Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 05, 2013

For some reason, this is going on elsewhere, too…

A fill in your own comic… this is a 1st for Greg…

Oopsie!

Gee…..just when I manage to get on here real early…….can’t see what I’m commenting on!

Here’s today’s strip in B & W.

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http://www.chron.com/entertainment/comics-games/comic/Luann/

Instead of a “First!”, I was expecting someone to post a “Worst!” Let’s hope this gets fixed in the next few hours.

Almost looks like a color negative.

just follow DaJellyBelly’s link in another window… it is in B&W, but it is worded…

The gist, in case…. Toni notices his n hers stuff… she discovers, vis Brad, that they have their own space n things, but share what Brad calls the important stuff… a bed, primarily… and all the fun stuff, and what makes their marriage a fun n strong union…

Wordless is OK.

Their printer probably ran out of black ink.

Brad: “Let me whip up some lovey cake for you, Toots”Toni: “I think you have made this before.”Brad: “No-no. Look, go rest yourself in the living room.”Toni: “You’ve got me stirred up!”

click here forstrip

It looks like it did. 8:)

it looks like Toni and Brad are all washed out?

“Method To The Madness”“Enie Meenie Mine”or “All’s Fair In Love And Marshmallows”

Everyone needs a little marshmallow softness in their relationship from time to time!

….and, by the way, Toni- I think ‘His & Hers’ items are very romantic!

Well, you can call it a compromise, if one of them likes one kind of chair and another another… or it may even be that one’s back requires a certain type of chair that is very uncomfortable for the other.

Much better. Thanks!

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No matter how much in love, or how long you are together, you will always still need your own space. The two chairs, the his and hers mugs, but still together. The best of both worlds, with marshmallows. Then there’s also the couch…and the bed.

Looks like we got the color, but not the initial line work. It never occurred to me that they would arrive separately.

When Brad starts to talk about sharing a bed, Toni changes the subject to marshmallows. Brad, you had better resign yourself to eating a whole lot of marshmallows, from here on out.

This definitely looks disappointingly like Leviticus is right.

I checked this one at Arcamax. Same error.

I guess I could have layered the color one over the black & white one, then posted it… Drat.

I thought of that, but couldn’t figure out how to do it.

B: Hot Coco comin’ up;T: His & her mugs…Is this how your parents marriage works? Everything’s divided up?B: Some things, I guess, not everything.T: I notice their chairs.B: But they share the really important things like…a bed.T: And Marshmallows (as she puts her hand in the marshmallow bag)B: Now you’re getting the idea.

Whoohoo!A collectors edition!Save it now and you can sell it for a motza in thirty years time!

I concur that the problem is the black channel.I suspect that they inadvertently used a print colour version of the image.Being a CMYK file, it somehow dropped one channel when it was then re-purposed as an indexed RGB file.Incidentally, it is possible to read if you copy/paste into a graphics program and invert it to negative.

Where’s The Sheriff when we need him?!

I thought for a minute my computer was wacked out.

Oh, what happened?

My eyes!!My eyes!!!!Aaaaaaarhg!!!!!!

I suspect Toni’s sense of humor is going to be a hard thing for Brad to recognize. The “marshmallows” comment in panel 3 is a case in point. They’ll be sharing plenty in a while, though off-camera….

WHAT The?!!?You GOT Little Shannon Colorin’ the Strips NOW Sheriff???

Oh.

Okay, THANKS Brdshtt.

That’s MUCH Better, and…,WAIT a Minute!!!

Panel ONE and Panel THREE!

DOES Anybody in This Darn Strip Wear a “HAIR NET”???

Hahaha, someone forgot the black layer :)

First panel

Brad)Hot Cocoa coming up

His and hers mugs is how your parents’ marriage works? Everything divided up

Second panel

Brad) Some things I guess not everything

I noticed their chairs

Last panel

Brad) But they hare the important things like…a bed

And marshmallows?

Brad) Now you’re getting the idea

Deadlines must be ruthless in the comic trade….

Thanks, I thought my eyes were going out

Sharing a bed and sharing marshmallows is more important then what is not shared.

somebody ran out of black ink?

I found it. Brad is talking about sharing a bed…

Wasn’t there a song about this this past summer? Blurred Lines?

Since there is white everywhere too, I’m sure this is an error by GoComics.

so he said to her, then she replied

Brad first shows Toni his bedroom. Now he’s trying to steer the conversation to beds. Toni promptly deflects it to marshmallows.

He’s selling, but she ain’t buying.

Well, isn’t this a puzzlement?

The phantom comic strip strikes again.

The strip I got in my email has the dialogue shaded in.

It’s a GIF mess up. Save to your computer and open in paint. It’s normal in the program with black lines and text.

Copy the image. Drop it into MS Paint. Voilá! It’s all there, including the text in the bubbles. Strange, but it works.

This has happend before but now!

have contacted head of digital comics to find out why black has dropped out. Probably a file formatting mistake.

Oh, man, someone spiked my brownies again…

Thanks!

No black

I probably had left an extra channel in the uploaded file. That screws up the black view. All set now.FYI- Colorists upload print-ready CMYK tif files, GoComics takes it from there. Highly automated I am sure, some errors get past the electronic gatekeeper.

What a perfect opportunity this was for a Luann mashup. Will have to read posts to see if that was done.

All right! They fixed it!

Yahoo comics still has the strip washed out. Interesting.

re Yahoo: corrected file has to work its way thru the distribution pipeline.

that’s my educamated guess, anyway. not sure if yahoo auto links to GoComic.

I haven’t been with this board for that long, so I don’t know everybody. Who is Sheriff Mordecai?

BOOOORRRING!!!!!!!!!!

> Sometimes marshmallows are just marshmallows.>And sometimes eating junk food snacks is a substitute for satisfying other cravings. Brad is going to be forced to eat so many marshmallows during this engagement (and likely during the marriage) that he will wind up looking like the Stay Puft monster from “Ghostbusters”.

It makes sense that Toni would be noticing the DeGroots relationship since she did not have her parents around very long to observe.

That was strange. If that had been in a newspaper, I would have thought they left off the black ink plate.

When I first married 59 years ago I was too stupefied by the reality of meshing my life into the life of an adored other. The issues of how it actually works was too far off. However, the desire was for whatever comes MAKE IT WORK. Here’s a story. Our ceremony was in New York. Our first night together was in the Philadelphia home of my wife’s brother and his wife while they were still back in NY. Our next night was at our honeymoon vacation, Virgina Beach, VA. And you know what? We spent the early part of that evening popping sunburn blister on each other as a result of time on the beach. And you know what’s more? I never felt any pain from that sunburn. Married bliss blotted out any pain.

Why does Brad look 12 years old?

What’s wrong with everyones? Mine is perfect. I love marshmellows in my cocoa.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Aha! Brad & Toni are getting “ideas.” Hmm…

sorry to hear that. My mother was and they never got her sugar right, had complications for the rest of her life.-Got a great scare this year when doctors told me I’m now borderline. So I’ve greatly changed eating habits, lost about 30 pounds by cutting carbs (really do miss big plates of angel hair spagetti and rice with my stir fry, oh, well.)-Long story short, have been tracking down low carb and diabetic safe recipes and even found one for marshmellows that’s made using agave syrup instead of sugar. Not so sure I’m convinced that agave is a genuine good thing for diabetics, though. It’s more fructose than glucose, while sugar is 50% each, and I don’t see a seal from the Diabetes Association on agave bottles.-

Anyway, I find low fat whipped cream to be a decent substitute for marshmellows on my cocoa….

So right! Brad is going to be a wonderful husband, and Toni will be a wonderful wife because she is trying – sincerely- to navigate a new kind of relationship; one that is functional and honest, Brad gets that and is being very aware and loving and helping he to feel safe.

sure is an awful lot of inuendo for a comic strip that kids read.

why not just come out and say it, “Hey we wanna have sex!”

Chairs vs Loveseat. Look how they are arranged. Perfect for conversation, touching knees and playing footsie. One likes brown, one likes green, and if they start getting bored, there is the remote on the table. The lamp may have been a wedding gift. Turquoise and yellow is very 80s.

Don’t you think milania and Donny would make a cute couple?

Arcamax, for sure! And since many online papers use that one, their sites would have it, too…

You forgot Words, by Missing Persons…" What good are words for, when no one listens, anymore? It’s no use talking at all… "

I like a more elaborate version: Here kid, takethis unloaded gun, this knife and this plastic bag and go play in the abandoned refrigerators over on the freeway median.

“Please get a GAG Writer. That “Joke” is already too old."_____________________________________

Yeah.

Yeah You’re Right as Always JP.I ACTUALLY Did Have another Joke in Mind for Today. And I came to within a (WAIT for it) “HAIR’S BREADTH” of Using it!!!

THANK You Ladies and Gentlemen!I’m HERE ALL Week!!!

Brad, too pushy, let her get all warm and sleepy from the hot chocolate, cuddle , kiss , and then take a cold shower….together

Meant to say that Arcamax and the online newspapers/news services that feature comics in association with them had the same coloring problem, as well….

That Nilson one was good, too… also the whole “Point” album could fit, loosely…

7 am the next day and all is well.