Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 10, 2020

Will Tom take his daughter seriously over his fiancée? Tune in on the morrow!

Tiff put it together. Hooray! Where do we go from here?

OK, fat’s in the fire. Now what? This is certainly not a standard GnK plot.

Wow I am impress by the use logic by Tiffany, But will Tom forgive Ann Effiel?

Wait for it… Waaaaaait for iiitttt!…

Finally, and just in time to walk in tomorrow (Saturday) and deny that she ever knew anyone named Leslie Knox.

Well, she managed to say it. If, for example, Ann phones now from out of town with a “fell and lost the baby” story, the timing is to Tiff’s advantage. Still, there’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip. …

And the bass has dropped! Now will Tom believe her? Or take Ann’s side, like back in the days of the lingerie scam? “Not now Tiff, Ann needs me.” -Tom, not giving a flying flip about his daughter. Not to mention he also cut her allowance and got her more counseling sessions because he didn’t believe her and took Ann’s side.

BOOM.

I’m still inclined to believe the people who say there’s metadata on ultrasounds. Why wouldn’t there be? Has Karen ever been pregnant?

So who outside of Delta has had the most character development in this strip?

And there you have IT! What every one has been crying for has just occurred. Let’s see what happens now.

Good job, Tiffany! Here’s hoping the angels are on your side this time!

Greg panned over to Tiff and turned out the lights to spare us. Tom’s face just fell off.

Good cliffhanger. Can’t wait to see how Ann weasels her way out of this one.

At this point they should just rename this strip Tiffany since the title character appears about as often as a legitimately funny joke in this strip.

Duh duh duuuuhm!

I think mr gray would appear and reason her father.

Whoomp! There it is!

Finally!

How long habe we been holding our breath on Tiff finally having a one on one with Rom where she calls Ann out?

Really this what should have happened back when Tiff was putting Ann for the lingerie scam. Tiff, Les, at least a handful of Ann’s victims and police should have show up at Tom’s front door with customer list and fakes as evidence.

If we, the audience, are expected to once again suspend disbelief on Ann finally getting SOME form of punishment there will be rioting in the comments section.

I wonder how Ann “Lie-full” will spin THIS one!

Hopefully Ann has finally worn out her welcome.

Tiff i did not think you had the guts to actually go though with it. Now Will Tom believe her.

“Wait! Ann has a son and you are already talking to him? That’s the spirit!!”

Pleasantly surprised, Ann didn’t show as I had predicted.

But it’s only Friday. And I don’t think this is wrapped up on Saturday.

And I agree with Prescott Philosopher and others that this arc is very “un” Luann – and has made the strip far less fun to read.

BOOM SHOCKALOCKA!! THERE IT IS!! Now lets see where’s Daddy Tom’s head—and which head—is or whether he is going to hang his daughter selfishly and cruelly out to dry yet again. Take bets, he screws this up 60%, 40% he finally banishes Ann and does the right thing.

DUNN dunn DUNNNNNNNNNNN…..

“Tiff, you were doing great when you were stating the facts. However, your conclusion is only one of several possible theories. Next, we need to hear argument of defense.”Ann comes in sobbing, “I only did it because I love you, Tom.”Case dismissed.

One more thought: in this case the fake miscarriage caper is foreclosed, and the rule against perpetuities is moot.

Even if Ann is exposed, there’s a good chance that she has something on Tom by which she can blackmail him.

Tom: “No, it’s more likely she’s been pregnant for 20 years, silly!”

The Truth Will Set You Free!

Drum roll please; key suspenseful music; but in the end Tom’s gonna say, “So what, I love Ann. Nothings gonna change that.”.

No matter what happens, Tiffany has won.

This so reminds me of the old dramas on the radio, Organ music playing softly in the background until it builds to a emotional crescendo in panel #3 when Tiffany delivers her big line. All those actors had great voices, not like the whispering willies we got now on T.V.

[revised] OK. So on Saturday, barring a meteor strike or similar event, we should see Tom either (a) believing Tiffany, (b) in total denial and sure that the supposed 20-year-old ultrasound of Les is really a recent copy of Ann’s new one (and that if there’s any metadata, it’s forged), or ( c ) undecided but at least alerted. In any case he’ll never be able to say Tiff didn’t try oto warn him about Ann. And then, …? What the heck. I’ll go out on a limb and guess that on Monday we switch to a different arc.

I just hope Saturday doesn’t end with Ann announcing, “I wasn’t, but I am now!”

SO now we know Les is 20 years old AND that Tom knows about him. That’s settled. SURPRISED Ann didn’t breeze in and interrupt. I was totally expecting that because I figured GnK would never let Tom find out about Ann’s attempt to con him. However, the big question now is what will Tom say next? To continue with the thread that Ann would never get caught, Tom will say ultrasound often look similar. So Les and his half brother look similar in their ultrasounds. Cute but so? What’s the point? I don’t think he will believe her.

As far as Tom is concerned, the lights are on but no one’s home. ;/

Ann has a son?

Hopefully Tom takes the route of John Goodspeed and trusts his daughter when the evidence is extremely obvious.

Hey – Maybe Ann IS pregnant. Are we sure yet that she is not?

AAAAHHHH! I love this comic strip!

And tomorrow we find out that everything up to now, including Tiffany’s weight gain, has all been a dream. (Just like that whole Bobby Ewing thing on “Dallas”).Gigitty Gigitty all right

I can’t wait for tomorrow!!! … dun DUN DUUUUUN! is that catchy enough for replies?

here, caring for a fictional character that I used to hate back in the two-thousands, what a cliffhanger. Hoe she has changed since school days, how her development has been in the past decade. Good storytelling; this Ann character development was a little bit overcook but the resolution will fell good.

It’s not impossible that Ann is pregnant…by now.

Tom looks more mature in this strip. Is his character going to develop more?

I’m afraid past performance says Tiff is going to get the short end again. At that point, just walk away, Tiff.

May be an Eiffel tower toppling into the Seine!

I’m expecting Ann Awful to come barging in any second to have poor Tiffany file her toenails. Then go wash and wax the Bentley.

Just waiting for Tom to say, “Don’t be ridiculous honey, Ann would NEVER do that.”

Les should have been there. Does Tom even know he exists? And sooner or later, he’ll have to meet Mr. Grey. To hide the whole family from Tom would only work if they were in different cities far away.

Seems too easy to me. I think a foil will be exposed tomorrow. Tom may not simply believe Tiff as JoJo318 just said. Eiffel is simply too diabolical to simply go away, somehow Les’ integrity will be dragged into this then it might be time for Mr Grey. I smell a rat.

as evil as Ann is, Tiff should have had more proof. :/

I suspect Saturday’s strip will leave things hanging. Especially if Ann shows up and Tom asks her about the ultrasound picture Tiffany has shown him and claimed its her son from a previous marriage. About 3 panels to lay it out and then off to other adventures while we are all hanging to find out the outcome. That would allow the Evans to switch to other characters for a few weeks while trying to figure out what comes next.

Did she stop to consider how happy he looked in the photographs? Or does she think Ann faked that as well?

I think what your missing is Tom’s next words “Anne has a son”?

I’m pleasantly surprised that Tiff got this far. Maybe the Capitols were right when they said, “Now the moment of truth has finally come!”

If Tiff’s Dad is supposed to be a lawyer, I sure wouldn’t hire him. He’s a gone case!

Well, after seeing Tiffany being abused one too many times, and that abuse being fine with her father, I did what I said I’d do and quit checking in to this strip for a while. Not too sure about where this story is going, but I do have real trust issues with Tom. If he can’t see the real care and concern in Tiffany’s face, the he and Ann truly deserve each other; “POS&POS, Inc.” On another note, something that had crossed my mind about a week ago when I quite reading this for a while, since this strip is co-authored by a Father/Daughter team, is there some kind of sad, heartbreaking “message” being sent out?

Bum, bum, bum, bum, BUUUUMMMM!!!

“Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives.”

is he an attorney, and can’t see the evidence speaking for itself?

Possible outcome:

Ann comes in, Tiffany accuses her. Ann bursts into tears and asks how Tiffany could be so cruel as to make a copy of the ultrasound and make up a story about the pregnancy being fake.

Then she grabs her middle and says “Oh! The baby!” and fakes a miscarriage, blaming Tiffany for it for upsetting her so much. Tom sides with Ann and tells Tiffany that she is no longer welcome.

Or alternatively, Tom simply doesn’t believe Tiffany and says he’s sure there’s been some misunderstanding, then excuses himself to take Ann out for a celebratory dinner.

Either way, this isn’t going to go Tiffany’s way because it couldn’t possibly be this easy for her.

Well okay.

Tiffany FINALLY got all that out. And she presented it in a reasonable, logical, and intelligent manner! Good show! Looks like all those “study buddy” sessions with Gunther finally paid off! Okay, Okay! Sorry I couldn’t resist! ;)

Now Tiffany should lay the rest of her cards on the table, while she has the chance. She should tell Tom of ALL the ill-treatment at the hands of Ann starting with the credit card harassment right on up to Ann making a housecleaning chore list for Tiffany to do while She and Tom went Va-Kay. Tiff has nothing to lose now. It’s really too bad Tiff didn’t have her phone on “record” that day when Ann handed her that chore list.

The “problem” is Tom. What will his reaction be? And think about this. Tiffany had to practically draw her dad a picture today, that sonograms are one and the same. A real “hot shot” lawyer would have figured it out yesterday. Or at very least, smelled a rat. “Perry Mason” Tom AIN’T. This isn’t gonna be resolved tomorrow. Maybe not even next week.

The question remains. Did Tiffany just “find the key to her cell door?” Or did she just “put her head in a noose?” ;)

So simple, yet so dramatic. Seeing Tiffany finally say it to Tom it’s a bit cathartic ♡. I almost feel sad for him.

Thank you for finally spitting out the truth, Tiffany. Now, if you’d pass me a tissue, please…

People complaining about how long this has been going on with Ann and her manipulations forget how long the Brad & Dirk rivalry lasted….

How this story arc should conclude: Tom does not believe her & cuts Tiffany off. Tiffany finally receives her Letter of Dematriculation for failing to maintain a 2.0 GPA at her university. Tiffany has to get a second job to make ends meet so she works 30-40 hours a week at the local gas station & convenience store.

Would she really have to say both “Ann’s son” and “Les”?

and now we know how old the gang is in Luann 19-20

Don’t those prints usually have some sort of date on them?

YESSSS YESSSS YESSSS

Okay, somebody please tell me why the first one was hidden behind a framed picture? If she wanted him to know so he would propose? Does Tom go around the house looking at the backs of pictures? How was that a plan?

How did Tiff find the time to speak to Tom alone? Seems like Ann is always there to stick her nose in.

Finally.

WOW she actually spit it out in an intelligent way! Now she can leave it up to her dad. Maybe he knows all about Ann and chooses to look beyond her occasional.. ok, constant…bad qualities. Either way he shouldn’t let his daughter be victimized by anyone.

Let Tiff’s dad marry Anne. Then let Tif spread a rumor she is expecting also. Then tell Anne she is about to be come a GRANNY!

Now THIS is how you do a cliffhanger! She clearly had a hard time telling him this, so it doesn’t feel like a petty move on her part. I’m interested in seeing where this goes.

Not out of the wood yet. Ann could really be pregnant but too early to show such an image on the ultrasound and she could claim she used this image because it was more cute than producing a pregnancy test.She can claim she didn’t tell Tom because she didn’t want to use the pregnancy to force him to propose.

But I doubt it. However, considering the resolution of the lingerie scam, my expectations are not very high when it comes to the how this current situation will pan out. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Tom argue he did propose first no matter what, Ann say she is not pregnant but hope to be and say it’s Tiff only who claimed she is. That wouldn’t match everything we’ve seen, but the lingerie matter was also full of plot holes and illogical behavior.

BOM BOM BOM BOMMMMMMM (sound effect)

Two outcomes; he believes Tiff and has a showdown with Eiffel OR he believe Eiffel and kicks Tiffany out of the house and his life

Heres the nitty gritty people..

Tom knows nothing of Ann being mean to Tiffany or to others or of any scam she’s committed so why would he believe Tiffany or anyone for that matter? To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tom says Tiffany is just being jealious or that she thinks Ann is going to steal all his attention away from her.

Here we go! Gotta grab up some popcorn and beer for tomorrow’s fireworks show! I hope it will not burn the comic strip page down…

So I assume the summer groundhog has seen its shadow and we have five more weeks of this exhausting storyline

Finally!

to quote, :“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”

I’m no doctor but if you have an ultrasound that developed, I think Anne would be showing at least a little bit…

Has Ann ever admitted that Les is her son?

People, people, people! It ain’t over ‘til it’s over! And Tiffany’s humiliation ain’t over yet. The clue is that there is no accompanying express of shock/dismay in the last panel. A gag a day-type strip would show Tom with his hair standing on end, etc. Today’s strip is a classic soap opera-type. There will be more weeping and gnashing of teeth tomorrow for Tiffany.

Tune in tomorrow when we hear Tom say: “Ann warned me you would try to break us up. Please, daughter. Just go to your room.”

Oh my gosh she did it by herself!!! Yay Tiff

I really hope that Tiffany doesn’t get the short end of the stick here. I hope that Ann is ousted for the phony she is… I don’t know how much more I can take of watching Tiffany get bested by this awful snake of a woman time after time. Tiffany was not a favorite character of mine in the very beginning of Luann, but she has been given a more interesting story, a more complex voice, and I have really grown to like her a lot. She deserves some happy, too.

Her dad wasn’t going to get there on his own. But he wasn’t going to get there if someone put up a flashing neon sign. So I don’t think this will work either.

SCARY ALTERNATIVE; Anne planted her ultrasound with Les and then used Les to set up Tiffany with a phony accusation.

They all look alike at that stage.

Why does she use the last name? Are there any other Anns we don’t know about that might be faking a pregnancy?

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Lots of ideas:

1. I am glad Tiffany shows emotional concern in her telling the news of the ultrasound to her Dad. It shows she is truly seeing the complexities of how telling him of the fake ultrasound will hurt him, but also how NOT telling him would also hurt him.

2. I am in agreement with Schrodinger’s Dog that I truly doubt Greg will/would use a miscarriage scenario as part of a plot device in this story. So, I do not think we will see Annie pretending to have had a miscarriage.

3. With Tom’s positive reaction to the presumed pregnancy…. the reality that could be coming is that we can assume that there has been considerable and frequent commingling of gametes between Tom and Ann…. and perhaps what could transpire is that Ann will in some fashion take a pregnancy test… and find that she is NOW really pregnant.

And… the preposterous “tele-novella” type plot twist that would be too funny and outrageous if it occurred…..

Suppose that Tom and Ann have known each other a helluva lot longer than anyone realizes…. and maybe when they were a lot younger (say ~20 years or so ago), they had a very brief summertime fling with each other before they went their separate ways. Tom and Tiffany’s mom get together, marry and she becomes pregnant with Tiffany…. Ann, meets her Policeman… soon-to-be husband, and realizing she is pregnant already tells her policeman husband the baby (the future Les) is his. But, the truth is Les is the SON of Tom…. and Ann cites the ultrasound on the back of the photo being there for THAT reason.

Ouch. Pain all around. Hard on Tiffany taking her Dad’s happiness. Hard on him obviously. And even hard on Ann unless she is a complete sociopath.

and NOW will be the moment Ann comes sailing in and goes on the attack . . .

And at this exact time Anne is driving off in his most expensive car after transferring all his money into her accounts and cash from all the employees paychecks that are no longer working there.

This is not over until we hear what Ann has to say. She will come up with some lie that Tom believes. Nothing will change with this family unit.

Tom’s not too swift if he could figure that out for himself.

Well, the facts are out there now, so let’s see what ol’ Robert Goulet here does with the information.

The irony of it all is that he already proposed to her even w/o that ultrasound. If indeed this was a con, then her Jig is up and she blew it big time. If she just had waited then she would’ve had everything she wanted. But as they say, evil never rests and that’s it’s weakness. Every good guy eventually has his/her day. This “may” finally be her day of reckoning with Ann.

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!

either way a trip to the hospital is in order

There is no way that this is going to go down so easily. Once a conniving witch has you under your spell, you do not get out from under it so easily. She makes my skin crawl almost as much Delores Umbridge who was once a Hogwarts teacher.

Once a con artist, always a con artist. Ann, living an actual clean life? It just ain’t so.

He will believe Ann before he will believe his own daughter. Tiffany’s heart will be broken again, as he has broken her heart countless times.

Okay, Tiffany has presented the evidence and explained it as well.

Unfortunately, everything now hinges on Tom Farrell’s response, and that does not leave me optimistic. (And I still think Tom is trying to look like Howard Hughes in his heyday….)

Wow! 398 comments to date. This definitely the most popular comic strip in the collection.

We don’t see Tom’s face in the last panel but I suspect all of this is jaw dropping (for him) and that he will need some time to process it. I just hope we get to see his response and that tomorrow’s episode doesn’t move the scene away to one where Tiff is talking with Les again.

If Tom has any doubts, he can always ask Ann when her next doctor appointment is so he can accompany her.

Uh oh!

in tomorrows strip. We will see Tiff. sitting in the fuzz crying. becuase her dad kicked her out of the house for trying ot break him and Anne up. Anne will then go completely off the rails and work on setting Tiff up to be a drug crazed person who should be locked away.

No, tune in a month or 2 from now! It will change story lines on Monday!

For a world famous titan of business, Tiff’s father sure isn’t that bright at picking up clues…

So….maybe Les is Tom’s son from a previous affair with Ann when he was married to Tif’s Mom. Hmmm.

big mistake to meddle.

I hope that Tom will finally get the picture and confront Ann about it.

I am so freaking tired of Ann Awful, please let this be the end of her.

I’m glad Tiffany got the words out. Makes yesterday’s strip even more important.

I hope when this is all over with (Ann gone) – that we see Tom giving Tiffany a BIG hug and asking her if she’ll go on a trip to Paris with him.

I suspect Tom will go through all the typical stages e.g denial, grief and finally acceptance. I don’t see the anger part figuring in except that he might be angry with himself for being so blind all this time (blinded by his desire to have a relationship). In the end (i hope) he will be grateful for Tiff, her perspective and for her bringing all of this to his attention (in spite of the pain) and their relationship will be deepened. i.e. I do not wish for Pipe’s tele-novella plot twist.

And here is a picture of Winston Churchill. Notice how much he and the infants look alike.

“Ann is faking her pregnancy with me too? I thought she was only faking one thing with me.”

He had already proposed to her before the mention of a pregnancy. So finding out its fake is probably not necessarily a dealbreaker. He’ll just want to know why. And if she comes up with a half-way decent excuse, he might stick with her.

It seems to me that no one with the exception of Luann’s mom and Ann’s brother and Brad’s buddy making her back off. Tom your daughter is being adult. She growing up. By the way what happen to Tom’s wife?

Tom may still choose to keep Ann around. The heart wants what the heart wants.

I am completely shocked that Greg had Tiffany actually get to the point and say something that needed to be said. What a pleasant surprise. That said, I don’t see this as necessarily being a deal breaker. I can certainly see Ann sticking around as the evil stepmother.

Is this a comic strip or a soap opera?

Is it that difficult for him to notice the fine print underneath the larger copy? Just because he’s in love, doesn’t mean he should overlook the fine print.

It’s all in Tom’s court. Tiff or Ann.

Also, with all the cutbacks Ann has been doing to Tiff, how much will they find that’s she’s been skimming off the top?

Will Ann get the boot she so richly deserves?Or will she walk away with all her “winnings”?

Schedule the wedding 9 months hence to test the hypothesis.

Scary thought… What if Tiff found the wrong ultrasound pic, and Ann really is pregnant? Tiff will end up looking like the manipulative liar here. :x

Tom: Ann IS pregnant. We just went to the doctor.

Ann: I wanted a special way to let Tom know, so I used the u/s picture I had from Les. What is WRONG with you, Tiffany?

Tiff should have asked her dad why would Ann want to use her son’s 20 year old ultrasound and see what his conclusion was.

I miss Luann.

Looks like we’ll have 600+ responses. Maybe moment of truth tomorrow – then another arc Monday. In any event I don’t think we are done with Ann. Ann is the horseradish and Tabasco in the Bloody Mary.

550+ comments at 8pm CDT, don’t think I’ll get heard if I jump up and down saying ’didn’t I say it would have a time stamp’ when this first came up (what seems like) eons ago. The bottom is missing from Ann’s copy, and I bet the cut off the damning time stamp—which would indicate she is hiding something.

Please, comic gods, in the name of all that’s holy, let this be the end of Ann Eiffel!!!!!

It looks like Tom’s relationship with Ann will be over tomorrow!

✨*First!*✨ (Not XD)

Wait.. Ann never actually said she was pregnant. She just did not deny it. They both fell into her trap.Please let us see the last of this evil woman.

Still aggravated by this strip, but watching a Paul McCartney concert and then a couple of old MASHes put a new spin on the day.