Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 18, 2013

Who cares?

This strip reminds me of a line from an old song, “Gee, But I’d Give The World To See That Old Gang Of Mine.”

“But, Seriously”“All We Are Is 2 Dimensional Dust In The Wind”“One Of These Kids Is Not Like The Others…”“Tryin To Belong”“Leaving Pitts Is Overrated, Anyway”Or “You Wana Go Where Not Everybody Knows Your Na-ame….”

I see you never bought that vowel.

They’ve moved on already.

Bernice lets us know (1) that Moony Uni is “across town”, so it’s in Pitt, and (2) even so, she will be staying in a dorm room instead of in her parents’ house. Will Luann be the only cast member still living at home next year, or will Gunther continue living with Mom (for the next 45 years)?

I’m just visiting. I hang out now mostly at Andy Capp.

At least Luann and Bernice can still hang together? She’s just across town. We need to continue this to see where everyone goes.

“Sponsored” by….the Greater Ecuadorian Banana Promotion Council, Galapagos Turtle Farm and Macaroni Lovers’ Club… “Bananas… you’d be crazy to not love ’em!”…. – Washington DC Tourism Board… “You’re welcome to visit….We have cookies!”… – and by…the Greater Pitts Area Domestic Re-investment Plan…. “Go ahead and go!… That just means more soda and pie for the rest of us!”…

Ecuador? Where does that leave poor Gunther? :Lets see how this develops on that relationship.

It will be interesting to see what Gunther does.

All of them are setting the first stanza for their version of Glory Days song. Hope they grow and add better more interesting stanzas.

And you wanna talk about others’ comments?….

I hope these girls remember that they still have most of their senior year of high school to finish first. If they start ignoring the present by becoming preoccupied with the future, this could be a rough year.

Postcards? Does this strip take place in an alternate timeline where the Internet and social networks haven’t been invented yet?

Heard that one, “from down under”, if you will… – It could still continue… just minus a couple of people… -Unless they do it, “Survivor” style….

Has the iGeneration (I think that’s what today’s teens are called) ever even HEARD of postcards that aren’t e-cards?

We don’t know that Bernice won’t still live at home. Moonie, could be the Jr College that Luann is going to.

I bet that none of them leave town though. See ya in 10 years!

@seismic Their Senior is already half over. Some students do graduate early.

You are disgusting! Go look for your porn elsewhere!

PS: I have flagged your comment!

You can stop anytime. Being first means nothing, especially if you make no comment on the strip.

Time to sing “Olde Lang Syne”?

Leaving the nest is never easy, as they shall soon learn.

get a life

Please don’t buy two i’s! It would look funny to see your name Bridishtt!

Why flag someone for saying first? We all have different levels of maturity. It is the poor taste ones which should be flagged (or never posted in the first place)

WC, head, bog, throne, loo, porcelain god, john, terlet, etc. Someone buggin’ you about which name to use?

I forgot one Quill might be familiar with: the thunder box.L

And yet another he would know: “Dunny”

And, yet again, Denise with the Snark! :-)

As @seismic-2 says, we now have an idea as to the location of Moony Uni. So it isn’t all that far away, and at least some of the kids can still band together at a common gathering place… maybe WW or some similar eatery. I guess we’ll see.

Does anyone get the feeling, though, that this “OMG, we’re graduating… What will we do now?” discussion is a bit pre-mature for this group? I’d have thought there could be more discussed in re: their senior year, completing requirements, how college applications/interviews are going, etc… This seems more like a discussion you might have later on in the year after all that other stuff is done.

I’m just wondering what Greg/Karen may have in store for us in the shorter term that would mandate this kind of discussion immediately, as opposed to other things that make more sense to discuss presently.

@Rosa – Please take Gunther with you. He needs and wants to get out from under mom.

Yeah, the whole topic of conversation around the time of the pool party was that their upcoming senior year would be really great because they would rule the roost at school and have a great time, but since then their senior year at school has been largely ignored in favor of Bernice’s job at school, Luann and Tiffany’s job after school, quill and Gunther at home, and especially looking ahead to what happens next year. It’s as if their current school year is just an afterthought.

So. Lovely Rosa is turning Her back on an Ivy League Education and Opting to Help the Poor and Downtrodden in Ecuador, Eh?

Very, VERY Noble. And Unless He Follows Her Down There, Most Opportune, For Gunther.

That Is, Unless Greg Evans decides to Write Him, Out of the Strip, too.

In Which Case Some of Us May feel Compelled to Camp Out on Greg’s Front Lawn in Protest, Singing Gaw-Awful “Folk Songs” and Throwing Frisbee, until Gunther Returns, So Be WARNED!

Say. Any More (HIC) “Eggnog” Left????

Can we go back to Luann and Quill arguing?

z-z-z-z-z-z- snoooooze……BORING

I’m with Luann on this. Aging and maturing in the comics is rare enough, and when done well, keeps things fresh. I’m sure this strip will pull it off with aplumb. Still, I enjoy reading about this particular group and those few postcards are gonna be bittersweet reminders of how it was. But, life (even comic strip life) goes on!

What is that Luann has around her neck. Looks to me like a crescent moon. Is Luann joining Islam?

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This joke is getting way too old….

first!

And I might add it looks like Greg/Karen are planting the seeds of the end of the strip. Good news all around!

- You aren’t first on my computer, nor in the hearts of your fellow comic readers. If this comic annoys you, no one is forcing you to read it.- And when you leave, you can take the boring and nasty Mr." Peterson" (appropriate screen name) with you. Really good news all around….

If Moony Uni is only across town why all the dramatics with Quill? And why didn’t Quill just say he will still be near to calm her down? Oh, this just came to mind, Tiff will still be close also, I’m sensing more “acting” hi-jinx’s in the future at Moony Uni.

12 years of self-centeredness gone – just like that!

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Really? You’ve cleaned up your act, after 12 years? Congratulations!

To borrow a phrase;“Make new friends and keep the old,One is silver and the other gold!”

Better to flag a troll like Mr. Peterson. He deserves it in spades. Or clubs or hearts.

-I did flag that poster, and I’m sure others did, too. How many ‘flags’ does it take till a posting is removed? This one is particularly disgusting, but it’s still there. He definitely deserves it in spades and deserves to BE clubbed. But doesn’t deserve any hearts, since he hasn’t one….

Do you realize that you are letting a teenaged girl, who probably has braces, zits, and awkward limbs, irritate you and ruin your day by just posting a word? Honestly, I’m ROTFL, and I’m not even Belinda.

Your days must always be very bad if you’re letting this bother you. Does being in a too long line at the supermarket ruin your day as well?

“Bernice is hinting, after high school, she won’t be in touch with her current friends.”-I don’t get that at all. I’m seeing that she is bummed about staying in Pittsville. Perhaps her family can’t afford to send her out of town. And here is where Quill is happy to go. But for him it is halfway around the world. Wouldn’t it be fun for Bernice if she could stay at Quill house and go to school in Australia?

BoomerangAs you well know

Let’s not get ahead of the story here. Rosa is not yet in the Peace Corps, much less Ecuador; Delta has yet to apply to Howard, much less be admitted and able to afford D.C. And good old Bernice will still be in town, just living (sensibly) on-campus and enjoying the MU social world. There’s still a long way for all of these young ladies to go before they split up….

You fools. You’re wishing yourself into a job you hate, mortgage payments, student loan paymens, and a bunch of other adult crap. Enjoy it while you can!

To me, Moony Uni would be the University of Bridgeport, for the followers of the Rev. Sun Yung Moon. otherwise, what is she referring to?

Hate to break it to Greg but you have to be a college grad to get into the Peace Corps.

Luann has been what, 26 years a strip where she never really grew up and now with all the fast forwarding, she’ll be graduating and attending college? I’m not sure I want to see these kids become adults! What the hell’s the point in that? Another boring Funky Winkerbean?

Soooo…according to Bernice’s comment, Moony Uni is just across town.So why is Luann, with her own car, unhappy about Quill going there?Heck, she can drive him.

What a drama queen; Moony U is just across town? from the hissy fits Luann’s been throwing, I thought it was at least three states away. Someone needs to grow up.

> Already have tomorrow’s quip ready.>Post it now, and then you can post another message claiming to be “Pre-First!”

Perhaps I can get the stop command in before next years necklace comments start

Well, I can only hope….

Why would Quill be able to move into a dorm with Bernice?He’s only working at Moony Uni during the winter break, he hasn’t even applied, yet Bernice has at least a pending scholarship.Besides, he can save on room and board by staying on at Gunther’s should he actually be accepted, and a twenty mile commute is nothing.

Looks like we succeeded, I think that post is gone. But so is the one from the little girl who posted first….

So Moony Uni is “across town”. Berni is staying in town but in a dorm room, and Quill is staying at Gunth’s and going to Moony. Luann is staying in town and going to CC.

By “Break the chains! See the world!”, Bernice apparently means “See anyone other than you people, whom I hope never to see again,” since she’s going to be moving into a dormitory even though she’s attending a 4-year college on the other side of town. Clearly she hopes to start hanging out with a new (better) crowd once she starts at Moony Uni.

Of course Moony will not put Quill and Bernice in the same room, but just imagine how excited Luann would be if it happened.

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I’m surprised that you didn’t say ‘just imagine how excited Bernice wouldl be if it happened’, since she is the one you really follow….

Oops, it looks like someone made a silly mistake and deleted my first comment. Here, I’ll post it again in case anybody missed it: first!

Show of hands.Who believes Evans is going to pull a Funky Winkerbean and have Luann’s senior “year” unfold in real time?

Once they become, to put it gently, ‘legal’, there can be all sorts of intersting things happen.

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I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but my feeling has been that Evans wants this comic to stay as ‘G’ rated as possible.

I would be the only one with any comments on the board since I never annoy anyone.

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LOL!!!!!!!!

One hundred, twenty-sixth!

She should have been like me, if you don’t get close to people you can’t miss people.

lol, he was responding to the “First” poster, whose post was scrubbed. Makes his post look a lot different now, though!

And you miss a lot. I know.

Shyguy

The challenge is to post last. -Yes, and how is that working for you?

As long as it is not annoying

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’Course not….

Good plan.

Redoubled, vulnerable and down 7!

Looks like the girlfriends Will be scattered to the four winds… I was surprised that Rosa was going to go to Ecuador first, and attend college later. Hmmm, perhaps she’ll meet her special man there… Delta’s pick of Howard University is really a great pick as she’ll have so many opportunities to shine there. Why Bernice is going to have a dorm room instead of being a commuting student from her own town is puzzling. A dorm room costs a Lot of money…she Will have to get a full ride. Good for Luann…often it is best to attend a community college first, and so be better prepared for the intense learning curve that happens during one’s junior and senior years. Also, she will have more clarity as to what her gifts and desires Actually are… ;)

Actually, try a third of the time… I have been known to post last, as well….. I haven’t done it, recently, but I have done it a good share..

It’s still too early to do it….

And you know it will go on for days…

looks like Greg is setting this strip to end soon. Thats why he"s even running Luann Again for the back end residuals

True……

Won Seven D…..

Where do we go from here?…

Just a note to the cartoonist: unless things have changed since I applied to the Peace Corps, you have to have a college degree to join.

The strip keeps leaving out Kindergarten. 13 years.