Ooo, I’ve changed my mind. This is NOT Brad’s dream of a family but rather is Toni’s fear of what Brad would be like as a dad. No wonder she’s hesitating about having kids with him.
Interesting concept. An oven baked, pizza size pancake, cut into triangles. Can’t say I agree with the toppings in the strip, but it does do away with having to stand next to a stove flipping individual pancakes.
Earlier I wondered about the style change. After going back and re-reading the arc from the beginning, it makes much more sense. The first week was Toni’s fantasy, this week is Brad’s. Brad may have become a responsible adult and husband, but the “Brad” we all saw as he and Luann were growing up is still there inside somewhere.
Popcorned pizza pancakes sound pretty good. And it’s good for you. It cover all the major food groups – popcorn is a vegetable, the pizza is starchy food topped with various fruits, such as tomatoes, the ice cream dip is dairy, and there is probably some kind of meat (protein) on the pizza.
People in these comments crack me up. Hardly anyone realizes this is a 2 week arc, even though the Evans’ told us. Also, these are daydreams, they are not serious thoughts or actual events. The art is depicting 2 radically opposite versions of individual extreme fantasies. They are deliberately over the top.
People have so much more to actually worry about in the real world, but they choose to complain here, with no more control. In fact you do have more control in the real world.
Meantime, just sit back relax, or skip it if it infuriates you.
The authors will be back so you can resume your regular complaining next week. Have fun!
Casually it was just the weird food that Toni suddenly had a craving for. Brad has an idea of a loud family that I like, but I don’t think it can exist. Now I really want to see what their future babies will be like.
Hey… this is Brad being a kid again… he can’t wait…. eating all the favorite junk food 3x / day, dressing down, playing all day in a messy house. It’s the life he’s dreaming about.
Couldn’t understand how Brad seemed so eager to have lots of children as an adult, when he was the exact opposite of protective-nurturing to his little sister when younger… well, that answers the question, he’s one of those people that want to have kids so they have company to play with… This makes sense character-wise. Still think that I wouldn’t like to see either one of them as parent.
Good choice of which guest artist draws which dream-sequence though, have to say that.
You know way back in the day, Brad actually told Dirk that he needs to respect Toni and treat her like a person and now he’s imagining her being nothing more than a baby making factory. The irony is not lost on me.
Toni and Brad aren’t my favorite characters, but I don’t think either one would have these daydreams. They are both more mature. The whole thing has been silly and out-of-character. And the artwork is creepy.
For those of you who have enjoyed Jay Fosgitts artwork this week check out his book “Bodie Troll” for sale on Amazon. He also has several other things listed. I like his style but I would not want to see him drawing “Luann” full time because I love Greg’s clean, classic style. But this brief look into the daydreams of Toni and Brad has been entertaining.
I do not care for this visiting cartoonist’s slapstick “what if” of Tony and Brad’s life. Not at all. Too stupid for me. Please get rid of it and get back to Greg Evan’s concepts.
This variation/imaginary scenario/parallel universe or whatever you care to call it story arc was amusing for about two or three installments. It’s now getting to be a bit too much like a truly awful strip called Ernie Pook’s Comeek that ran in the indie hippie papers around the turn of the century.
lvlax 5 days ago
GROSSSSSS!!!
Brad should have just stuck with plain pancakes.
Will Toni have to go throw up, now? lol
Chrisdiaz801 5 days ago
This is like something Brad would make in the real strip.
Azul0858 5 days ago
Maybe this week is Toni’s nightmare version of life with Brad and lots of kids, while last week was Brad’s misgivings about stopping at one.
Mordock999 Premium Member 5 days ago
Six, soon to be eight mouths to feed.
I don’t even want to imagine what that grocery bill is like………., ;-)
RDT64 Premium Member 5 days ago
Ok, can whoever POed the EVANS please apologize?
Joe1962 Premium Member 5 days ago
The train has left the station on this arc.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member 5 days ago
How many more days?…..
Joe1962 Premium Member 5 days ago
Some people eat that type of breakfest, I’v seen people get a hotdog for breakfest. it’s gross to eat something like that early in the morning.
getawaygoober 5 days ago
This is very similar to Bill Cosby’s routine about “Chocolate Cake for Breakfast.”
kenhense 5 days ago
G & K we miss you
howtheduck 5 days ago
And they didn’t save any for the pregnant lady? That’s just wrong. She has two babies to corrupt.
ericbrower 5 days ago
You know this is a fantasy. Because T.J. isn’t the one cooking. Seriously, this breakfast would give him a stroke.
9thCapricorn 5 days ago
Not only Brad gets to have 4 kids… he got Toni to bake their 5th.
Rhetorical_Question 5 days ago
This is not parenting!
devilman1972 5 days ago
Should be chocolate cake for breakfast.
Kiba65 5 days ago
Really bad for Luann fans, glad I just drop in every once in a while, after see this, now I know why….
Argythree 5 days ago
Okay, I give up. I’m officially ‘on vacation’ from this ’toon…
Willow Mt Lyon 5 days ago
I am the odd ball for enjoying this arc, but that’s because I know it’s only temporary.
SJhapamama 5 days ago
Meanwhile, Luann finally gets a degree and moves to Minnesota so that she doesn’t have to babysit Brad’s small domestic zoo!
snsurone76 5 days ago
This current idiocy just may be worth the aggravation if it finally ends with Brad and Toni throwing the brat back to her sperm donor!
imagenesis 5 days ago
Okay this is just disgusting! Boooo!!!
Wilkins068 5 days ago
In th last picture it looks like Brad reverted back to his old self
rossane 5 days ago
Back to normal, please.
Enter.Name.Here 5 days ago
So, the whole family acts like kids?
ACTIVIST1234 5 days ago
Ooo, I’ve changed my mind. This is NOT Brad’s dream of a family but rather is Toni’s fear of what Brad would be like as a dad. No wonder she’s hesitating about having kids with him.
[Unnamed Reader - 74419e] 5 days ago
Someone explain please why cheap yucks are supposed to be funny. This arc is a travesty.
JonGoss 5 days ago
Wait, I thought Toni was the pregnant one. Brad is eating for 4!
Smarmy 5 days ago
Why did this comic strip veer off on this boring storyline? Even the artwork is funky.
nightflight 5 days ago
If Toni ever wakes up from this ghastly nightmare, Brad will be sleeping in another room for the foreseeable future.
DorothyGlenn Premium Member 5 days ago
I keep thinking Olive Oyl and Popeye comics. Maybe just the faces?
live2read 5 days ago
The drawing looks childish, but that’s because Brad is being childish in his fantasy. It pretty much fits.
live2read 5 days ago
If Toni is hesitant about having kids, this could be one of the reasons why.
richardzimdars 5 days ago
Interesting concept. An oven baked, pizza size pancake, cut into triangles. Can’t say I agree with the toppings in the strip, but it does do away with having to stand next to a stove flipping individual pancakes.
Ron Dunn Premium Member 5 days ago
I feel like I am reading the rose is rose comic strip.
French Persons Premium Member 5 days ago
If THAT isn’t enough to force a double-miscarriage, then I don’t know what is..
OneTime59 5 days ago
Those combinations should suit Toni nicely. The kind of weird food cravings pregnant women can get.
The Old Wolf 5 days ago
Earlier I wondered about the style change. After going back and re-reading the arc from the beginning, it makes much more sense. The first week was Toni’s fantasy, this week is Brad’s. Brad may have become a responsible adult and husband, but the “Brad” we all saw as he and Luann were growing up is still there inside somewhere.
leighabc123 5 days ago
Brad’s fantasy family is going to be sick!
tremaine53 5 days ago
Sinking into a diabetic coma here…
cmjackson4 5 days ago
Please lose this story line. It sucks. Get by back to Luann. Loose Shannon.
colddonkey 5 days ago
Umm when is this strip going back to the “normal” Luann?
[Traveler] Premium Member 5 days ago
I am boycotting until the regular comic returns
ewaldoh 5 days ago
Okay, kids, it’s time to wake up. Those train has gone off the tracks!
Purple People Eater 5 days ago
Popcorned pizza pancakes sound pretty good. And it’s good for you. It cover all the major food groups – popcorn is a vegetable, the pizza is starchy food topped with various fruits, such as tomatoes, the ice cream dip is dairy, and there is probably some kind of meat (protein) on the pizza.
ajh2i 5 days ago
Geez, this is worse than last week.
houfulen 5 days ago
when will the graphics get back to normal? This is horrible
Ellis97 5 days ago
Brad, you’re disgusting.
French Persons Premium Member 5 days ago
The artwork is so muddled and confused, you can’t even tell what’s really going on. It’s just a big convoluted, disgusting mess.
Amina Rush 5 days ago
They made popcorn pizza panacakes, and they didn’t offer any to the pregnant lady? How rude!
UBBM Premium Member 5 days ago
Like a bad Saturday Night sketch it’s time to wind this up.
Terminal Frost Premium Member 5 days ago
People in these comments crack me up. Hardly anyone realizes this is a 2 week arc, even though the Evans’ told us. Also, these are daydreams, they are not serious thoughts or actual events. The art is depicting 2 radically opposite versions of individual extreme fantasies. They are deliberately over the top.
People have so much more to actually worry about in the real world, but they choose to complain here, with no more control. In fact you do have more control in the real world.
Meantime, just sit back relax, or skip it if it infuriates you.
The authors will be back so you can resume your regular complaining next week. Have fun!
Dave's Not Here, Man 5 days ago
This art style that Fosgitt’s using on these most recent strips is like a demented fever dream. I guess that’s intentional, though.
Aladar30 Premium Member 5 days ago
Casually it was just the weird food that Toni suddenly had a craving for. Brad has an idea of a loud family that I like, but I don’t think it can exist. Now I really want to see what their future babies will be like.
James Gifford Premium Member 5 days ago
This art style makes Family Circus look goth.
GFox49 5 days ago
I trust this arc is just temporary, because it surely sucketh.
baskate_2000 5 days ago
Please bring back the real Luann!
Doug K 5 days ago
Pizza. Pancakes. Popcorn. Popcorned Pizza Pancakes.
Today’s episode is sponsored by the letter “P”.
Just-me 5 days ago
My breakfast is simply a couple of cups of coffee.
Ignatz Premium Member 5 days ago
To all the complainers: You will see these faces tonight in your dreams.
tcayer 5 days ago
Enough of this crap!
tcayer 5 days ago
Is it mix up the comics week? This is here,, Edison Lee has been replaced by scabs, and Ed Crankshaft appeared in his own strip.
mkw Premium Member 5 days ago
Is this going to end soon?
RSH 5 days ago
Hey… this is Brad being a kid again… he can’t wait…. eating all the favorite junk food 3x / day, dressing down, playing all day in a messy house. It’s the life he’s dreaming about.
Solomon J. Behala Premium Member 5 days ago
A gag! One that’s making some readers gag, too, so it’s BOGO.
rugeirn 5 days ago
I’m getting really tired of this. It doesn’t help that I don’t like the artwork.
Lemon Juice 5 days ago
There was an underground cartoonist that had a style like this. I’m trying to remember who it was…
TheNerdV2000 5 days ago
Worst. Breakfast. Ever.
calliarcale 5 days ago
That looks like something me and my brothers might have come up with at some point.
GoBlue 5 days ago
Ok, I think that’s enough of the guest artist. Greg, come back from vacation! :D
FassEddie 5 days ago
This is fever-dream good! It’s weird!
jsimpso1 5 days ago
OK, Ok….moving on.
SandbaggerOne 5 days ago
Why do I even bother with this strip anymore? It has been going downhill for years and may have now reached the bottom. Only reading now out of habit.
Boltsfan2029 5 days ago
OK, I’m ready for the real comic strip to come back.
YorkGirl Premium Member 5 days ago
Seems the characters have become more cartoonish this week. I do prefer GnK’s artwork. All this sweetness is overboard.
htieiri 5 days ago
By the way, what is the reason for the guest artists?
mindjob 5 days ago
Nutritious!
Demmiaa 5 days ago
This is why you don’t ask unless its a special day. Just give choices.
Shanana 5 days ago
Jeebus Cripes…
kaycstamper 5 days ago
One more week of Jay’s drawings, I looked it up.
kjeffus 5 days ago
This is all just too painful. I’m skipping this feature until the creator resumes control(of himself?).
Sweetlorrain 5 days ago
I used to make a ‘Fluffer-nutter’ for breakfast!
locake 5 days ago
TJ is definitely not living with them in Brad’s fantasy. He could make something healthy that everyone would like.
Webby_dog 5 days ago
The baby just stuck her head into it all…maybe she’s stuck.
locustent 5 days ago
This is awful
FireAnt_Hater 5 days ago
Greg and Karen – I know it’s selfish of me, but – please come back from wherever you are !
Lord King Wazmo Premium Member 5 days ago
Holy snot, this is repulsive. Makes the characters look like complete idiots. LOVE IT!
(Meh) 5 days ago
Couldn’t understand how Brad seemed so eager to have lots of children as an adult, when he was the exact opposite of protective-nurturing to his little sister when younger… well, that answers the question, he’s one of those people that want to have kids so they have company to play with… This makes sense character-wise. Still think that I wouldn’t like to see either one of them as parent.
Good choice of which guest artist draws which dream-sequence though, have to say that.
MuddyUSA Premium Member 5 days ago
Stupid……..
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 5 days ago
Brad’s showing us his inner child, how he maybe wished it was for him growing up. Fun! Keep up the good work Jay
drewpamon 5 days ago
I like Brad’s fantasy better
VoodooMom 5 days ago
This is the absolute stupidest story arc EVER. Enough already!
Fiammata 5 days ago
Just because TJ CAN make that, doesn’t mean he should…
dlestersprint0 5 days ago
This is getting ridicules. Lets get back to the old artwork and a different story line NOW.
BW42 5 days ago
Will we ever get back to the strip I enjoyed? I am about to quit reading this pap, and I don’t like the artwork either.
kpmarcks Premium Member 5 days ago
Nope.
Corpse Horn Light Premium Member 5 days ago
This strip needs to go back to normal sometime YESTERDAY.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 5 days ago
In DOONESBURY, BD took he&Boopsie’s baby daughter along in the motorcycle sidecar when he was on California highway patrol.
How old does a baby have to be before it can swing an axe and lift a hose?
eb110americana 5 days ago
Minus the pizza part, I suppose that could work.
William Timm 5 days ago
I can’t take the guest arttist and I don’t read this stuff.
scott.rouse 5 days ago
You know way back in the day, Brad actually told Dirk that he needs to respect Toni and treat her like a person and now he’s imagining her being nothing more than a baby making factory. The irony is not lost on me.
sjsczurek 5 days ago
This is getting a little weird.
jfikse Premium Member 5 days ago
Toni and Brad aren’t my favorite characters, but I don’t think either one would have these daydreams. They are both more mature. The whole thing has been silly and out-of-character. And the artwork is creepy.
lisfnord 5 days ago
I grow weary of this story arc, and this ridiculous conversation about political and social views.
eladee AKA Wally 5 days ago
For those of you who have enjoyed Jay Fosgitts artwork this week check out his book “Bodie Troll” for sale on Amazon. He also has several other things listed. I like his style but I would not want to see him drawing “Luann” full time because I love Greg’s clean, classic style. But this brief look into the daydreams of Toni and Brad has been entertaining.
j.l.farmer 5 days ago
Not so cute now and you have 2 more on the way. I can’t wait for this story line to be over.
Donna Curry Premium Member 5 days ago
I do not care for this visiting cartoonist’s slapstick “what if” of Tony and Brad’s life. Not at all. Too stupid for me. Please get rid of it and get back to Greg Evan’s concepts.
BlitzMcD 5 days ago
This variation/imaginary scenario/parallel universe or whatever you care to call it story arc was amusing for about two or three installments. It’s now getting to be a bit too much like a truly awful strip called Ernie Pook’s Comeek that ran in the indie hippie papers around the turn of the century.
French Persons Premium Member 5 days ago
“OOO! What’s this?” …..”Hell in our kitchen!”
Jeffin Premium Member 4 days ago
They’re the Taco the town.
eddi-TBH 4 days ago
Brad is just one of the kids.
sincavage05 4 days ago
Are we done with this yet??
Kenezg 4 days ago
I’m really a little confused…
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction 4 days ago
The art of compromise…surrender maybe?
Carolyn Cherry 4 days ago
I’m tired of this.
eced52 4 days ago
Somebody fetch the puke bucket.
vickie.105 4 days ago
I really hate this artwork.