Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 22, 2018

Now you will stay and I will see your face again?

Wow! What Woman Tiff is! Beauty, Determination, and Courage! It took a lot of guts to do what she’s doing, ALONE.

As for my Beloved Ann, if she doesn’t come out swinging soon, the “referee” is gonna stop the fight…..

Well, Ann, are YOU a little bimbo!

Right on, Tiffany. Tell her! SHE is the one who is leaving! BYE, Ann! Although I doubt we will see the last of Ann…I have a feeling there’s something more, besides Mr. Farrell.

Tomorrow will be the revelation that Tiff is a preferred customer of Souffle Lingerie and probably knows how to contact their corporate lawyers, which she’ll threaten to do unless Ann leaves town (for the third time).

Tiff is pushing the limit if she expects Ann to quit claim to the gravy train.

And once Tiffany declares a fraud, to not contact the authorities would make her an accessory.

Tiff wants Ann to explode….

I would still report her to the police. It is great that she got her friend’s money back but that doesn’t stop the scam. That money represents a transaction for one event, a drop in the bucket. With out the authorities involved, when Tiffany addresses the more personal aspect of this mess it is going to lot very petty on her part. " hey daddy, you know your new girlfriend is selling fake undies?"

Evidently Ann understands the seriousness of Tiffany’s charges. It looks like no more lingerie nights at The Fuse. However I don’t know that this will drive Ann away from Tiffany’s Dad. Anyway I would like to see a good counter punch from Ann. It’s not all that interesting if Ann just goes away.

Nope. This is too easy. Ann won’t go quietly like a little sheep, and we haven’t yet seen Tiff’s daddy in this confrontation.

Dez spent $216 alone, so way to go on taking the more difficult route for minimal payoff there, Tiff. I guess all the other customers can go hang, but at least you got your little confrontation.

As I said, she really should have just called the cops and Soufflé Lingerie rather than doing an idiotic Zany Scheme.

Gutsy move! Tiff is all-in! We’ll see if Tiff is bluffing or if she’s holding the stone cold nuts if Ann calls.

Yes Tiff is pushing it! But if Ann does not counter punch the referee will call it a TKO. And Tiff and Les be happy ever after.

No more shallow airhead. Tiff has demonstrated how pain and suffering can make you grow up and mature very quickly. Pain, even the emotional type is a hard teacher, but an effective one.

Oh, I am SO enjoying this. Worth the wait. Just, please, PLEASE don’t switch over to another storyline before this is over…

Now, ask for a screaming deal on all those leftover cases of fake lingerie.

Tiff’s wrist is disproportionately skinny.

Whoa, four more letters from what Ann almost said and I would have drop the ax on this comic!

stay tuned, as this may have an unexpected end to it. So far Anne’s getting “slapped.” And that’s not unexpected, that’s good. Sheraton so far has control. And that’s very impressive! I hope Less doesnt forget her “name.”

Looks like Anne’s souffle is done! For now at least!

When you think just how many people like Ann are selling fake goods over the internet….and the millions they are raking in! Perhaps this storyline is really close to the truth in many transactions. If Ann has been selling fraudulent goods for a long time, she could possibly go to jail…..and have to return the money. However, Tiffany’s dad may be heartbroken though!

Sticking up for her friends in such a strong way will be really good for Tiffany’s self-esteem.

I was expecting to find out that Tiffany’s dad (Have we ever met her parents?) was Ann’s business partner and this triumph would blow up in her face. Well, there’s still tomorrow…

The only thing missing is an appearance by Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondorff.

Call the police for crying out loud. Ann deserves jail time.

Oh, this must be an outtake from the blooper strips, where Ann steps on Tiffany’s line, by mistake…. and points her finger a few seconds off cue….

I keep hoping this will tie Ann to her brother, Mr. Gray so that Mrs. B. and Gunther see that the siblings are bad news. There has to be a reason for a well-off man to want to move into a woman’s home and build a house for the boys. Mr. Gray was an enigma from the beginning; what’s his real story? I really don’t want Irma to marry him :-(

Tiff won’t be caught with the bribe money. “I just got it from the ATM.”

Banana?Barbie doll?Bambino?Binocular?Bifocal?Blueberry muffin?What was she going to say???

The denouement is not quite complete. Ann gave up on the lingerie, but now Tiffany is about to go for the kill on the relationship with her father that Ann has. Ann is the one whose face will not be seen, not Tiffany. The issue of jail is very questionable, although there could be local laws on running essentially a bunco swindle type operation, but I really don’t think that is the point. Tiffany will come out on top, and Ann will leave, yet again, to be brought out at some future opportune time. That is my take anyway.

Closing in for the kill…

“The Point, Of No Return”

“Finger Snapping Terr’ble”

“Toe To Toe Combat”

“Thoae Without Principles Have No Class”

“The School Of Principal Interest”

“Cool, Calm, And Collecting Things”

“Fight Fire With Fire, But Ice With Ire”

“Money!….But That’s Not All I Waaaant…” (♪)

“À demain?  No! My Demand!”

“Take Your ’Vette….And Get Outta Dodge!”

“If Trouble’s Afoot, She’s Got The Petty Cure”

“Don’t Dump Your Ultimatums Off On Me ….I’ve Got My Own!”

or

“The Taming Of The Shrewd”

A lot of people commenting seem to be lawyers, this is a strip and Ann Eiffel is soap opera type villain, the type that create evil and never get caught or punished.

Ann’s “burned” at the Fuze although she may not know it yet. I think the next revelation for Ann is that Sheraton St. Louis is a pseudonym (nom de guerre?) and Tiffany is already deep inside Ann’s life.

Tiffany’s “daddy” is like Superman’s Kryptonite. When Ann learns that it’s a whole new ball game.

Is the “one more thing” that Tiff brought back-up and the police bunko team is waiting in the wings?

Judging by the comments, it looks like Team Greg has put its foot in it this time. There are two camps running through comments. One is the ’toon world of emotion and drama and the other is the reader world of reality, law and order. Stick with the ’toon world people. Let Team Greg play out their little morality play for our delight and edification.

Now for the winning punch. Go, Tiff, go.

I’ve been very impressed with Tiff’s character development since leaving HS. She has matured in her college years thru her friendship with Gunther and – surprisingly – Bernice (though I doubt they’ll truly be BFFs). She is thinking and acting on behalf of others – to protect her friends and father from Ann. Protecting her father is not entirely altruistic and Tiff will likely always be somewhat shallow, but I find her character more interesting than she was in HS. Great work by the Evanses!

I’m no lawyer, but why would Eiffel get arrested for selling—what do you call them, designer knockoffs? I thought people and businesses did this all the time, not that that makes it right.

Les did not appear in this strip but he was showing up in all of the previous strips of this scene. Maybe he is calling the cops?

Eiffel must have always had a gravy train, because how could she have afforded elaborate clothes working as a store manager at a bookstore and then a fast-food restaurant? Perhaps she has been seeing Mr. Farrell for years.

Demands, commands, orders, disorders.

Tiff: “You’ve got it backwards, Ann.”

Ann: "What?! You mean REVERSE my last sentence?! … Well, OK … If you say so … ‘Understand?! Again face your see NEVER will I and … LEAVE will you now!’ "

Tiff: “Ann. Just get the F#*&K out of town and NEVER come back!! And STOP sounding like YODA!! (Gunther was telling me about him earlier)…”

Now you will leave backwards and I shall always see your face"

5

Not really sure what to think today about the action. Just some random thoughts:

1) Tiffany collecting the refund for herself and her friends is fine. But, will there be other repercussions for Ann other than the apparent “leave town” suggestion by Tiffany’s last comment?

2) There are of course a lot of other people who were scammed at the parties. Will they somehow be compensated? It seems a very difficult aspect to build into the comic story line, so I am not sure if that will be portrayed or not.

3) I feel this somehow will HAVE to lead to interaction between Ann, Tiffany’s Dad, and Tiffany. But, that too seems a bit difficult to segue into given the severity of the issues of product infringement (at least as reported by many yesterday).

4) With so many faux items available on-line, however, there may be some sort of wiggle-room that will keep Ann in the story line for some time yet and we could then have an Ann/Tiffany/Dad interaction… which I would find very, very interesting.

5) But, now I am also wondering if perhaps Greg’s plan is to keep Tiffany’s Dad’s character as a “never seen”, “behind the scenes” character as he has always been (other than, I believe, a small back of the head image at graduation)? If so, perhaps Ann WILL just up and leave and we will start a new arc on Monday.

Repeating what I said yesterday;The laws may have changed. I do not think that they have, so; US Customs Service should/could look at this as a case of possession of counterfeit and forged goods. Found guilty of such, 5-10 years in Federal custody on EACH count of an indictment [yep that means each individual piece of phony lingerie, folks] and if Ann Eiffel is not actually a US citizen deportation following the time duration of her sentence. Several nations are known to participate in the knock off scam, most of them in Asian countries but some in Africa and South America. Phony Eagles memorabilia from ‘game worn’ jerseys to autographed footballs have started to show up at local flea markets and discount sporting goods stores, ever since the team won the Superbowl. So it is not just women’s fashion, it is a huge money making scam that we the public participate in everytime we get an ‘unbelievable bargain’ on an alleged brand name item.

What I found weird was that Ann has so much cash on her – these days, folks mostly use debit or credit cards to pay for just about everything…

Gee. Talk about a “rat caught in a trap.”

The only way Ann can possibly get out of this is somehow proving the lingerie was legit or revealing that she and Mr. Farrell are already married. Or Both.

The only reason not to think Tiffany will defeat Eiffel is that it’s too obvious. It would be more of a story if Eiffel destroys Tiffany in brutal retaliation.

It certainly was a great idea to make Knox Eiffel’s son and make Eiffel the leech of Tiffany’s father. Characters are more interesting when internconnected.

The problem with Eiffel is that she’s so sleazy and so nasty that every time she reappears, I just want her to get defeated and go away.

I think that Ann is STILL unaware of who Tiffany is. It’s a sign of how little attention she pays to detail when she’s gold digging on a man; she alienated him from his daughter but can’t even recognize her.

“You have it backwards, Ann. YOU will now leave, and I will never see your face again.” As in, ’you’ve paid me off to not turn you in for fraud, but your boyfriend (my dad) might not be so forgiving when I reveal your activities to him, and I plan to tell him (and the cops) if you ever go near him again. ’ With any luck, she’ll make Ann take her hooks out of Les as well (I’m guessing that Les is not as guilty as we think, that whatever he’s paying off to his mom might be a result of some scam she pulled on him earlier.

Tiff was the shallow gold-digger herself a few months ago, and her weight gain came from the depression of losing her father’s doting attention. I would expect that she will NOT revert to form once (if) she vanquishes (or at least temporarily defeats) the Wicked Witch, having been honestly befriended by Dez, Luann, and Bernie, which was the key to her revival.

AND, it could be the turn of a new leaf for Les as well. After all, his Uncle Al is marrying Gunther’s mom, and he and Guth will soon become roomies.

It appears that Ann’s not leaving any time soon. Does this mean that she’ll find out who “Sheraton St. Louis” is? Will Tiffany tell her father what Ann really is? Will he believe her? Stay tuned.

Tiffany still needs to notify Souffle that someone is counterfeiting their products so that other legal actions can be taken if needed……. just for good measure. I’m liking this new Tiffany and hope that she will not revert back to her former self. She has tasted what friendship can really be (e.g. Bernie, Dez, and Gunther) and has now become a force for justice. Maybe she’ll be motivated to study and go to law school. She’s good on her feet (speaking back) and can see through to a person’s intent.

Agree that it’s too much a redux of the Wiener World end scenes … something different has to come into it. Perhaps the “Daddy” issue.

My mind apparently is into an awful lot of reminiscing lately. A few days ago, Tiffany’s actions were having me hear the incredible “The Mod Squad” theme music run through my mind, and now today, Tiffany in the last panel for some reason keeps having me think about Sharon Gless (Cagney from “Cagney & Lacey”). What’s next?!?! Will Tiffany channel Farah Faucet tomorrow and I will reminisce about “Charlie’s Angels”?

Finally, now, do not get me wrong….. I truly enjoyed the show and thought William Conrad was exceptional, but I sure as hell hope that the week does not conclude on Saturday with Tiffany channeling Conrad when on “Cannon”. :)

Oh Annie,

Your beau’s my Daddy… ;p

Anne, I’m disappointed with you….not that you’re a shyster, these days that’s almost to be expected,….but that you’d cave in sooo easily.

If Ann is recording, could threats from Tiff be considered extortion?

Tiff needed to bring a female police officer along to the “event”. Then, Ann could have gone out in cuffs.

Win, Tiffany, win! Don’t let her off so easy.

Win, Tiffany, win! Don’t let her off so easy.

I’m not looking forward to seeing the humanized, repentant ex-villain Eiffel when the Evanses create her. She’ll simply be a bore.

I was just thinking that if Eiffel realizes who Tiffany is, she has a particularly vicious angle to attack Tiffany from: taunting Tiffany over the loss of her father’s attention.

I disagree that Eiffel is attractive. She was sexy once, but her appeal has worn off as her sleazy and leechlike nature got exposed repeatedly.

And has anyone noticed her hair is a helmet, like Tiffany’s?

Greg usually likes to rehabilitate bad or mean characters but not this time; he’s chosen to further demonize Ann Eiffel but rescue and rehabilitate Les. I don’t want to see Tiffany’s dad brought into this. I would much rather see her continue as the new Tiffany, becoming friends with Dez and others and move forward in a different way from that of the past.

Wow – just realized!! Tiffany is growing up right before our eyes!!

I have a feeling Tiffany is about to overplay her hand.

Notice how Ann is pointing at Tiffany in the last panel, directing her. Ann is accustomed to have her way based on her forceful and deceiving personality. She successfully pulls the wool over the eyes of all these ladies at her lingerie affairs. But she’s met her match in the new reformed Tiffany and it’s not working. Such an interesting turn of the characters and plot. I wonder how far back the Evens planned all of this.

And so we see the second part of Sheraton St. Louis/Tiffany Farrell’s plan. She not only seeks (part 1) recompense for her cheated friends but also seeks (part 2) to banish Annie Awful, and by such ostracism to Save her Unworthy Father from a fate worse than being a rich old single guy….