Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 26, 2019

in one ear and out the other

Tiff, do you need Gunther to help you do the math? Ouch!

And she graduated from high school into Moony? Not that surprising, though. I taught community college and most kids did not know how to do a paper, less write proper grammar or give a relevant persuasion – they just wrote illogical papers. They even wrote, "Like, blah, blah. Right? So, blah, blah. OMG. They will graduate anybody these days.

Can she REALLY be that dense??

Talk about clueless!!!!

Such a stupid end to this whole story.

No! Terrible – making her pathetic when I want to see Ann eaten by rats.

What she really needs is a cat scan

Get that cardboard box ready for her to live in by the time this is over …

What’s with the big No. 1 on the wall?

Good Grief!!! When does Greg get to the part where someone shoves bamboo under her DaySpa manicured nails?

I thought this was the Luann comic strip. Not the comic book version of “50 Shades of Sadism!” This is becoming just a tad sick.

Tiff if he cutting your hours you can forget the raise.

Reality, Gravity’s heartless sister.

As much as I enjoy Tiffany, I’m beginning to feel sorry for her. Judging from the prolonged siege that her misogynistic creator has been waging against her, she ought to be given a leave or vacation time like Rosa, or Crystal, or Delta. It’s getting scary. Every time Tiffany appears, Greg finds a new way to beat her down.

Okay, now I’m disappointed. I have been a loyal reader for sometime now. And I liked the direction Tiffany’s character was going. The depression arc. The discovering her father is dating the worst character in the strip. Even worse than her son, or Toni’s abusive ex, because they had least had some form of redemption. And coming through the episode, while not the most mature and well-being person, had shown definite signs of development. Even though ‘she’ is still in the picture. But then, they made this episode. Now I, like everyone else saw the " We have to make layoffs" scene coming. But did they have to give her that reaction? Right now, she’s back in highschool. As the vapid pageant girl who thinks she’s popular. But actually has everyone making fun of how stupid she is behind her back. A shocked “What!?”, or a “Should I break the bad news to LuAnn?” quip would have been funny. But this is a serious leap backwards.

The way this comic is going, Ann is probably diddling him too.

How about a clue?

For some insight into Karen’s and Greg’s thinking, see this interview from last November: https://starsandcelebs.com/2018/11/interview-greg-evans-creator-of-comic-strip-luann/

There’s a very simple solution. Tiffany can offer to work one quarter of the hours for twice the hourly rate. She will get a raise, and he’ll be in the same spot as he offered money wise. She’ll just have to do nothing twice as fast.

Seriously, Greg has screwed her over again. I sure hope he’s getting whatever sadistic thing he’s got going for her out of his system. I really am believing he’s drawing her in the image of someone who did him wrong or someone who jilted him at one time.

Tiffany, you’re wasting your time here, it’s time to move over to another strip where you’ll be appreciated.

Well, at least she stays focused.

Miss Oblivious.

Yuppers, she has no idea how this employment thing actually works.

A math whiz, she is not.

Who ever goes up to their boss with something like, “I’d like a raise.”

And “wrong way” it is.

Congratulations to the ones predicting Tiffany getting fired.

I thought a raise demand would not go over well considering that she does minor clerical tasks for a day care. Not usually considered a high paying job. Tiffany needs to go somewhere where her talents can be put to use. She knows makeup and fashion so something in the cosmetics or boutique line maybe. Maybe she can contact her friend in Paris who runs that lingerie line.

Sadly, it looks that way. Tiff’s time to grow up has come. We all do.

I hope Luann’s hours aren’t cut too. Luann actually works

What happened? For awhile it looked as if Tiffany was on the edge of taking charge of her life. Now she’s gone back to being the clueless ditz of old.

“A Titanic Raise”

“Your In-crease Has Wrinkles”

“Light Cabbage Sauté, With A Rueful Reduction”

“Whenever I Drain My Account, I Get A Sinking Feeling”

“A Cut, Below The Rest”

“An Addition To Your Subtraction”

“I Went To Push…But I Couldn’t Budget!”

“Bread And Surpluses”

or

“Not Having A Fund Time At All”

Only ‘Miss Farrell’ could mistake “Glad you’re here” as: “You’re special, to us!”, and utilize it as her ‘big opportunity’!

Poor thing is so clueless.

We need other forces at play here. Why isn’t all the fake Soufflé lingerie starting to fail and the duped customers rising up to file complaints or find out where the seller is. Would be a much better way to expose Ann. Just saying.

Poor Tiffany, when it rains it pours for her. Wonder if she could become a “full figure” model

Tiff’s dumb blonde behavior has been a source of humor but it’s getting old. Please, please, please let her use these current experiences to grow up. The fake lingerie episode showed how knowledgeable she is about clothing and style. She could easily make money helping other students with clothing and makeup and grow that into a business. She could join the drama department and get experience in stage makeup and costumes. She could do a lot of things and still be funny, but she’s too old to be so dumb.

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With the inane response Greg has given Tiffany in the last panel…. her character has gone completely into the “Jumping the Shark” realm.

It has been a truly frustrating and unfunny turn of events here these last two weeks for me as a reader. At this point, if this is to be Tiffany’s new behavior (regression to being more of an airhead than she was at 15)…. I would rather have her character volcano-ized like that one character, or sent to gather sticks with Rosa.

Seems lately, Tiffany has been possessed by the spirit of Peter Griffin.

So much for growth and maturity. Tiffany seems more clueless than ever these days. Ann may be inadvertently helping her to grow as a person even though her real objective is to steal all Tiffany and her dad’s money.

Hopefully, what G & K are doing is setting TIff up such that she has to make some hard choices… kowtow to Ann (via her father), or reject them both and go truly ‘on her own…" and risk not finishing her college education. I vote she does the latter. It will be hard, but the rewards will be much greater. This is a true toxic relationship she’s having with her father. She needs to break free from it. She needs to become her own person. Hopefully, people like Gunther can help her, but we’ll see. But make the move, Tiff. Go for it!

it must be wonderful going through life with such a complete lack of awareness.

So…is the Lincoln Elementary Yearbook called….“The Log”?

I dub thee Tiffany!

time for tiff to get daddys attention by going bad

There is NO humor in the Tiffany arc; or hilarity as luann1212 puts it. Tiffany’s cluelessness could be humorous in a way but G&K aren’t pulling it off at all. The reason it doesn’t work is that the Tiffany character isn’t innocently clueless. She has often been depicted ad conniving and mean-hearted. I thought she was being transformed in the early Gunther field trip episodes but is never came to be.

By innocent, tragedy prone humorous characters, consider “I Love Lucy” or “My Friend Irma.”

Ignorance is bliss

Of course I scan other comments on this arc, as I keep saying I should not,but then I am not always awake at the time this blog becomes available in CST, but given that I just want to say that being totally despairing of how the arc is going, and wanting to stop reading the strip because of how it is going is overreaction. First of all, Greg and Karen are masters at misdirection. You never can be very sure where they are going to take their characters next, and that is really true with Tiffany. This panel is just part of a long-term, long-lasting comedic, quasi-dramatic story of her life and transition into independent adulthood. it will take a long time, and will come about in hilarity ensuing kinds of ways, but in the long run she will be okay, and will learn a lot about life. So don’t give up on Tiffany, laugh at the situations she gets herself into, she is a drawing after all. But Tiff is a major character in Luannverse, so I counsel, go with the flow.

A perfect arc for this character. She is being true to her personality, as we’ve come to understand it, and life’s lessons are coming.

When Greg Evans pays attention to his characters, he really shines.

160 comments as of 9:12 MST. I guess that’s a typical day. Good shot at 200 comments before the day is out; possible shot at 300 (but not looking good).

Surprise one: Her efforts having been declared as “minimal,” she is kept at reduced hours, rather than given the sack (as many, myself included, may have predicted).

Surprise two: (Earlier this week) – her going to Bernice when, not-so-long-ago, she refused to receive any of her female friends – Bernice, Dez, or Luann. At that time, the only one that would do was Gunther – whom she has dumped once again in favor of criminal Les.

Some of this is predictable; someone pointed out above, and I like to point out not infrequently, that Tiffany once was the strip’s only villain, and to some extent, this is simply Karma.

So in light of these new developments, does this suddenly make Ann E. the voice of reason? Somehow, two wrongs still don’t seem to make a right…..

The art of the deal…

Class, can you say, brain dead?

“Hmmm. How about a NO? ”

In many respects we are seeing the destruction of Tiffany. Her strengths in the past have been her looks and her family wealth and now both have been removed by the author. She doesn’t have a work ethic or academic excellence to fall back on, so unless the author is moving in the direction where she develops either of those things, then we are headed into a situation where either she has to be rescued by someone who does OR Tiffany learns to play her father by ways that don’t involve whining about how awful Ann Eiffel is.

I know the popular opinion is " Tiffany so stupid Ha Ha!" but frankly, I think Papa Tom should be right next to her for all of this. He gave her a credit card at 10 years old and taught her nothing about money. If Tiffany gets an F in Life Skills, her dad gets an F- in Parenting. It’s like giving your kid a million dollar loan to start his first company.

She was smarter when she was fat. The skinnier she is, the dumber and shallower she becomes.

There must be a Gunther-Tiffany hookup in the offing. Only these two star-crossed “losers” could find solace in one another; as was demonstrated in the now dim past.

With all the changes in this strip over the last few years, Tiffany remains just as clueless as before.

dumb blonde joke here

Just like a millennial…HA!!

Maybe Tiffany now will ask to go back to work with the children … It wouldn’t be bad.

She’ll probably get fired then Luann will do both jobs.

tomorrow: Shannon and Puddles plot revenge.

Possible Miracle – Gunther & Tiff decide to postpone college and go into the fashion design business. Tiff designs them and Gunther makes them. And yes they become an item. Talk about two people that need a break…

well Tiff, looks like you’ll have to cut out the maid service.

He’s noticed that she doens’t actually do anything resembling Work.

Welcome to the world of not always getting what you want Tiff.

Tiffany would be great in sales. She would keep pushing after the customer said No. She would make a lot of money in sales.

Talk about clueless…

What we have here is a failure to communicate. He is wishy-washy (like that round-headed kid). Tiffany is plucky, and single-minded (take that how you will)….

Welcome to the real world , sweetie…

This strip should be called, “One step forward, and two steps back.” The only one that has grown is Brad, and Toni for ditching the bad boy for him.

Omg, Life needs to slap her harder so she stops being so stupid

What an airhead.

Tiff just needs to find herself a sugar daddy.

I hate that Greg makes her and many of the women in this strip out to be idiot bimbos

It took Tiffany’s supervisor many years to discover that she was lazy and didn’t do a lick of work!