Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 08, 2013

“You Put The Rhyme In The Coconut”“The Important Thing”or “La La La! Can’t Hear You!”

That’s it Frank, keep her grounded!

And Frank’s not really being a downer! He’s doing his job, and knows his job…. And his girl…. – Lu is celebrating enough for10 people, anyway! As a matter of fact, she can probably turn on the lamps in the living room with all of that unbounded energy she’s gotten…

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Oh, you know how it is. “What was okay for me is NOT okay with my daughter.” Also known as “double standard.”

Well, of course she does. She’s a teen.

Well, at last……I would say it’sabout time. Thank you, forbringing Quill back.

He’d probably have a lot more success with his daughter if he acted like she was intelligent and had good judgment. He acts like he doesn’t trust her for even one second. A father can’t live his daughter’s life for her so he may as well get in the game and help celebrate Quill’s return and perhaps plan a lovely dinner for him when he shows up.

Well I’m With Frank on THIS One.

And YOU Should be TOO, Nancy!

WHAT Is WITH You, ANYWAY, “Nancy-bot”??

When Your ADULT Son FINALLY Found a Gal, YOU had the CLAWS Out and was READY to LOCK Him Away in the Basement and BURY Claymore Mines in the Front Yard.BUT that Your Highly Impressionable Teenage Daughter has Gone APE over some Pretty Boy, YOU are Ready to Give UNLIMITED Access To HER.

This Woman, I SWEAR…, Oh Wait, WAIT, I Just Figured it Out: If Something goes PREDICTABLY Wrong, It’ll be Frank’s FAULT.

Carry On…..,

YAY. I am bounding with Luann. thanks for bringing Quill back.

Good one!

I believe Frank is — to Luann — what Ozzians call a wowser.

With Luann’s rhythmic, repeated chant and broad gestures, maybe Frank and Nancy should conspire to get her onto the cheerleading squad at Pitts H.S. That would take up a lot of after-school and weekend time and thus cut back her opportunities for hanky-panky with the Aussie chap, once he has arrived and settled in with Gunther and Mrs. Berger.

Hey, at least Puddles is happy for her!

In Frank’s mind: Luann marries Q and moves to A. Those tickets cost a bundle. See ya once a year, maybe. Bye Bye Mrs. Quill.

Making a nice salsa are we?

Luann will not be groundedhead in cloudsHeart in Australiaeyes to the futureTiffany for a project

Note who thinks Quill’s pending arrival is “great news”. Sorry, Frank, but once Quill is living in Pitt, there’s no way to keep him away from your wif… er, daughter. Yeah, that’s the ticket – “daughter”. Keep telling yourself that, Frank.

What happened with the kids? I hate an incomplete story line. There seem to be quite a few of those in this comic.

I guess the Quill haters are going to have a field day.

A real downer would be if the government shutdown put a crimp in Quill’s ability to get into the country…

I have a sneaking hunch Frank is thinking about how he was when he was that age.

That exactly what Frank is thinking. And every other father of a teenage daughter.

How does Frank know that Quill is going to have both a job and a full class load?

She also is busy with filling out the Common Ap, taking one more shot at the SATs, figuring her CSS and FAFSA forms writing her college essays, college tours, and wading through the ridiculous pile of mail from 3200 colleges all over the country.

I hope you don’t have children. You don’t deserve them with that attitude.

If they live in California, they cannot drive somewhere together alone because they are not 18 years old yet. The teen pregnancy rate is dropping in California as a result. The parents should enforce the rule most teenagers have, and that is two feet on the floor and the door wide open when they are together in the bedroom. Plus at least one parent must be home. Luann, wear something under that v-neck that will cover your cleavage.

HUMAN PARENTS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

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what are you ranting about bra’s ???Nothing about that in the strip

Or given the way that Luann feels, the energetic, unbounded, and bounding “Beginnings” by Chicago… especially the version with the congas and the combo claves/tambourine/shaker solo at the end!

I hopped off the plane at L.A.X. with a dream of seeing LuannWelcome to the land of fame, excess, I’m stoked I am gonna fit in….. ^As long as neither Luann nor Quill start dancing with distorted looking teddy bears, Lol!

Enter the over-protective father.

Australia’s loss is our loss.

So are you in favor of stoning them to death, or would tarring and feathering be enough for you?

Unless he ships Luann off to a convent, makes her wear a burqa, or permanently jails her in her bedroom.

This Spirit Dance has me psyched! If the little kids get to be there the first hour:*1) Lu & Qu will meet up, and Qu will ask to meet the kid who colored the Australia flag. He’ll give the kid a little token from Down Under.2) Tiff will be with Ox, who will turn about to be terrific with little kids, who in turn will worship the start football player.*But there has to be tension.1) A zombie couple from the Funky Winkerbean Homecoming Dance will turn up and scare the little kids to death.2) Les the bully will show up to do some devilish deeds, when the little dark-haired girl will see him and exclaim, “Daddy!”*Of course, none of this will probably happen.

Everybody— please wish good things for Torad today and tomorrow— he’s taking the last half of his credentialing exam. When he gets back, we can either party or commiserate.

Check out yesterdays “Zits” comic. You will appreciate it as did I.

Where’s the boomerang necklace????

“Don’t worry… I’m a much better seamstress than your mother was.”

The reason that Frank is acting so protectively is that there aren’t many other ways of introducing some conflict or drama into a story line centered around Quill. Quill is a character with no personality or interesting features of his own and who exists only to admire Luann and reflect her “inner beauty”, so there aren’t many ways of basing a story arc around him. One of the few ways is to change Frank into someone who feels the same way about Quill that Nancy has always felt about Toni, and that’s the option that Greg has chosen.

Geez Frank put her in a nunnery. What is she, like 17-18?

I’m trying to remember what happened when Brad (very maturely) came to Frank for the sex talk. I remember that Frank’s advice was “Don’t,” but I don’t recall the details. Unfortunately I’m lousy at finding stuff in the archives.Got any dates for me, Leviticus?

This doesn’t always have to be involving matters of sex, either… remember that Lu can be very easily distracted… And she has a senior year to finish. In the past, she has been so enamored that it’s all she sometimes thinks about. Frank can also be concerned with this- her need to focus on her goals and plans. Even if she has those set, she now has to follow through with some things, since this is her senior year. The more Quill is around the house, the more of a distraction he can prove to be… even if they were to see each other someplace else, it still can be a distraction, because of her penchant for “matters of the heart”… she’d be likely to spend so much time with Quill, and not have the strength to tear herself away…. Frank is recognizing his own daughter…. her fine abilities, but also the challenges that lay ahead for her…..

Poor Frank… he’ll be “locking/loading” his M-16 quite soon!

I’m back among the living. and I PASSED! I have the cert!

As soon as the bureaucracy catches up!

There’s a big difference between preferring and sitting down and talking with a daughter to suggest delaying sexual involvement and actively suggesting that the daughter is defying his authority by not answering questions. The ‘not answering questions’ is warning language indulged in by those who decide to control, not guide.

Has anybody today mentioned that it’s just a comic strip?

Ever notice how far Luann can open her mouth?

And have you noticed how many on this board have responded as I have, like Doctor 11 and live2read, suggesting that the way Frank is acting now is not simply as concerned, but as over the top?

Leviticus has the book, so he can page through and find the dates really easily without having to dig through the archives one strip at a time.

How about dancing “Dead-dy” bears on tie-dyed T-shirts to the jams of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and crew. …….And the Music Never Stops…….. ^What Miss Cyrus has done, as of late probably seems worse than anything “Grateful…” could have ever imagined…. well, then again…

C’mon, be serious! I’m talking about something else!

Thank you. The part I was looking for was 10/12/92-10/17/92. But the later stuff was also helpful. It (at least mostly) absolves Frank of the double standard accusation. He freaked out almost as much about Brad talking about sex while he was still in school, but was slightly less adamant about it when he came to him as an adult.

Well, at least that would show some “spirit”, which was the purpose of the dance.

That certainly beats my puny ol’ ^5, Lol!

JPW, yesterday I responded to your post about getting a crossword accepted—don’t know if you saw it. It’s near the end of the comments. If you’d like to gab a bit more about it, we can go back over there. Let me know.

“Yeah! Quill’s returning to the USA!!” Yeah, yeah, yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (Courtesy of The Beatles) ;)

I’m not sure he takes requests. Besides, it’s not nice to send him after a needle in a haystack when there is a guy who already has the haystack all sorted into cross sections.

“My son took the SAT again a few months ago-” Well, congrats to him! :)

“Better than winning the lottery.” Yeesssss! ;)

Byeeeeee… ;)

@live2read

Hindsight yes, but it all boils down to the fact that people still think behavior that was okay for Frank and other men and teen boys is not okay for Luann or any other female. Much as we want to believe otherwise, girls and women are still judged harshly for being sexual. How else do you explain Frank’s attitude? Yeah, he’s being a father, but he’s also being a man who, whether he realizes it or not, thinks his daughter should have absolutely NO interest in sex…

Men can’t get “pregnant” and then “dumped,” (leaving the man with the sole burden of that pregnancy). If they could, I bet there’d be a lot less “interest” (and, hopefully, a lot fewer unexpected pregnancies).

Luann has been egging Quill along. If her parents would set down and enforce the rules of dating, she just might make it through college without the pitter patter of little feet, or worse yet, having to give up her baby. That is why they should make her keep her bedroom door open and with two feet on the floor and dress conservatively when with Quill. If that is so 1946, so be it. I was a teenager once, and I speak from experience. Unless she learns to restrain herself, her life would be altered completely, and the memory doesn’t get better with time. Luann says and does things that make her a roll model for girls her age and younger. Let her be a positive role model in dating, too.

Interesting how Luann was complaining about losing her job but she seems perfectly OK when her boyfriend from another country takes away a job from an American.

It would’ve been interesting to see Quill take her job at the library and she could’ve seen what it felt like.