Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 03, 2013

They’re about to put some “bread” into that truclk….

Unless Toni saves them both some time AND money…

Looks like it’s gonna be that show, “Three’s A Crowd!”

It’s back to the old pessimistic Brad!

TJ better keep a sleeping cot at the back of the food truck…

Toni saves the day!

Brad better have all his meals taken care of for the next few months. It is the least TJ can do in exchange for a free mechanic!

Long flowing hair and rotating machine parts. That’s how accidents can happen.

Cherchez la femme, gentlemen, cherchez la femme!

Re: timing chains-AGREED! What a cruel joke played on us by the car manufacturers when they went to timing belts and interference valves. Replacing timing belt costs $300 – $600 or more and if you don’t do it in time, lose your motor! Back when I drove Chevettes, it cost me $20 for the part and I could change it myself in 40 minutes at the side of the road. AND my engine would not blow up if it went while running.I can barely wait til I can buy my first electric car- only ONE moving part to the engine!

“Green Card? I’m from East LA!… I was,…. boooorn in East LA”…..

Luann! brought to you, by…..

Perp Boys… auto parts sooo good, they’re hot……and by.. Grease…. it’s STILL the word….

It’s funny! Cuz they’re discussing the amount of time it’s gonna take…. and Toni is speaking about a TIMING belt… comedy gold! This strip has got ITS timing tight!

Truck engines don’t have timing belts, they still have chains.

Beautiful land, beautiful friends, beautiful food!

Four’s a crowd, if you include the truck.^I can see the double dates, followed by: “Do you, Mr. and Ms. Degroot, and do you, T.J., take this Truck, Money Pit Jr.- to be “awful” ly wedded…”

Ha Ha! That’s for sure! And you can also call the truck “The Black Hole”… cuz now B&T will be sucked in, and so will some of the moolah… But, hey! They’re getting a steak and a lobster dinner out of it, according to Brad!—BTW, it’s kinda Luann “sacrilege”, but today’s One Big Happy’s last panel kinda sums it up, as well…

Eh, how can she see the timing belt without doing a complete engine dissemble?

Gotta love Toni! Not only is the lady super-beautiful, but she is smart and has a good sense of humor, too. While Brad and TJ bicker, she fixes the truck! —Can you say “rôle reversal”?

um, so how did it get to their house in the first place?

Hope Brad’s ego isn’t bruised (again) but Toni doing “manly” stuff better than him. Dark clouds coming perhaps?

Uh-Huh.

And as USUAL, Old Smiley CONS Brad into DOING His Evil Bidding.

What’s NEXT, Chef Boyardee? Talking Brad into skipping His Honeymoon in Order to Help YOU Clean the Grease Trap??

“Looks like it’s gonna be that show, “Three’s A Crowd!”…Four’s a crowd, if you include the truck.

Five’s a crowd if you include Shannon!

Hey, didn’t they get engaged a while back?What’s happening with that?

typical woman,, timing belts have no adjustments

Toni is the diagnostician and Brad does the grunt work! That sounds like a plan to me! LOL

Toni “I will never lose control of my life again” Daytona has arrived.

• She proposed to Brad.• She controlled the selection of the engagement ring.• Is she now going to try to control the truck repair?

It’s really quite simple. You click on the little calendar just above the comic to its right. That takes you in the archives. Start going through the strips in the archive one by one. Voilá! You are now scanning on the Mac.

That’s how I do it, except I use a PC.

Maybe it was Toni who kept Dirk’s muscle car running?

Considering that Toni is propably the better mechanic, TJ should have had her work on the van for him!

Wonder when Brad and Toni are going to check each other’s timing belt. ;)

Toni will save the day, but come out all greasy and grimey! Toni and Brad will clean up together! Of course that will be in panel six!

A loose timing belt. No wonder the clock is slow.

aw, come on, what old beat up delivery van ever used a timing BELT ?

Brad, you are so lucky! Your bride-to-be is as much a mechanic as you are, she is gorgeous, and has such a positive attitude when it comes to TJ’s schemes… She even gets along with your little sis and the folks. Quite a find!

Greg might be hinting at a bit of hearing loss in today’s strip when she mixes up awful and awesome… and hearing something about the timing belt when TJ spoke about timing.

^Good one!

Aha!!!! It makes sense!!!! The sooner that they get the truck fixed, the sooner he can move on (TJ)…. Toni’s one smart cookie! NO WONDER she HINTED at Brad to “Adjust the timing belt tighter”….

Watch Out Brad! Sure TJ is a good friend, but he’s also a con man. I think TJ took care of Anne Effel good, but in the past, TJ has made some bad mistakes to Brad! But hey, both Brad and TJ are maturing.

I also wanted to write I KNEW Gunther didn’t have a Father. I just can’t imagine Gunther’s father being someone like R. Lee Ermey. Gunth is a person that’s caring, sensitive, and romantic. I don’t think EVER Gunth has cursed or swore in this strip! Thus, that’s why I said if Gunth’s dad was a military person, it might’ve been Air Force. LOL. When I went to boot camp in the AF, our drill instructors could curse and swear at us, but they couldn’t hit AF recruits or call their AF recruits, “S.O.B.s.” I had a cousin who got out of Paris Island, SC and the USMC sergeant punched or threw a piece of furniture at my cousin a few months ago. Our military is volunteer, but if you want to be the meanest, toughest, and roughest military person, be a Marine. I barely got out of Basic Training almost 30 years ago and I do respect Marines that go through that hell called basic training.

Finally, I knew R Lee Ermey was an actual USMC sergeant in real life and he played the role in “Full Metal Jacket.” In that year R. Lee Ermey received a nomination for that role Full Metal Jacket that year from the Golden Globes that year.

TJ might be better off missing the busy season when he is first starting out anyway. Slower business will give him more of a chance to work the bugs out, figure out what he can and can’t do, plus won’t give him unrealistic expectations about his income.

Unlike a lot of you, I am a woman who does not like to deal with really dirty stuff (like car parts). That’s how my dad talked me out of continuing in study of engineering when I was preparing for college. He said that my aspirations to be an architect were out of the question because it was very competitive even for a man; I could only hope to go into “Mechanical” (back in 1955 that meant dirty car parts to me). I later became one through self taught studies, but I continued with drafting in college (in ink) and (long story) but I did pretty well- still hate to do anything to a car, tho’ ;-D

Selective hearing helps most marriages

In the particular instance of Weenie World his goal was to create chaos. His goal here is to create a long term business. It will require a different skill set, one he still needs to hone.

“we always know what Evans is ripping off”^DW….repeat after me….parrrrr….o…..dyyyyy…..par-o-dy….parody. -Or you can call it namechecking, inside jokes, subtle references, borrowing, tributes, or…..

There is quite a lot of room for making him a better person without making him not TJ anymore. Asking, even cajoling, friends who enjoy working on cars to work on his truck is not a horrible thing to do, not expecting it would be entirely out of character.

Oh, boy! My favorite comic cliche: the pretty girl that knows more about fixing cars than the men do! Welcome to the 21st century, where the men are men… and the women more so!

…And Toni can tell that by one quick look under the hood?

Is it me, or is the car brand “OMG”?

Toni saves the day once again!! How’s Brad going to take this???

when is the strip going to go back to Brad and Toni’s wedding?!!!..hmmmmmmmm?!!!!!!!

Yay!!! Thank you, Greg, for making her knowledgeable about car repair!