Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 12, 2011

oh boy, look who is back from Japan

wonder if she will try to find her past “love interest”?

The return of the sexual predator. I smell a cat fight brewing! Toni Daytona vs the infamous Ann Eiffel.

This gives an added nuance to the Weenie World concept.

Watch it Brad! You have a good thing going with miss Toni! :]

Yep, you’ve been had, Brad.

everyone realizes who was the love interest for Ann, don’t you? I don’t see a cat fight between Toni and Ann, maybe between Brad and Ann ;)

Jerrymeza – Is there backstory on this woman that I’m missing? I don’t remember her.

Wow! I was not expecting this. It looks like Brad’s kind of taken with her. In the future, I see Toni visiting Brad at work, Anne becoming taken with her, and her trying to break up the couple to get Toni on the rebound. Brad tries to reject what he thinks are her advances, but she doesn’t take kindly to this. The hijinks get wackier when he calls in his pal TJ to “seduce” Anne so that she would forget about Brad and leave the happy couple alone…

you got it side starlet…………. C Allen ; Ann Eiffel was the manager of the bookstore where Zane and Bernice worked……. Bern though Ann made life difficult for her and Zane because Ann wanted to have Zane, but actually there were strong hints Ann actually was interested in Bern, at the end, the big boss of the bookstore chain “kicked her out” by promoting her to Tokyo

Oh, NO! The return of the EVIL Ann Eiffel, formerly of Borderland Books, Japan!

For you new folks, Ann was introduced years ago. She ran Borderland Books where Bernice and her (former?) boyfriend Zane worked. Ann tormented Zane and had a unhealthly interest in Bernice. Annie ENJOYED having Bernice perform degrading menial tasks and did her BEST to keep Bernice and Zane apart, until Zane pulled a few strings and had Miz Eiffel transferred to Japan. (Correct me if I got any of THAT wrong)

Brad doesn’t KNOW it yet, but he is about to enter the seventh circle of HEL…..er I MEAN, ‘HECk’!

Was Ann Eiffel the first Gay character in this strip? I believe that Greg mentioned that some time ago in his blog. She certainly was the first sexual predator.

Certainly she was an abusive character, on par with Dirk, but much more cunning. I’ve read on these blogs that this is only a strip for teenage girls, but there have been some rather grown up themes from time to time.

Anyone have an archive reference for that steamy Ann Eiffel strip? Or just a date? Thanks.

My Gawd! Ann Effiel is back?? And at WW?? Lol. Poetic Justice. Would love to see Bernice come to WW and snicker at the evil Ann Effiel wearing WW badge as a lowly fast food manager. Obviously Borderland laid her off or fired her. Then I’d love to see Bernice give Ann a hard time as a customer. Perhaps Ann will blow a stack and get fired…again. I think the whole thing of Brad getting RIFed was just to bring Ann back. Betcha in no time, Brad will move on to another job. I believe this will be all about Bernice and Ann.

CJZ……. who knows what Greg has in mind, so many ways to go… there could be a confrontation between Ann and Bern, we might get Bern realizing the truth about Ann’s feelings(as i still think Bern has not gotten the fact that Ann was interested on her), Ann might have gone through a therapist, and she might have stopped being “so manipulative” and she might actually apologize to Bern….. it will not stop Ann being interested on girls, but might stop her from being so Abrasive about who she wants

Well, I wasn’t familiar with the Ann Eiffel backstory, and seeing that she is “an eyefull” I expected that she would in due course be trying to lure Brad away from Toni. But after reading the preceding comments and getting some sense of her persona, I now expect that she will try to steal Toni from Brad….

I don’t rember Ann. How far back to we go?

Got It Thanks Wiselad

Ann is back. And looking just as good. And now it’s not Zane under her, but Brad. I know Brad is not interested, but it doesn’t mean that she isn’t. She has shown an interest in employees before. Brad would pick up on a little flirtation as normal work banter and I can see things getting out of hand – rapidly.

Ann find former employee’s “appreciative”? How does she expect them to show their appreciation, I wonder? Hmmm…

The previous Eiffel storyline took place back in 2002. Unfortunately, this new website’s archive doesn’t go back earlier than ‘03 (I’m pretty sure that the comics.com archive went back that far).

Uh-oh. Don’t like the looks of this

Realistically they would not hire a firefighter to sweep floors, the old overqualified type deal. You know that the person would be also looking for other work at the time. But I know, it is just a comic strip.

Luann is coming into her own. Peoples features change as they age, and frankly, I think the girl is getting prettier and has other charms as well.

Cue the ominous music!

saaaaaaaaay.

Lets see is she flirting with Brad? Where is this going to go. Maybe Toni will be a bit more anxious to tie the knot

Ann Eiffel (Yes,she certainly is.) has returned. (cue ominous music) ‘Dun-dun- DAAAAAAA!’ Toni better prep for The cat fight scene. I hope it starts in tne kitchen and they bump into Brad and he spills vegetable Oil on the floor and the ladies start wrestlin’ in it.~~~~~~~~~~~~OR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ann Eiffels’ Brother visits her at work ….AND ITS DIRK!

I haven’t been reading Luann for long so I’m not familiar with Ann Eiffel; I researched her and after reading up on her, I hope this storyline gets steamy!

I’m disappointed that Brad is actually taking this job. Glad he’s willing to but I think there were better options.

She’s baaaaack!!!!

How appropriate and well timed! Borders Bookstore is currently closing stores in the real world so “Borderland Books” closed the Japan stores and Eiffel lost her job as well.

well i hope its NOT about toni and ann

poor brad. lost another girlfriend

Ann Eiffel?! RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have to restart.. somewhere….

OMG…. I can’t watch…. well, I do like peeking now and then!

Oh no! She’s Ba-aaaaack!!!

Thank you! I’ve been a regular reader whenever we’ve had a newspaper coming… sometimes we didn’t. It’ll be good to catch up on what I missed.

I remember Bern and Zane working at the bookstore, and Brad saving Zane when it burned down, so it’s slowly trickling back into memory. I think it is a given that she’ll try to hit on Toni, and Brad will be clueless unless bern can school him…

Brad ends up with Ann’s job and then is promoted up the line to Vice President, which keeps him continually in the air, New York, London, Pittsville, Munich. Interesting receipts in Brad’s expense report…

We gotta think … also … Where’s Luann fit into this arc?

I would have thought Brad would step back to the EMT position. I would have thought he would rather starve then return to WW.

he shoulda went to the "lucky cow "…..

Yes…Zane told her he was too old for her and moved away.

Ann may be a some sort of “bi” — she seemed very interested in controlling Zane, too. But she is by no means a normal one..She enjoys having “her people” under her and subservient. Perhaps she could be called a dominatrix?.She is not IMO a simple lesbian by any means.

The archives do not go back far enough to find the strips Ann was in..Very sad..But we who remember know that Brad must beware, This job is not going to fun for him. She will have him bringing her lattes soon enough. Toni will see through her at once.

I think, or hope, Evans does it this way, Ann goes to make a “pass” at Toni, and Toni does a “Chuck Norris” round house and sends Ann home with her teeth n her pocket. Brad doesn’t know, Toni is a black belt, or else how would she have kept Dirk the Jerk in line?

Never know where these stories are going. I wonder how far in advance Greg writes the comics?!? I mean I think he’d be a few weeks ahead of what is being printed, right?

Nah… I think Toni (rightly so) has a lot of self-confidence.

She’s trouble…

@ottodesu, are you implying that teenage girls cannot be lesbians? they only come out at age 21?

In re Ann Eiffel’s orientation, I don’t see this gal as a simple case of lesbianism or anything else. She is tricky and manipulative. And she will handle anything she can get away with and control from books and boys to wienies and women. .

Bernie knows her best of our characters, and she does go to WWorld. Will Bernie now clue in Brad via Luann? Will they clue in Toni to the dangers? . Let’s hope Tiff gets a summer job at WW. But she never lacks money and seeks no jobs (other than ego building modeling) She may live with trust-fund parents in a gated suburb of Pittsville

Whoo hoo!! This should make for a very interesting storyline! And it coincides with the release of “Horrible Bosses”! I have a feeling that Bernice may choke on her food WHEN she realizes that Ann Eiffel—the most horrible boss ever—is back!!

Thanks for the history on Ann, guys. I hadn’t been following Luann that far back, only the last couple years. I appreciate it!

Dun dun DUN!!!

I remember Bern and Zane working together- guess I never noticed Ann. I can be/am rather nieve for my age.

C Allen, Mordock answered your question =)

The plot thickens.

NOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!

Oh crap!

Here comes crap lady. Who-hoo.

OMG

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

OH NO!

Oh f*ck

Oh no…..