Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 16, 2014

“Micro Management”“All That Glitters…Is Dangerous”“♪…Dust In The Wind…♪”“A Flakey Proposition”“♪…Canary In A Coalmine…♪”or“♪…Flake Up To Make Up…♪”

3rd panel = A+

I am now a glitterphobe myself, ever since one of my exes forced me to watch Twilight.

shudder

Maybe it’s just Frank’s old skin flaking off.

I had a friend who would put tons of glitter and confetti in everything she’d mail. Hopefully she’s outgrown that by now, although?? She was still doing it well into her 60’s. Sad really.

“Spread everywhere” by…General Spills, Inc…. "Makers of fine serials like ‘Frosted Fakes’, ‘Leery-Os’, ‘Pretty Good Cereal’, ‘Project 19’, ‘Spliced Crispies’, ‘Shorn Flakes’ and ‘Shredded What?’ "….– and by…the Dan Druff Gl’Amour Cosmetic, Accessory and Beauty Collection… “Now with 50% bigger flakes!”…. " Found everywhere …. including Stallmart, Botchkoff’s, and Okaymart…..

So Frank must go “where no one has breathed before” …..

Wow! They really want it on the new calendars, too? I seriously would have not thought that was a request (to put it on calendars)… that’s a true “Glitterholic”, Lol!…

The reason I hate “glitter” is because, during childhood, I was eating candy while handling a Christmas card. Some got into my mouth; even after I spit it all out, it felt like it was still there!

I hope Monday’s installment continues with Rosa explaining to Luann what “Plan C” involves. As I stated a couple of days ago, Rosa may decide that her future does not have to involve either Yale or Gunther. Like I had said, she may leave town after Graduation Day without saying good-bye to anyone.

Also, to clarify what I mentioned previously— Rosa never actually said that she wanted to start at the top. That was just speculation upon my part, in response to the reader who wondered why she wasn’t considering a strategy where she would attend a local college while participating in community social causes. Maybe that plan would not seem to be as grandiose as joining the Peace Corps. But then, maybe “Plan C” is such a strategy!

Okay, I see- the “Ooooooh! Shiny!” approach… Like a lot of fluff and commercials on TV…. Next thing you know, there’ll be the saying “Like putting glitter on a pig”!… – I’m sure the “Apple Zombies” will want a phone like that next, and not just an add on protective cover….

Toothpaste- with glitter… – Ham… with glitter… – Arsenic- with glitter…

This is straight from Greg’s “Luann” page on Facebook:

" Here’s a unique treat for FB fans. For the first time, Greg is sharing an alternate ending to a story line. Take a look at this second ending to the “Locked In the Closet” strips of last week and tell us what you think."

Click here to see the alternate strip and it’s ending…..

The older readers here will probably recall how the Peace Corps used to run ads on TV during the 1960s. Do they do that anymore? Until recently, I was under the assumption that some previous administration had abolished the Peace Corps. But, in the last 15-20 years, I have quit watching television and have become extremely apathetic about political issues…

Coughing and wheezing in more ways than one!

Luann is sounding suspiciously like she’s guilty of glitter litter with her shiny new makeup….

Thanks! For some reason, I couldn’t get the picture to post….

I was thinking how it would be fun to have a site where the “Luann Poll” could keep statistics of answers to questions such as; “which characters will be written out in the coming months?” Also, things like multiple-choice items about possible scenarios involving “The Prom, The Wedding, College, etc.” might intrigue the fans.

A lot of people commented there that it was a better ending (I thought so, too!)….– An “ironically calm transition ending” as a clever twist…..

It’s like herpes. Gets everywhere and you can’t get rid of it completely.

Yeah, I like that ending better too. Less diabolous ex machine then the real ending. Brad looks quite content, smug even, with an arm around Toni and another around Shannon.

With a very ‘family’ vibe to it. Shannon looks equally content, snoozing away in Brad’s arm like she belongs there.

It is great to be able to look up the older strips from past years. The first ones I saw (when the Star-Tribune began carrying it) were from a story about a school fashion show, shortly before Aaron Hill got into a car crash. But, in those early years, I did not read it all the time, so there are many that I’ve seen here that I either don’t remember, or had not read at all. It’s mainly in the last five years or so that I have developed a (hopefully harmless) obsession with the characters, as well as the plots. This has become one of those comics to look forward to every day.

The only question I have left is how (or why) Shannon will be adopted. Will Toni’s deadbeat brother Jonah get run over by a car, a truck, a reindeer, or other mode of transportation?Will he just leave town and forget to mention where?

Only time will tell what Jonah’s mostly irrelevant fate will be.

Maybe some “Luann” trivia experts can help me out on this. Obviously, this strip contains innuendo about the sex urges of Luann and friends, as well as Brad & Toni. My question is whether anything about the erotic life of Frank & Nancy has been suggested. I keep thinking that I recall something in the past, but I just can’t remember what it was.

Recently, I read that Greg and Karen Evans have plotted out storylines for the next year. Specifically, they gave the vague hint that Brad & Toni’s Wedding will have “trauma and drama.” Could we surmise the trauma might involve something happening to Jonah? Might the drama be something having to do with Dirk? So many questions— we will have to wait for the answers…

Here’s a topic that would make for an interesting question in a poll of the readers: Who is most likely to get pregnant on Prom Night? The choice of answers would be between Luann, Bernice, Rosa, Crystal, Tiffany or Delta, with “all” or “none” from which to pick. I’m sure whichever one I’d choose would be another failed prediction. However, I know there are readers with definite opinions on the subject!

Sounds like our house during Winter Color Guard season!

Gee. Frank’s MORE Paranoid Than I Am…..,

‘Glitter Lung’ is no laughing matter – ask Ms. Bliss over at ‘Cul De Sac’.

Lucky thing Phoebe’s dad ( Heavenly Nostrils ) doesn’t have the same problem

Every man’s future excuse when they come home with glitter on them. " Fred’s house still has Christmas glitter everywhere, I wasn’t at the strip club, honestly!"

IN 1987, scavengers broke open a radiation-therapy machine in an abandoned clinic in Goiânia, Brazil. They sold the kilocurie caesium-137 source as a glowing curiosity, in the dark, anyway. In daylight, the radioisotope powder looked like the most amazing glitter. Two hundred and fifty persons were contaminated; four died, one of them a woman who applied the “glitter” as makeup.

Glitter body cream? Did Luann get a job as a stripper?

Very true, but I was referring to Frank & Nancy’s situation at middle-age.

No, it’s the Easter plastic grass that stays with you forever. I haven’t bought it in twenty years and a strand will still occasionally pop up in the house.

Brilliant!

Bravo, sir. :-)

Glitterfaces are cuteGlitterfeces is the dumps

I think its time for a new refrigerator. I don’t think a dorm size fridge will cut it!

That’s easy!…… with the adaptation of a handy device, and these simple test steps.

1.Clap on.2.Clap off.3.Clap on.4 Clap off.– Repeat steps 1-4. If these still work, then your adaptation installment was successful.

You can now pronounce the device: “The Clapper. For The Refrigerator.”

Hand thawing device to enable subsequently successful claps and still be able to tell the Jello™ from the Lime Green Kool Aid™ must now be installed, next.

“Glitter eye shadow I know, but body wash? Makes my skin crawl and itch just thinking about it.”

I have some glitter body lotion. I like it, it’s actually very subtle and there’s no glitter litter because it sticks really well. You can’t feel the glitter, it just looks really nice. (I am not a stripper.)

When summer is 106 in the shade, I believe the “suffocation” would be anywhere outside of the refrigerator……

Heheheheheh ;)

“Now with “microbeads” for a shinier look!"