Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 27, 2012

EPIC fail Brad. Time for some M A J O R make-up gifting!!

Orion

dun dun duuunnnnn

Bwhahahaha

My wife feels that any gift flowers etc. on a Holiday or Birthday is meaningless, because it is expected. The ones she finds meaningful are the ones at random times. I am so blessed I can never be late. I just have to remember to do something neat several times a year.

Brad, you suck.

Valentine’s Day was six weeks ago, and Brad just now realizes that he forgot all about it? No wonder we haven’t seen much of Toni lately!

Well obviously she didn’t get him anything either! Valentine’s Day works both ways, you know.

Not only did Brad forget, but Toni LET him forget the next day? A man who forgets valentine’s days usually hears about within seconds on Feb 15th. Toni must not care herself. It’s one thing for a man to forget, it’s quite another for a woman to LET him forget.

On Feb. 14th, Gunther was considering backing out on his Krav Maga class. We were all forced to miss out on Valentines Day and other things for weeks to come in the Luann strip due to the Gunther, Rosa, and Leslie story arc.

Every gift scheduled by calender is meaningless.

Aaand learning that if you have an open HTML tag in your message you can’t delete it.

I was hoping to see Gunther and Rosa sharing a first kiss on valentines day. But alas it wasnt ment to be.

Lots of things rhyme with Kangaroo. Zoo, Do, You. To/Too/Two. Boo. Rue (as in, rue the day). Fu (as in, Kung Fu).

Brad should invite Toni to go out for dinner at some very nice restaurant. And when he comes to her door to pick her up. Hand her a nice bouquet of long stemmed roses. If she asks why? He should answer, “Just because.” // If he mentions his faux pas of forgetting Valentine’s day. Then she will know he is only doing it out of guilt feelings and not love!

If Both Forgot they don’t care about Valetine’s Day.

Forget about Valentines Day. Just another “Special-day-to-remember-so-you’ll-spend-money” invented by people who sell flowers and chocolate. Keep going Brad. She wants YOU, not just another dumb toon guy (ehhhh – OOOPS)

“Don’t get me anything” is never a literal statement. It’s code for “You better have something pretty F’ing spectacular.”

Greg – did YOU forget Valentine’s Day during the Gunther arc? Did your WIFE get all hissy and you went OOPSIE? You added the topic into this arc as a forethought? Are we going to see Toni go “harmmph!” when Brad apologizes for forgetting V-Day? A commentator says apparently Toni forgot, too but I doubt it – as a woman, she would expect Brad to give her the V-Day gift FIRST and since he did not, she more likely stepped back and did nothing, perhaps figuring V-Day means zip to Brad. Many women know many men dislike V-Day, are of opinion that V-Day is a sissy holiday, a dumb holiday, etc, so it is not so farfetched that Toni may have thought Brad is one those guys – and might even be glad she didn’t give him anything.

“Didgeridoo” rhymes with “Kangaroo” (swiped from one of Olivia Newton-John’s early songs). This strip was a good one, I totally felt that horror as Brad’s blood froze, ha ha!

Get her some more of those undies you helped her pick out, Brad.

My prediction is that a storyline is developing where Toni starts to drift away from Brad! Of course, TJ will give Brad the worst possible advice.

Well Brad, Toni didn’t Get YOU anything either so BOTH of You FORGOT Valentines Day.

Look kid, FORGET Taking advice from the “Gangsta Wannabe Control Freak” and go take Toni on a nice long PRIVATE weekend retreat someplace.There, you and Toni can “discuss” the next level of your relationship AFTER, you two, uhhhhhhh, “Push the Envelope” IF you CATCH my DRIFT…..,

doodoo, poo.

Bad form.

maybe he’s pulling TJ’s leg? Isn’t TJ usually the prankster? Maybe Brad’s trying for some payback? I doubt it, but maybe

Interesting how this came up a month after V-day.

At this remove (almost six weeks later) Brad’s failure to take note of Valentine’s Day with Toni (and her reciprocal similar failure, it seems) is of no practical significance, though there is a lesson to be learned for the next significant calendric event.

He could get her a gift coupon to Weinie World.

Valentines Day, as in six weeks ago? You’re telling me this hasn’t come up until now, or that they haven’t seen each other in over six weeks? Come on, seriously? Either way, LAME-O.

That was over a month ago. If she hasn’t already let him know that it bothers her, it doesn’t. But Brad will blunder this one. He will now try to by a belated Valentines day gift. The gift will stink and Brad will reopen a wound that has already healed.

I was going to say, no worries, Valentine’s Day (at least in east Asia) is where women give gifts to men and White Day (March 14th) is where the men give gifts to the women. But even that was two weeks ago. Good news, Brad: Black Day (April 14th) is coming up because you won’t be in /any/ relationship by then. But if you kiss and make up in time, you might just be able to celebrate Rose Day (May 14th).

I would love to see Brad rush out to buy something for Toni, sweating buckets and in an agony of guilt, get her something nice, and rush to her house only to find out that against all the odds today is her birthday (which he had also forgotten:) )) And find out that TJ had known that all along…

Reallllly? Is that why Brad can’t tell his mother to lay off insulting his girlfriend, because his primary thought is to impress her? Is that why Brad demanded that Toni take a snootful of Ann Eiffel’s abuse and never darken the doors of Weenie World again, because he thinks of her every minute of the day? .Brad will never stand up for Toni if he can avoid a hassle instead by asking her to just ignore a conflict. Brad wanted a “peaceful” work environment rather than have to tell his abusive boss that no one’s allowed to push his girl around. Brad, in short, is a real doofus, and most of the time he’s pretty damn cluelsss. So yeah, this IS “logical”.

Obviously, she gave him nothing either??

Doesn’t matter Dave, he is a dead man walking

EPIC….

Don’t take her for granted, Brad! You’ll lose her in no time.

Valentine’s day is for suckers, Brad! Don’t listen to TJ! Better yet, don’t take advice from anyone without a significant other!

Looks like Brad lost a stripe in the 1st panel. Good start: he should lose the whole shirt. 3rd panel makes Brad look like what Brad really is…….kinda dumb. Toni is too mature for him.

Has anyone else pointed out that STALLIONS live in stables?

Conflict avoidance may not equal to not caring but it IS a character flaw of which most women don’t care for, including myself. Most women respect and find it sexy for men to have a backbone. Brad doesn’t so we will see how longer their relationship will last – either Brad grows one or next time he dives for cover, Toni walks.

good Grief!he got none on the day a Hot Girl like Toni would get naughty on you ’=P

Brad did show his need to protect Toni when it came to Dirk. It was man vs man…staking a claim on a female. Time-old conflict between two guys. But when it came to his boss rudeness towards Toni, he stood and did nothing. He did not even tell Ann Toni was is girlfriend – called her a friend. One has to wonder why he didn’t want Ann to know Toni was his girlfriend at first. Toni should have been offended – but Greg apparently chose not to go that path. Brad should have introduced Toni has his girlfriend and pointed out that she was also there to order something, hinting to Toni to please go and order something which would diffused the situation. Ann would have clammed up when Brad informed her Toni may be visiting him but was also ordering something, but he didn’t do any of that. He pressured Toni not to do anything or say anything. He sure turned a 360 from the situation with Dirk which was why I think the thing with Dirk was just a “guy thing.”

Dirk mentioned again. I was just thinking – that’s who Ann at WW should wind up with. A match made in H…….

I dont even know why I read this strip anymore, full of over stereotypical losers….where is the hope for a generation or is everyone here a loss?

@..Why yes it does! Thank you:)

@Coinguy“Stereotypical Losers…” These are comics..the funnies. Have you ever seen a standup comic doing a bit on success and winning and standing up for high principles?

Alright, I want to know why this didn’t come up until LATE IN MARCH! Her birthday? OK, He might forget that, but V-Day is advertised EVERYWHERE!

;-)

My point is that a willingness to throw your woman under the bus at the slighest provocation, and even denying that she IS your girlfriend, as ZacBSM pointed out, does not demonstrate the level of passionate care and ardent, all-consuming attention that Leviticus was attributing to Brad.

I love the look on his face. Priceless.

Toni needs to go back to a real man which would be Dirk

Oh, that option thing is a given because women also exercise it, heh heh so no surprise there. But since the other poster was sure that his deathless and undying love would be demonstrated 24/7 so he’d never miss Valentine’s Day, it’s clear that’s not the case – “male option” or not. .But I do think that Brad is more clueless and has a greater dorkiness factor than the average guy – largely because it’s a comic, his failings have to be hyperbolic for Greg to be able to play off them.

he even missed white chocolate day…. bad brad….

I hope everyone that were whining about no Brad and Toni, so there!.I have to wonder what’s going to happen next and “Where’s Toni?”

Your every word speaks for me today. My only regret is that I didn’t say them. Will say this: I would have rather faced up to a rabid large animal barehanded (have really done that), than deal with conflicts with my Mother or ex-wife or any other woman. Can’t use physical force, and a man will never win a game of words with a woman.

TJ looks chagrined (does that mean he lost his grin?) that Brad forgot Toni on Valentine Day. It’s a stretch that Brad forgot – as somebody mentioned, it gets a whale of a lot of advertising – the chocolate, flower and card vendors can’t bear to have us forget!

Hey, hey, now let’s be fair. Brad’s never been involved before, it takes a while to get “up to speed.”

Still it’s gonna be fun watching him try to “make up for it.”

That is what I call a reach of epic proportions. Valentine’s Day is literally shoved down men’s throats and it is an obligation if you are in a relationship. If Brad lhas not talked to Toni in over 2 weeks then without her dropping hints then Toni has found someone else by then. (Dirk?)

I take it she didn’t give him anything for Valentine’s day either, so what’s the big deal?