Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 23, 2017

I believe this is called Three’s Company Syndrome by Proxy. We are Manchester.

More ambiguity. But, then again, to Tiff a lot of things seem ambiguous, even if it is obvious.

you don’t know the whole story, Tiffany… just wait until you see Luann’s foot bandaged up and hobbling on crutches

Rule #357: Soap Opera Drama is driven by misunderstandings.

This is getting increasingly disappointing. The only break Luann ever seems to get is broken bones…

It’s always all about Tiffany.

Who sends a dozen red roses to break up with someone? Tiffany’s conclusion is ridiculous.

Someone needs to tell tiffany what happens when you assume. Plus she needs to call luann and tell her someone delivered her flowers.

I am the opposite of last

Thomas Hardy Lite

This thread is not tying up any loose ends. Instead, it’s generating more of them every day.

No I am afraid it’s going to be poor Tiffany.

Tiffany Trump?

Okay, so it’s gonna “Bash Tiffany” Week, eh?

Her Detractors will be most pleased……,

Narcissist and dumb blonde. 100% Tiffany.

Tiffany the master of selective reading. Her fantasy will be popped when she sees Luann hobble in with a foot cast. “Break? Was that what Jack was talking about? Not a break-UP?? Ohhhh noooooo!” Pan in to a swoon.

Today’s strip defies all logic. Why does Jack send flowers to Luann at work when she’s still in hospital? Oh, yes, I forgot! Same reason we never solved the TV mystery or the broken vending machine. Same reason we still don’t know who’s in room 213. Just another plot device!

Jack’s going to be a lot more sorry after Luann’s parents sue his parents for her hospital expenses.

Well, Jack did sort of ‘warn’ everyone, when he kept mentioning why he hated bowling… He had a hard time with his securing a grip. He was outvoted.

Tiffany is a legend in her own mind……..

Aah…the right words to say…. In the wrong hands. A slightly different version of “the Telephone Game”, even. Let’s sit back and watch how this ‘movie’ ends…..

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…Good thing, too, this wasn’t a “Candygram”…

“The Fragrance Of Regret”

“Assume The Juxtaposition”

“A Consolidation Of Consolations”

“Better By Thee, Than By Me”

“There Must Be Some Misunderstanding…” (♪)

“I’ve Got My Spine, I’ve Got My Rosy Crush…” (♪)

“If Anyone’s To Blame, It’s Stem, Over There”

“Breaking In Some Broken News”

“Don’t Cry Over Wilt-ed Bilk”

“A Rebound, And A Fast Break”

“Sorta Real Bowling Ball Girlfriends Of The Greater Pitts Consolidated School Authority Area”

“A Rose, By Any Other Name, Would Not Cause Possibly As Much Trouble”

Or…

“Basil Leaves… And In Thyme, Rosemary Gets Crushed”

Perhaps Luann will see her flowers after all. Tiff will be sure to shove them right in front of her. She probably won’t even realize that Luann has a broken foot until after.

Tiff’s been sniffing too much kids’ paste.

I love the look on her face in the last panel. Very well done. We take good art for granted here.

Schrodinger’s Dog and others who complain about my posts: Today’s strip is less than a minute away from yesterday’s strip. Sunday’s strip was a stand-alone, so Saturday’s strip had to be the most recent step in time – and that was the strip in which Luann announced that she was, indeed, in hospital. Luann out of the hospital? Able to return to work? That is what appears to be the assumption here. And I maintain, it makes no sense.

Other than to incite the expected cat fight between Luann and Tiffany. And, let’s face it – judging by the posts, you guys are just salivating at the prospect of that cat fight. “Comeuppance” as a word was used at least once, and appears to be the expectation of most other posts.

This strip has become little more than pushing boys into girls’ faces, girls into boys’ faces and, if that gets a little boring, let’s get the girls jealous of each other while we’re at it.

I came back a week later to see if this strip was going to become watchable again, only to see that its downward spiral is accelerating.

And yet, so many of you like it. Hundreds of you. I just don’t get it. And honestly, I’m trying to be respectful and understanding. But I just don’t get it! What is the attraction of these train wreck relationships?

Miss nosy bitch Tiff has no business reading the card. She knows the flowers are not for her. She needs a good smack upside the head.

Out of all the guys at the university and at CC they still somehow manage to be “interested” in the same guy? Geez.

Tiffany doesn’t “look” very sad as she’s saying “Poor LuAnn.”Something tells me she doesn’t really mean it. (sarcasm)

I do have to appreciate the sly smirk that Greg put on Tiff’s face in the last panel.

@CHEAPSKATE0: Not everyone here is salivating over a ‘cat fight’. I’m disappointed to see Luann finally deciding to just ‘go with the flow’ and try to enjoy some social time with someone (without worrying about an intense relationship), but all she gets is a broken foot. And now, apparently, she will be in for some fake sympathy from someone who liked fighting with her in high school. It would be nice to see some positive things happening for a change, but I guess I’m in the minority there…

Tiff your so sad what you do to your best friends

a face filled with sympathy

A great smirk on Tiff’s face…

Tiff’s face on Panel 3 reminds me of the song by ‘The Waitresses’, I Know What Boys Like!

Tiffany is thinking the first part, then she says Poor Luann out loud. To whom is she speaking?

Since Jack had the flowers delivered to Luann and Tiffany’’s work site, I assume he assumes she is out of the hospital; indeed, it was probably just an Emergency Room visit and quick release after she got her cast (if she got one). But it takes very special creative and (even more) willful thinking for Tiff to interpret the card’s message as meant to refer to a breakup celebrated with roses….

I’m not buying it. That is definitely Greg Evans’ handwriting, not Jack’s.

Oh, Tiffany…. You think you know where the ship is sailing, but it’s sinking right underneath you.

Tiff, Tiff, Tiff. Red roses are not break-up flowers.

Now we have the set up with Tiffany about to be confused again and disappointed.

Sorry RSH I can’t get your reply open. Those are some of the tools of comedy. Watch a tv show sometime like “I Love Lucy” to see that kind of comedy.

arrggghh… I suppose this is Greg’s specialty………. tangled webs, confusion and misunderstanding. OK…but what we still don’t know is whether Luann has come in to work today. Is she in the back with the kids or at home convalescing?

I’m guessing that Luann hasn’t yet arrived. If she had then Tiff would have seen her on crutches or with a foot boot and been able to interpret Jack’s card more accurately. Perhaps tomorrow…….

1. Makes no sense to send the flowers to Luann’s job.2. No one would write “sorry for the break” so that doesn’t make sense either.3. The last time Luann had a storyline that wasn’t about boys was her trip to NYC so this is just stale.

Tiff jumping to contusions.

Tiffany is so delusional…

Wow! What happened? All of the sudden, I can scroll through the full list of comics, without having to click on a letter of the alphabet. Of course, the pictures accompanying the name of the comic is missing, but I like this return to greater freedom. MCGA? But I’m sure it’s only temporary, and we’ll be back in limited mobility soon…

Some kids go ( see third panel ) when they sit and spin…

“Kids First” is an after-school program so the earliest Tiffany would be in the office would be Monday afternoon. Luann’s bowling night was Friday evening. Broken bones are usually wired up and put in a cast and the patient sent home. So come Monday afternoon Luann would be at home getting hooked on vicoden. Why Jack sent flowers to Luann’s work place and not to her home makes no sense. And why should he know that she works at the Kids First program? Like so much of the storytelling in recent years there’s no logic or continuity to things.

Please don’t regress Tiffany, she was coming along so nicely! :(

@BEB01: Jack met Tiffany when he came to visit Luann at work, so he does know where she works. And if he left the hospital before she did (she probably went home with her parents), he might not know that she isn’t at work.

I think we all know delusional people like her.