Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 03, 2014

Yes, Mom, let me explain! But, I am not sure you are going to Believe what happened! ;)

Frank’s really getiting the camera for evidence… just in case …. So no one will think that he did that to them, if that explanation doesn’t meet “government standards”…. – Nancy will be relieved to know that it was just that rhe prom’s theme was “What It’s Like To Be In a Washing Machine”…

…Complete with soap bubbles… ;)

The one thing we didn’t get to see was Tiff and Ox…guess Crystal and Knute weren’t at the prom…or, if they were, they weren’t an important part of the R & G + L & Q storyline… ;)

They look like there must have been some HARD partying, don’t they?

With all that wonderful brush and grass stains, an explanation may indeed be necessary. After all, the usual way kids acquire grass stains on prom night is… heh. To say nothing of how rough Luann must be for him to have a sprained knee from it.

“Shredded WHAT?”“A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Shards (Of Thrread)”“If Only You Were In My Shoes”“♪….Silver Threads And Golden Needles… ♪”“Back To The Eighties Night”

or “It Was Like That When We Got There!”

Photo camera, Frank, or video camera?

Ahhhh, Yes.

Welcome to the 21st Century where even the Most Boring, Mundane, Commonplace Stuff IS Suddenly “AMAZING!”

And While You two WILD and CRAZY Kids were Having “FUN” the Traffic Has Backed Up to Pomona, Knute and Crystal are M.I.A. and The Limo Driver is Getting His Cousin Vito to HUNT those P.A.K.s that STIFFED Him His Fee and Left Him on the Side of the Road to Rot, While “They” Went to a Prom.

But DON’T Let ANY of THAT Brother You Two. Oh, No.

NOW, Go Forth and Receive Your Diplomas, made from the Flesh of Murdered Animals and GO and Help MAKE This World a WEIRDER Place!

And for everyone who’s hot for Nancy, you get a nice shot of her derriere today.

;)

“When I went to my prom..”^LOL!

I hope it was Frank’s… ;)

I’m reminded of “Take The Long Way Home” by Supertramp….

Now we know where Luann gets those “buggy eyes” she sports, sometimes. – Frank and Nancy couldn’t deny her, if they tried… and they probably have a cousin named “Kermit”, too….

Luann and Quill sort of look guilty…which raised Nancy’s “Teenage Prank Antenna”…did you roll down a hill or did you make your own roll???, she is probably thinking… ;)

LOL! – And good ol’ “Uncle Kermit”…..

’Nite… ;)

Writing of night, sounds like a pretty good idea here… ;)

“I’ve seen sae mony changefu’ years, On earth I am a stranger grown; I wander in the ways of men, Alike unknowing and unknown.” (Robert Burns/ 1759 – 1796)

And “Alka Seltzer” to you, too!

Luann’s dress is back to the condition it was at the bus station, while at the Prom it was perfect. Did we fall into the Bermuda Triangle?

If he needs to gather evidence, then he should get someone else to take the pictures. The pre-prom ones that he took of Luann and Quill really sucked!

I think he threw the coffee away and smoked the pot! ;-)

…every parents nightmare!!

This is just the cutest comic! Sweet characters. Lovely story line. Not the least boring to me!

All’s well that ends well…

“Quill, usually when you rip a girl’s clothes off of her, you tear elsewhere.”

@JPuzzleWhiz: I read it as “Punk-Ass Kids”, though other interpretations are certainly possible.

They got home while the parents are still awake?? Must not have been that good. Most teens stay out very late or spend the night somewhere with a group. But most still manage to “couple up” during the night.

Frank’s photo collection of the event:Before – 283After – 82One for every day of the year.

After all that huge build-up, we couldn’t spend more than a couple of days showing the Prom itself, since any more scenes of it would have revealed just how much everyone was having fun and really liked the results of Tiffany’s hard work and good planning, and in this strip anything that makes Tiffany look good is a strict no-no.

Comin’ Through the Rye – Robert Burns .Gin a body meet a body, Comin’ through the ryeGin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry?Ilka lassie has a laddieNane, they say, ha’e IYet a’ the lads they smile at meWhen comin’ through the rye

Smiles! Well, that’s good.

WHAT are “P.A.K.s” You asked, JP??

Okay, NOW I KNOW I can tell You Because You, PipeTobacco, Argy , BlueJay and Mikey, who has Mysteriously Disappeared of late, I can TRUST. Dave53? I’m NOT so sure about. And Don’t Even get me Started on NightGaunt.Anyway, P.A.K. = “Punk As*ed Kids”.

They’re everywhere: Weaving through Traffic at High Speed on Their Rice-Burners, Playing Their “Music” at Ear Splitting Levels, and Ganging Up Beating the Living Daylight outta Me on Line while Playing “Titanfall”!

Its an Invasion and Government doesn’t want folks to Know, yet. Might Start a Panic, You Know.

On a POSITIVE Note, P.A.K.s can Help You with Your Smart Phones and make GREAT Tax Deductions, But STILL!!

Not really. In light of the amount of attention devoted to the anticipation of the Prom and then to the saga of getting there, there was remarkably little pay-off in terms of the Prom itself.

Ahh, the mystery of the self-healing clothes is explained— after the sticktights are removed, only the clothing waist-down is tattered & torn!*To the folks, it looks like they’ve been fighting each other off.*But real downer— we do NOT get to see what Crystal & Knute wore! :(

RB – I agree completely with your list of 5 things we also needed to see! Would’ve especially loved the strip where Ox gets the last dance with Tiff! (Plus Crystal & Knute’s attire, of course)

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Whoops, didn’t know I was signed in.

Luann and Stone Soup are my two favorite comics. I was so looking forward to a prom story line about all the different characters and what actually happens at the prom. Mr. Evans is usually top notch, but this time he missed the mark with such a short one trick prom story line. I feel awful to complain because I could never do what Mr Evans does wonderfully, but I just felt let down about this short story line. I think a lot of other people were left down also.

Oh well, if this is the worst thing that happens, aren’t we all lucky. Mr. Evans keep up the good work – maybe we can have some flashback prom story lines in the future.

I also forgot “Photo Finish”….

That would seem to be a major acknowledgement/kudos for Tiff, there. No one was “dissing” anyone in the panel, and everyone was cordial…

Plus, with a good imagination, anything not covered in a story can be left up to us to “sort out” for ourselves. If we fancy that “such and such” would happen, then if it’s not covered in that arc, and until something comes up that does , then we can just imagine that the others were there (or not there, if that be our inclination), or that this thing or that thing were done. – And that’s exactly how it happens when we read a book… we supply whatever information the writer deems to be “open” or doesn’t care to go into particulars over. – Sort of the gist of the song “Answering Machine” by Rupert Holmes. (“Well, of course you can write the plot, cos when I called her, this is the answer I got….”)

“Normally I would agree, except Evans set up something with Ox and Tiffany and did not follow through on it.” ^Well, think about this: He actually did . As I was mentioning above, we can supply the rest. Not only that, but just that glimpse would be enough to tell what’s taking place, but we have to be paying attention to it. She promised him a dance. She didn’t promise him a “full” date. We can imagine that that’s exactly what took place. – And same as for any other characters. We get a bit of “direction” and if we’re paying attention, all the “clues” are right there. Same way that that little bit of radio blurb about the traffic, the fact that Luann’s words seemed a bit of foreshadowing, and that week with her and Tiffany frantically making plans at “Kidz 1st”, where Lu gave the “clue” about “If we keep on schedule” was actually enough to flesh out the whole story…..

Any crash you can walk away from is a good landing. I liked this plot BECAUSE it wasn’t formulaic. We would have Delta talking about starving kids while they ate cake, Tiffany would be trying to upstage Luann, in other words, same things, different location. As an aside, I spent the night of my Senior prom in the Mekong Delta. Do cammies look good with a cumberbund?

I just get the feeling that he didn’t want to dwell on the students’ enjoying themselves at the Prom, because it would make Tiffany look good. Better to gloss over that in a single panel, and then send everybody home as soon as possible.

"…other than my previously noted conjecture " ^Well, that reason that you gave, in itself, actually seems a solid reason, as you carefully laid out… -Same way that “Bathroomgate” tied in to Crystal and Knute in the cafeteria, which in turn, tied in to Les vs. Gunther, which led into he and Rosa discussing a bit of Prom during that time, and to lead it off was their discussion after the new years’ dance. It all ties together in different parts. It’s probably just that we all favor certain characters and situations more than others, so certain things we tend to be more “dismissive” of, but in the end, it all comes out and ties together. We just have to pay attention to each “chapter”, so to speak. – So, returning to what you’ve said, it could have been just for the sake of advancing a couple of characters, and the rest we can sort of “piece together” our own selves, and we’d see that they really do fit in with the rest…..

Just in my line of thinking, to me, this is really what’s going on,too- that if we use our imagination and inference skills, we don’t necessarily have to “have everything spelled out”, – Same thing happens in other works, and in other fictional mediums. – For example, in Star Trek, there were developments that weren’t answered in “The Original Series” (one being how the Klingons didn’t have “forehead ridges in TOS, but did in the movies”. Didn’t get answered until the “Enterprise” series). But many discussed amongst themselves the “who/what/where”. When the movies came out, some things were addressed, some weren’t. But people either waited for the next installment or the next series, or just went with their own conjecture. – Same thing with works of art at a museum, or with song lyrics. There aren’t “instructions” to tell us how to look at a work of art, or with songs. But if we pay attention, there are “little clues” to help us get an interpretation out of them.. – So maybe that’s how we have to look at it. Based on what we know as we read the strip (doesn’t matter if we are just beginning or have read for a while). We can pretty much just let our own imaginations “fill in the blanks” until the time comes that the artist/creator/inventor may choose to “show us” where he intends for it to go (sometimes, they didn’t have it in mind)…

One more thing: interestingly, that’s also how some TV shows and even books get started. Some find a way to create a direction to take the original series in a way that the originator didn’t anticipate, or never chose to go…. some even from “fan fiction” of certain works. -Star Trek was originally set as a sort of “Bonanza In Space”. Then there’s Gomer Pyle from Andy Griffifth. I ran across some modern day examples pointed out in an article somewhere, but I have to backtrack and recall…

“She’s been showing a softer edge lately ( e.g.: with Ox), that may portend further awakenings.”^I noticed that, too. Almost like she’s done with all the little “skirmishes”. – Also, she has seemed to “tire” of fighting with Luann, and walked off, when Luann started “pushing some buttons”, and seems to just want to break free from something….

Yeah, you’re right- Meant to say “Wagon Train”! I’m sorry I said “Bonanza”! (shaking my head at myself…)! -I guess it’s also because I enjoy “Bonanza” the most out of the westerns (Gunsmoke and a couple others are up there, too).

Each life separately would take several lifetimes to portray. It would be silly to expect all to be shown in detail. So naturally a few throw fits the artist doesn’t. It would be sad if it were not so silly. Thanks for the laughs.

Each life separately would take several lifetimes to portray. It would be silly to expect all to be shown in detail. So naturally a few throw fits the artist doesn’t. It would be sad if it were not so silly. Thanks for the laughs.

I liked Death Valley, too. – I think that the fact that Bonanza had an “all star cast” (Roberts/Greene/Landon/Blocker, etc.) gave it a bit of “juice”, as well….

I liked Paladin – good guy was dressed in black!

Lessee; Frank took 283 pre-prom pics. How many does this post-prom appearance prompt? Probably a plethora.But, hey, it’s good to see Luann happy with her amazing prom experience and Quill surviving!

I have (and have had) TV show themes both on vinyl and CD/MP3. Among them, the opening/closing to “Have Gun Will Travel”.

I also managed to grab a “Cisco Kid” compilation DVD…

Gunther & Rosa got turned on by the adventure….on to Peru.

Re: “Gunsmoke”…my hub could watch those episodes for hours if they were available 24/7! ;)

“There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned home the previous night” Prof. Arthur Bullar 1874 – 1944

Have a good rest of your Saturday, y’all… ;)

Ha ha! That Pancho!

Did they have a “life size ‘Hop Sing’?”

There’s also a network somewhere that shows the westerns that are more obscure… I can’t remember it’s name, though. – Sometimes TV Land has Bonanza and Gunsmoke on at nearly similar times to MeTV. Oh, that TV Land. How it used to show all the classics (including some classic commercials!)…

Also Death Valley Days (sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax!)^And hosted, for a time, by Ronald Reagan, before he got into politics.^

And it’s a funny ko-winky-dink that Ron Regan once dated Jane Wyman…

And now Trek is back under CBS’ umbrella (convenient that Viacom stuck them with Paramount)!

Just went to my homeschool prom :)

Ha ha!! – There’s a life-size Spock cutout standing in a thrift store (one that’s truly unique and long-standing in it’s own right) that I keep saying “I wonder what they’d want for it”.. – A couple of decades later, I’m still saying “Maybe I should ask what it’ll go for”… – I figure since it’s still there, it must be something “for display only”. after all these years… but then again, the same cashier is also still in there! = *(actually, they’ve always been a pretty nice person to deal with and good at what they do, all things considered!)…

Hi – ho Silverware – …Away!

“Now, on to tomorrow…”^Always the next step, huh? – But, it’s a nice thing, even having a next step to contemplate, all things considered!

Decent record there! 2-1 and “?”

I graduated midterm and went on to college. About one percent of me says I missed something when I didn’t go to the Senior Ball (not Prom @ my h.s.). Ninety-nine percent of me says I did the right thing. I’m glad Luann is happy. What is right for one isn’t necessarily right for the other.

Maybe it’s just for dramatic effect, but why would her dress become so raggedy from just climbing over a fence or two? From a big bramble patch in the field, maybe?