Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 10, 2016

Yup. Quill’s already emotionally out of it. Someone – either of you – please end this.

Not as bad as I thought, but Luann, there are consequences for your actions.

SAY IT AIN’T SO, QUILL!

First Luann was going to go with Quill to NYC last summer.

Then they agreed to do it over Christmas.

And then they postponed it because of The Fuse’s grand opening.

AND QUILL THINKS THERE WAS NO COMMITMENT!!

Turn on your heel, Luann, walk away, and don’t look back.

Hee, Hee! This “Romance” is SINKING Faster than the Titanic!!

Oh and Lu? DON’T Forget to take out Your ANGER on Your Woebegone Parental Units, since THEY were Largely to BLAME for You Missing the Last “New York Trip” when THEY Decided to Open up Their Misbegotten “Business Enterprise” Right in the middle of Christmas Break!

And this is where greg moves it somewhere else, since he never finishes any storylines.

If Luann wanted to stick her foot in her mouth (3rd box),I think it would fit. Quill could likely see all the way to her toes.

Be happy for him, Luann…

Also, let him go. It’s time.

The good thing would be Luann quietly handing Quill the boomerang necklace and leaving for her college library, where she can start reading about some classes to take next term.

Unfortunately for those of us who liked this character, the creator of the character seems bent on making her into a magnet for misery. So he will probably next show her on her knees, sobbing to Quill and begging him to take her to New York.

That will end a lot of readership, but it will please all those who post at ArcaMax, and a number of them who now post here. Maybe that is now the audience that this ’toon is aimed at.

What we had here was failure to communicate.

Calm. Deep breaths. Let yourself feel cold and hard like a stone. Remove the necklace. Take his hand and hold it palm side up. Deposit the necklace. Tell him that you hope to be friends (since you really do work as friends). Wait till you are away from him to cry because with how he has behaved in recent months he has not earned your tears.Then let’s see Mr Gray later overhear Quill and Gunther and step in with adult advice. It would be a way for Gunther to learn to talk w him, too, by the first problem being Quill’s.Ultimately i think that a breakup will bring relief to these characters.I doubt it will play out like my first two paragraphs, though…

“The Fifty Thousand What Bulb”“Shock And Aw, No, You Di-hdin’t!!!”“A Squeeze Play "“Standing At Tension”“The Tip Of An Iceberg”“A Ton Of Bricks”“Furious-ity Killed The Chap”“The Frazzed And The Furious”“Collateral Brain Damage”“A Lose/Lose Proposition”“The Spat In The Flat”“Who’s Sorry, Now?” (♫)“You’ve Got Another Think Comin’ (♫)or“Don’t Step On Lu’s Suede Shoes” (♪)

Well, to be fair, plan status aside, Quill probably thought that it was “dunzo” as soon as Luann walked away on New Years’ Eve, during their argument. – But it’s not going to matter to Luann… given her feeling that “nothing’s going on” for her, except the possibility to go to NYC, she seems to have really been counting on it. – But had she been able to just express her feelings at the time, when there was the opening to get it all out in the open, perhaps Quill wouldn’t have assumed that it was “all for naught”. – Again, though, it probably won’t matter. Quill could be right, or wrong, but it seems like Luann isn’t going to accept anything but…. Psych!!!! Gotcha!". Yup, it’ll be a case of: “Heads I win, tails….well, it better come up heads!”….

Wait until Luann finds out that the show is The Full Monty, and Quill will just hang out with the guys.

Hey in show business, entertainment, music and performance arts I always note that even serious couples have a problem being able to deal with the absences and the time commitments that kind of career takes. In this case Quill has a real commitment to the kind of career that this takes. He came back from down under to pursue it. Was Luann just a second priority? A girl he really likes, but not one that come before his dream of an acting career? Remember, as Sukie pointed out, everytime Luann wants to have some time with him something he wants to do comes up, including I would argue the FUSE. After all he is spending all of his time working on it with Pru, whom I really don’t think is someone he is really interested in more than as a friend and fellow show business person. Luann is not a show business person, she is not a rolling stone. He is. I am afraid I am coming around to the view she needs to end this relationship. She also needs to focus on school, and her eventual career, and I am sure, at least I hope, the Evans crew (if there is one) will give her a break, and let her heal (again) and with the oncoming marriage, somehow have the right man come into her life in the middle of all that. Could it be someone we already know about? Or someone new? Her heart is going to be broken, whether she realizes it or not. Even though she is a comic character, and not real, this makes me feel sad. Bye, bye Quill.

This could be a good thing for both of them.

This makes me sad. But on the plus side, junior college is generally two years and then many people transfer to a four-year college to finish their degree. Because so much of “the gang” is involved, it’s likely Luann will transfer to Moony. My hope is that after a decent interval, she and Quill will be civil and friendly toward each other, Luann will major in education and art, and possibly meet a nice student-teacher. It’s possible Bernice’s brother will come into the picture again, but I’d like to see Luann meet someone new.

Did not Luann take responsibility for finding airfares to NYC for Christmas? And Quill asked her how the search was going? To which Luann said she was “thinking” about getting online?

I believe this is the defining moment when the relationship truly did clearly reveal that it was never going to work out … that Luann and Quill were just going to do this circle dance, refusing to an actual emotional commitment. If Luann had any desire, she would have informed the Parents Degroot that she and Quill were spending Christmas in NYC.

But Luann had zero commitment and thus, never spent that “maturity capital” on informing the parental unit. No, she dodged the bullet because The Fuse had reached a point of a grand opening and thus, the NYC trip was a no-go.

But in reality, it never had a chance to be a go in the first place – and neither did this relationship

Loved your break-up scenario. Very classy.

5 bucks says Pru is in the show, too.

“Then I’ll decide to stay in New York! I’ll use my magically appearing money (ref: Peru trip/Exploding trailer fund/the Explosion…Er I mean the Fuse), get an apartment, and never be seen again! I hope Gunther doesn’t cry when I tell him!”

It had to happen.But, Gunth is clueless.In another five years, he may find himself.

The other shoe? What is Pru going to be doing during that time period? If she is not with him, I predict numerous phone calls between the two.

Luann is usually a bit over dramatic and immature, but it takes two to really screw it up. I am ready for Luann to start maturing a little. Like others, I would like to see her with some self-confidence and assertiveness here. I would like to see her tell him that he just made her emtire point. "Don’t make someone a priority when you are just an option to them. " Don’t be an option Luann. You don’t feel you are “doing” anything? Do something then. Dump Quill, join the Teach for America program and take an adventuresome spring break job yourself. Forget about boyfriends making Luann. Let Luann be more than a teenage boycrazy girl for once. Hijinks and shenanigans still available!

Well, didn’t Quill turn out to be a big, fat jerk. Didn’t see that coming.

What is more important, a career or a romance? Love don’t pay a heck of a lot of bills.

This “New York trip plans” is turning into Sally Forth’s “Trip too Paris”.Quill has a point in panel 1. They didn’t prepare and the fight did make it seem like they needed to be away from each other for a little while.

Luann, please read “Why Am I Nothing Without a Man?” You need it.

Hey, at least he doesn’t have plans that involve Prudence! Give the guy a break.

Yeah I am a guy and 50, but I have been reading since you started…Time to Bring Aaron Hill back into the scene to give Quill a wake up call….And PS Prudence looks like some 0ver 50 flower child…..and Please Make Gunther and Tiffany Hook Up…

Ps Greg, Find me a Mother who would agree to let the Girl who she is suspicious of Trying to steal her daughters boyfriend move into her own home? the logical ending here is to Have Luann’s dad tell quill, Commit to my Daughter or Move on..and Luann’s Mom, To Make Pru an offer she can’t refuse, Like Leave Town and Leave Quill alone permananly and you get to keep your teeth!

I think this may be setting Quill to leave the story line. He will find full time work in the theater and ‘exit stage left’. As Scarlett would say…“Tomorrow’s another day….”

wow, this is truly turning into a novel of too much, too soon.so much for a “grease” kind of ending here……. no black spandex for Lu, no flying car for Quill…..oh well, I guess this is more about real life here. time to triumph in life now, and commit and enjoy later..

then again, they may need a set coordinator, and Pru may get Lu the job, and save the day. Quill wants a (l)ife, so he can have a (w)ife. It’s up to Evans & Daughter now. I’m sure they are laughing reading our comments.

So…the Trufan Church is finally over Quill? Do I hear some whimpers of regret at having demanded that Evans bring this character back from the virtual dead after having got rid of him? Well, you’re stuck with him now, so there.

is this Glee all of a sudden? You don’t get even that kind of role unless you’re that rare talent you don’t find too often these days.

Calling Aaron Hill. Isn’t it time for you to re-enter — stage left, stage right ,or dropping in from the flies?

Wonder if Pru is going to be touring too?

Like I said. He’s all about his career now. He doesn’t care about being in a relationship. He doesn’t even consider it.

I bet somebody else is going on that traveling show and her name isn’t Luann

She should let him go – they have almost nothing in common and spend no time with each other. It isn’t meant to be.

What are the odds that Pru will on that tour with him.

Interesting that the response that people give when they hear what they don’t want to hear is the same as the one they give when they can’t hear.

Writing is on the wall.

couples fight all the time. Why the rush to end their relationship? Let them work through it.

Quill following in the steps of Aaron Hill?

One fight, and he didn’t even consider they might make up before Spring Break? So he goes and makes other plans?DUMP HIM LUANN!! YOU DESERVE BETTER!

Arguments have consequences. Lu is learning more from Qu than from Prof. Zebo.

So Lu, go on your own or with Dez and have a great— guy-free— time.

yeah … Quill is a moron …

Oopsie!

Follow that major touring show, Luann, and get involved in it. Either your relationship with Quill continues beyond spring break or it doesn’t. By the middle of spring break you will know which way your relationship is going. Either way it turns at that point, don’t look back.

I predict that Luann will not follow the show and that Quill and Pru will be an item when it is over.

Time for Luann to let Quill exit stage right.

It’s just a boy, Luann. You’re young, go find yourself. Don’t settle for a cute face and accent over substance and romance. Go have fun for yourself! Travel!

I agree, they are on different paths, Luann needs to follow her path and leave him to his.

just walk away…….so many times I wished I had just walked away! I wish I could replay that day over and get up and walk out,,,,but I didn’t….I stayed and cried and cried and it took years to get over him. WALK AWAY!!!

Some commenters seem to want to attach fault to Quill or, in some cases, to Luann. But isn’t it more about a willingness to work on the relationship and to cherish one’s partner? When Quill hears Luann’s anger, he thinks, “Well she certainly doesn’t want to be with me in NYC! Better make an alternative plan.” And Luann is not able to calmly sit down, and get clear on whether their relationship can ever fit her needs. I think she has a fantasy picture of Quill that is becoming a bit ragged at the edges. I want them to try to work through this, and then (probably) decide respectfully to go their separate ways. Angry partings or icy cold ones leave more scars.

The goldfish is floating belly up. However I don’t want to see Gunther get lucky with Luann on the rebound.

Is Pru going with Quill on this tour? We don’t really need another nail in the coffin – but I’m just curious. Hope something new & interesting is coming up for Luann (not Gunther).

dude? really? You have a fight over not spending enough time with her so you decide to take a job wandering off since your specific plans to spend time with her were too nebulous.

Luann can’t really be this surprised that Quill made other plans. She’s treated him terrible and no man would want to be with a woman like her.

Quill wisely thought the relationship was over after the last argument. He hasn’t done anything wrong by making plans for his life. He is more mature than Luann.

Spot on.

7Overall, very interesting and exciting. With no plans having been made at this late date, the Spring Break NYC was not particularly possible anyhow. So, I think Quill was wise. If Luann is so upset about the change in plans, one way she could cope is to talk with Quill and decide if perhaps their “big trip” could be at wherever Quill is going to do his Spring Break acting gig. If they really want a relationship, this is a way to compromise so both can have some of the “win”.

That’s the life of an actor, Luann

honestly I hope luann just breaks up with Quill the guy a douche who only seems to care about himself. She should give him the boomerang necklace and just tell him that we our just not right for each other and leave. I think the right guy for luann and i’m going to keep on saying its gunther he’s always been their for her. Plus I’m getting tired of Quill

…and then Aaron Hill blows back into town…

Possible course of action for Luann: Wish him the best, or in showbiz lingo “Break a leg”…then arrange for Mr. Grey to break that leg for him. Then as you nurse him back to health, he’ll realize how much he can’t possibly make it with out you .(worked for your dumb a*s brother didn’t it?)

Part of being a couple is that you make decisions together. Quill has never understood this. I can’t believe I’m saying this because I like Luann and Quill together and I used to like Quill, but Luann, dump his sorry “It’s all about me” butt!

t’were this real live I’d advise her to let him go now.be it as it may, we already see from the boy talk where this is going, the root of the problem is Quill likes her… but not enough to find time in his “busy” life for her. I say that with quotations because at this point and time, lord knows if he wanted to make time for her, he could – meal breaks, date nights, something set aside for “them”.

And if Pru isn’t involved in this whirlwind spring break tour, you know Quill has talked it over with her. He’s such a schmuck.

What we see here is the assumption on the part of the male that he is in no way responsible for any part of a relationship and that he gets to make decisions that affect his partner with no thought.

It doesn’t get better with age or so-called “commitment” and unfortunately, the male partner usually does not like anything on the part of the female that might change his path or affect his goals.

There are exceptions, but not a lot.

I smell a dump, which is a good thing because Quill should have dumped Luann long ago. She demands too much.

time to dump the bum.

so, what’s Aaron Hill doing these days?

The end of Luann and Quill

He’s an ACTOR, Luanne, and the sooner you realize how difficult it is to deal with someone of that temperament, the better off you will be. You will always play a supporting role to their career.

And there it is… La fin de la relation. Quill really is wet behind the ears in dealing with a woman. An Lu is far to emotionally insecure to have a boy friend.

The beginning of this conversation told you everything you needed to know about Luann,s mind set. She is doing it because her friends are and perhaps she thinks it;ll bring her some sort of peace or order.

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If that boy had any brains he’d run like the wind!

What we have Heah, is a Lack of Communication …

Luann should dump Quill the Pill and hook up with Piro. ;) :P

Ah, interesting…. I had missed that Quill was going to be traveling the whole time (a “touring” show). I guess perhaps the idea of going where he is going is more difficult now.

Well here we go with a breakup feudLuann is in a shocked and angry moodAnd many here don’t like Quill’s attitudeI am not sure how this will concludeJust hope it’s not the return of that Elwood dude:)

You wrote:

Luann, it’s time for you to have your own adventure by yourself.Yes, lots of adventures of lots of types! There is so much to do in NYC that there is no reason to not go in alone with things to see. I often have museum days. Volunteering can lead to many other types of adventures and can be great fir a girl who is Luann’s age. Casual dating can result is getting to know people who are different from you. So many ways to have adventures!

“Hissy Fit?” Oh, of course. It’s always the woman’s fault. The man who is supposed to be in love with her is completely ignoring her, but she shouldn’t get upset. She should just sit quietly and hope he remembers she exists.

Lu——shove his boomerang necklace up his nose, and go find Piro!!

-Excuse me, sir, but I apparentlyi need to ask this question again.

When a man gets angry or annoyed at the woman in his life, perhaps for always putting her job ahead of family or some other situation, it is called ‘getting angry’.

Why is it that when a woman gets angry or annoyed for some similar situation, it is called a ‘tantrum’ or a ‘hissy fit’?

If there are any young women who read the postings here, they are getting a very sad message, which is: you must always agree with anything and everything the man in your life says or does, or you are guilty of having a tantrum or a hissy fit.

Please do me the favor of describing Gunther’s reaction to his mother dating. Would you call that a hissy fit? I sincerely doubt it.

addition to my eariler comment…….

Lu walk away and don’t cry over it. You can’t lose something your never had. Apparently he wasn’t even a very good friend, at least not like he is with Pru with whom he has “tons in common.”

Tomorrow he will say that Pru is part of the show.

This would be a great time to start a new arc. Mid week. Mid crisis. Mass hysteria here.

Call Toni, she’ll understand better than your currently-useless Bernice friend.

Now there’s a good idea. Toni could use the distraction from Brad’s overzealous wedding planning anyway …

Qu Haters – good news! A breakup is imminent! It’s now time to make you’re move! (Isn’t that why you bash Qu all the time— jealousy?)

“We were on a break.”

Ever wonder if Capt. Evans has a long range idea in mind as to who Luann, Gunther, Bernice, and Tiffany will end up with? He may, but as long as the strip runs we will probably never see it, and that’s okay. At least that’s three young girls that George Clooney never hit on.

Break up with him and then please…please…go hook up with the long-haired guy in the dorms. Its high time that this allegedly adult woman LOST HER VIRGINITY.

Besides she’s not mature enough to set foot in New York and the artists of this strip aren’t qualified to draw it, nor write a script that would do a New York visit justice.

I THINK ONLYTING IMATURE IS U DUDE

“Pulchritude”Now that word beats the rhymin’ words that I used…by an order of magnitude.

Time for these two to move on. Maybe Luann could check out some college guys.

Nah,lust in Spanish Haaaaaaarlaaaaaaaam!!

Pretty clear here that Quill puts himself before Luann every time. I suppose the next bombshell will be that Pru is involved in his plans as well. Can we please boot this guy out of the strip? Luann deserves better than this self-centered jerk.

I think Quill maybe jumped the gun on this one…but it’s not as bad as I was expecting. It all seems out of character for the way Quill has acted in the past….always pretty mature even when Luann was not. Pru does not seem to be a good influence on him.

How the “Quilly!” and “Mr. Perfect!” ‘shippers have turned against their hero!!! I suppose it’s finally OK to say that this character never had any substance, although pointing that out is probably irrelevant now. Obviously, he will eventually move to New York, since the only way that’s permitted to break up with Luann is physically to move away. Bye, Q-man. It’s been… boring.

it will never be Gunther. Despite what some people think they can read into the mind of Mr. Evans,

It is hard to imagine with all the non-interaction between Luann and Quill over the past few months that she would expect plans for a trip (with Quill) to proceed as normal. So I am puzzled by her complete surprise. The relationship is not the way it was when Quill first asked her to go to New York with him. That said, if Quill has any desire to keep with his promise (despite their non-relationship) he could ask her to go with him on the tour. I still wonder about the sunday strip a couple weeks ago when Luann was telling Nancy of her desire to take a trip with Quill. It didn’t seem like normal sunday fare. Could it be that they will go on some trip together? The only possibility is this tour.

Geesh – you want this relationship to end just because Quill was being a guy and accepted a job for the time period when there was no plans made? He was being mature and accepted a JOB and added acting experience to his RESUME. That is something to be commended upon rather than the other way around the way you guys are talking. Luann has been very immature throughout this relationship with Quill. It is time for Quill to find someone else – a mature girl who has outgrown high school stuff. Luann is still stuck on it. Even Bernice moved on. Tiffany too. For that matter, so has Gunther. Luann, GROW UP and move on, for heaven’s sake.

I predict that something ROMANTIC will be featured here for Valentine’s Day.’.Most boring would be just Brad and Toni, so that is probably the most likely.

We will soon be jumping to Mr. Gray, and (possibly) his wedding. .So Luann may hang for a while.

I’d watch that any day, over the Brad / Toni perpetual ineptitude at arranging a wedding.

RE: capricorn9th

" ……… Luann has been very immature throughout this relationship with Quill………."-———————————————————————————

Luann is immature in that: (1) she seems incapable of charting a course or direction in her work and activities, and (2) she figures that Quill, therefore, is responsible for filling all the voids she feels she has in her life. Luann does not accept responsibility for finding her own meaning in life.

Aww, but she knew he wouldn’t be in Pittsville forever. Not if he is good at acting and singing.

Now she has to decide whether to be a supportive girlfriend or as so many others have said, hand back the necklace.

I think Prudence knew. That’s what her look and giving them room to talk would be about.

Nothing can be better than understudying in a summer road offering! Sorry, Luann (loser!)….

Ha ha, surprised to see other posters this late in the game. Soon the other shoe will drop, now won’t it?

It has amazed me how so many of the people talking about the failure to communicate by the characters are themselves failing to communicate. So many are speaking their minds — which is fine and often good — but then failing to themselves listen.Are there actions and inactions on the parts of each of these characters for which they have blame to assume if they are honest with themselves? Definitely.Is one or the other to blame for them growing apart? No, of course not. * It is not even a blame situation. * A young person can no more control which aspects of himself or herself mature faster than the person can slow the growth of his or her feet or chin. The person can and should put in effort, but each person matures at different rates in the many various sorts of maturation which occur. There is no blame there, just streams which had been running parallel now facing different bedrock, slopes, springs, and other factors so that they no longer echo each other well. With growth what once meshed or fit may no longer do so — with absolutely no one to blame for that. Many changes in life are not blame situations.There has been a lot to learn. Different viewpoints can be interesting. I just wish as many listened as spoke. Sorry for being so bluntly frank. I am tired, but i think maybe this may be useful if considered.

Also, they don’t have to have so much in common to be good together. They are young and learning to give and take, support and be supportive. If I split with my husband just because we don’t have anything but the kids in common, I’d have missed out on 35 years of loving. It’s part of growing. When you grow apart, you figure out how to grow back together. You don’t leave.

There is no reason that Lu and Q should be a “couple”. They were sweethearts when Luann was a junior in high school. Why should we expect that pairing to last for a lifetime? This has lasted long enough for us to see that each is capable of sustaining a long-term relationship. Now they both should seek to do just that, with someone better suited to each of them.

SPOILER ALERT

She finally loses it.

SPOILER 3

Many sharks are jumped. Fewer readers will follow…

Nonsense. That’s not how touring shows work. They have a complicated series of covers or swings and if it is a “short” absence (which is implied by this) it will be handled within the company. If it is a permanent absence, they will normally use the swing or cover and move everyone up. Or they will pull up someone who has done the show before and left the company. The idea that they would stick Quinn into the middle is laughable.

Luann is not yet ready to be in a relationship. She needs more time to mature.

2019 Time for Quill to return for good! No way Gunther will be anything but a pal!

What What Chicken Butt??