Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 22, 2013

See? Not cool….

“I hear you knockin’, but you cant come in…. "

Naughty, Luann!! :P

NOT cute… at all!!

Ah, the things we dream of….

Not very smart, is she?

Way to GO, Lu.

Way to TREAT Your Parental Units with the UTMOST Disrespect.

If Mom and Pop Had ANY Lingering Sympathy for You NOT getting into this Summer’s “Drama Gulag” then THIS little Stunt just ERASED it.

Hope You ENJOYED That 20 minutes spent LOCKED in Your room because You’ll be spending a LOT of Time there this Summer.

ALONE.

This is probably part and parcel of that “doting thing:” that Frank was referring to…

Oh, Luann, stop playing hard-to-get with your parents. Sure you’ve missed your foreign lover, do you want to starve to death, get grounded and be forbidden to see Quill ever again?

when did luann get to be my dream girl

Can’t see where this is going—they can’t possibly be that stupid! See you all on Monday for the parental meltdown.

She is totally disrespecting her parents. Does she really think this will help her if she wants to spend time with Quill this summer? I see a grounding in her future and she has no one to blame but herself. Also disappointed that Quill is not telling her to get moving to the dinner table. If she were my daughter I would be TOTALLY P-Oed

Sign many death warrants Luann? Or is this your first one?

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I had thought so too, at first… sad thing now, if that WERE possible, the air is now fading out of that oxygen tank….

And it’s going to be especially awkward when the Guest-of -Honor’s name is being called upon (I realize that he’s a sporting sort of chap, but this doesn’t bode well for his “parental street cred”…) ….he’s older and was playing the “respect” card so well, up until now…==Are things REALLY that different in Austrailia? Ha ha!!

Oh Luann, you are a very brave soul. My dad was very scary when it came to me hanging out with guys in my room.

Brad shows up with a K-12… (Google it – or watch Emergency! reruns)

Oh Oh, just one week less now. grounded the first week . ouch.

For some parents, the response would be: “Yeah, hope you got a good look at his face for those 20 minutes… cos it will be so long before you see it again, you’ll have to rely on your memory”…

First of all, this situation doesn’t surprise me. Am sure Luann is misleading her parents on purpose…given that they didn’t trust her for one single minute to simply talk to Quill while alone with him. In essence, they are assuming she is ‘loose’ enough to jump into bed with him the instant the two are alone. Truly sad!

The question becomes, how are they going to guard her every second Luann and Quill are away from the house? Are they going to chaperone them full time? Tiffany will certainly gloat over Luann every second she manages to be in Quill’s company. What do you think would be the fairest way to handle this situation?

Luann is about to change ages again… she goes from 17 to 39, the age she is when Frank is done grounding her!

[Sit down with Mom and watch “Juno”]Great movie, filmed in Vancouver, BC.

“He’s almost done momma, be right there!”

I’m mystified by Luann’s behavior. This is a totally unnecessary and foolish provocation to throw in her parents faces. It makes Luann seem petty and mean spirited.

“Coming, mother”

I could see my daughter pulling something like this, just so she could tease me about being an “overprotective” parent.

I can see now that Luann will be a virgin bride. (And it will undoubtedly be the last story of the strip, like when Cathy announced she’s having a baby.)

I loved that movie I have it on DVD

Man…Now I dunno where Greg is going with this arc. Is it Lu playing the “rebellious 17er,” or is it a setup for her to go to drama camp and get out of the house for a bit or,even worse, a setup for Lu to start thinking about an “alpha pad” of her own in a year, like Brad ?

At least Quill has enough maturity to say “Quit while you’re barely ahead…” Lu is truly playing with fire. If this arc goes into next week, there will be some consequences for her, I fear.

Real stupid stunt Luann. Also, to the author of the comic strip: What’s the point ?

LuANN! You naughty, naughty girl!

Wanna bet the lock on her door gets turned around with the lock on the outside?? Luann should have more respect for her parents than to shut and lock her door with Quill on the inside. Doing that is not going to help her parents in the “respect for Quill” department. One good punishment is to take her door off the hinges………lol

Famous Last Words. Best left unssid; your mother is NOT in the mood for jokes just now.

Buggin’ on the ’rents!

Luann is so grounded for the summer! And Quill is unwelcome at DeGroot House, indefinitely….

Not digging the way she’s treating her parents. Uncool. I think this is the last “Luan” that I will read. On to Pearls…

This is all very strange! It does not seem like Luann or Quill would be this disrespectful. It’s a kind of an “in your face” rebellion. Even Quill doesn’t appear to care what Luann’s parents think. We are probably in for some surprise ending to this arc.

Quill: ”I’ve missed you too, Luann"

Okay, so we are supposed to believe that they have just been spending the last 20 minutes in a locked room saying how much they missed each other? Is there anyone who thinks that they didn’t cover that territory thoroughly in the first two or three minutes. What have they been doing for the last 18?

Luann knows her mother well enough to suspect that she would try to barge in without knocking, so may have locked her door just to see if Nancy would do exactly that. Nancy: “Why was your door locked, young lady?” Luann: “Why were you trying to come into my room without knocking, Mom?” I don’t think it’s been stated that it’s against house rules for the door to be open if there’s a boy in the room. Teenagers should be allowed a certain amount of privacy for romantic talk and making goo-goo eyes at each other without being under the scrutiny of parents. If they trust their daughter enough to go out on a date and stay out of the back seat of a car, they should be able to trust her to not do anything foolish right under their noses at home. I would hope they would give Luann credit enough not to be that stupid.

Quill’s the level-headed one here— “older & wiser, telling her what to do.” My guess is that she locked the door so they COULD go farther, but Quill exercised self-discipline. You got a good one, Luann!

Next frames: Door kicked in. “Quill, sorry but you need to leave. Luann, you are grounded! and you owe me for this door. On second thought, forget the door. You don’t get to have one any more.”

You’re in trouble as it is, Lu. At this rate this may be the LAST time you see Quill with your parents permission.

Not even when you are married to the bloke.. Though if you come out with a red face and breathing hard.. You will notice how fast your parents will not try to look your way….

And in the time that I was composing that one to you, “party….” was also coming up with their take….

I am losing all respect for Quill. Mr. and Mrs. DeGroot graciously invites him into their home and prepares a meal for him, and this is how he repays them.

I agree with everyone. Knock it off, Luann — it’s neither cute nor funny anymore!

Not if you want to see him again.

"2) Nancy to make a doctor’s appointment for her daughter to get a prescription. Moral objections aside, it’d be stupid not to.

I see. So Nancy should go buy Luann a carton of filter tipped cigarettes because those are safer?

I think Lu also has the propensity to fall hard, when it comes to love… Frank described it as “doting”, and maybe that was accurate… she seems very attached to Quill, and that could serve to hinder normal judgment, when emotions and feelings get in the way… this seems to be why she’s doing what she’s doing right now… she can’t “see the forest for the trees”… that seems to be why Frank said that maybe it was good that Lu didn’t go to camp… not because he didn’t “want for her to pursue her dreams”, but because he could see that she’s too wrapped up in Quill for it not to be anything but a distraction in whatever she’d pursue, where she wouldn’t be able to focus on it (especially if there was a fee to camp involved)….

Why is there a lock on her bedroom door anyway?

Uh, the lyrics I stated are for “Fats Domino”… not Stevie…. nor his brother……==You know it’s not all “Hook ’Em Horns” everywhere, right?

Talk about dragging out a scene…ad infinitum, ad nauseum. think I’ll check back in a week when maybe they’ll have unlocked the door.

"I’m appalled you’d equate the two. I’ll also presume you haven’t raised a teenage daughter.“

I don’t know why you would be appalled. They both have the attitude, “Since you’re going to do it, let’s make sure it’s safe.” They both are parents giving their tacit approval of the action.

It is really quite simple. If you expect the best, you will most likely get at least the better. But if you expect the worst, don’t be surprised if that is what you get.

In actuality, I’ve raised two wonderful and beautiful daughters to adulthood. They both are now happily married and have started their families. And as far as I know, they both waited until their wedding nights.

It really wasn’t that hard to do. The only real hard and fast rule that we enforced was no dating until they were sixteen. However, they were taught our values, and they watched us live them in our home. They knew exactly what we expected of them when it came to boys.

And that is how they behaved. Is that so surprising?

@Leviticus—- Like it? Hmm… I hadn’t even considered that… it’s just a shock after reading the 25th anniversary book this past week… I can understand people saying she’s doing it because she’s mad her mother tried the door and thinks she might be doing something inappropriate, but Luann is a kid. She is not an equal in the household, and only arrogance is making her act like this. I dunno, Tiff comes off as seeming ‘childlike’ to me because she is sometimes as dumb as a stick and because of the tone of the silly arcs she gets involved in. Mixing a sexual theme with this rebelliousness moves the story into a heavier, more serious tone. I think it fails, badly. But, next week maybe Tiff will be back and things will seem a little sweeter and a little nicer, and a whole lot funnier:)

@Donny Wallace- Is Luann’s interest in sex really solely the result of Toni talking about showering with Dirk? Lots of people don’t know Toni but still develop a sex drive:) Ha ha, sorry, just teasing. Well, Luann might be making a stand with Quill but unless he is going to marry her today and whisk her off to Australia to sponge off his Dad, she may (or may not) find out that her parents have all the power in the DeGroot home, and she has nothing (to paraphrase Bill Cosby). It’s ironic that she’s expecting her parents to respect her disrespecting them for an imagined lack of respect…wait, did that make sense?

One possibility—could Quill, Luann, Nancy and Frank be making an “audition video” for camp??

Try this one on little miss jack with your parents snot nosed brat. Your grounded & can’t see Quill the rest the time he is here. In your face B!!!!!!!

Luann is just kidding around, no big deal. Some of you sound awfully violent and like helicopter parents. I doubt if most of the posters here actually have children. Luann has always been a responsible person, that’s why her parents trust her.

Wow, this is really stupid of Luann, and stupid of Quill to go along with it. She might not know better but Quill’s old enough to, and he’s being a complete jerk to her parents, who did him a favor by allowing him to come into their home. Since he’s shown them that they can’t trust him and he doesn’t respect them I wouldn’t be surprised if they asked him to leave as soon as he came out, and told Luann that she won’t be seeing any more of him this summer. Oh, and no supper, either.^^I was thinking the same thing

Is it Greg or Karen that finds this funny?

Yeah, these are cartoon parents. Wouldn’t real parents have already set the limits and boundaries when they knew the boy was coming? Such as: no locked bedroom doors, visiting in the front room, etc.

Any parent that would break down a door under these conditions is violent. And a bad parent.

Even though it’s only for a few weeks?Has Luann forgotten that she’s not going to drama camp and Tiff is?

Welcome to the 21st Century, young “almost” adult world.It will be fun to see what Mr Evans does with this.Next week we will be back with TJ and the “Restaurant Truck” . . . . . Such fun.

She really should answer mom :P

Better get out there before they break down the door, Luann.

No, you answer “Yes, yes, YESSSSSSS”.

Am I missing something or is this an American culture thing? Luann is 16 and thus of legal age, has been in this relationship for a while, the boy is known to the parents, the first time would obviously consensual… what is the big deal? Why do her parents have a problem and why should we care?

Luann’s a girl after my own heartJust a teeny, tiny little bit of meanness in her.-Oh, sure, they still need to beat her without mercy, but it would be worth it to her.

“the boy could probably only last about 30 seconds”-tell us more about your experiences, we are all dying to know-don’t hold back this time, thoughlet it all hang output it to us-don’t forget, we’re all you’ve got

Five if you include Puddles.

Time for Quill to go home or go to Tiffany.^Truly!!!

K… I guess it’s my turn again… ==I didn’t know that Donnyville was not in Tex, and that it was really next to Bizarroworld, where everything is backwards…. YOU CANT possibly think anyone can misread YOUR comments…. Forget a dictionary or thesaurus, Rand McNally is still working on the map to read them, but they cant seem to keep the cartographers on board, willing to keep trying….

“It’s not just you, everyone needs to read my comments correctly before you comment on them, It makes you all seem like your”-Absolutely!!-Everyone needs to read each and every one of your posts. They are all gold.

-Nonetheless, you should not have used “your” rather you should have used “you’re” . In lesser people, it would be expected, but not by you.-Please be careful, your thousands, nay – millions – of adoring fans expect nothing less than your usual perfection.

It is not Quill’s place to tell Luann what kind of relationship she is going to have with her parents, even if her game playing will impact him. Casually advising her to be nice is probably about as pushy as it is advisable for him to be. There are sides to be chosen here, and Quill is not wrong to choose to stick with her over her parents. I don’t know what Luann thinks she’s up to, but she’s the one putting him in an awkward position, which he’s handling as well as he can.

If you really want to drive your parents nuts Luann start breathing heavy like you and Quill are doin it! : )

Mom and Dad are way over the top. Luann has never done a single thing to show that she’s not going to walk the straight and narrow, and she’s definitely not the type to violate the sanctity of her parents’ shelter. Their behavior is a shameful display of how little they trust her.

Gerry:you too need to stop passing the bong around with Knute and Levy and read my comments correctly. Are you another one of those trolls like JP trying to get my comments wrong on purpose to piss me off…

Hi Donny, geez I clearly said I was kidding. It’s not possible to be unaware of your Toni/Brad ‘shower=sex’ thing, you say it every day, along with your tiresome personal attacks on Leviticus. Well, I tried addressing you with a little levity (pun not intended) and this is what I get for my troubles.

Could even be the Tiffany getting ready for camp arc….

Jeez, Nancy, and Frank. Don’t you trust your daughter? She’s 16, and locked in her room with a hot boy, her own age, from Australia. What could possibly happen? !!!! Break the door down!! AH HAHA HA HAAAA.

Oh! She totally should! Freak’em out!! LOL!

Let see how funny it is if Dad kicks the door down and remove it for awhile.

Let see how funny it is if Dad kicks the door down and remove it for awhile.

there goes her door.