Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 01, 2015

New poll up – What were you like at that age?Results for “What should Luann do?”1) 79 votes – Stay and teach kids in school2) 17 votes – Break up with Quill3) 14 votes – Run off to Peru and Rosa4) 12 votes – Go to New York with Quill5) 12 votes – Take the kids to New York6) 1 vote – Join the army7) 1 vote – Quill

this doesn’t look good (until tomorrow)

Heh, heh. “Sounds” Like Somebody er, ummm,Uhhh, “Missed.”

It’s getting so good! Greg don’t kill it tomorrow!

Pink and blue… gets the job done, I suppose. But kind of disappointing, nonetheless.

LOL…this can be interpeted so many ways….should have had this strip on Saturday so a whole day of conjectures…I am thinking of so many scenarios…I am sure it will turn out very innocently but till then…dream away folks….LOL

Not really what people “think” it is. It is a “realization”, of sorts. And more so a “redrawing of boundaries”…

“Instant Vertigo”“Out In The Rain”“Blind, In The Dark”“Stumblin’…S- S- S- Stumblin”“Speed Bumps And Tire Spikes”“A Map In Pig Latin”“Hurry Up And Wait”or “Travelling Without A Passport”

Likewise.

Uh…how do I unsnap this thing Luann?

LOVE that movie! Now, if only Knute would sing Volare…

and thats how babies are made?

Mr. Evans has quite cleverly clued us in here as to who’s saying what:

Pink is for girls, blue for boys (obviously, no?), which is establiashed in the first panel. Also Quill is taller than Luann & the balloons’ positions indicate that, too. And again in the second panel the same balloon relationship is repeated.

Third panel sets up the suspense (???), and the fourth panel intensifies it… then just leaves us all hanging. And the balloons have subtly changed from their earlier postion.

Very nicely done, Mr. Evans!==

Maybe a problem came up that Luann didn’t expect.

The coach gives the signal, and the runner holds at second base.

Uh is never good and I’m a girl

This brings back sweet memories. The frantic fumblings of amateur night.

Thrills ‘n’ spills?

Seems like the first time you should really leave the lights on. Its not always easy for amateurs to find where to put everything.

Oh My!

I hope this isnt going where it sounds like its going, this was always such a nice moral family strip.

Looks like somebody made it third base.Now will he or she make it to home plate.

Workin’ on mysteries without any clues…

Did you ever hear the joke about the man with five penises? His pants fit like a glove.

I’m just laying back and waiting to see where this leads. Jumping to conclusions has never been my strong suit.

I’m just laying back and waiting to see where this leads. Jumping to conclusions has never been my strong suit.

A new, “What just happened here?” cliffhanger in the works?"

Door locked

You can see this one coming a mile away. Both of them have grabbed mannequins and not each other.

Might just be the “Wake Up Little Susie” scenario.

well drawn.

hormones want it, good sense says no. nature is undaunted, ’twas always so.

How time flies. It was only 24 years ago that she had her first “( . )”, so to speak.

OoooKaaaaaayyyy…. Now, I think Greg/Karen are messing with us…. ;-)

I am thankful for the Colorist.

It’s the Tingler!

either Quill let loose too soon or couldn’t get up for the occasion or perhaps wound up at the wrong entry point….

We need darkness to see the light

Mabey Luann found out his “boomerang” wasn’t as long as she thought lol

“Uh… Back up, Quill. I don’t go this far.”

Golfing?

Hope he got a hole-in-one.

Me? I think they both started feeling a rush of hormones and realized things were going a bit too far. Just my two penn’orth.

Pop goes the weasel….

“If I’d known you were a virgin I would have taken my time.”

If I’d know you could take your time I would have taken of my panty hose."

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

Did someone finish early, or did they forget condoms?

As the Rolling Stones called it: “Sticky Fingers”.

I like the idea that both of them are simultaneously expressing some hesitation. At their age, this shows definite maturity on their part.

Luann, I want you to think long and hard about what you’re doing. Real long, and real, real hard.

As I recall: “uh” was a prelude to the question ‘do yo have a rubber?’

First time Luann and Luann en Espanol are one and the same !!

Looks like Luann is expressing that they’re going too far, and Quill is surprised. Guys never see a problem with it.

The couch is on fire!.but we know better . . . . "-———————————-Please, Brdshtt, please .. . .

I think Team Evans went golfing the day this was drawn. . . . . . "-————————-Lots of black ink — and mystery.

. . his week is an “After School Special” arc. . . "-———————-please

No, the whole point was to leave it to reader to guess.-Yahoo kinda ruined that. . . . -——————————Please, don’t you be a smarty and try to ruin things for others. please.

Again, should anyone want to see how this arc ends, they can go here. Yahoo has chosen to post a week’s worth of comics in advance.-http://news.yahooo.com/comic/luann-sideshow/. . . . "-———————————please, don’t keep doing this. We know you are smart. .Greg designed his sequence with skill, don’t try to shoot him down. .please

knowledge + imagination = magic . . . -———————————There are, unfortunately a few here, so proud of what they consider their “knowledge” of the future, who quite willing to destroy the imagination of others, and thus kill the magic that Greg creates for us day by day..It is a shame. IMO hubris..We do owe something to Greg, you know.

Uh.. as in what are you uh doing?

So many comments! Nothing like a little sex (even if it’s only in the mind of the reader) to pique interest!

Re Yahoo’s screwup: “It’s being worked on” per one management voice at Universal.And from that same person a tip of the hat to those who came across the problem: “…thanks for the heads up, we need all the eyes we can get.”I guess it takes a village to raise a comic strip these days.====I hope Yahoo finds a way to yank the prematurely released content quickly. =====and, yeah, today’s strip was such a holiday from actual coloring I felt the pink and blue was the least I could do.

If it’s about “love in the dark,” then maybe they’ve discovered – as so many people do in the end – that is not as simple or easy as they thought.

Uh-oh..? Whew! Is it hot in here?

actually around 1920s is when manufactures decided to PUSH pink for boys and blue for girls(before that there was no push for a particular color) as a way to force parents to get new furniture and clothes if new child was different gender than previous one, and than in the 40s got switched up to blue for boys and pink for girls…….. in general, blue is always a popular color, and pink was one of less desired, it has only become big time fav of girls thanks to the “pink toys” since the mid 20th century in ads …………… not many people bought apples until the slogan “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”, the saying has nothing to do with doctors recommending them to stay healthy , at the early 20th century is when advertisers saw how much power they could have

some people jumped to “premature strong assumptions” and started thinking “Luann in 9 months………….” as early as this past Saturday

“Again, should anyone want to see how this arc ends, they can go here.”.I followed your link yesterday.Thanks.I especially liked the squirt gun and the dancing walrus.

My interpretation is this: Luann’s last “…Uh…” means she’s not ready. Quill’s response, “Uh?” means “No?” Let’s see!

I see two possibilites:

1. “Uh” = “Not quite ready to go there, pal.”

or

2. “Uh” = “Hold on, Sparky. Let’s be smart about this and take action to prevent any unintended and undesireable consequences”

John and Marsha by Stan Freberghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkfwmB8jeSU

I remember Benny hill parodied it but it was john, marsha and jack lol

“Even Einstein didn’t know everything” …. God . -—————————-Einstein never claimed to know everything. .Not by a long shot. .But he knew more than Newton, who never claimed to know everything either, as you will of course recall.

“Yes at the end of the nineteenth century blue was switched from girls to boys, pink from boys to girls.”

I read about that too! It just seems weird to have the symbolism switched, I guess it’s so ingrained in me that pink is for girl and blue is for boy.

“Yahoo kinda ruined that.”

Right?!?!?! I absolutely could not resist reading ahead! At first, I told myself I wasn’t going to check the website, but then curiosity got the better of me!

Or that stuffed walrus. … coo coo catchoo . . . . ’-——————————-Lot’s of props in the prop-room. Lot’s of things to play with. No lack of costumes either.

@ DHG From yesterday“Pity is wasted on the perpetually positiveI’m happy for my beloved Tiffany.”

Yes, she’s showing great strength of character! She knows that old saying, “If you ain’t being hated on, you ain’t doing sh*t.” I feel proud of her!

Tiffany and Gunther just tried to sneak out and tripped over Luann and Quill in the dark.

Quill? Do you have 3 Hands?Or is there Someone Else in here with us?

And now Crystal and Knute just tripped over Gunther and Tiffany. Let the orgy begin.

The first time is always a little awkward when you’re a teenager.

Luann’s gonna say,“Quill,you can’t touch me there,sorry”.

Pinkie (1794) and The Blue Boy (1770) are famous paintings displayed together in the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. They have been inseparably paired in the public’s imagination since they were both acquired around 1920, and most people think (incorrectly!) that they were painted by the same artist as companion portraits. In any case, that linking of the two paintings has certainly enforced the blue/pink color scheme that is now used for boys and girls.

> Wasn’t it Enrico Fermi, who responded to Einstein’s statement that “God doesn’t roll dice”, exclaimed “Stop telling God what to do!” .>It was Niels Bohr, who engaged in a famous back-and-forth argument with Einstein for many years on the physical meaning of the laws of quantum mechanics.

maybe they are just"dancin in the dark"

“That is the power of marketing by way of mass psychological manipulation.”

It reminds me of when Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke came out in the 80s and my best friend and I seriously thought we had to choose between the two of them. So we did a taste test and chose Diet Coke. I bought Diet Coke for years, until I realized there wasn’t that much of a taste difference to warrant brand loyalty and started buying whatever was cheaper. Now I don’t drink any sodas at all anymore as I’ve come to realize they are all garbage. What a number the entire food industry plays on the people. It’s very powerful propaganda.

Mother DeGrinch, er, DeGroot, should catch them…..that would be a giant OOF!

Translation: Luann, “Uh, slow down.”Quill," “uh”? Now you want to slow down?"

Goebbels learned his techniques from watching US television, as he had no training whatsoever in marketing or propaganda before he was appointed Minister of Propaganda.

Goebbels considered all Jews to be sub-human and would never have been influenced by the ideas of any Jewish person, and that would include SIgmund Freud. One of the acts that Goebbels was responsible for was burning books that he felt were unGerman, and the books of Freud were among them. Also, for some reason, the books of Helen Keller.

Well Here’s a Helpful Tip, Gauntlet: If YOU Don’t Want to SEE any Luann Spoilers, Then YOU AVOID “Yahoo Luann” Like the Plague.Oh, and PLEASE Don’t “Brake” anyone Jaws.

Oh, get on with it, I wish I had back then,