Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 28, 2016

just can’t win, can you?

Sometimes a college education doesn’t change a person.

YAY! Crystal again! She is someone who can help Tiffany with her growth. I woukd like to have her appear more.

Do shirts like that actually exist? That is so self-loathing!

DOOH!

Wow Tiffany

This is definitely becoming a more progressive, contemporary strip with the characters reflecting growth and willingness to take stands that are those of emerging and intelligent adults. With that being said, what about Tiffany and Piro? And those who were hoping for the story line about Mr. Gray you have one more day.

I did post, near the end of yesterday’s comments, a link to a strip where a complete set of formatting instructions is near the top of the comments section.

This includes bold, italic, and underlining …

That’s Tiffany’s problem in the nutshell, and Crystal’s wise to call her on it. She believes that she has no worth beyond a short-lived beauty, and that she has to market herself like a commodity or expire on the shelf. More evidence that instead of a mother she had a series of her Daddy’s trophy wives for role models.

This is a surprising statement from Crystal who not so long ago gave a 1950’s era blame-the-victim speech to Tiffany, telling her essentially that wearing an outfit that showed (I think) her midriff meant she was “asking for it” when Leslie Knox sexually harassed/intimidated her. (Apparently Rosa, who wore more “modest” clothes, was not to blame for being attacked by him in a similar manner.) BTW, I wonder whether Pitts High ever disciplined Leslie in any manner?

AND DID THE DEGROOTS SATISFY MR. GRAY OR ARE THEY DEAD???

Tiff always comes through for me……….bimbo forever. Got to love her.

Just wait ‘til Krystal sees Tiffany’s new tattoo….

She should be wearing a hat, that says “100% EMPTY”

HAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Altho I dislike the eluding to the fact Tiff is presenting, that women are only good for so long. Then what? We toss water on ourselves and melt?? I think not! Shame on Evans for writing this, even tho the presenter is a known airhead!

“Panacea”“The Legend Of El Dorado”“A Stereotype In Surround Sound’“Cattle Calls And Market Stalls”“Golden Years” (♫)“Die Young, Stay Pretty” (♫)“Run Of The Mill” (♫)“Strut, Pout, Cut It Out” (♪)“Do Fries Go With That Shake?” (♫)“It Figures”“A Date With Hugh Heffner”“She Plays The Game”“Tight Curves Can Make For Dangerous Turns”“Fresh Meat And Hot Buns”“If You Can Look Pasteurize, You’ll See There’s A Whole Lot More”or“Sell Yourself, Sell Yourself Short”

“Panacea”“The Legend Of El Dorado”“A Stereotype In Surround Sound’“The Tease Of Commodities”“Cattle Calls And Market Stalls”“Golden Years” (♫)“Die Young, Stay Pretty” (♫)“Run Of The Mill” (♫)“Strut, Pout, Cut It Out” (♪)“Do Fries Go With That Shake?” (♫)“The Construction Site Stroll” “It Figures”“A Date With Hugh Heffner”“She Plays The Game”“Tight Curves Can Make For Dangerous Turns”“Fresh Meat And Hot Buns”“If You Can Look Pasteurize, You’d See A Whole Lot More"or“Sell Yourself, Sell Yourself Short”

Crystal is one to talk. Just last week she was wearing things the granny brigade was mocking.

Tiff is perfectly right. And the young woman who dresses like a vampire is the last one with the right to cast the first stone.

Nice butt!

Brdshtt GoComics PRO Member said, 34 minutes ago

So, Tiff is dressed like a milk carton – expiration date and fat content. Now all she needs is the “Missing/Have You Seen Me” pictures…^^Sounds like something Brad’s almost first Girlfriend Diane should be wearing!

You think that shirt’s bad, she was going to wear the one that said “enlarged to show detail”.

LOL Tiffany. jeeeeez

Other than the possibility of a truth in advertising issue, I’m don’t see what’s wrong with the pants, as long as Tiffany isn’t the type to complain if someone stares at her behind.

I feel like this comic would have been funnier 10 years ago when Juicy Couture pants were in style. Juicy Couture doesn’t even have any storefronts in the US anymore.

actually I think it’s kind of cute. Crystal needs to lighten up. It’s kinda like the shirts everyone was wearing that all said xxlarge on them, just worn for fun, not ’cause it actually meant anything.

Her shirt should say “100% all natural, no added fillers.” ??

OK! so now we know when she’ll grow up by!and on the other side, we also know she’s 98% brain – free!

After 2022, the pants will read 60% fat

The Oklahoma paper that carries the LUANN Sunday strip didn’t print this cartoon; they printed a past cartoon that had Luann waffling between going to college in a year and a half or getting married (to Quill) right after high school and settling down to raise a family.

Really?Somehow I’m not surprised.

In May 2022, how old will Tiff be?

Love Crystal’s style, herself.

“offended” – one of the top favorite words of the politically correct.

Well in that case, others should be “offended” by Crystal’s choice of clothing, hairstyle and face paint. She looks like a carnie. All the time.

what a cute little hiney…

The pants are also false. I doubt Tiffany would like how she looked if she were actually 98% fat free.

If the gang is 20 years old …plus 6 more years (2022)…they will be 26.

Maybe this is a SPECIAL date in Luann’s future….wedding MAYBE???

I thought the purpose WAS to get the viewer all steamed.Hubba hubba..My wife’s niece came back from her first time at Auburn with a shirt sayingDATE A FRESHMANGET ‘EM BEFORE THEY’RE FAT..I just bet somebody found that offensive — especially the sophomores, juniors and seniors..Actually, I think my beloved Tiffany’s best days are far ahead of her. She just keeps getting gooder and gooder and better and better and more gooder. .She will soon be nearly as perfect as Prudence, nearly as lovely as Luann, nearly as cute as Crystal, nearly as realistic as Rosa, nearly as determined as Delta.

actually I know quite a few women , so involved with their daily workout routines, that they’d love a pair of pants like that as an expression of their accomplishment.

Oh, the interesting Washington Post article with that great quote is by a very famous conservative pundit. Yes, i read people with a variety of opinions; it goes with being an independent.

In a significant way, it would seem to me that such t-shirts would be eye-openers for the potential wearer. What more blunt and poignant statement that youth and physical beauty is fleeting does one need? But it appears that those who wear this type of slogan ironically don’t think beyond today, or think that they will remain young and “hot” forever. Then they end up being rather sad middle-aged “Forever 21” shoppers :-), or they try to reclaim that youthful appearance with plastic surgery and botox (which also ends up looking rather sad itself, most of the time, in my opinion).I dunno. On the other hand, maybe these t-shirts can be taken as simply celebrations of youth and vitality — a kind of “go for the gusto while you can” expression. Tiffany certainly wears it (and pretty much anything else, for that matter) well.

Tif looks very… sophisticated… today.

We had a girl in our church who wore a t-shirt that said “I like the D”. In church!

Is there some chance she didn’t know what it meant?

Albokittykat, you wrote:Tiffany often annoys me but I still feel a lot of affection for her, as a comic strip character and all. Still, I’d hate to see her become one of those women who winds up hanging out in bars waiting for loser dudes to pick up on her and buy her a drink. I hope the Evans have her grow up and have an interesting life doing good things. It’s just that she reminds me of a couple women I’ve known. I’m just babbling, don’t mind me

Hey, do not apologise for yourself. A number of us here feel the same way.

I had a Luann dream last night. It was short so i remember it. A man was reading a comic and said it was Maglu. The main character was Bernice dressed in a warmer weather version of how Magoo was dressed in the beginning of Magoo’s Christmas Carol: conservative but classy overcoat, neck scarf, and a fedora except that Bernice’s fedora was straw. I think the name Maglu for Bernice was partly a pun since Bernice does not see (observe and understand) social interactions. Hey, i might be able to pun when i am asleep! Partly i think the rakishness of the hat combined w the overcoat makes me think of possible layers of Bernice, and the scarf echos her fascination w Piro. Maglu (Bernice) was being hired by the Dean to investigate possible sexual activity in the university, which echoes conversations here. I have no idea what happened then but think the dream ended.

Styles change. Good taste, bad taste and no taste don’t.

People choose to be offended by something. I am female, middle-aged, and I am not offended by Tiffany’s shirt. If that is what she wants to wear it does not concern me at all.

In the real world Tiff would end up being a trophy wife and live without a care. Crystal will end up working in some corporate cubicle farm while supporting unemployable Knute. Maybe Tiff isn’t as dumb as she looks.

98% fat free is better than the 98% fall out you see on the boys in the hood.

Crystal and Tiffany: The Intimidator and the Iwannadater.

I’d like to see what Tiffany would look like if Crystal made her over in her own image (like the way she and Knute traded clothes for Comic-Con a couple of years back). Today’s outfit might seem more normal by comparison.

Arrrggghh, boy, did i just express myself POORLY. What you said you did not write, JohhnyB, is the putdown using the term “politically correct”.

Anyway, the comparison of seeking truth to doing exercise was a good one.

Add these clothes to the other things that happen in “Luann” that are fake-to-life.

1. Women want to have butts, the same way they want to have breasts. Having only 1% of fat would look sideshow freaky.2. Tiffany’s shirt suggests she will be dead pretty soon.

You are correct. My bad.

One day left to hear Mr. Gray’s “favor”.Good set up for Leap Day.

I like the pants and and if they say juicy thats ok, too! We need someone sexy in this sitcom since Greg refuses to show Toni in a bathing suit even! Get a rope!

Gosh does everyone has to make a freaking issue out of everything today….get a life

I have mixed feelings about the garments in and of themselves, but for Tiffany specifically i have only one take. Tiffany has not been raised to appreciate her own more important strengths, but to instead embrace empty assets like fame and transient physical beauty. For this reason, on her, the garments become self demeaning and she lacks the selfawareness to know that, but her best friend does know and that is why Crystal is trying to help her become more aware, because Crystal knows Tiffany better than pretty much anyone else. Every single one of us has things which are our own truths, and we can not assume that our personal truths must also be the truths of others because that is not only self-centered but it is downright naive. On that score, as in life so in comic strip. So, while i could easily imagine a joking person in the shirt and an athlete in the pants, they read differently for me when i factor in what we know about Tiffany, and that her best friend knows her best. I hope for growth in Tiffany; she has valuable strengths that she needs to recognize and appreciate to appreciate herself as a person.

Good to see the girls back, and Crystal still trying to help. .She can be as caustic as Bern with Luann, but not always.

For once, it seems safe to predict what arc will begin on Monday.

Tomorrow will have to shift from Twenty Shades of Valentine’s Day, to . . . . . . the unpredictable Mr. Gray.

“Brdshtt posted the pinkish picture above. The guy with a scarf.”.By 2020, Tiffany may have married Quilly and wishing Luann would have kept him. He’s even taken Piro’s scarf…======The question of the day:.Is he wearing Rubio’s shoes?

Crystal? In general, biologically speaking, Tiff’s right. You’re wrong.

“Men are disposable, but women are perishable.”

Two of the most attractive young ladies in this strip! One, the heavily made-up Goth. The other, the heavily made-up “Barbie,” flaunting It. It’s all good as long as we can watch them both,,,,

-You might just be dissing the next President of the US…

" eluding to the fact Tiff "..“The word is “alluding” meaning “referring to”; “eluding” means “escaping”.”,I fail to see the problem, many spend all their time escaping from facts.

Tiffany is the best character in the strip, because she is a flawed character who rarely wins, making her relatable. ^^It’s a bit of a role reversal, for the first 20 or so years, that would have been a description of Luann.

It is kinda nice to not see the Estrogen Bunch that’s been dominating this strip lately. [Seriously, who’s writing this nowadays, Taylor Swift?]

Life in Farrelland…

Or to borrow from that “cheeky” Punk band that Johnny and Sid were a part of, another one could have been “Never Mind The Bullocks Buttocks” (♪)…

“And the pants could say “B. U. M. Equipment”!”^Whenever they would go on sale, and the crowds lined up in a frenzy, technically, you could call it a B.U.M.rush…

Another one, especially appropriate for Tiff, if she had thought of responding this way to Crystal, could have been: “Butt Out” (which is also appropriate for some, given the way they try to walk about)….

(“Beware Of Blast”:) Ha ha ha!! – Just imagine if someone who walked around with their pants on their ankles wore it…. by the time they blasted the pants cannon, and you could look down to notice the writing on the back of their pants, well, the message would have been a bit too late…

.@DavidHuieGreen“1% fat means you are dead. ".I can’t die until I get down to 1%?HA !That means I’m close to immortal.WHATAGUY !.From:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/athlete-body-fat/.

“The average amount of body fat in the U.S. is 22 percent for men and 32 percent for women, although most experts believe a healthier body-fat content is 15 percent for men and 22 percent for women, according to The Ultimate Fit or Fat, a book by nutritionist Covert Bailey”

Thanks, Puzz. I usually try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and while some assume the worst of me for it, i find that it more often than not works out well. Thank you for your information on how you had an imposter. (Now, if someone actually ever did need to get a life i guess it woukd almost by definition have to be someone who poses as others.)

I think Tiffany views 25 as being over the hill. That is how old the group will be in 2022.

SPOILER ALERT

Those who tried to imagine the payment due to Mr. Gray didn’t come close. Oh,well. It was interesting while it lasted…

In only 20 minutes we may find out what is going on w Mr. Gray, except for you early viewers. I finished the work i had tonight so am ready to find out before hitting the sack. Sheriff has me very curious!

I thought we had seen Toni in a bikini during the photo shoot for the calendar a few years ago.*

Only the top, and even then it was more like a sports bra …

Thanks to you and Kymberleigh for periodically reposting directions for people. You probably get tired of having to repost. I wish Gocomics would post your complete set of directions that you’ve occasionally done, for everybody – but people commenting wouldn’t see that, so you’d have to keep posting that link. So thanks for doing it.