Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 28, 2018

Jack said to pump the blood, Tiffany, not the lovesick heart.

Tiff is all in!!!!

Can someone go get Tiffany a Gatorade? Because that girl is thirsty.

Luann just said that Jack is no one’s boyfriend. Now, Tiffany can ask him if he would like to go out. Ok, Greg, let this be the chance your perpetual underdog needs.

I guess she’s still the same old Tiffany after all.

Jack is here to make the kids Fit. Tiffany’s here to give Luann FITS.

They will never fit in.

This show is sleazier than freakin’ Night Court back in the day with the double entendres sometimes.

so let me get this straight. DID RINGO CHANGE GENDER? Seems all previous posts are GONE, and now the new TEAFANNY ‘fishnet-dragger’ is here constantly making inane Tiffany pronouncements.

Luann invited Jack and this is Luann’s show. Tiffany jumping in to participate is not cool. Tiffany should say bye bye to everybody and proceed to her office or whatever. Tiff has dated Jack – so she has his phone number, etc.

Miniature Bernice seems to be definitely for the Tiffany-Jack team.

@Trilogy: You got it…

I don’t care what anyone else says, Tiffany is slimmer I this strip. Just being around Jack seems to be working wonders.

His shirt’s logo is very difficult to read… “fit up”, I think?

I sure hope Greg is not planning some sort of Luann based Muppet Babies spin-off.

So far there is a Miniature Bernice which stands out and extremely obvious.

But there is also a miniature Brad, Gunther, and the silhouetted kid in front Tiff in the first panel could be a miniature Delta.

Miss Tiffany needs to make sure all of her vaccinations are up to date.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. G+K’s way of putiing across the point. Guess irking Luann is second nature to Tiff, and this arc just tells us she’s well on her way back to “normal”.

Out of the mouths of babes….

Tiffany definitely wants to feel the burn!

Tiffany knows she just won. Not that Luann really wanted Jack but now Tiffany can go after him, just to show Luann how she can get any man she wants and that Luann is just a lonely loser.

Luann start to be jealous. This may be the occasion for her to think really if she like Jack like a friend or more. And Jack looks totally clueless about Tiffany.

This just in from Mrs. Horner to Tiff: “suck it up, buttercup!”

He’s GONNA be someone’s boyfriend.

Look at Tiff face in last panel. She’s imagining blood pumping inside an organ, that’s for sure.

You know I think the idea that a male and female college students can be friends is being explored here, although I also think Jack might have feelings for Luann. Tiffany is a normal, young woman and is attractd to Mr. Man. Of course that aggravates Luann. How far that aggravation goes remains to be seen. And precisely why.

Tiffany’s new personal trainer.

“Can You Handle All The Shipping?”

“A Mix Of Gym And Pla-tonic”

“Fit As A Fickle”

or

“The Friends Justify The Meanings”

Ahh Luann, thou doth protest too much!

Okay just an observation here. “Folks” have been DEMANDING that Luann spend more time in her own Strip. Actually, they got their wish the first of the the year, with the “Luann paints her room,” Arc. And Yet they complained. Then they got the “Dog Park Arc.” “Folks” complained again. Now We got Luann back once more doing what SHE and Tiffany have ALWAYS done and done BEST: Pointlessly COMPETE over some Guy. THAT is what they did all through high school. That’s what they are ABOUT to do now. That’s what kept Luann the “Star” of her Strip until her brother, Brad DeGroot, Upstaged her 17 years ago.

And “How” did Brad do that? Because Greg decided to make a Positive and PERMANENT change in Brads Physical Appearance and Personality, introduced a NEW CHARACTER (Toni Daytona) that the majority of the fans LIKED, and he put Brad in an Temporary situation where He was the underdog and fans ROOTED for him. And Brad WON. “Put a character thru Hell, but get Him (or Her) OUT of it and let him (or Her) WIN.” It’s a “Formula” that WORKED. It’s a “Formula” that SHOULD be used again and not just with My favorite Nerd, Gunther. But it Should START with him. Tiffany SHOULD Win. Gunther SHOULD Win. Tiffany and Gunther SHOULD WIN EACH OTHER. Al least for a while.

Daily Rant Out. We Now Return You to Our Regularly Scheduled Cat Fight.

#FREEGB!!!

Tiff to Luann: “Gotcha!”

I don’t understand why Luann is so invested in Jack. He’s not her ideal. she wants a hunk who is a complete nerd. Much like the Doctor. (Doctor Who Reference for anyone who doesn’t understand.)

2

Oh well.

While technically drawn well and scripted tightly…. today’s effort leaves me flat. It feels (to me) like a total retread of the same thing we have seen between Luann and Tiffany numerous times. Hopefully tomorrow it will migrate in some fashion so there is a new twist to how this is progressing.

Yes, Tiff look at those muscles, you used to have them too.

Careful with that ‘blood pumpin’ thing" now, Tiff. If your left arm starts hurting, see a doctor!!

I have to agree with Pipe T.’s above comment. As David Byrne of the Talking Heads sang, “Same as it ever was…!”

Is it just me? One way to read Jack’s shirt is “FIT UP.” Another is “F it up.”

And on Jack’s shirt is a subtle message from the writers to the people who comment on this comic.

Somebody cue-up the Olivia Newton-John…

Let’s get physical, physical

I wanna get physical, let’s get into physical

Let me hear your body talk, your body talk

Let me hear your body talk

Hey, people?

I noticed that all of the “flag” buttons are missing. Anyone know why?

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Greg and Daughter would comment on here once in awhile?

We know that Jack works for his Dad’s cleaning company. Does he also work as a fitness trainer, or is this just a personal activity of his?

I wonder if Jack is going to be a recurring character at this school where Luann and Tiff work. Tiff looks like she is working on Jack – she will probably try to get her hooks in him like she did with Quilly during the summer play. Some things never change.

Don’t knock the new Tiff. She’s got thighs that could crush a water melon.

I think a good trend would be for Tiff to do the exercises with Jack and the kids. She trims down to the way she once looked and is bored with Jack and dumps him. Jack then turns to Luann for solace.

With Tiffany’s new found self love, we may be in store for a deluxe version of her former self. Time will tell.

Where Ferrell is concerned, Luann has always has a ridiculously fragile ego, and never more so than here. Allowing herself to be distracted into peevishly making an irrelevant declaration on the guest’s relationship status, instead of ignoring it and saying “I don’t know” or “I’m sure he is.”

Moreover, since Luann does not appear to be romantically interested in Jack, she should have no objection whatsoever to Tiffany flirting with him. Jack is a rather obvious choice to date Tiffany, not that he seems to actually notice her flirting.

I appreciate the Evanses’ idealistic depiction of kindergartners, even if it’s probably not grounded in reality. I haven’t been around kindergartners since being one of them a few decades ago, but I’m guessing you would have to go to another reality to find an entire classroom full of five-year-olds trained to address adults as Mister/Miss.

Wonder what kind of exercises Jack will teach the kids?

@Schrodinger’s Dog: How about ‘jumping to conclusions’?

Didn’t it used to be Kidz 1st?

@lonesomepoint: Just recently, there was a national case of a young boy who was reprimanded by his teacher for repeatedly calling her ’ma’am’ (as he’d been taught by his parents to address a woman, but the teacher had asked him not to), and he was required to write the word over and over again on a paper as a punishment. His mother met with the school principal and the teacher, and presented the definition of ’ma’am’, written by her son. The mother requested that her son be assigned to a different homeroom teacher, and the principal agreed…

Tiff is being a ‘Bird Dog’, as done by the Everly Brothers: http://www.metrolyrics.com/bird-dog-lyrics-everly-brothers.html

Not in front of the children Tiff.

Good to see Tiffany back

Would young children really ask these types of questions? I don’t remember my kids noticing romantic pairings of anyone when they were young.

Today’s incentive: Mr. Jack, to get Miss Tiffany’s blood pumping to the point where she finally works at losing some excess pounds….

Besides hardly being a “slut,” Tiffany comes out of this strip looking fairly restrained and frankly more dignified than Luann. Arguably, no “flirting” actually occurred here. All Tiffany did was smile dreamily and say “okay” when Jack made a statement that may have referred to exercise. Basically, she acted as though Jack flirted with her, and many seem to think that constitutes her flirting with him.

The character who comes out looking good here is Jack. He’s not clearly doing anything except encouraging the kids to exercise. Meanwhile, Luann is behaving petulantly while Tiffany is inappropriately fawning over a man in front of kindergartners.

Jack makes Tiffany’s heart go pit-a-pat! Well! Remember Luann blushing when Jack turned up as a life model in an art class? I once read that blushing was “secret pleasure.” If so, LuAnn’s heart skipped a few beat over Jack also. So what’s the heartburn (pun intended) over Tiff?

The exercise “jumping jacks” takes on strange connotations at this point. :o)

Mission accomplished. Blood pumping big time.