Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 21, 2015

I love it.

You’re a riot, Brad.

How do you celebrate this “holiday” – by taking a sledgehammer and knocking walls down?

No, don’t really need some “holiday” to learn to appreciate someone…. never take for granted the people that are good to you, every day…. – All the people who give and love because they want to, and not just the people who “do something or give you something”- but the friends who are family, the family who are friends….

Happy Bradday!

“Rockin’ Role Model”“Accentuate The Postitive, Deal With The Negative”“Under The Influence”“Hallmark Day #5”“Not Bad For A Rad Past Grad, Who’s A Tad Under Dad, Brad”“Say Uncle!”or“The Wizard Of Osmosis”

Brad missed a great opportunity here. He kinda is the only real “father-figure” Shannon has. He should have said thanks, hugged her back, then reminded her to tell Jonah that too, instead of shooting her down the way he did.

Brad’s not thinking it through.Biologically, he’s no more a dad then Toni is a mom. However…he seems to have missed the fact he and Toni adopted her in all but legalities.

It is kind of sad that Shannon didn’t get to spend Father’s Day with her father. At least for those of us whose Dads are no longer living…

he is more of a dad to her than Jonah, heck………even TJ is more of a dad to her than Jonah

@Scratchy18It’s Father’s Day today in the United States.

Many thanks, Brd! And same to you. Glad that I will hear from at least 1 of mine…….boys don’t ever seem to remember as well.Brad did kind of downplay it, but at least he did say thank you.

Alas This shows how very much Jonah has let down his daughter. Shannon, for all her occasional brattiness, is very lucky to have Bwad and Aunt Toni looking out for her and giving her some semblance of parenting….

Bwad, you may not be her father but you are the closest she has to a dad.

Bwad isn’t too nice there. Since he is engaged to Toni, he is essentially a relative. We don’t see how Shannon’s real dad treats her. Probably would be disturbing…

As the great Shaq would say any man can be a father but only a few can be a dad.

Kind of hard to buy into Greg Even’s sentimental strip when he promotes insurance fraud with TJ burning down his food truck and getting away with it. But alas, so it goes with the Young And The Restless, I mean Days Of Our Lives, er, I mean Luann…

Is “Uncle-to-be” a thing?

Sounds like another idea for Hallmark.

I see where Greg is trying to go with this, and I applaud Brad for trying to remind Shannon who her real father is, and to give him his props. But I think Shannon already knows the difference between the two. She doesn’t call him “Dad….” but “Bwad.”

Still, Shannon’s intentions seem to be quite clear. She wants Bwad to be Dad. Perhaps Greg’s/Karen’s also. At this point, I think it would be cruel for them to not let Brad/Toni adopt Shannon. She’s come such a long way. At least, hopefully, they’ll be some kind of extended visitation.

If they do get to adopt Shannon, I hope that, eventually, Brad/Toni have their own biological children. Probably best to wait a bit until Shannon is a bit older, and could start to learn some of the responsibilities of “motherhood.” She’d be involved in raising her younger siblings and, hopefully, it would result in less “sibling rivalry/resentment” on her part.

Anyway, Happy Father’s day to all those good Dads out there!

Brad is still a little young and inexperienced, and he doesn’t yet appreciate that as a father figure he’s important in her life and deserving of her wishing him a happy Father’s Day. He’ll get it eventually.

C’mon Brad – loosen up. You know where this is heading, that little one loves you to bits. Remember shopping for Valentine’s cards a couple of years ago?

I think he knows…. but he also knows he can’t fully claim her just yet… and it pains him… just a little. It’s important (at least for now) for Shannon to remember who her real father is and to respect him for that, as long as he retains that roll.

That said, I’d be sorely disappointed if this doesn’t end in Shannon being adopted by Brad/Toni.

Brad, you’re more of a Dad to Shannon that Jonah ever will be – just roll with it.

Frank?

WHERE The HECK Is FRANK???

Its Father’s Day and No Frank, GREG!

Frank the ONLY ‘RESPONSIBLE’ Father in the WHOLE Friggin’ Strip and YOU Decide to Leave Him OUT, Huh??

What IS This Anyway? Some Kinda “Angel Soft We HATE Dads, Men, And Frank in General” Protest or Something??

I Mean We HAVE to Suffer through Nancy’s Yearly Mother’s Days Yap-Fest, so WHY Can’t We Give a Little RESPECT to FRANK, the REAL Bread-Winner of the DeGroot Clan??

Geeeze. (Grunt, Sigh) I’m Depressed…,

Oh Waitress? COFFEE Ala Dolezal, Please…..,

to paraphrase Forrest – Fathers are as fathers do.I think Brad qualifies.

You are reading too much into it.

Night-Gaunt 49:In the end, we are all family!Remember all those who have no father-those waiting to be adopted.Get a dog, or cat, and be a father to a poor, lost guy, who is wanting/waiting to be your child!!I’m glad you posted here, today.

Brad is Shannon’s dad, Jonah was just a sperm donor. A dad is the person who raises you, cares for you, teaches you and loves you.

There have been lots of “Brad is more of a father to Shannon than Jonah is” comments today, We don’t know that. We see Shannon with Brad only when Toni is baby-sitting, which is probably 5% of the time. In the 95% of the time when Shannon and Jonah are at home together, theirs could be a normal single-parent family life. The one thing we have seen demonstrated repeatedly is that Brad and Toni would be irresponsible parents for Shannon (and presumably for their own kids).

Brad’s more of a dad to Shannon than Jonah.

Happy Father’s day!

Through life we may have many “fathers” or father figures. As others have mentioned Brad is the father figure in this comic.

Being a biological father is the easy (and fun) part. Brad acts more like a dad than Shannon’s father.

Brad is an “honorary” dad. Lots of those around.

This card may fit some cases:

I wonder how much time Brad will spend with Frank today.

Brad and Shannon both understand their relationship. She knows he cares more for her than Jonah does. .So do we. Remember when she was lost?.Even T.J. cares for her a lot. She knows that relationships don’t have to be jushy to be real.

There’s no Future-Uncle-by-Marriage Day. I’m sure Hallmark would be glad to sell you a card, anyway.

> So do we. Remember when she was lost?>Remember why she got lost? Remember who was supposed to be watching her?

Careful fella, looks like your pending marriage is going to be package deal. That would be a “deal breaker” for me no matter how good Toni is in bed.

As a “stand-in” father Brad IS outstanding.

JPuzzleWhiz said, about 2 hours ago@Grant LeeKind of hard to buy into Greg Even’s sentimental strip when he promotes insurance fraud with TJ burning down his food truck and getting away with it.. . . . . . "…………………You can’t mean this..T.J. put his own money into setting up the truck and its kitchen, etc. Would have taken a lot. Also licences and many other business expenses. .An insurance company would not have insured the truck for more than it was worth. So T. J. did not “win some sort to prize,” he only got his own investment back. Probably only part of it.

Kinda cold, “Bwad.” The lass is reaching out to you. Thanks for dissing her.

Camawn, Marry Toni, awready!!! Then you will be her “Dad”

Doesn’t say much for Shannon’s real dad that he’s leaving her with Brad and Toni TODAY, does it?

Mordock999 said, .Frank?WHERE The HECK Is FRANK?Its Father’s Day and No Frank, GREG!" . . . ."-——————————————-The Brad / Shannon bit was nice, but it told us nothing new..What would have been more interesting here with a “father’s day theme” would have been something a bit more revealing about Tiffany and her father. .That is IMO a subject worthy of being explored. What makes Tiff like she has always been — constantly worried about her looks, boasting and strutting, yet clearly jealous of Luann — is key to almost all the strips that have ever featured her. .(Explanations would involve Tiff’s mother, too, of course. We know even less about her.)

Brad – You are wrong on SO many levels:*1) Shannon is trying to bond with you— reply in kind.2) You are not her biological dad, but so what? You are a better kind of “dad” to her— one who spends time with her and teaches her things she needs to know. Father’s Day is a great day to celebrate ALL the men who have helped make us the people we are.3) I wish “Happy Father’s Day” even to women— we too are celebrating the great men in our lives!4) You’re Shannon’s coach, teacher, adviser, friend, disciplinarian— sounds like a dad to me.

“Amazing Art VEnue” – I just read yesterday’s strip. Ok, I agree it’s a bad idea since they haven’t fully worked it out financially. But it should be more than an art museum— a venue for bands, theaters, sports, from teaching space to display space.

@LDover .So T. J. did not “win some sort of prize,” he only got his own investment back.

Another ‘Father Mystery’ involves T.J.’s father, who may be :.1) dead (in Italy, perhaps).2) hiding out in Argentina..3) in jail (someplace as yet not revealed)

A lot about T. J. is contradictory. But one of the fullest of his statements is:

.However, he says other things at other times, I do believe.

Whoa, that’s cold. I have the best stepdad in the world, who has always been wonderful to me, better than my biological father. Don’t correct her, Brad, just be thankful! She’s young and she looks up to an important male figure… that’s a compliment, and something of an emotional risk on her part, too! Lots of people who aren’t literally biological fathers get Father’s Day cards and wishes. Heck, when I was shopping for my (step) Dad’s card, I saw grandpa and uncle and vaguer ‘man who I look up to’ cards.

Brad is like a father figure, considering that her biological father is kind of absent.

note to Bwad: take all hugs when offered

Shannon has been shown to have been essentially abandoned by her Dad. She’s reaching out to B-Wad but he’s too stupid or insensitive to do anything other than push her away. Nice!

Get used to it, Brad. If Shannon’s gonna be spending a lot of time with Toni, you’re going to be the closest thing to a dad that she’ll know. Don’t blow it.That said, this day’s always a little weird for me. I don’t have any children. I do have a stepson, who was 21 when I married his mother. So he really didn’t need a whole lot of raising from me. His two kids do know me as Grandpa, however.

Look, it’s obvious to everyone that the Evanses are trying to steer public opinion so that all the readers will be overjoyed when newlyweds Brad and Toni adopt Shannon as their daughter. But I’m not buying into it. The only evidence presented that Jonah does a poor job as a single father is the “Halloween party” arc. In that week’s strips, we were told that Jonah usually leaves his daughter alone in a bedroom while he attends a Halloween party for adults in the other part of the house. That’s certainly no atmosphere for a kid, so what do you want him to do other than leave her by herself in the bedroom? (1) Not go to the party at all? Maybe, but what if this is a party for all the cast in a play in which he is acting, at the director’s house? Would it be responsible for him to decline the invitation, at the risk of offending his boss? So the alternative is (2) get a baby-sitter. This is exactly what happens, when Brad offers to take Shannon for the whole evening.

But it truly is amazing, considering that actually renting the space, bringing it up to code, renovating it as a gallery, and paying the insurance, utilities, etc., will cost 20 to 30 times as much as they have to spend on it. Amazing!

seismic, a lot of times the undertone done by Brad and most of all by his sister is that Jonah does not take responsibility of his daughter, but rather sees her as an “obligation that he wishes he could give to someone else” and usually does, mostly to his sister, and “if” we consider her Lindy Lewis cousin (Mrs Lewis or Mr Lewis might be Shannon’s mom sibling) back from 1996, he sometimes gives his daughter to her? or at least when Shannon was younger……………….. in strips we have to a lot of times give more weight than in real life to “the image given” as it is usually what the writer/artist wants to INTENTIONALLY portray

Chalk me up to another one that felt Brad missed an opportunity. There’s biological sperm donors and men who step into the role who act as father’s, and Brad is an awesome father to Shannon. (i was adopted)

Brad and Toni have been irresponsible caregivers for Shannon on multiple occasions. I don’t think their adopting Shannon is necessarily in her best interest.

Genetic material is irrelevant to being a parent.

-* venture a guess that it will turn out to be Ann Eiffel.*

I’m responding to this so many hours after it was posted that there will probably never be a chance that you’ll see it and answer, but didn’t Shannon bite Ann Eiffel’s finger during one of the kerfluffles at Brad’s former job? Wouldn’t Ann have spoken up at that time about being the mother? And wouldn’t Toni have been aware of it?

Brad’s role vis a vis Shannon is difficult and fraught with minefields. Brad doesn’t want to usurp the real father’s role; and I suspect he and Toni still hope Jonah will “father up” despite all the evidence to the contrary. I don’t think Brad’s response is about wanting to distance himself from Shannon as much as it ’s about not wanting to cause problems with Jonah.

I didn’t like today’s strip. This girl feels unloved and Brad was very cold to her. Missed opportunity by Brad. He could have said he likes having her be a part of his life.

I agree horseygirl. Brad’s more of a dad to Shannon than Jonah every will be.

Brad, you’re more dad to her than her dad ever was.