Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 22, 2023

Well, why didn’t she say so?? If Luann has the William Shatner Christmas Album.. everything is going to be just fine! ;)

I’m glad to see Nancy brought a little something warm to eat and Brad found some decent firewood.

It’s still gross that there’s feces on the floor, but they may turn this into a cozy Christmas adventure, afterall.

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So.. who here has finished all their holiday shopping?? I have.. YAY! =)

This could turn into the best Christmas ever for the Degroot family.

Things are pickin’ up!

What, no Barbra Streisand? Neil Diamond? Irving Berlin?

William Shatner or talking to each other?

Okay.

A warm fire, hot soup, Cocoa in Santa mugs, and Shatner doing Christmas.

So. When do the snowball fights start?

Christmas was ruined by the guy who didn’t offer Frank a free weekend in a large enough cabin! Everyone back to the car! Geeze, and I thought Luann was entitled.

Things are looking up. Darn. I was really hoping for another week of complaining.

So Luann just has this album already downloaded on her phone? Or is there suddenly internet now?

Sounded good to me until Luann spoke…

Seems like Frank is having a tantrum but……….”there there it’s ok, come and have soup in your favorite Santa mug and we’ll play your favorite songs”

So it is going to be a Hallmark Christmas after all.

Sadly, and just before Christmas, William Shatner dicontinued his new line of ladies lingerie. Apparantly “Shatner Panties” was’nt the best choice for a name.

That middle picture fits th essence of Frank absolutely perfectly

Don’t we all have the William Shatner Christmas Album?

And the album’s flip side: “Leonard Nimoy Recites ’Yes, Virginia…”.

The snowy panels are some of the best comic art out there. Love!!

Making the best of a bad situation.

William Shatner Christmas Album…. “Merry….. CHRISTMAS… to…YOU!”

I smell a The Shining cross over

You let a little snow stop you from driving home, Frank? A true Southern Californian here.

Isn’t William Shatner Jewish?

Quickly damp-mop the floor stuff out of the way (hantavirus) and light the scenty candles – it’s Christmas!

How are they going to heat up the soup? They don’t have any saucepans and you can’t put a thermos over a fire. Have they checked to see if there’s running water? Is there even a toilet?

And why hasn’t Frank called the guy to make sure they’re at the right cabin?

I think the time for obsessing about these things is over; what they have is what they have and the the arc is moving into acceptance, adaptation and appreciation…. (PS. we can see there is indoor plumbing).

Frank seems to be the only one really angry. Brad, Nancy and Luann seem to be sad at the idea of leave the little Christmassy cabin. I’m glad the increasingly heavy snow “convinced” him to stay. Everything seems to be ready to celebrate Christmas together and happily. It’s nice that Nancy is always prepared for everything and she brought the special mugs, that Luann has downloaded the right music and Brad is definitely an expert when it comes to fire. The face Frank makes looking out the open door is truly hilarious.

See, lowly unworthies? The❤️Count told you so! Just lose Frank and Bored… Keep Sexy❤️Luann and/or Cougar❤️Nancy and Hope it is Chicken Noodle with Oodles of Noodles! The mug sez “I ❤️ The❤️Count” And Sirius Radio Classics Ch 148 and one is all set for an evening of tousey mousey in front of the fire. Does it get any better? No, The❤️Count doesn’t think so. Unless, of course, lowly unworthies, Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel was there, Silly Rabbits. =:) Now we’re talkin’, Boy Howdy! Fantastic! Our Hero, The❤️Count and The Exotic Frisky Ann❤️Eiffel ❤️ A Happy❤️Ending!!! Aren’t Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel and The❤️Count Wonderful? Speaking of Happy❤️Endings… Time to hustle on out of here. Dinner at Eddie Merlot’s tonight, Bengals game tomorrow and Christmas Eve brunch at Ruth’s Chris Christmas Eve. Eat your ❤️s our, lowly unworthies. TTFN… C U Later Alligators… Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day! Count…OUT!

Don’t you know how a thermos works? Nancy put the soup in there piping hot. And how the heck is Frank supposed to call the CFO. There’s no cell service and of course no landline. BTW: the cabin is surrounded by toilets…

So this is the story line that we will be getting for Christmas and it seems to be leaning toward Christmas there too. I find it hard to believe the 4 of them would go of to spend Christmas together. Even if it was just supposed to be for a couple days & then this comes along. As others have said before, nobody checked the weather apps to see what it was going to be like there? Sheesh, I look when we’re going to Daytona Beach or even just an hour north of us.

Awww, that’s the Christmas spirit.

Once you realize that there aren’t any options, you make the best of it

They are so gonna get snowed in until late February!

“We’ll have to eat the soup by cupping our hands since there’s no dishes, but that’s okay.”

Hope there’s more than the one log – as one log the fire place it will not hog. Next question, who has matches or a lighter?

I like the snowfall filter…

The DeGroots are gonna make the best out of a bad situation.

But is there a broom, dustpan and antiseptic spray?

What would be really funny is, over the next few weeks or months, several one day comics (meanwhile in the forest) of the DeGroots still snowed in at the cabin LOL!

Put “Ding Fries Are Done” on a loop, and it’ll be the best Christmas ever.

well, at least they’re making the best of it. :]

I didn’t know Luann was a masochist. Snowed in, cramped cabin, Shatner? Truly a living Hell.

Ohhhh! The super rare Klingonese version! Well, knoff my ftrillg!

Aww, how sweet. “Remember that Christmas that we almost froze to death because we ran out of dry firewood and all we had to eat the whole weekend was a cup of soup and we listened to William Shatner sing over and over and over and the place smelled like feces and nobody could bathe or use the toilet because the pipes froze?”

This may end up being a Donner party Christmas after all.

The William Shatner Christmas Album?? Geez. Greg & Karen must have gotten into the special brownies….

Seems like each day the cabin gets a little larger. Xmas magic??

Time for some serious lemonade-making.

William Shatner will arrive. All he will say is “Santa Clause”. “Santa Clause” “Santa Clause” “Santa Clause”

Who BRINGS SOUP?

Shouldn’t they have some food in the car? Or do cabins usually come stocked with a full pantry?

Pardon me while I dither about whether the chimney has ever been cleaned to prevent a chimney fire. After all Brad (and wife) are supposed to be Firefighters).

It would hilarious if they weren’t in the actual lodge because a CFO would usually want more creature comforts. I mean if that were my cabin and I’d loaned it out to an employee my first words would be “Just did you know, it’s pretty rustic”.

shatner.. on the floor??

Shat is all over the lodge.

And there you have it…..

What about Christmas with the Chipmunks?

Yikes! William Shatner Cristmas Album promotion?

Meanwhile, Brad … Tony is lonely.

Nice they’re pulling together. Even Frank seems pleased.I holding hope someone will join them. If not now, maybe later they’ll find out they were in the wrong place. ;-D

Does the cabin seem to be getting roomier?

There you have it. You have each other, warmth and food. Make the best of it.

Likely the thermos is one quart -so 8 oz of soup each for the next xx days

red rum, red rum. Luann’s not here Mrs Degroot.

At least it isn’t Bob Dylan’s Christmas album.

OK, that’s much better. They’re starting to ‘get it’. Get a fire going, it will cheer everyone up.

Nooooooooooooo…

Impressive they are hanging in there.

Gads. It looks like they are going to celebrate Christmas without Toni, Shannon, TJ and Bernice. Seems kind of sad….and weird.

The William Shatner album is every bit as bad as I remember it. Loved Captain Kirk and I’m sure he made lots of money on this but….. just NO.

It is about to be Christmas in the real world, but this arc, which started about 10 days ago IIRC, is still on its first day. Comic strip time is fluid, so it’s hard to say. If it is Christmas, if Toni is not stuck at the firehouse working a 3 days on/3 days off shift, she will be with Shannon and Shannon’s dad/Toni’s brother, Jonah. As far as TJ, last I remember from school days is he lived with his grandmother. Don’t know if she’s still around. Otherwise I’m sure Toni would include him. Bernice has her own family. Some think she’s estranged from them, but there was a long arc in which she was avoiding going home for dinner because she was worried she wasn’t as interesting as Ben. Ben came to ask Luann about it so that kind of blew her cover and she got over it.

Luann, NO.

It’s amazing what you can do when you have to make do.

Well, I hope you have a phone charger with you and a receptacle to plug into.

Forgive my asking, but I’m a fan of Bernice. May she be enjoying her time alone. I still want her to hook up with a doctoral guy. It would fit her?

Relax, lvlax. The poop on the floor is obviously small animal droppings, not human feces.

William Shatner (who peaked as attorney Denny Crane in my book) has done some above the herd collaborations with other musicians in recent years. He never disappointed.

Mmm, no. Not going to drive home in that snowstorm.

Settle in, troops. This war is just beginning….

The look on dad’s face in the last panel is what does it for me.

But if she has no internet connection how can she play her music?

William Shatner Christmas Album???

Shoot me now,Lord.