Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 27, 2014

Looks like we’re at Appomattox… and ‘terms of surrender’ are non-negotiable! – This discussion could be about a cell phone plan: the customers aren’t valued, there’s too much roaming, and a lot of shrinkage… or someone finds their calls are getting dropped, minutes are getting expensive, and an ‘upgrade’ means something different to one than the other…. – This doesn’t seem like the time to go up and ask either one of them for five bucks, is it?

Snippy, snippy, Luann…keep pushing Quill and your “relationship” will be all over! ;)

Oh, don’t do this to us Greg.

Quill’s gotten out of worse situations. But…I’m not sure Luann deserves to keep him.

She’s about to get kicked to the curb if she keeps acting like a spoiled brat.

Then again, Quill has a point. Girlfriends are much easier to replace then a career.

Hey Pretty-Boy?

Have You purchased the Rings yet?

You Know, One for Luann’s Finger and the other Ring for YOUR Nose??

“Begin End Game”“Terms Of Ensnarement”“On Slippery Pond”“Burning The Bridges Of Pitts County”“The Way We Are Now”or “The Future’s So Blight, I Gotta Throw Shade”

“Sponsored” by… “Argument!”…. “The board game you’ll never win!”… "From Parkour Brothers…

Quill, you idiot. Did you just say “I put my theater job before you”? Don’t you know that nothing in your life, indeed in anyone’s life, takes precedence over Her Royal Highness, Princess DeGroot?

All or nothing for LuannNothing ahead

“This way, you can get your heart rate up without even lifting a finger…” ^That’s lyrics to a song called “Let’s Not Get Physical” by Olivia Juice Newton…

Geez! How much more of this crap can Quill take?

Lovely words, RW, but Luann’s brattiness will not allow any of them to get in edgewise.

Guess Luann’s going to be an old maid after all. Women can sure stir things up.

What’s to say?She’s a B!With no future, no aims, no money, no looks, no smarts, no skills, and no thought of getting any.What are the other folks doing?Anything?

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Wow! After all those slow pitches with Mr. Fogarty’s retirement, suddenly we get a fastball down the middle. We weren’t looking for this pitch Quill should say, “Looking ahead, do you want a guy with a good career?”.

this time you have no support of your fans, Luann……………… at least 90% of us side with Quill…………….. is not how much time, is the quality of the time you have

I’m pretty sure Quilly’s parents didn’t pay his way to come back to America (priced that trip lately?) just so he could spend time with the p*ssy blonde.He’s obvious;y made a commitment to be responsible in a way Luann couldn’t/wouldn;t understand.

My Irish Setter (IS) girl is sound asleep next to me…not such a bad idea! ’Nite all… ;)

“Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out, but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.” (A. E. Housman, 1859 – 1936)

Don’t take that nasal tone with ME!G’day, I say!

FHEO!!!

Sarcasm is not good for you right now, Luann.

Luann is a little brat. I’m glad I’m not a boy so I don’t have to have a girlfriend. They’re so stupid and annoying and always tag you in stuff on facebook.

As Khalil Gibran wrote, “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: ……….-We had that at my wedding. We’ve long since gone our separate ways; I s’pose the wind needed a lot of dancing space/

If I were an optimistic sort, I’d say this was their first lovers’ quarrel.But I’m not, and it may instead be their last. We’ll soon enough find out.

Interesting all of you are picking on LuAnn. She is supposed to be satisfied with whatever bone he wants to throw her? He doesn’t sound concerned at all about her concerns. Sounded as if he was in no hurry yesterday. Couldn’t even see she already had a coffee. Work Is important. But, not as important as the one you claim to love! He needs to forget about women until he is grown enough to realize that work won’t keep you warm at night.

Well, you lot wanted the Feather back. You lot nagged him into bringing the Feather back, though he admits that even he was bored with the character. Now if you don’t like him messing up storylines worn a character he feels forced to use, that’s not his fault.

(Dog, I can’t believe I’m defending Evans!)

*with

Well, this isn’t good at all for Lu & Q. I guess the question then becomes, who becomes the “dumper” vs. the “dumpee…”

I’m leaning more towards Q dumping Lu. I think it will lend much more drama to the story than if Lu dumps him. Then she can kvetch about it for the next few strips. Hopefully, the people that surround her will set her straight. It just seems like she’s not going to get out of her funk for a while, so she has to accept responsibility for the consequences.

It seems unlikely that there is only one drama school in this entire country for Quill to attend . In fact there have to be drama schools in Australia. We have only seen one passionate moment in this romance and it must not have made little impression on him to repeat this experience. Neil Sedeca. “BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO”

Ah come on Luann. Don’t be a jerk! This is how real relationships work. So grow up, get busy with some things you enjoy and stop whinging! He’s building your future too!

And… it’s on to Pitt CC, and a new boyfriend!

Aahh, the “high” of the prom is over and its back to reality. Now is the time we find out if they truly love each other.

It takes 2 to make a relationship work. Quill is far too busy making a career for himself and Luann wants more time with her boyfriend and he won’t do it. Best if they go their own way for a while.

Dump her Quill, too needy.

There seems to be quite a change in reaction herein from the previous time that Luann pulled this “You never think about me!” tantrum. Last time, a lot of the posted comments were denouncing Quill as a terrible, terrible person because he doesn’t spend 24/7 obsessing over Luann. Has that change in reaction come about because people are finally getting fed up with Luann’s constant whining and want her simply to get over herself, or is it because they are so bored with Quill that they can’t be bothered even to be angry at him any more?

They’re going to break up.Luann is too needy, and Quill is tired of it.

Been following this strip for decades, but between the way Luann acted during the prom thing, and now this… showing her to be at almost the level of selfishness, self absorption and pettiness as Tiffany, I no longer like or respect Luann. Which means I no longer care to root for her. Which puts an end to my enjoyment of this strip.

How is the poor girl selfish for wanting to spend time with the one she loves? No wonder marriages are failing. All of you want Quill to do his own thing. And you call Her selfish! I call Him self-centered & not ready for a relationship! He needs to take up with Tiff. She’s a good match for him.

Ah, teenage drams…

Luann is headed for a breakup being so self-centered.

Luann, you know what you’re getting into with Quill. Accept his interests or move on.

Never argue with your girlfriend, just dicker.

In defense of Luann, it is a hard thing to have to keep hoping and waiting to spend time with a boyfriend. Even though you want him to focus on his life and you don’t want to get in his way, there is still that pain of a dashed hope every time he has to put something else ahead of time together.

Q1: Lu looks remarkably like her mother today. Does Nancy ever talk this way to Frank?*Q2: Qu claims his parents were rather distant from him, were never too involved with his life. Is this why he doesn’t see the relationship between time & commitment?

… and welcome back to all the commenters who took a nap during the re-runs. Glad you’re back! (MikeyJ, Levi, et al)

Warning Will Robinson! Danger Danger!!!!

Maybe Greg is getting ready to write Luann out of the comic?

Egads… She turned in to MY WIFE!!!!

Drama, drama, drama. As if we all don’t have enough of it in real life.

Wow. From the comments on here I am not surprised that so many marriages end up the way they do!(40+ year old happy relationship and marriage here that started in High School.)

They BOTH have a point and they BOTH need to work at this. Luann has every right to expect to be treated with more consideration and importance in Quill’s life. (Maybe he can at least TRY to not leave her hanging and call when he has to?) Quill has every right to expect Luann to care about and take more interest in his chosen career. They would both need to show more caring about the other if this were a real relationship for it to last and be strong.

“Now if you don’t like him messing up storylines worn a character he feels forced to use, that’s not his fault.”-—————————————————It IS Evans’ fault; he created the character, but couldn’t be bothered to write properly for it. Quill’s a fairly stable, non-malicious, Delta-like personality (and when’s the last time he wrote for her [and I don’t mean the “Fo-getty Flashback”], he didn’t even finish her prom storyline). Perhaps because of this distinctive contrast to the stock “prat-fall” bunch, Quill became a favorite that Evans couldn’t just make “dsappear” when the easy jokes didn’t come to him.Right now, Luann is acting like a snot because she’s not at Quill’s emotional level and is trying to drag him down to hers, risking losing ALL her time with Quill.Quill’s someone more likely to get Luann to move past the petty part of her personality (like, who was jealous when Gunther found Rosa after Luann had rejected him AGAIN?). moreso than advice from her mom or Mrs. Horner.In that same manner; if Evans can’t work up a solution that doesn’t involve simply making a character disappear, maybe Karen’s perspective can get it worked out.

Luann is demonstrating “How to get the Guy to dump You, so You don’t have to do it”. I think Quill and Rosa would be good for each other, both are adventurous and nice.

Women……..

Brian, If a person says they are too busy to date you that means they don’t WANT to date you. And Bad, there was no lying involved—The person did not want to date him.

The discussion of “how much time can/should we spend together” is one that certainly should be had, at a time when it can be calmly discussed with acknowledgement of both parties’ needs and goals. Luann is screwing it up by bringing trying to have that large conversation now, when there is an immediate smaller irritation setting the wrong tone for the important discussion.

Let’s first deal with what I consider a valid complaint:“Hey Quill, if you’re running late, I’d really appreciate it if you’d shoot me a text so I don’t worry that you’ve forgotten our date or gotten hit by a car, ok?”

THEN, let’s have the serious discussion about future plans.

I am with Luann. Quill has a pattern of being late and not having any remorse. She needs to find someone who values her time. This has nothing to do with the fact that she also needs to grow up and be someone. Yes they are growing apart as well. Quill probably would be on time for someone who was capturing his interest.

Coming up, Single again Saturday!

TOO BAD. SO SAD. ON TO THE NEXT GUY………..

They are both too young – Quill is level headed enough to know he is just learning his career and it is important to train. At least he knows what he wants in his life’s work. Luann, on the other hand, has absolutely no idea what she wants to do with her life (other than having a boy paying attention to her all the time). The timing is not right. Luann has a lot of growing up to do yet. Unless Luann and Quill learn to compromise, they are doomed. Also, Quill wants to be a actor which means NY or Hollywood. I don’t see Luann leaving Pittsville yet.

Just as we think Luanne is finally growing up, down she goes again. Now picking fights over nothing at all. She is mature just as long as her boyfriend remains without flaw and all her needs are being met. Since Quill has no time for self-centered women, he should move on. Let her go sobbing to Mrs. Horner what a victim she is because no one cares about her needs.

Who’s to say Luann didn’t arrive 15 minutes early?I don’t know that she has a history of being particularly punctual herownself.

Oh, they’re communicating, alright! No holding back their “core issues”, here! The failure here is their inability to “meet in the middle”. This is to be expected, though. Compromise is an art that’s not learned overnight, unless one learns to appreciate it at a tender age. – Oh, the value of trade offs/give and take, and to view others (as well as themselves) objectively…. -I fear, though, that both parties feel that their positions are “non negotiable”….. and in a way, that is fair. At their current stances, they are showing what is valuable to them. It’s fair, as they are both communicating their positions and seem at this point to not have any room for other concessions. At this point, maybe both are prepared… to :seek opportunities elsewhere…

From the Facebook page (link here ) this question:

Any advice to work this situation out?

“The truth is, Luann. I am Spiderman, and to have told you before would have put your life in danger.”

Unless Quill has cancelled on her a bunch, and it’s “one week here, then a month gone missing”, I would think that he does make reasonable efforts. – In real life, I wouldn’t want to tell two people to “stay together” or “break up”. My advice would just be to both of them to step back, and find an objective (and GREAT emphasis on objective) voice to help sort out the right way to proceed, or if either are “putting stock in the right things” or even whether or not this should be a “make or break” issue….

I think Luann should have bought a decaf.

Geez Luann you’re acting like Tiffany!! Not a good idea.Quill make it quite clear how he feels about Tiff.

Very interesting that most comments here are slamming Luann and not Quill. His attitude (not alone among theater people) shows why love relationships, married or not, don’t last. One party is put on the shelf and dusted off only when wanted.

Luann has a right to be pissed, and Quill is an inconsiderate self absorbed ass. That is not to say Luann often is, too.

We have seen no incidences of Quill’s refusing to see Luann. (However, on what would have been an ideal occasion for them to spend a lot of time together, namely the Thanksgiving holiday, she left him behind so that she could take a long tour of a bunch of colleges, only to conclude after she got back that there was really no reason for the trip and she wouldn’t attend any of them.) Today Quill is running 20 minutes late, but that’s sufficient to provoke her wrath. Luann is “high maintenance”, to say the least.

Evans could use some outside suggestions if his only solution to writer’s block vivi a vis a character is to kill it off rather than be creative.

Luann, the difference between a discussion and a fight is the tone. You’ve set the tone for a fight. It can be hard to learn to set the right tone, but…you gotta do it.

“..But, you know, you make things work. Don’t waste time moaning about how little time you get together. You’ll never get it back.” ^Exactly!!!!!

Can’t spell unreasonable without Luann! That would just leave resoabe, which makes no sense.

LOVE the speech.

LEAVE THE BTICH

I would love a Tiff/Quill match up. Then Rosa heads to the East Coast and pathways are clear for the coupling that was meant to be.

And what makes you think Gunther won’t follow Rosa to wherever she’s going (East Coast or South America, etc…)? I’m not saying that Guth & Lu are not destined for each other, eventually, but it may take some time and perhaps an interim relationship or two before they realize it was meant to be…

How about a lyric?

“We had a quarrel…a lover’s spat…”(From “Return To Sender”)

Best song to describe this week’s arc:

Simon & Garfunkel – Overs…

Marvel re-boots at will.Spidey could become a Kenyan in the twinkling of an editor’s epiphany/stroke.

The “failure to communicate” I was referring to was Quill’s failure to inform Luann that he would be late.-———————————————————-Someone postulated earlier (I’m not going back over 150 comments) that we don’t know that Quill didn’t text Luann to his possible tardiness and that he’s just restating his regret in yesterdays’s strip.Miss Peeve surely would have thrown that into the mix by now otherwise, don’t you think?

Not yet, but soon:

It’s Over, by Roy Orbison

For No One, by the Beatles

(yeah, that link goes to the Emmylou Harris cover of it, because she does it better than Paul McCartney does)

“The “failure to communicate” I was referring to was Quill’s failure to inform Luann that he would be late”^As I was mentioning earlier, who’s to say he didn’t ? He could have in between panels.

“Only The Lonely”, Motels“The Last Goodbye”, Poco“Strange Way” , Firefall

It seems that Luann “needs” Quill more than he does her. In any case, both of them will probably find someone new when they attend different colleges in a few months…

Give it up mate! You are male. There is no way to breakeven, much less win.

“Strange Way”, Firefall

Didn’t I hear you cry this mornin’? Didn’t I feel you weep? Teardrops flowin’ down on me Like rivers in my sleepIn my dream of laughter You came creeping with your fears Telling me your sorrow In the trace ends of your tears

That’s a strange way to tell me you love me When your sorrow is all I can see If you just want to cry to somebodyDon’t cry to meNo, don’t cry to me….

– Songwriters ROBERTS, RICK (USA 1)

Published by Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Read more: Firefall – Strange Way Lyrics | MetroLyrics

LUANN!!Grow UP!You’re almost a High-School Graduate, theoretically going to COLLEGE (well, okay – Community College; J.C. as they used to call it, back in the Fifties and SIxties, there in CA) and you should get some maturity into your head. Stop being such a Tiffany about Quill. YES, he’s supposedly your boyfriend – does that make him your SLAVE? NO! He has a JOB, a Career, and hopefully, if you ever expect to marry him and have him support you, a FUTURE to build so he CAN support you – or do YOU expect to support HIM as he builds HIS acting career?Yeah; RIGHT.

“Also, she doesn’t love Quill. If she did, she’d be happy he’s working towards his dream. The only person Luann loves is Luann.”

So true!

Luann needs a drop kick through the goalposts of life…before she kicks Quill out of hers permanently.

That’s right, Luann, keep on complaining. Meanwhile, Tiff is swishing her considerable goodies at him and she will happily sleep with him, unlike you.