Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 09, 2013

“A Close Call”or “Familiar With Intimacy”

Frank has the right idea.

As long as she knows to visit the gynecologist to get Implanon or an IUD, you’re good, you’ve gotten rid of human error.

Again, I submit that ‘intimacy’, in this case, can have to do with how “wrapped up” someone can be in someone else… with or without any physical aspects… – When Lu is in love, she’s in love! …. she can fall hard, and this is the thing that Frank wants to impart to her, to help her see the need to carry on in a relationship, but to keep her heart from “blindfolding her” as she walks about…. he just wants her to know how to focus on living and balancing love with everything else.

Especially if it’s an intimate talk with your children.

They shoulda had that talk a LONG time ago.

The last two day’s reminds me of a comedy routine by comic Buddy Hackett. It was about how fathers treat their daughters differently than sons when it comes to relationships. Won’t get into the whole routine (takes too long) but these last two strips are perfect examples of the routine

To those fans who think Quill is a boring topic, how’s this for ya?

Although Frank could pull the “We need to have a talk” thing with Quill, too… the ever timeless: “Daddy wants to meet you”… or “Daddy says he wants to talk with you”….

Um, how old is she? A senior? Isn’t that a bit late for such a talk?

Btw, which name would you guys prefer Luann’s daughter to have? Quillann, Gunann, Tjann, Oxann (can’t imagine this one), Knutann, Bernicebroann, Aaronann, or OCann?

Things could always turn out completely different than anticipated. Quill and Luann could resume their friendship where they left off; however, Quill just may meet other girls over time and decide he prefers to date other girls as well. Time has a way of solving all conumdrums. Frank should just keep his worries to himself for a bit and simply remind Luann that he’s there for her and assume she can make good decisions. He should also stress the fact that he’ll always be there for her should she want to talk.

I just had a thought……since Luanniverse moves so slowly, taking many years to progress through high school, etc.,………how long will a pregnancy take?

The clear implication is that Frank and/or Nancy have had"The Talk" with Luann in the past (maybe even more than once), but that a reinforcement reminder is in order now that she seems (relatively) serious about Quill. Probably not a bad idea, but despite Nancy’s hand-off to Luann’s Dad, I think that at Luann’s current age, both she and Frank would be far more comfortable with Mom taking the lead….

God forbid Luann spends her time with a possible future husband who genuinely loves her and treats her with respect.

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Duh! Fathers don’t talk about intimacy, they just forbid it.

Frank, Frank, Frank. Luann is seventeen. . Do you think there’s anything you could possibly teach your daughter at this point?

Today’s “Zits” has a fun spin on this same theme.

Don’t be sarcastic, Elvira… er, Nancy. YOU need to talk with her.

“Why is he (Frank) reluctant to have Quill around? Luann has PROVEN She Can’t be Trusted around Him”.______________________________________

A-MEN! But the REAL Question IS: WHY is Nancy so ANXIOUS to Have Quill Around?

But HEY, No Big Thing, Frank.Next Time Your “Enlightened” Wifey Speaks up, just REMIND Her of How She TREATED Her Son’s One and ONLY Girlfriend like Pond Scum.Then SEND Her Off to the Kitchen to Make COFFEE….,

I think Quill is a little more mature and level headed than some of you give him credit for. I think he is able to keep his eyes focused on the bigger picture. Luann on the other hand is in Love not in heat. She is hopelessly romantically in love with the idea of being in love.

Torad— just read your GOOD news from yesterday. You passed— congratulations!!! Ok, more tests in a few months, but you’ll study & we believe in you.*What are you being credentialed for anyway? Teaching reading? Making a martini? Performing CPR? Doing a humorectomy?

Not true…

Money is the biggest stress. Nothing else is even close.

There is not question that the intimacy discussion is needed here, Luann and Quill are clearly in love, and lust for each other. What makes this so good is that the subject is being handled in a really first rate family strip. This should be on TV as a series,, if the quality is high enough.

Nancy is the most beautiful woman in the comics!

Shouldn’t she have had that talk by now?

The only parent to have an intimate talk with an adolescent daughter is her mom. Simple common sense.

That is exactly the point. Luann has been egging Quill along. If her parents would set down and enforce the rules of dating, she just might make it through college without the pitter patter of little feet, or worse yet, having to give up her baby. That is why they should make her keep her bedroom door open and with two feet on the floor and dress conservatively when with Quill. If that is so 1946, so be it. I was a teenager once, and I speak from experience. Unless she learns to restrain herself, her life would be altered completely, and the memory doesn’t get better with time. Luann says and does things that make her a roll model for girls her age and younger. Let her be a positive role model in dating, too.

With teens these days, you can’t just have one talk and never bring it up again. I talk to my kids repeatedly and even though I get “Moooooooom!” They seem to listen.

You beat me to addressing that…. Also, “Like A Virgin” was written to be about the feeling of going into a new relationship (per the song’s writers, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly), but Madonna turned it into an ambiguous marketing ploy, toying with “non-virginic” references… – Still relevant songs for the discussion at hand, though….

This is true!

Toni, wherefore art thou?!

Agreed… deep waters (subject wise) require deep exploration (conversation wise).

Except that Aaron is gay (or at least Greg wanted him to be but was afraid to show him that way explicitly). Quill – well, who knows.

You will recall the discussions herein of the recent article about Greg’s and Karen’s collaboration on this strip:http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Sep/22/luann-comic-strip-all-in-family/-This article tells us that Greg is 65, his oldest child Rhonda (who lives in Texas) is 44, and Rhonda’s son Jonathan Upchurch (a UPS employee in Irving, TX, who aspires to draw the strip) is 27. That means that Greg’s oldest daughter became a mother at 17, making Greg a grandfather at 48. Perhaps Frank’s concern is therefore understandable, since it certainly hits close to home.

Sorry about that typo – Greg became a grandfather at 38, not 48. I suspect that’s even younger than Frank is, in the strip.

As they say," when you have sons you only worry about one p####, while with daughters you worry about them all". Poor Frank, LuAnn will gladly walk where angels fear to tread when it comes to what she perceives as love.

When he says “one of us” he means his wife. Men dread talking about this subject to daughters. The mom will know what to say.

Why does it always seem to me Frank’s wife is belittling him? She comes across as really B-aye-itchy sometimes. Sarcastic, too. And she seems to have a superiority complex. Oh, and Quill is the dullest character to come into Luann’s life. YAWN. Blah blah yank blah.

I was milling over “In Love With Love” by Debbie Harry, as well as “All Day And All of the Night” by the Kinks (not for what’s being discussed here, but for my aside in referring to how Luann gets quickly attatched to the person she falls in love with)…. and the one that Donny was talking about, “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”, by the Georgia Satelites, where the girl stands her ground… and the video to boot, which shows a different result, where the father “arranges a wedding”, using his shotgun…..

And you would have to write a strongly worded memo to the stork company.

….won’t happen to ME”" mindset is the most important hurdle…. ^Truly spoken!

I try to scroll past posts that make my blood pressure rise, but some of the outright bigotry on some posts just really gets to me.

I don’t think its the comic that he hates. I think it’s live women he hates.

Frank is freaking out because his little girl is going to act like a woman. Mind you, she is a woman, not a little girl, even if she is a young one, but fathers don’t wrap their heads around that until after the fact, if ever. At this point, her life is in her own hands, and there’s nothing Dad, or Mom either, can do about it except give good advice.

They should talk to Luann together. Sooner or later, sex outside of marriage always leads to negative consequences.

Dad: “Now remember, honey, this is a family comic strip so no sexual intercourse until after you’re married and only then just to give us grandchildren. We don’t want to offend the elderly folks who still actually read newspapers now, do we?”

Brad used to talk about trying to get a job as a character for Mad Magazine.

I think it’s a good thing that Greg Evans has created this scenario in this week’s strip because it’s getting us talking about sexual responsibility, the role of parents, and how girls and boys are viewed in regard to relationships and sex. So far, from what I see here, it sucks to be a girl because of all the restrictions that are placed on them when boys don’t even get so much as a frown. It’s really unfair in how they’re treated. It truly is. Why can’t we come to the conclusion that sex is something that BOTH sexes engage in, something that’s normal? Why must we condemn women and girls for something that’s considered normal, even desirable, in men and boys? It just isn’t right. We were ALL created to be sexual; otherwise, there’d be no more love or human race. And Frank needs to get over his paranoia if he ever hopes to have a son-in-law or grandkids.

Uhhhh, since when do Dads have The Talk when it involves an older teenaged daughter? Maybe he just wants to come at the subject to tell Luann how an older teenaged boy thinks about older teenaged girls…but she Should know this by now!

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That is not true. Statistics show that abstinence programs do not change sexual behavior at all, but they do decrease use of protection because they tell kids that condoms are dangerous and birth control doesn’t work. Teen pregnancy rates are highest in areas with abstinence only, and lowest in areas with comprehensive sexuality education.

“…could it be that Quill needs to have that ‘talk,’ or does he need to do a little growing up first?” One would hope his Dad-in-Oz has already had that discussion with him, perhaps more strongly now that Quill will be Back in the USA… I don’t think it would be out of character if Frank had an “and where are you coming from?” discussion with him… ;)