Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 03, 2023

Awww.. Shannon is back. And her tooth grew in.

She’s definitely growing up. Brad looks like his hat is missing a propeller. lol

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So who’s ready for tomorrow’s steel cage death match between Tiff and Stef? ;)

She’s more intelligible than some adults

If the Evanses want to shake up the strip they might look to make the Sunday strip actually interesting. The Sunday strip has two to three times the real estate of the daily strip. So why waste it on a two panel gag? It would be easy to fit six or eight panels there, enough to run a fair amount of story. Run short stories of three or weeks duration on the Sunday pages. Use characters not featured in the daily strips, like Luann, or Ox, Dez, Leslie, Toni and Brad or Shannon. If Shannon is six she should be in 1st grade. There’s plenty of stories right there,. Don’t leave Sundays as the lamest of the lame.

Toni still has a lot to learn about Brad the kid, rather than Brad the man.

The CIA should hire Shannon to encode secret transmissions into her version of gibberish.

I’m thinking this is not just excited-speak. I’m thinkingthis is so-high-on-sugar-speak.

Meanwhile, Jonah—sorry to break it to you—probably has a job somewhere.

you are a great uncle Bwad!

Yikes?

I empathize. I have a really, REALLY hard time understanding children when they talk.

I’m sure ill get a lot of flack for this but imo, the whole Shannon character has added nothing to the strip. Evans has done nothing with her deadbeat dads situation in years nor does he have Shannon do anything else but be a brat and probably just uses her character for filler when he cant think of anything else to do.

So happy little Shannon had fun at the county fair. She’s a great kid.

C’mon, Brad, bang a gong!

Koo-koo-kachew!

Toni you have been missed your niece not so much.

Angus swat? And guess what!

It all made perfect sense to me other than when Brad went to talking but that’s okay.

A sugar high too maybe, after eating cotton candy and a waffle cone (those can be big).

I love Generation Alpha slang.

Hells she talks like I type

Greg musta been watching my comments here

Why is Shannon baby-talking again?? Kids don’t revert to that once it’s been outgrown.

Looks like they brought in Mumbles from Dick Tracy as a consultant for today’s strip.

I figured out most of that but what’s an angus swat?

How cute is that plush walrus! Seeing Shannon so happy is really nice, Brad really knows how to be a fantastic father figure and has a lot of fun with Shannon and joking with Toni. I’ve always loved it when characters speak using slang, you always learn something new. Maybe it’s just an impression, but it seems to me that Shannon looks less childish than usual. She’s slowly growing up.

Mebbe Greg’ll start selling that plush walrus along with th novellas

She sounds like she’s wearing a retainer for the first time.

Brad looks like he put on a little weight. May be the drawing though

So who’s ready for tomorrow’s three-way between Kip and Tiff and Stef? LOL LOL

Tomorrow

“Will Stef be going,”

“To Shann-Fran-Cisco?”

“Before Ms Tiffany, Rips OUT all her hair?”

“Stef might need HELP, from Captain Cisco.”

“Because He too, has misplaced all his hair.” – Scott McKenzie

Let’s check in on the boring couple.

And Jonah is nowhere to be found, as usual.

At first I thought she was speaking Doric.

Will Tiffany manage to remain “refined”?

Just watched the movie “Tusk” and will never look at a walrus the same…

Should, be interesting ?

Brad hit a gong? Marc Bolan would be pleased.

Aw, I thought it was a cute Sunday strip.

Great to see Shannon so happy!

Jamie Hyneman!

YESSSSS!! The Return of Tawny Tattooed ❤️Toni!! A Count Fave Bae! FAR too good for that Hedgehog Head Loser. And the much mouth little kid needs kicked in the slats.BUT… as even the lowliest of lowly unworthiest of unworthies can see, Tawny Tattooed❤️Toni is on her laptop booking a flight on a private jet to Paris on Bread’s Visa, to join… Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel and the other Hawt ❤️Eiffelettes in Paris for the Shoog Daddy season. You can bet your booty, Rudy, that Tattooed❤️Toni will reel in a record breaker, boy howdy, and dump that dork. What an Ann❤️Eiffel Day, boy howdy! So with that, lowly unworthies… The Count is outta here for the day. BUT no need to worry lowly unworthies. Our Hero, Yrs Trly The❤️Count will be back tomorrow, Labor Day, same time, same station for more mirth and the Wisdom of Ann❤️Eiffel, you lucky stiffs. TTFN and… see you in church… put a little extra in the collection plate and say a prayer for those in Florida and Hawai’i. Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day. Count…OUT!

The county fair is a fond memory.

LOL, I had to read Shannon’s verbiage twice to decipher what she said.

In WW2, there were the Navajo codetalkers. Nowadays, trying to understand toddler is just as bad.

Must be the diabetes talking

Maybe Brad and Toni will have their own Shannon someday. But even if they don’t, they’ll always be Shannon’s favorite babysitters

No problem. Shannon is just retarded, we all have known this for a long time.

Justice for the Beach Boys’ County Fair song 61 years after the fact. Look it up. It’s worth the effort….

Sounds like she is wearing teeth braces.

Tomorrow Greg changes arcs. He always does.

Hey! Anyone notice that along with all the garbled speech Shannon pronounced it “BRAD” instead of “BWAD”?

I’ve been reading Luann consistently for about eight years now and even occasionally when I was a child. There’s something that I’ve never quite figured out, but always wondered. Why do cartoonists have to take a break from the regular story on Sundays?

At least it’s a break from “teens are terrible, as Luann will now demonstrate.”

AWWWWWWW

Lots of Gezzers and Gezzets will be waiting until tomorrows tunew turns arund midnight, me included (lol)

One more comment, major plot misdirection about to slap people in the face; you’ve been warned.

What did Brad feed her before going home? Half a jar of peanut butter?

Why isn’t her father making these memories with her? I’m glad she has a caring Uncle Bwad.

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” made more sense than most of the dialogue in today’s strip.

Not really sure how old she’s supposed to be, but she really needs speech therapy. Took my oldest son at about age 5 or 6. Took about 6 weeks to correct it. That’s about the same age I went thru the same therapy. Once he got straightened out, his younger brother (who had picked up the same patterns), straightened himself out by parroting his brother’s corrected speech.

I’m ecstatic! My daughter’s ex has been sending me pictures and videos of my grand children. #overthemoon

I hope I can meet them sometime soon (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Brad looks fat and frumpy. When did he age 30 years?

When did Shannon turn 3?

Why is this funny?

So adorable!

Toni understood Shannon perfectly.

The little girl just had the best day of her life and needs to tell Aunt Toni about it…ALL AT ONCE! Toni (and I) couldn’t hear all the details, but today was unbelievable!

And Brad agrees.

Yeah me too.

tomorrow: who rides the baggage carrousel.?

Send sixteen dollars to the writers to read about the fair.

Oh, look — Shannon won a “Greg 9-4” balloon! d;o)

This is what my 4 1/2 year old grandson sounds like most of the time. Oddly, when he really wants to make a point he can speak clearly.

Sounds like my little sisters did. No commas, no periods, no spaces.

so who will end up with Kip at the end of the week?

This one is absolutely adorable! Thanks, Greg and Karen!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Gong or a bong, Brad?

Not just Shannon, the Annoying Brat, but also Brad, the mostly-grown up husband, when excited by the fair doings try to speak too rapidly and loudly and slur their speech and blur their articulation. How long will Toni put up with this stuff?

At least Brad didn’t come out Bwad.

Shannon’s WAY too old to talk wike thish.