Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 25, 2018

oh, those poor adults

No comment.

No clue to tomorrow.

No clue to a Saturday climax.

If people’s children were around before they were around, they’d never be around.

Noooooo. This whole arc has felt like a Sunday strip and now they are continuing it another week! Why?!

On the to-do list for today, buy Shannon a sleeping bag & tent with her favorite cartoon character and set it up in the living room.

We haven’t seen TJ around the house lately. I wonder if he has moved out?

Twelve more years of this – and then Shannon will run off and then come home pregnant.

And we now know that Brad and Toni live in a house that is not a square, and has an east facing picture window.

Which, of course, can change by tomorrow .

When my daughter was very young, sometimes she would sneak into bed with us. She would be moving all night long, at least it seemed like it. Head at the top, feet at the top, then, lying crossways. Like sleeping with a running helicopter in your bed.

I remember this situation exactly from the few occasions when we were traveling and I had share a bed with one of my kids. My son was a whirling dervish when sleeping and it was not uncommon to wake up with his foot in my face.

Raring to go.

In the first panel, the number 17 is missing on the shirt Shannon has on loan from Brad. Luckily, she found the numbers before Brad saw it the next morning.

Take a close look at Toni in panel #3. You are seeing what she will look like in 25-30 years. Time can be cruel to the super-attractive minority as they gradually degrade to look like the rest of us… ;-)

Shannon is “rarin’ to go” hunting. House hunting, that is… *

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*Tying in with Sunday’s strip.

Panel 1 Shannon is just showing TJ how it be when you have kids and TJ is sleeping with her child in her or his bed.

Ah. I see. I’m slowly beginning to understand, now.

THIS is the “price” an adverage looking Joe pays when he marries a BEAUTIFUL woman.

“Poor Gunther.” In advance!

PS: And THAT is a small price to Pay, so there! COFFEE for everybody, Inn Keeper! ;)

OK. Enough of this. It gets old after 3 days! I quit feeling sorry for Shannon long ago after her father all but abandoned her. He’s the biggest drag on this whole comic.

And they’re planning to buy a house. Better wait on that!

Folks, this just might be the lead in to their talk to give TJ the boot and give his room to Shannon so everyone could have a good sleep. Or if Toni still feels her niece needs to sleep with her, turn TJ’s room into a guest room for Brad for when Shannon stays overnight til she is old enough to sleep unsupervised. Might be a turnaround for their marriage – no roommate.

Brought to you, by….

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“Crackmatic Re-trustable Beds…”We’ve got your back!" (….Tied up in knots….)

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The ‘Death-Couch 2000’….“Another fine(d) product, from your Hazy Boy Dealer!”

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And by…

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Your neighborhood Chick Norrus ‘Sleep Karate’ School…

“A Rested Development?”

“Crouching Tired Girl, Sleepless Draggin’ "

“The Lone Rearranger”

“I Get A Kick Out Of You!”

“Couch Springs, Eternally”

“Too Close For Comfort”

or

“All I Want To Do Is Dream…” (♬♪)

Another week of this lame “Shannon” crap?

No Fay, huh? :(

They should have concocted a place in the living room for Shannon…telling her she is “camping out”. Blanket over chairs, maybe a sleeping bag! I’ll bet she would have enjoyed this. We did stuff like this as kids.

Get the kid an inflatable bed.

Yeah, " the unempmoyed one." Always sleeps well.

OK, for all that lament the continuance of this arc, be sure to review the Sunday (yesterday 06/24) strip. Brad/Toni are looking to buy a new house. So I think this week’s arc will be about how they initiate that process and whether or not Shannon is a factor in the decision and how. I’m all for it. We’ll see if they account for Shannon, and/or TJ. That should be an interesting discussion.

People are confusing this particular arc with the Sunday strip. While I think they are all Brad and Toni, and their plans to get a house, and possibly to soon have a pregnancy (sex a lot, as young couples do, hint, hint) this arc is not related directly to the Sunday strip. I think it has everything to do with Shannon, her dad possibly, and dealing with the bundle of energy she happens to be. It’s difficult to figure where this is going, but I think it’s something that few of us have a bead on. This is a classic Evans misdirection play.

Is the Shannon character Karen’s idea of Luann’s early life? As opposed to Greg’s. Or is Shannon Karen? :o)

Geez, folks – you wait until Shannon’s asleep then you switch she and Brad out; how hard is this?

Hey, I just noticed something here.

Last year, Shannon showed up on 06/28/2017:

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2017/06/28

This year, she showed up on 06/19/2018. Funny how Shannon’s “Summer Visits” are almost always at the start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season! That means we can TRACK Her and Predict Her arrival, next June!

So, You guys stock up on can goods and gas the cars while I plot evacuation routes and stock up on COFFEE!

Oh by the way. For those who thought Brad’s couch shrunk? Nope, SAME couch.

Last Years:

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2017/06/29

This years:

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2018/06/23

Why oh why would you NOT let your niece sleep on the couch? What idiots, they brought this on themselves.

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Welcome to a reasonably appropriate fascimile of parenthood, Toni & Brad. If & when you have kids, you will look and feel like you do in panel 3 for a lot of the mornings during the early years (first 5-8 years… or until the youngest is 5-8).

You will get used to it, and you will find many ways to make it work, and it will be wonderful.

what’s in the bucket?

It appears that most could not care less what is in an arc just as long as they can write an asinine comment in reply.

I’m not getting why Shannon can’t sleep on the couch.

And with Brad and Toni’s luck, odds are one of them might end up called into the station after that restless night.

Shannon would have been fine on the couch. She is 7 years old, not 2.

Where did the 17 go that was on Shannon’s shirt on the first panel?

Maybe the point of showing Shannon spilling her chocolate milk all over herself in the back seat of her father’s car was to show that she can’t be left alone, but, if that’s the case, it wouldn’t do Brad and Toni any good to find a new home with another bedroom. Toni would still have to sleep in the same room as Shannon. This makes no sense to me. Yeah, I know, I haven’t raised kids, but I was one, and have a brother and sister. While younger bro and I shared a room till our parents could afford to move from a 2-bedroom to 3-bedroom apartment, we all ended up eventually in our own (tiny, but our own) rooms alone at night. And we were younger than Shannon is now. So I don’t get the logic of this, either…

And on another topic, why is Shannon waving a rake around, and wearing what looks like a colander on her head?

So, two fully employed, pretty intelligent fire fighters, have no crushing student debts, making enough to start putting away money for a house, and they can’t afford a little inflatable mattress, or a kids’ bed for their little angel ??? Toni, Brad, wake up! And invest in some sleep, or Shannon’s gonna eat you alive! … But that’s half the fun…!

I love the sketch of sleep-deprived Toni.

I keep waiting for the time Jonah drops his daughter off and never comes back.

I have no idea why Shannon did not sleep on the couch. She will never grow out of brattiness unless lines are drawn by her guardians.

Toni and Brad look like they were researching that book, “Kama Sutra for Dummies” again.

Jonah is really more of a kid himself than an adult; he probably doesn’t really set any rules or boundaries for Shannon. He’s always promising her things like trips to a pool, and then announcing that her Aunt Toni is taking her. Many posters here portray him as dedicated to supporting his family by succeeding in a career, but he doesn’t appear able to hold onto a gig for very long. (Suggesting that he may be the only one who thinks he has acting talent). On the other hand, while he counts on Toni to take care of Shannon, he would probably not approve of Toni setting boundaries and rules. He would say that’s his job, but from the way Shannon acts, he has not done it. Shannon is crazy about him, but probably doesn’t see him as an authority figure. More as someone to play with…

And the Exploitation by Shannon storyline creaks on….

Whew, ths strip makes me sooo happy that I no longer have little munchkins at home, just the occasional grand baby that I ove dearly and this doesn’t bother me. But my gosh, this one brings back the memories of days gone by that I’m glad not to live lover again. LOL

I can still recall baby sitting for one nephew and I still regret it. “Estranged” can be such a beautiful word when it comes to in-laws. Shannon is a brat and anyone who says she isn’t, is a liar.

does Jonah arrive to retrieve his daughter, or ……..

Lol Life with children or even life with a younger sibling

So…. Shannon has been a consistent figure in their lives… one would think a pull out couch would have been purchased by now.