Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 26, 2023

“Boy juice”? Wow. My mind went into a totally different direction upon reading that. I really hate being an adult sometimes.

I really love how this is drawn. I can just FEEL Shannon’s squirminess.

“Boy-Juice?”

What IS Jason anyway?

A grapefruit?

Or that guy in the “mask?”

At least she didn’t say he had ‘boy cooties’…

Shannon is less frowny here. I like it.

Shannon tell him to stop daydreaming about you.

It would be fun to see a future drawing of Shannon as a Teen.

The romance of Toni and Brad disappeared like that balloon the Chinese sent floating over the U.S. a while back.

The girls she named are (or have been) in various syndicated daily comics (I’m counting Aggie of “Ginger Meggs” as Agnes).

Finally a good Sunday comic with Shannon. Now can we have a good Sunday comic with Luann finally?

Cute

Boy juice? What’s this comic coming to?

Good advice.

Cute interlude, age appropriate for gender relationships at the kindergarten level. Maybe first grade. Aunt Toni is gorgeous, caring and smart, as per usual.

Panel 3:

My parents would give me coffee at Shannons age because they were apparently told that it calmed hyper active kids.

Well, I am fairly sure I was not hyper active (most likely ADD) but when I did go to bed, I did back flips off of my headboard. Probably giving coffee to a six year old at bedtime was not a good idea.

That panel just reminded me of that.

“A girl in every port”..

Boy juice? Our beloved Ann ❤️ Eiffel says keep it clean out there, you filthy minded incels.

Phoebe from “Phoebe and her Unicorn”, Ruthie from “One Big Happy”, Agnes from “Agnes” Gina from “Big Nate” and Zoe from “Baby Blues”???That boy is playing with fire! He will end very badly. I wonder if the next girls he tells it will be Lucy Van Pelt, Nancy, Sunny and Gracie. Amelia would immediately treat him worse than she treats Spud.

So glad that Shannon is old enough to speak without the child lisp now. Everything about this strip shows a jump in age.

Girls don’t sweat.

Toni is practically perfect. Greg’s stories are always about people’s faults getting them in trouble – I don’t want to see Toni faultified just for a story line, leave her like she is.

Zoe too? Forget it. He’s just desperate.

What happened to cooties?

A kid named ‘Agnes’? Poor thing!

That Jason kid isn’t even in his double digits yet and he’s already into girls.

Wow! They deleted my comment again.

Toni has her head on straight! Good advice from her in last panel, and she is spending “quality time” with Shannon.

Many years ago when my son lost his job he, his wife and two kids came to live with me for awhile. When school started I walked the oldest, 3rd grade, to the local elementary school. When she came home she told me about the 5 new BFFs she had. The next day she had 5 different BFFs. After the third day and a new gang, I stopped keeping track.

And RIGHT ON CUE Karen Evans finds a way to insert a seemingly innocent but suggestive term into this comic strip that was supposed to be about innocent children at play. Greg must be in a coma, because I don’t think he would approve of the direction Karen is taking his comic strip.

At first I thought it was just a kind of a “what do young adults experience” thing (like with the sperm covered towel) but now it has become a whole new writing intent, and I see by the comments that I am not the only person who had a negataive reaction to the term “boy juice” that was used today. And no, it’s not because I am a dirty minded person, it’s because myself (and others) actually do have a moral compass – complete with radar, and can see a blatantly suggestive term quite clearly. Just because sweat, snot and drool is mentioned beforehand, it doesn’t cover up the obvious intent of the subtle little term that gets thrown in afterwards.

I am not going to argue this subject with commentors who are so morally bankrupt they can’t see, or care about the problem. To me, they are just misled individuals who spend all their time rationalizing everything, and therefore stand for nothing. Maybe, like Karen Evans, they need their comics to have a suggestive, titillating message every morning.

I can viscerally recall the hormones controlling a lot of what I said at that age…

I always love to see Toni. What a class act!

Next, Jason will try tongues

A Luann thread that has multiple responses from more than just one source dictating the course of the dialogue? I’m shocked…….

that Agnes? aren’t those other girls, like Zoe, from other strips?

Boy, those bangs never move, do they?

I don’t think I ever noticed before that Toni’s eyebrows are outside of her hair, like LuAnn’s are. I won’t be able to unsee it from now on.

Monday: Gunther surprises Bets. or vice-versa. =:-O

Good advice Toni.

The overall dialogue flow seems odd. Could it be that panels 2 & 3 are switched?

Hell yeah!!!! Little Shannon is back!

Jason is a very early operator……

Another usually horrible character being human and endearing? If Betts suddenly realizes that broadcasting her life on Instagram is silly, I don’t know what I’ll do.

The activity is dead on.

A running conversation is exactly that — conversing while running, rolling, twisting.

Good for my beloved Shannon.

So — Shannon actually goes to school?

May we soon see arcs showing her there?

Phoebe must be from Phoebe and Her Unicorn whereas Ruthie is from One BIg Happy, Gina from Big Nate, and Zoe form Baby Blues (can’t place which comic Agnes is from).

Toni knows whereof she speaks, Shannon. Listen and learn!

And let’s drop this “boy juice” innuendo….

Ruthie? Not from “One Big Happy”? ;-)

Toni is one awesome lady