Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 16, 2012

Lol. I love her two sidekicks.

I think now that Delta and Bernice have affirmed her parent’s suggestions. Luann will feel a little more relaxed among her friends and won’t feel embarrassed about going to a community college.

Bernice is terrific.

Even if Delta doesn’t cook and Bernice doesn’t like teenagers (no surprise there!), they clearly make a fine pair of surrogate parents for Luann. She has no escape from good advice!

You people are such dream thieves. Stealing the dreams of your children, and condemning them to live middle class…rubbish. Rubbish I tell you. The proper answer to Luann’s dream was: Okay. Earn the Scholarship to go there. Here are the requirements to earn the scholarship. Accomplish them, and make us proud.

I was at the state university with Inigo Montoya. He dropped out when he started getting gigs, then went to Juilliard. Saw him in Hamlet and other student productions. If you’ve got the chops, you’ll find your way there.

Yellow on brown.My compliments to the colourist.

There is always American Idol.

If Luann’s talent is singing, American Idol’s an option too. If it’s acting, Idol doesn’t work so well.

Personally, I think it is the responsibility of every parent to never squash a dream, but instead, to be the mentor, the coach, to find out what it actually takes to make a child’s dream come true…and then see to it they do what it takes. You can’t just plop the requirements for Julliard in front of Luann. You’ve gotta encourage her every step of the way, remind her to train with her instructors, remind her to stay after class with those instructors, remind her to do what it takes to make it happen. It’s hard. Very hard. But anything worth doing is hard.

So, any thoughts on whether or not this thread means that Greg might be ready to move Luann out of Pitts High and into the local Junior college? It’s quite possible that the others could follow her there or be around town (i.e at WW, the Library and other places)…

Bernice?You’re NOT Fond of Teenagers??You ARE a Teenager!Does THAT Mean that You HATE Yourself???

Luann’s the straight “man” (girl). Everyone around her pull the punches.

Yes, cant do the comic with the main character after all :)

Together, who’ll do the laundry and clean the toilet?

What a bunch of downer strips, crushing a teanage girl’s dreams. Whatever happened to going for your dreams? Has no one heard of scholarships? And there are a lot more options between Juilliard and a junior community college. For one thing if Luann’s plans are to one day get to Juilliard going to a community college makes it that much harder. Hasn’t anyone thought of other colleges that have a well-thought of drama departments.

Juilliard….Luann isn’t even that good in a comic strip, she’s definately not Juilliard caliber….oh wait, that’s Greg’s fault…..NEXT story line please!!!!

Junior/community college can be a stepping stone to a university. I’ve had several college classmates who started that way.

Delta should take Bernice clothes shopping, her top is hot…Bernice has an old lady’s blouse….drab, drab, drab. Come on Greg, let Bernice show her assets. But, I have been enjoying the last three weeks of this strip. Hope Weenie World burns down or gets razed for a new Victoria’s Secret, or .just disappears into a giant sink hole

I’m sensing the potential for a major shift in “Luann” once again. Is a graduation ceremony somewhere in the future?

A few weeks ago I remember reading some commenters saying that the strip was boring because it wasn’t about Luann anymore. Now we have a strip about Luann and I’m reading that it is boring because it’s about her. Make up your minds, people.

@serenasakitty, It’s only 1 or 2 individuals that complain, not “people”. As others have suggested, I can see Greg letting them graduate, some go to community college, others work, but they’ll be in the same town so all can be involved in the strip. Yes, it’s good to have a dream, but a you also have to have a realistic plan. Many very good students will not get into the most prestigious universities. And even state schools are expensive, especially when you consider room and board and transportation. So I have no problem with this plan. It doesn’t mean her dreams are squashed.

Heh… I’m almost fifty, Gokie. And yeah, I do have a ton of resentment towards my family, I’m sorry to say. My brother got a full ride to college from my parents. I paid my own way. I had to. My oldest brother is/was the Golden Child. I was the “other kid”. As in, “Oh yeah… we have THREE kids. Forgot about that.” My oldest brother and I both have kids— he has 5, and I have one. My parents met my son when he was born, but have never had anything else to do with him. My brothers (I have 2) have NEVER met my son. My son is now 27 and hasn’t ever met his uncles or cousins, and has no idea of his grandparents because they never had anything to do with him since he was 2 days old. For Pete’s sake, none of them even bothered to come to my wedding a year before my son was born. My brothers both heard, “You guys can do ANYTHING and we’re behind you”. I heard, “Well, that’s just silly and you’ll never make it on that path.” The boys were into sports; I was into music, dance and theatre. Performing arts, basically. I vividly remember more than one school or other performance where my dad went out to the car and went to sleep, and my mom critiquing everything I did… “You missed that note” or “You could have said that line in this way”… you get the idea. The final straw came when I found out that my dad had died when I found his obituary on line. I’m not saying this as a whinefest— just as a way to give some background into what kind of garbage I was dealing with. I cut all ties after that. But perhaps the ties were already cut and I just burned them. And, I made a vow that I would be there for MY son— he has made me very proud. He also got the musical passion and is an excellent guitarist. He also enjoys theatre, even performs with the community theatre in his town. He was one heck of a Dracula! :)

Picture these 3 as worn-out moms of toddlers, yakking at the playground. Same energy level. Same hilarity.

Luann can do her basics and then go to U of M! Like Madonna!

Luann’s acting like she’s been accepted to Julliard. As far as I know, she hasn’t even applied. Kind of got the cart waaaay before the horse.

Obviously this is not going to apply universally (no pun intended), but I have seen situations where a JC was physically near an academic powerhouse and constantly showed it up in performing arts. Performing arts can be – well – too academic.

Mom and dad should buy Luann a pony so she can practice her ballet while she attends JC to be a thermodynamics astrophysicist.

So she is thinking about post HS? How many years has she been in High School? That’s why no college will take her. Interesting for the strip if she moves on.

“What MAY happen is when school starts again, they will be seniors. Then after 10 – 15 years, they might start thinking college.”

They will be seniors, otherwise this college talk would not have come up. As for the 15 years, do you think Greg will want to do this then? He may be thinking ahead to what he could make happen in the next few years.

I thought most were upset because Luann hadn’t been in the strip for a while. But, I’m with you. I find her boring ,also.

This has been a great storyline. Always have thought that Greg does his best work when Luann is his focus; these are the ones when I smile the most. Hopefully it’ll keep going next week.

Greg, Hope this means Luann is finally going to move on another year. I love her, have been reading your strip for years, but sure would enjoy new strips where she develops into an 18-year old.

“As for the 15 years, do you think Greg will want to do this then?”Greg Evans was born on November 13, 1947. Therefore, in 15 years he will be 79, at or past time to retire. I’d like to say that Luann and them’ll be at a community college next year, but maybe they’ll be h. s.seniors. I don’t have a great track record on predicting this stuff.

I wouldn’t want to see Leslie Knox paired with anyone. Ew. Ew. Ew.

There are discreet ways to deal with sex.

Crystal would tell him to buzz off right away.

I agree that Greg Evans is setting Luann up for a next step, probably involving closing out high school and struggling with further education. She’s not serious yet, because she is “waffling” between math/science and music with no idea what Juilliard is all about – it’s just something that she came across while searching the Internet..So, end of topic for now – time to pick up the Quill thread. Probably Greg will build this into a relationship, especially since he suggested that he wants to deal with some physical loving down the road….I have problems with people who think various themes are boring. We all get a little tired of things moving slowly at times, when we wish some progress would occur. But keep in mind that getting what we want, would itself be boring, because conflict & uncertainty provoke interest and commentary..Personally, I would like to find out WHY Toni doesn’t want to think or talk about marriage. Must be some resolved conflict that she can’t face. Greg either doesn’t know how to develop it, or just wants it to be a frustrating topic that he can come back to again and again.

Maybe, except she would be good with kids, as she—and Gunther—are at the library.

unresolved conflict

I agree with JimT8 on Leslie. But Knute – aw, I like him. Everyone to his or her own taste . . .

G’nite, all. I had to stay up late sending a buncha flowers to my husband for tomorrow. Paid a nice service fee. Remind me to plan ahead next year. Thanks. Oh, happy Father’s Day in advance to all to whom it might apply, dads, honorary dads, uncles, granddads, what-have-you.

No great deeds were ever accomplished by realists. Every Olympic Medalist ever is a dreamer…who backed up their dream with the relentless hard work it takes to make that dream reality. As I said above, no dream shold ever be squashed. Simply outline what it actually takes to make it, and then teach them how to get there.

But, my story…raised by parents who made 30k a year. Drastically changed course from what they did. Went into finance. Now I make 225k a year, give or take depending on production. I have the luxury of being able to tell my kids ‘do as I’ve done’. I intend to make use of it.

Oh, and those parents? Not very supportive of my endeavor. I retired them both. On /my/ income. Think about that one for a while.

So I guess this means that Greg is going to let Luann graduate high school next year. I think Greg is planning to send the whole gang to community college.

“The best of friends.”.A friend will advise you not to do it.A good friend will bale you out afterward.A best friend will be in jail beside you saying, “Man, that was a blast!”.or something like that

Angelalex242“No great deeds were ever accomplished by realists.”.It depends on your definition of great. The communist revolutionaries were dreamers as a group. When they came to power, they didn’t want to do the real work. Stalin didn’t mind working so they gave him the boring stuff while they continued to imagine creating Utopia. When Lenin died, Stalin had all the power, killed off the idiots and became the great dictator of history..On the other hand, he may not have been a realist since his policies included murdering some 20 million people for the purity of Communist dreams. .or maybe he just held a grudge.

“I have no disagreement with that. However, this comic strip is not mentioning the cheap state university option.”.It doesn’t have to be all-inclusive. The artist can say as much or as little as he chooses. Nobody ever considers ALL their options.

“My parents had at one point promised to help me with the last 2 years, but reneged when they realized that I was pursuing music. “Oh, you don’t have the talent.” “You’ll never make it as a musician.” “You need to get real.” “What makes YOU think you can sing?” (Never mind that I had a number of awards from competitions!) Basically, they browbeat me out of it, and without their help, I wound up not being able to afford DePaul, and I went into a less expensive program”.One of my numerous cousins was told by her parents she didn’t need to go to college because she was just going to be a nurse and didn’t need college to do that..Priscilla responded, “I have too damn many uncles not to go to college.” My father was the first uncle she checked in on and he loaned her the money for college. He didn’t expect her to pay him back, but she did.." I wonder to this day what I could have done had I become a music therapist or teacher? How much joy could I have brought into others’ lives through bringing them the gift of music, and helping them to find their own pleasure through making or listening to music?".Once again, thoughts on the road not taken when in fact there are hundreds of roads not taken for every one which is. And you’re still young enough to take a few steps down that road if you really want to..Regardless, you would do well to forgive your parents for being imperfect. There’s only a few of us perfect people around and most others don’t see our obvious perfection..You might be old enough to remember The Smothers Brothers with the constand jokes being based on “Mom liked you best.”

“Bernice?You’re NOT Fond of Teenagers??You ARE a Teenager!Does THAT Mean that You HATE Yourself???”.Not being fond of is not the same as hating..Many teenagers DON’T like themselves, wishing they were better in some way..Some teenagers are hard to tolerate and other teenagers avoid them whenever possible..Being mature for her comic strip years, she may find closer kindred minds in older people, say 20 year olds.

“Personally, I think it is the responsibility of every parent to never squash a dream, but instead, to be the mentor, the coach, to find out what it actually takes to make a child’s dream come true…and then see to it they do what it takes.”.Whereas I disagree..Some children’s dream is to be the next great thief, mass murderer, world dictator, whathaveyou. Some dreams SHOULD be squashed — or at the very least discouraged, especially those which will hurt your child or other people.. Giving good and happy dreams is not the only kind of dream children have.

Hey art vandely Luann is the main character u can’t change that plus its the name of the strip durr!??

A teen not fond of other teens? That’s known as “normal.”

I’m sure Luann is a great actress. But you need more than just one high school play under your belt to get into Julliard….