Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 28, 2014
March 27, 2014
March 29, 2014
Transcript:
Dad: "Ooo! "Toy story"!"
Luann: "Bye, dad. This is a girls-only party"
Delta: "Raise your kool-aid, ladies. A toast!"
Luann: "Fun party"
Bernice: "I've never been happier..."
“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.”/Shakespeare, “Sonnets” ’Nite all wherever you are! ;)
Tiffany is interviewing for a role in an adult movie involving being tattooed while skydiving drunk and gambling on the ’chute opening THIS time.(The part nearly literally dropped in her lap although nobody openly suspects foul play on her part yet.)
ReallyBad wrote “I worry that Evans doesn’t have what it takes to liven this strip up for the college years.”
Perhaps you hadn’t heard that Greg Evans has turned over the writing of the strip to his daughter Karen. I’ve been thinking the growth of the characters’ complexity has to do with that new person plotting their futures, and the memories of a younger woman about what time that was like.
More details are at www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Sep/22/luann-comic-strip-all-in-family
I have been out of high school 46 years and I still remember how I felt the night of graduation. The realization that you are no longer a child but an adult with all the responsibilities and crap that goes with being an adult.
My grandchildren have questioned many times why mom and dad don’t get a spring break or the summer off. That was when they were in Elementary and by the time they are in middle school they understand and are NOT in that much of a hurry to grow up and work all the time, lol
OH Nice GOING, Ingrate. Telling the REAL “Founder of the Feast” to Get LOST.
But THAT’S Okay, Lu.
Because When YOU Finally Get Your 1st Entry Level Job and have to PAY for Rent, Utilities, Taxes, and that Eternal Student Loan, on an “Entry Level” Salary, Then You’ll KNOW Why Frank SCREAMED Bloody Murder About Not Wanting to HEAT the Whole Blasted Neighborhood EVERY Time YOU Left the Darn Front Door Open!!!
“Wouldn’t Toy Story 3 be more appropriate?”^Plot-wise, you have a point. “3” was specifically closer in plot to that stage of “growing up and leaving people behind”. – It may be that Greg wasn’t looking for that, just wanted to mention something that’s older that to them may be a “classic” (in a broader, more general sense, as that movie is at the very least 10 years old) that they enjoy together, and “TS3” is still fairly recent…
Yeah, tell Frank he has no business watching a movie on his own TV set. After all, he’s only MasterDad. (I get a feeling that on the day after high school graduation, Luann may find that her key no longer fits in the front door…)
-I always hate it at a party when the drunks get on a crying jag.-I don’t think the punch was spiked. I think they were getting teary-eyed about Delta’s toast. They’ve been talking about the future for awhile now and that toast brought it all home…
Funny you should mention “moving vans”. They’re recalling the date of the “anniversary of the Mayflower” (From Baltimore to Indy)….. Not a lament around these parts, just a significant date in the area’s history….
For her 19th birthday party, Luann will be joined on her sofa in front of the television by 2 new friends she will have met at Pitt CC. Bernice will celebrate her own birthday that same week, but across town in a dorm at Moony Uni. Crystal will have a birthday party on the planet Neptune, where her guests will be fellow exiles Aaron Hill and Mini-Elvis.
I wonder, though, if their distress is over going separate ways, or perhaps (greater concern) that they will lose their friendship in the process? If they’ll always be friends, then they should figure out ways to reconnect.
Gweedo – you know Night Gaunt IN PERSON?!?!1) That makes you a celebrity, too (once removed)2) I thought Night Gaunt was a “she”. But guess I shouldn’t let that negate my good thoughts.
If I happened to be a story consultant for this strip, there would be scenarios which would be rejected on the grounds that too many newspapers would drop it. However, it is a fact that many teenagers of the present day have knowledge of the existence of Alcohol, as did their ancestors. It might not be considered to be extreme to address that fact. So, who will get drunk on Prom Night?
JayBluE over 10 years ago
“Friday Night Kiddie-Os”“We’re Crying Cos We’re Out Of Froot Loops!”“Getting Sentimental Over Onions”“♪….That’s Just An Alibi….♪”or “Whonk This Way”
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
Fun, fun, fun…but now reality has set in… ;)
JayBluE over 10 years ago
Or “spiked the air”….
The Nihilist over 10 years ago
I’ve seen more fun in mausoleums…
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
These girls are getting “drunk” on separation anxiety… ;)
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
I always thought Night-Gaunt49 was an eloquent speaker…see my comment on the bottom of yesterday’s posts… ;)
JayBluE over 10 years ago
Plenty of product placement. Smellogs and Tick-Czar must’ve dropped off a lot of their “unwanted greens”…
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.”/Shakespeare, “Sonnets” ’Nite all wherever you are! ;)
Namrepus over 10 years ago
No “Woodys” allowed at this party!
ct0760 over 10 years ago
I know its a comic that appeals to a more conservative demographic but this is a little chaste…
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 10 years ago
So raise a cup of kindness now for auld lang syne
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 10 years ago
And you’re wanting your version of a car chase too.
timzsixty9 over 10 years ago
that was a terrific toast…no wonder they’re all crying. i miss the friends that i thought would ’ALWAYS BE THERE…"
melmarsh9v over 10 years ago
Finally; childhood’s end. Now, let’s get on with the events leading up to Prom Night! Hopefully, it will be wilder than the events of this week…
reedkomicks Premium Member over 10 years ago
“Why is Tiffany not with them?”-She’s hanging out with Quill.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 10 years ago
Tiffany is interviewing for a role in an adult movie involving being tattooed while skydiving drunk and gambling on the ’chute opening THIS time.(The part nearly literally dropped in her lap although nobody openly suspects foul play on her part yet.)
Edward Wiggins Premium Member over 10 years ago
ReallyBad wrote “I worry that Evans doesn’t have what it takes to liven this strip up for the college years.”
Perhaps you hadn’t heard that Greg Evans has turned over the writing of the strip to his daughter Karen. I’ve been thinking the growth of the characters’ complexity has to do with that new person plotting their futures, and the memories of a younger woman about what time that was like.
More details are at www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Sep/22/luann-comic-strip-all-in-family
jeanie5448 over 10 years ago
I have been out of high school 46 years and I still remember how I felt the night of graduation. The realization that you are no longer a child but an adult with all the responsibilities and crap that goes with being an adult.
My grandchildren have questioned many times why mom and dad don’t get a spring break or the summer off. That was when they were in Elementary and by the time they are in middle school they understand and are NOT in that much of a hurry to grow up and work all the time, lol
Mordock999 Premium Member over 10 years ago
OH Nice GOING, Ingrate. Telling the REAL “Founder of the Feast” to Get LOST.
But THAT’S Okay, Lu.
Because When YOU Finally Get Your 1st Entry Level Job and have to PAY for Rent, Utilities, Taxes, and that Eternal Student Loan, on an “Entry Level” Salary, Then You’ll KNOW Why Frank SCREAMED Bloody Murder About Not Wanting to HEAT the Whole Blasted Neighborhood EVERY Time YOU Left the Darn Front Door Open!!!
And about Your CRAPPY Father’s Day Gifts……,
JayBluE over 10 years ago
“Wouldn’t Toy Story 3 be more appropriate?”^Plot-wise, you have a point. “3” was specifically closer in plot to that stage of “growing up and leaving people behind”. – It may be that Greg wasn’t looking for that, just wanted to mention something that’s older that to them may be a “classic” (in a broader, more general sense, as that movie is at the very least 10 years old) that they enjoy together, and “TS3” is still fairly recent…
lynchmother over 10 years ago
Pure and wholesome – - so sweet! :-)
seismic-2 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Yeah, tell Frank he has no business watching a movie on his own TV set. After all, he’s only MasterDad. (I get a feeling that on the day after high school graduation, Luann may find that her key no longer fits in the front door…)
Peabody429 over 10 years ago
After Dad leaves the porn DVD goes in…
watmiwori over 10 years ago
We’re so happy we could just sit….
watmiwori over 10 years ago
No doubt the jammies with feet are for later, upstairs. Nor let’s notforget the pillow fight.
2Goldfish over 10 years ago
No one else bothered to show up? Hmmmmm…
Willow Mt Lyon over 10 years ago
If those are nightgowns, I think they are representative of the women they will become. No more pajamas with feet, but not the sheer kind yet either.
Argy.Bargy2 over 10 years ago
-I always hate it at a party when the drunks get on a crying jag.-I don’t think the punch was spiked. I think they were getting teary-eyed about Delta’s toast. They’ve been talking about the future for awhile now and that toast brought it all home…
JayBluE over 10 years ago
“Yep my favorite! You know me perfectly! ;)”^ Lol!…
JayBluE over 10 years ago
Funny you should mention “moving vans”. They’re recalling the date of the “anniversary of the Mayflower” (From Baltimore to Indy)….. Not a lament around these parts, just a significant date in the area’s history….
ACTIVIST1234 over 10 years ago
My gosh, Luann really IS eating Fruit Loops. Has she never heard of peanut butter s’mores!!!!
Argy.Bargy2 over 10 years ago
-Why is Tiffany not with them?-This is supposed to be a group birthday party. So maybe Tiff doesn’t have a birthday at the same time as these three.
seismic-2 Premium Member over 10 years ago
For her 19th birthday party, Luann will be joined on her sofa in front of the television by 2 new friends she will have met at Pitt CC. Bernice will celebrate her own birthday that same week, but across town in a dorm at Moony Uni. Crystal will have a birthday party on the planet Neptune, where her guests will be fellow exiles Aaron Hill and Mini-Elvis.
Sisyphos over 10 years ago
Ah, the pain of trying desperately to cling to the comfort of today rather than embrace the change of tomorrow!Flee, Frank, flee!
JayBluE over 10 years ago
I was going to say at first it looked like your emoticon’s nose was “discharging a rocket” upwards, Lol!…..
Ginny Premium Member over 10 years ago
A sweet moment. Take it for what it is.
TORAD_07 over 10 years ago
I wonder, though, if their distress is over going separate ways, or perhaps (greater concern) that they will lose their friendship in the process? If they’ll always be friends, then they should figure out ways to reconnect.
Yeah, I know how that goes…. :)
ACTIVIST1234 over 10 years ago
Gweedo – you know Night Gaunt IN PERSON?!?!1) That makes you a celebrity, too (once removed)2) I thought Night Gaunt was a “she”. But guess I shouldn’t let that negate my good thoughts.
ACTIVIST1234 over 10 years ago
I’ve always thought beard were just too sexy— they symbolized strength and wisdom to me. Until my buds got them.)
JayBluE over 10 years ago
“Noses” are “overrated”, anyway, Lol!…
716PMedGuy over 10 years ago
I think they need a little VODKA in their Kool-Aid
melmarsh9v over 10 years ago
If I happened to be a story consultant for this strip, there would be scenarios which would be rejected on the grounds that too many newspapers would drop it. However, it is a fact that many teenagers of the present day have knowledge of the existence of Alcohol, as did their ancestors. It might not be considered to be extreme to address that fact. So, who will get drunk on Prom Night?
melmarsh9v over 10 years ago
Back in the past, there was a storyline which dealt with Bernice’s experience with someone who was familiar with an illegal herbal substance.
overtherainbow over 10 years ago
Ha, called it! (Except they’re eating Froot Loops instead of popcorn.) :-)
Justdar826 over 10 years ago
I love this! I think it’s one of my all time favorite scenes.
ElJorro almost 3 years ago
We have not seen Delta in a long time.