Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 29, 2011

I wish that woman I used to go to the movies with as a “friend” did the same as Luann

Enough already.

Do they share popcorn?

You people are kidding, right? It’s a cartoon…. a couple of frames a day. Oh, and did I mention – it’s a cartoon!

Who pays for the popcorn?

John Abrams…you are reading a teen strip, aren’t you????

Paying for a girl doesn’t make it a date. My brother pays for me when we go to the movies and my cousin wouldn’t let me pay when we tried out an Indian restaurant. Those are definately not dates.

I like these two more than some of the other characters. However, I think they all represent typical teens and their relationships.

Croiky! They are trying, aren’t they?

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“Ta” means thank you. “Croiky” would be an Aussie pronunciation of “crikey”.

My dad is from England and my mom from Scotland. They both used “ta” and my mom said “crikey” all the time. She didn’t think it had anything to do with Jesus, or she wouldn’t have used the expression, her being Jewish. (Jews just don’t go around talking about Jesus, in any context.) It was just something everybody said all the time. If the original meaning had been cursing, it had been forgotten by the time my mom and her contemporaries (she was born in 1920) used the expression. And long forgotten by now.

Me, I’m Canadian and we don’t widely use those expressions.

“Will You two IDIOT “Love-birds” Shut the Heck up?!? Those of us who ARE on a Date are trying to ENJOY the DARN Movie!!!" – The Couple sitting directly BEHIND Luann and Quill.

Yes, a close one indeed! Perish the thought of a date! —But notice how in panel 4 Luann is getting touchie-feelie, with her hand on Quill’s arm in a supportive and familiar gesture such as might occur with a Couple. gasp

Someone’s cleaning under the bridge tonight.

I’m amused by all the folks so annoyed by this pair. As the parent of two teenage boys going through these motions right now, I find it remarkably realistic, including the dancing around the idea that it’s a date. These are teens, and the teen years are awkward.

Don’t worry fellow readers. Tomorrow is the big finish. We get to see just where a “Not a Date” leads in Gregs head. I still think an appearance by Tiff would really bring the week to a proper end. Then we could check in on Brad and Ann and see how they are “handling” each other.

Better be careful Luann. Becuase if you were to let yourself go, this summer could be every thing you’ve been fantisizing about your whole life.

Greg, You are doing great! I love all your characters.

yes, veeeeeeeeeeery boring.

Why don’t they just stop playing games & admit they want to be a couple & date. All they are doing is driving themselves insane.

Dumb De Dumb Dumb DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For all those complaining about the strip, may I offer a simple solution. DON’T READ IT! Thank you very much.

yo Butcherman: as usual, if you don’t agree with ALL the rainbow & lollipop comments here, you are defined as a “troll” and suggested to go elsewhere. All this even when the day’s strip is obviously ridiculous as compared to the other great work done by Greg.

This story line is a bust

I like Quill and Luann. I enjoy all the characters. That’s why I read the comic. Not sure why some of you are so hard on the storyline, characters, etc.

well. i think this is all kind of sweet. they’re young, they’re trying to figure out what they want and what the OTHER person wants. we’ve all been through it (and worse) so i’m enjoying this little storyline as a less depressing alternative to Brad’s job-loss/weenie-world-employment.

It’s “Crikey”, actually.

Unless she is your wife, you need not pay for her.

I think they’re adorable. And hilarious.

Facepalm

Yes, Luann, be very careful.

Complaints raise their ugly head

With the strip, up with they are fed

Though the strip is called “Luann”, Her they do not want to see

You get the feeling they want to shout, “This should be all about me”

To read or not to read, that is indeed your choice

Then again, you have every right to raise your voice

“Cry me a river, if you don’t like it, just go away”

But everyone gathered here has a right to have their say

“If you don’t like what I write, it, you don’t have to read”

Specious arguements all, on this we can be agreed

Isn’t it rather silly, to argue forth and back

About what the comic strip may or may not lack?

So let us bury the hatchet, but not in the heads of each other

For who knows, next week may be about the brother.

The mood in here today is sullen.

It constantly amazes me that this sweet strip garners so many nasty comments. Honestly!

I LOVE THE STRIP, GREG!

There once was a man from Nantucket……

Name me for an ill mannered lout, but I forgot to thank Marvee and LDover for their kind words yesterday. So, thank you, Marvee and Ldover.

i’ve always found it curious that for me at least the characters in this strip other than luann are the most interesting. i enjoy reading the strip every day but not necessarily to find out what luann is doing — this particular storyline is really lame (so far) and i can’t believe this is the way “typical” teenagers act in 2011.

well…………. tech things vary, and the activities they do at home change, and places they able to go varies, but in General……………………….. teens acts that way since the time of the Neanderthals

So … What’s the intent of this strip? To depict the life and times of a teenage girl – her family – and her friends? If so, shouldn’t it be a little sophomoric at times? Shouldn’t it reveal the fun and uncertainty of young love, as well as the foibles and mistakes that accompany everyday living?

I think we, as adults, have forgotten how uncertain we felt during adolescence. We have become jaded and want every moment to challenge and titillate our emotions and expectations.

It’s NOT gonna happen. Think about it. You need dull themes to make excitement in the other story lines. A constant diet of excitement … becomes boring!

You’re thinking of a different man from Nantucket.

And one (or two) other things before I bow out for the day … To me, this week is not dull – it shows the fun and games of dating. Oh, you don’t think Quill and Luann are dating? They ARE and they know it.

AND the boring part – not the comic itself, but posts that say the same thing over, and over and over …

CRACKY!!!! YOU’RE ALL NUTS !!!

LOL. oh, for the love of – when are they just going to admit it?

I think we’re all Bozos on this bus! (Hi everyone!)

This has been a one-strip joke that has been beat to death all week. Time to put it away.

;-)

I don’t know I pay the way for my male friends and next time they pay for mine that way it makes it fair and easy

Having raised teenagers, I think Greg is off base on this arc. This is SO middle school, not high school. HS kids don’t behave like that. This is getting so silly that I am bored with this arc. Let’s move on. Let’s go back to Brad and Ann – I am very curious about what Ann is up to.

friends do buy friends tickets sometimes..

Why is it that on a date the guy has to pay? I heard that ‘oh guys like paying’ but I like paying too! and I earn more than most guys I date.

Don’t girls in this comic ever wear dresses or skirts?

Actually it did cross my mind to wonder what they would do about paying for the tickets. I’m not surprised it was a close call. And to every other commenter: if I don’t like a strip (hold your breath, here it comes), I DON’T READ IT!! SO THERE!! I read somewhere between 10 and 20. I add and drop them as it comes to mind. No, I will not bore you with the list of what I read. It’s personal; and based on today’s comments, everybody would comment on why I shouldn’t read this and should read that. @Doctor Toon, you are so right! The artist got fed up with being dissed, and now nobody can comment either on Pibgorn or on 9 Chickweed Lane. Does anyone know if there is another web site where I could go to post comments? I miss the crowd dreadfully! Usually the ratio of trolls to people was low enough that I could ignore them – however, TODAY, IN LUANN, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! GGGGRRRRRROOOOOWWWWWLLLLL!!!!!!!!!

Furthermore! A friend can’t put their hand on a friend’s arm while comforting them?

@dogsniff: very good philosophy. very restful.

@wndrwrthg: love your poetry!

I enjoy what ever comes along with this strip. Have been reading it for many years.

Nice blouse. Looks like she ready to “Hang out”.

For Quill, it wouldn’t be a “date”… it would be a “dite”!

The non-date joke is getting a little old wouldn’t you say? I have a feeling they’ll be doing this through out the whole movie.

I think it is cute…alas I remember teenage dating. It is always angst ridden.Bad enough with a homegrown boy/girl, but so hard with the uncertainty of an exchange student, especially from another hemisphere. They are wise to be cautious. Teen heartbreak can be so traumatic, male or female

G’day Professor, Quill is from Australia mate. Those Aussies speak a different di-lect of Inglish than Mericans, and Brits.