Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 27, 2014

it’s a start if you ask me; keep it up, lassies

One is eleven in Jr. High? ;)

“Inception”“To The Beat Of Your Own Humdrum”“A Prosaic Mosaic”“Once Upon A Mid-day Dreary”“Monkey See….”“Coffee, Tedium, Or Medium Size?

or“A Day In The Life” (♫)

“I guess this kind of like drinking coffee…” ^Yup!

So, this must be pre-Puddles? ;)

I’m sad that Puddles isn’t there yet…its what makes it more fun

It would’ve been nice to see Bern “get her first one in”…oh, wait- maybe “This is boring" was her first shot”…

How many people are hoping that next week will be “Luann’s 18th Birthday Memory Book: Age 11”? I don’t know, but I’m definitely not one of them.

IS Katie has schlepped upstairs (and she’s not interested in those biscuits I made yesterday as they are “history!”). She likes to hang around my hub as long as he is awake (which he usually isn’t at this time of day). Anyway, I’d better go see what she is up to! Oh, before I forget…again!…Happy New Year to all of our Jewish friends! ’Nite all! ;)-————————————————————————-“Business first; pleasure afterwards.”(William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863)

Yes! In fact, this is when he came along…. –

Boring?Never stopped them before.

Jonathan has done a great job of drawing Luann, age 10. His characters are well-drawn and consistent, more so than some cartoonists whose works grace our newspapers each day! That said, I’m ready for the present-day stories to resume. It’s time for Luann and Quill to spend some time together, for us to meet Dez, for Luann to start digging into her classes, and of course, to find out what’s happening in Peru! Oh- and to start planning a wedding!

Nice! – Also, since they are perpetually “stuck in idle”…

Makes you wonder about when Charlie and Linus first started “hanging out” at the wall.. – Or better yet,who built Lucy’s “shrink stand”…..

Well, some here have all the books, etc. that they can use to help, and some have other “Luann materials”…I make use of some materials, but I don’t have the compilation books, and all…. – As for me, I usually have a “working timeline” in my memory for some events, and for the stuff I don’t remember, I use “reference notes/materials” (like articles, blogs, etc) to give me a general idea, and then I use the orange“calendar icon” up above to work “forwards or back” (sometimes leaping a few days or months or years)…..

I didn’t know Brad was female and viviparous.

Bored, Ladies?

Well Your Crazy Old Unca Mordo Got a Suggestion!

Get Some Hat Pins and Turn THOSE Dolls into Voo-Doo Dolls and Torment Tiffany or any other Gal that You HATE for Absolutely NO Reason. Keep it Up until Zuckerberg and Company Invents “Facebook.” NEXT……, WAIT a Second.

Did Somebody Mention COFFEE?!!?

I have enjoyed this strip for years, but I do not enjoy flashbacks, especially when they go on for days. Please stop.

OK, we’ve seen Mr. Upchurch’s art, and I feel he could maybe take over the drawing assignment for the strip someday (since the sad state of the newspaper comics industry nowadays is such that it is unlikely he could ever start up a successful new strip of his own). Now can we return to Luann at Pitt junior college and stay there? We’ve seen practically nothing of Luann’s new academic environment. We don’t even know what classes she’s taking (except that one of them is taught by a Mr. “Rain” somebody or other). We had years for little-kid Luann, and then we had the lengthy retrospective a few months ago when Fogarty retired. Can we therefore refrain from any more flashbacks for the next year or so?

He lies around, not lays around.

Being a teenage boy is harder than it looks.

“It can be heartbreaking to have a life-long companion treat you as a stranger and potential danger.”^Sadly, so true! And we become helpless, ourselves, as onlookers, as they become trapped, as it were, in a world they are experiencing gradually, each day…

Or a Bernice’s dorm “move in” flashback!…. (X^D)

If it should be Luann’s 11th birthday in this flashback, do we see her flashback to when she was 5? Maybe Mr. Upchurch has a nephew to draw it. Where will it all end?

Your brother lies around all day, Luann. Clearly, you haven’t been paying attention in English class. Well, no big whoop. You and Bernie just “lay” around all day and you’ll do just fine…. [BTW, in my time it was K; 1-8 grammar school; 9-12 high school.]

Cute………..good job this week, Mr. Upchurch.

@Dave53

You’ve got the picture Dave!

@ReallyBad2

Yeah

@Brdshtt

With Nancy having an ultrasound and finding out it is a girl.-or a boy…

Yawn

Yawn

Or 18 years and 9 months ago, when…

It all depends on the school district. My school was and still is K-8 with high school being 9-12. ~Then I grew up and moved to Medford, Oregon where there was no kindergarten in the public schools. If you wanted your child to go to Kindergarten, you paid some inexperienced person who decided they could teach at some church classroom. For the teenagers, Mid High was 9-10 grades, and Senior High was 11-12 grades. ~When my eldest child started public school, he went to a country school, Territorial Elementary, near Franklin, Oregon. It was grades one through four. Then they went to schools in Junction City where middle school was grades five through eight, and high school was grades 9-12. He visited there recently, and there are kindergartens in that school district now.

Mr. Upchurch did a better job on Luann’s nose and she and Bernice are actually cute. Unfortunately, they still don’t have lips. Tiffany does, but not Luann and Bernice.

Well, what much can be “drawn out” from today’s strip, “Much Ado About Nothing”? (probably should have used that one…) – And not much to ’milk out" of this one… sort of like a “day off” for us all….

You’ll get used to it.