kidding me that is all he can come up with for a Saturday???

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