Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 11, 2015

WHAT!!

Maybe this is more for the resident critics at Arcamax.

Most of the things in that room smell. Melons, not so much.

@Implausible Good evening! Concerning your last comment yesterday: https://youtu.be/1yqVD0swvWU (It’s basically your scenario with some extras). I admit this video wouldn’t make any sense without the context of the actual books, and wouldn’t be funny. But, what if real life is ‘the book’ and ‘Luann’ is the parody? Well, just an idle thought I had:)

You know….life is like a box of chocolates, highway, melon… It’s sometimes sweet… and sometimes…. it stinks…. – Now, lessee some of the interesting things in this room… Emerson said that life should be judged by depth, not length… – Taylor Swift and Peter Pan promo posters (and a possible “Greg-self portrait”) and the aforementioned quote Luann seems to be looking at are on the walls… – And items on the floor suddenly change from one color or shape to another (which I guess is due to the properties of the Luanniverse’s “grammametrical shifting”)…. – Mmmm… nothing going on here, but an ordinary day….

“Use Your Melon”“Lost And Profound”“Mind Over Makeup”“How To Tell The Realize From The Fake Eyes”“Bobbleheads, (The) Bangles And (Some) Seeds” (♫)

“A Lot Of Clarity In A Messy Room”

“Honeydews And Don’ts”“Fruit Of The Room”or“You Can Get Married, But You Canteloupe”

I get fourteen differences counting the fact that the second panel is cropped.

Yes, it’s high time, indeed! In fact, I’ve confurscated the tallywhacked portions, and indeed have partificated the vectors in my calculations (all while pungulating nutrition in my digestive tract- a nice warm cup of tea and a cinnamon cake). – Indeeed, the sunnyfructis mantra which these two gendocyles are conversating tohereforewhich, are the suspected girlmecides, precisely!

They’re watching a Dolly Parton movie.

Well done, Greg. You’re well on your way to taking over the writing and art chores on Apartment 3-G when the Shulock / Bolle team quits.

LOL! You know, I’ve done the same thing- only, I was still dreaming- one of those “waking up in your dream” sort of things.. I’ve had cash in my hand in my dream, and it turned from Franklin’s face to Lincoln’s. No, wait- that part was actually real life…

“My melon has no nose.”“How does it smell?”“To get to the other side”Thank you, Zippy.

So what DOES happen when you throw a ring into a volcano?

Does it make melons grow noses?

But Melons Smell Hm = Hellbent Mom Slums.

You’re welcome.

He gets paid for this?

Today’s Luann Againn might relate to this…

The following is different:

More of a close up with Bernice and LuannReport went from A+ to C-Tie has changed on cabinetPuddles eyes is open from closedLuann and Bernice talkDifferent Drinks Different PensSpoon changed location in bowlBernice changed face locationPurse has different ClaspNotebook differentBlouse? is differentMissing Room thermometer?Comic above report is changed.

Person talking about missing boob is sick.

Thanks for the Whats been changed cartoon.

> I think Greg is making a swipe at our resident complainers here.>Perhaps in response to this strip from Sept. 3, --In which this glimpse into Hair’s room, with its posters expressing an admiration for Abbey Road Alfred E. Neuman, and Ziggy (????) led some of us to question whether Team Evans perhaps doesn’t quite have its finger on the pulse of contemporary American youth.

Non sequitur? I don’t get the reference, if there is one….

I noticed the soda can and pen are a different color. The tie is longer with dots and picture is different. Latch on the bag appears and the folder has a different color and front. Melons don’t have a noses. But I am looking for Waldo !!!

Think this might be a “can you find the differences” puzzle. Clearly not identical panels.

“You can get married but you cantaloupe.” My mother told me that joke in the 1950s. Maybe it’s new to Milinneals.

According to the poster,

“It’s not the length of life, but the depth of life. If you jump into life, you will never touch bottom.”

No, No, NOT “Mellons.”

That Over-Whelming STENCH Is coming from a Dead Rat under YOUR bed that Tried to Devour the Remnants of Processed Food Snack but ended up Dying a Particularly HORRIFIC Gastric DEATH.

Why are the items in the background so different in the two frames?

It’s just an innocent little puzzle game, right? No hidden message, no behind the scenes agenda, just a simple ‘Spot the Differences’ challenge for our entertainment?

I think we’re supposed to expect some deeply insightful conversation between our budding young adults, but instead we find that they’re still engaged in silly randomness and are still kids. Don’t grow up too fast ladies, keep contemplating the smells of melons!

But not as bad as Luann’s room.

Also, Bernice’s soda can changes color in the second scene.

Maybe Luann’s trying to find something but can’t locate it. If it were a melon, in answer to a question (unspoken) from Bernice, it might stink.

With a melon???

I thought that it was a comment on how bad the movie Pan is , based on the Pan poster on the wall.Melons may smell but Pan stunk ?

Very sharp-eyed. Spot the differences. Wow you found 200!! I saw about 5 or 6 in the few seconds after I realized your point. I think the dialogue is meaningless though.

Is this a spot the differences?

> Bernice’s boob on her right (our left) is missing. But that is in both panels.>Melons might work instead, but they smell.

???

Say what you want about the complainers, the fact that you treat Greg Evans like a vengeful God is just nuts.

(Runs around in frantic circles clutching his head) Ahhh! I can’t let it be! Must have logic and internal consistency! Too high strung and have no life, Luann MUST make sense! But I don’t understand! How can this story be? It’s not as if it’s witchcraft….!’‘…but it is….!’So that means this is the work of Dez the New Ager, or….Sorcerer Mr. Gray. Yes. Mr. Gray… So, we now know Dez is not just a flake, the occult actually works in “Luann”! We saw hints of it when Luann and Gunther’s horoscopes came true, but weren’t sure. We saw Dez divine the arrival of Prudence, but thought it was coincidence…. But today’s strip is absolute proof of the power of magic in the Luannaverse! I look forward to future arcs where Dez and Gray face off in magical duels rivaling the Sorcerer’s battle in ‘The Sword and the Stone’, ‘Gandalf vs. Saruman’ and…all that Harry Potter Stuff. Ahh…now it makes sense, and all is well in the Luannaverse again:) Can sleep a bit now and dream of the Sun rising in the morning.

Thank you everyone. There’s nothing better than scintillating conversation first thing on a Sunday morning. And thank you Greg for facilitating such a learned exchange. Yeah, I’m smiling. A lot.

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Not the slightest idea what this strip means.

If anyone can explain what this means, please put your response in ALL CAPS, so I can easily find it. No time to read all the comments.

Is it a reference to Blind Melon?

No guys, it’s spot the difference!! The can and pen are different colors, etc.

I can’t believe that Luann hasn’t grown out of her messy phase yet. She’s in college now for crying out loud.

What is this? Find as many things different in the two pictures?

I think they’re watching a show, and commenting on the validity of a male character’s analogy of a melon to a part of the feminine figure.

Most of the things in the pic. are different.

It’s just a trick to prove that we, who make so many dumb comments, will comment on absolutely nothing.

probably a few more differences between the panels, so if you’re looking past the humor, go for it! Lets all chip in for a continuity specialist. Or just laugh, snicker, whatever and go to the next cartoon. GET A LIFE it’s comics not rocket surgery!!

Stoners.

Melons do NOT smell. They have no noses.

I think they’ve gotten some of Zonker’s Z+Z weed …

Quick! Call Captain Non Sequitur!

Have another brownie, Bernice.

Two elephants are in a tub taking a bath together. One says to the other, “Would you please pass the soap?”. The other replies, “No soap, radio!”.

I laughed so hard, tears were streaming down my face.

This is a new low..Art is good, story-line beyond me!.There must be a time gap since the items on the floor are different.

In toady’s Shylock Fox challenge, we are asked to find 136 differences between panel 1 and 2. Then. turn the strip up-side down to read that the answer to Shylock’s mystery is that Luann amd not Shady Shrew is in fact the fruit thief, since melons don’t really smell, at least not nearly so much as everything else in her room. Finally, today’s art is by 5 year-old Shannon Daytona of Pitts, CA, who shows us how to draw “Puddles”! Have a fun week, kids, and we’ll see you again next Sunday!

Not even trying today. And melons don’t smell bad unless you let them rot, if only Greg and Karen Evans realized realized that.

The world doesn’t revolve around anyone here, whether they like this or not. It doesn’t even revolve around “Luann.”

I’LL STOP COMPLAINING WHEN IT STOPS BEING DUMB.

Come on you guys, she’s still struggling over Toni’s melons from 2008:http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2008/12/08

Could be just two young girls thinking about ‘enhancing’ their figures…

Going by the many differences, our portraiteur is definitely doing Can-You-Tell-The-Difference on us…

Hi Implausible, I agree with you. Given the confusion this strip generated online, and the fact that many of "Luann"s newspaper readers don’t participate on the internet boards, it would be extremely poor judgment to do this to get back at a few people. And I have no reason at all to believe that Team Evans is so small, snide, snarky, or mean spirited.

Life is butter melon cauliflower.

Looks like a Slylock Fox comic.

Plus, certain people keep telling us that the Evanses never read the comments herein and thus don’t care what we think.

It is just the angle.

Didn’t spend any time on this. Moved on to the next comic, which was…………….Rip Haywire & it makes sense.

Never would have happened in my room, no food allowed, no sitting on bed, and didn’t have a TV!

I can’t help but notice all the differences between the two frames…maybe it’s just me. Or is it supposed to be two different days?

don’t get it. are they comparing the dirty room to melons?

“siggle the mmfffps”

Hahaha :D That reminds me of the many occasions when I would be helping my kids with their homework and it would be so boring that I would fall asleep and immediately start dreaming. Then my child would say something and in an effort to respond and be helpful, I would spout some gibberish emanating from my dream. It was pretty funny and my kids would wait for these moments to see me falling asleep. A couple that I remember were, “Your new socks are in the basket,” and “You have to go in circles to frost the cake.” It seemed to make such perfect sense to say it while I was dreaming, but then I would hear myself saying these non sequiturs and I would wake up.

Well, there’s a lot that has changed from one panel to the next. The backpack now has a cross on it, the spoon in the bowl moved to the other side, the pen went from blue to black, and her soda went from red frown to green. Oh and the journal/notebook near the backpack is different…so…umm…they’ve been sitting there for days??

Hitler: “I have a dog that has no nose!”Soldier: How does he smell?"Hitler: “Awful!”- The war’s “Most funny Joke” weapon of WWII, from a Monty Python movie.

So, basically no one else gets it either.

Hi, I noticed your comment from the other day but I didn’t have a chance to respond until now. In answer to your question, the flowers are really huge; they’re about five to six inches across, and they smell heavenly :)

Today’s comments really make up for the lameness of the strip, lol.

Greg’s playing one of his games, of who’s paying attention. The pen is a different color, as is the book and the pop can. Also there’s a different clasp on the back pack. The spoon is in the bowl in a different direction too.

I found 28 differences between the two panels.

“I looked at it the next morning and it said, “siggle the mmfffps”.Made perfect sense when I wrote it…”.Try it. Maybe it’ll work.Or are you trying to tell us you don’t how to siggle or misplaced the mmffps?.Don’t you just hate it when that happens??

“THEY’RE GOING TO COMPLAIN.”.This upsets me greatly. I’m gonna flag . . . write a letter to my . . . hold my breath until I . . . . . LAUGH BECAUSE IT IS TRUE.(but, it keeps them off the streets and helps identify those NSA should be watching verrrrry closely.)

@Caldonia“I’LL STOP COMPLAINING WHEN IT STOPS BEING DUMB.”.Thank you. Please continue for reason listed above.(Evans should get a Noble Peace Prize.)

Ice cream has no bones. Just sayin’…..

Sometimes you are just being….

Big time LOL!

“If you are flying in a canoe on a Tuesday…^That question terrifies me. I just had it this past Friday, on my “Pre Pre SAT training exercise” (thinking about attending Millenial State), and it still hurts to think about it..

I counted 52 mistakes from the first to the second illustration….Perhaps the artist wanted the readers to be on their toes.

Note that the grade on the paper that is taped to the dresser has changed from A+ to C-. If this is in fact Luann’s room rather than Bernice’s, then I know which one of those two versions ought to be believed.

This comic appears in many Sunday papers, with no comment section. I think the Evans must intend some meaning with the Melon comment.

Think melancholy. Wish I could say more, but alas, my pen must go dry.

Here is the address for my amateur sketch of Sun. It’s not very good, sorry.

http://asaintjoanofmyown.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Sun_and_Mook_001.283170254_large.jpg

It’s crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

Thank you Gary13, I appreciate your kind words very much, and value your critique. Here is a revised version based on your observation. Have a splendid evening!

http://asaintjoanofmyown.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Sun_and_Mook_001.283175510_std.jpg

I appreciate your candor Gary13. I’ll be honest, I think I am not quite understanding some of what you said yet, but I will think about what you have said over the coming days.

I like the poster.. “life is breadth not length”. As for melons, well.. it’s the tail end of some sentences that we did not get to read… but they don’t matter. The punch line is that Luann is oblivious to all the more obnoxious odors in her room but somehow thinks that the fact that melons smell (whatever the context)… even though it is a nice smell…. is a problem. Bernice clearly sees the irony but doesn’t feel like commenting.

Yes, roses. I have six rose bushes in the front yard and two more in the backyard. These two and another glorious red one are my favorites and smell the best too.

@@Night-Gaunt49 @Gary13“Sellers didn’t think to highly of such people and used them as a template for Chauncey.”.Let us remember the ending with Chauncey standing or walking on water, thereby implying he wasn’t just the simpleton we had believed.(Don’t forget the interpretations of his words were beneficial.)

Thanks!

Happy Columbus Day to all, and to all, a good night.

I don’t get it. Can anyone explain?

SPOILER ALERT

Back to the roommates at Mooney Uni, where opposites are getting along well…

“But melons smell.”

Yes, that’s how you can tell if they’re ripe.

This makes no sense. What am i missing?

Gary got it hours ago: “GeneBarzilai said, about 14 hours agoI think they’re watching a show, and commenting on the validity of a male character’s analogy of a melon to a part of the feminine figure.” The gradation of color on the wall, suggesting light coming from a screen to the right of the panel, supports his theory.

This is so badly nonsensical, and is such a turnoff to a comics fan that it hurts. You have an opportunity to do ANYTHING in this comic’s space … and you do this.

After all it was enough to wake up Puddles.

Do I get anything for spotting the differences between the two panels- such as diff. picture on dresser, peg thru clasp on back pack, diff. color soda cans & ball point pens, diff. color paper binders to left of back pack, etc. ?

What’s… I don’t… what am I missing?

So, a spot the differences test?

? yes, it is a spot the diff… but the conundrum of melons smelling?

Not only melons.