Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 08, 2015

“A Rigged Set”“Wanna Haul Lotta Stuff” (♪)“The Warehouse That Peterbilt”“Got 18 Wheels, And I Like It” (♪)“A Convoy Artist”“No Lack Of Tracks, With A Stack Of Macks”“The Drama Department Is Putting On A Squeeze Play”“The Sound Of Old Music” (♫)“Load Up The Motherlode”“The Truck Stops Here”“BJ And The Barely Spoken”“Movin’ On The Turn Of A Dime”“A Flatbed Of Roses”or“A Mission That’s Not Impossible”

Is he part of your budget or are you fools flying by the seat of your pants?

(First). We’ll have to put Mr. Gray to the test with TJ.

You’re a wonder, Mr. Gray.

“My trucker”, said no one ever. Gray and Guntmom must have a great job, if he’s willing to just straight-up start this second job without asking to be hired first.

IDK about anybody else, but I find this rather odd. Why would this man want to help these people who never met him? And why would they let him? I’m sure Mr. Gray is a good guy, but I just find this odd.

New poll up: Can Mr. Gray be Trusted?

Bernice’s Grades1) 15 votes – Other.2) 12 votes – Suffering because she’s too busy as an RA.4) 5 votes – Suffering because of brownie cravings.3) 4 votes – Suffering because Luann keeps calling about Brad and Toni’s wedding plans.5) 2 votes – Suffering because she’s too busy thinking about Tiffany and Gunther.Other: We will never find out because it’s not comical material; Not suffering at all; She will be the valedictorian of her graduating class and go on to be president; Honor student; Bee is an A student preparing for Woman’s Studies; straight A’s, of course; Straight A’s for Bernice, same as always.; Straight A student as usual.; She’s kicking arse and taking names in every class.; Brownies and gossip and ferrets and parties! Who has time for classes?!; her grade are fine – she always made good grades in HS while dealing with drama; Easily keeping a 4.0; Her grades are just as good as they were when she was in high school.

Folks with all these doomesday comments your forgetting one thing…we are discussing a comic strip..a very good and entertaining one but still….a COMIC STRIP.

I like when everything goes well, which is the way it should be.

Well, now we know that Mr. Gray will be a regular character, because Frank has made his requisite “who IS this guy?” outburst.

Greg is writing Frank as a complete moron these days.

This might bear reposting, to help “tie in” just why Mr. Gray might be motivated to offer assistance…-

Mr. Gray impresses more every day. Who is he, really? a mob boss incognito (in Witness Protection)?

Verizon has locked me out of my account when I was attempting to pay my e-bill. Does this mean I do Not have to pay? Have a great day in Luanniverse!

Mr. Gray is flat out creepy.

That’s why I use Mr. Haney’s Phone Service . . .-——————————————————————-Hmm . . . maybe I’ll charge it to Frank & let Mr. Gray take care of it!

Mr. Gray, if I’ve counted correctly, has so far said less than three dozen words. That’s taking into account that the first two complete sentences he said only varied by one word. Shortest utterance was the single word " me" and the other two were short, flat, declarative sentences. Mostly he’s been silent, and thus underestimated. I think this is why so many seem to look askance at his sudden emergence. The only question is whether this is a matter of Still Waters Run Deep or Run Silent, Run Deep.

We know Mr. Gray used to manage a club, but what is he doing now that requires him to have a trucker in the area on call? And just what kind of club did Mr. Gray run in Vegas? None of this matters though, since the googly eyed Nancy has checked out the goods, and emphatically likes what she sees! Purrr! Oh well, as long as the trucker is Dirk:)

Luann is a miracle worker. All the cracks in the plaster are gone.

Mob connections?

I wonder if his “trucker” people are relatives of the people who got rid of Jimmy Hoffa?

His sunglasses are the Shades of Gray.

My dad was like Mr. Gray, he spent his entire working life networking and building relationships with people that he might need in a crisis. His Rolodex had the home phone number of all those people. If a hurricane took out the electric substation that supplied power to the cold storage warehouse he was responsible for, he was one of the few people that could call the power company at 3:00 AM on a holiday Sunday morning and a repair crew with several flatbed trucks with new transformers would be in the parking lot by 5:00 AM. He loved to get things done, when no one else could and demonstrate that ability. So, it does not surprise me that he is helping, just showing off. They will hire Mr. Gray for his ability and the phone numbers in the Contact List of his smart phone.

I believe this is known as Deus Ex Machina. Or a Fixer in common parlance.

“Who Cares,” Huh Nancy-Bot?

Well, REMEMBER Those Words at Your Arraignment When You get Charged with Multiple Felonies, Thanks To the Various and Sundry Machinations of one “Mr. Gray” Who YOU Didn’t Bother to Check Out First, Because YOU Didn’t “CARE!”

LuAnn’s Dad: What do we owe you Mr.Gray?

Mr. Gray: Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this a gift.

I wonder if Mr. Gray has mob connections? That would be a cool story line, but I’ll bet we won’t go there. LOL

Maybe find out what kind of wage he wants first?

Its amazing to me that so many people think, including my implied references, that being a Vegas club manager means you have the mob as a silent, motivational partner somehow. Actually, from what I understand, Vegas might have some vestige of the mob operating small little ventures such as prostitution, or similar “cottage” industries, but it does not have any connection to the real money, which are the casinos and the casino hotels and clubs. It’s mostly corporate, or billionaire controlled now. And the 15 year period he mentioned would be well within that change. Given that though why would he not be very capable of having a lot of contacts he could pull from, and knowledge of how to get things done in essentially an entertainment venue? Plus the local government, with permits, and fire inspections, and all that have to be considered. So being Luannverse his help here makes all the sense in that world. I like how Frank is so frustrated and confused. I think its just his being a DAD and wanting to control everything, but he will get over it.

I know I always bring facts and reason into this blog, but that is the way my crazy mind rolls.

In my interpretation…. I am thinking that more likely than not it is not Moony’s fault for the late notice… more likely than not it is the chain of notification that resulted in the late notice. I can easily imagine the Moony Theater Department releasing the materials a week ago, and letting their “go-between” (probably Quill alone, but perhaps a few others) be notified…. then Quill being busy with classes and other things forgot until the last minute. As a professor myself, I see this sort of thing ALL THE TIME.

6A rather minor plot movement…. but still interesting. To me, it is looking like Nancy is on the verge of being smitten with Mr. Gray…. even on the edge of being smitten BEYOND just wanting him to work on the warehouse. It must be Mr. Gray’s “go-get-it-done” attitude that makes Mrs. Berger “swoon” too. :)

I bet the “Trucker” is Dirk.

I think Mr. Gray retired about a year ago, and he wants to get back to work. He is offering himself to manage the warehouse. It is more relaxing than managing a casino, but it gives him something to do. He is good at what he does, he enjoys it and he is jumping into the opportunity to manage a start up business where he knows his knowledge is needed.

Being formerly from Vegas, I’m just hoping that this guy is not “connected."

Next thing you know the DeGroots is wearin’ cement galoshes.

“Youz didn’t pay my trucker. Time to go sleep with the fishes.”

I hope the next thing Mr. Gray says isn’t “One day I willask you to do a favor……”.

Club “manager” in Las Vegas? Considerable pull in the trucking industry? Only known as “Mister Gray”? See the Clyde Weston character on Days Of Our Lives for details…..

He ran a club in Vegas for 15 years. He still has active contacts in some kind of business. Mr. Gray, please don’t be mob.

Mr. Gray ran a thriving business for 15 years, so he has lots of good contacts, including trucking. They didn’t go away just because he’s not in that business any longer.

“My trucker” ? like what, his last load was Jimmy Hoffa’s corpse?

Yesterday, you reminded me of the fuss over Sun when I said that the people here aren’t too PC. Well, I still think that we’re a pretty open group and not overly sensitive. I also thought Gary could have done a better job with Sun, but it was an artistic thing not a human rights thing. Yeah, I’m pretty comfortable with the comments here and some of them are very good.

In the meantime, I like the Mr. Gray mystery thing……….it’s a page turner and everyone can speculate on what is hidden in his past.

Implausible… you are correct that a student should not be their go-between….. but in the fictional reality of the comic…. Quill has always be the U’s go-between.

Hire him? Sounds more like “Accept his assistance!”

And Luann is about to make a running tackle to bring Quill down and get him to pay attention to her.

I get the impression that Mr. Gray isn’t working on a job, he just sees some friends (or friends of friends) who need some help and he’s in a position to give it. If he gets a new job out of it, that’s just a bonus.

The trucker will not be working for free. Who is going to pay him?

The same way that Trump is going to get Mexico to pay for “the wall”, in his dreams.

Lu’s “HOme for the Holidays” posters are SO inspirational. After she placed them on the walls, the plaster healed itself!

Mr. Gray is a human sonic screwdriver. Greg Evans will make sure that Frank’s venture will never be in any real jeopardy, since whatever obstacles are encountered, Mr. Gray can make them go away.

The Doogie Howser Threshold once again applies….

He’s wit da Mob, lookin’ to muscle in on local business.

me thinks there is more to MR. Grey than meets the eye…

> But we already know Quill came all the way from Australia because Moony’s theater department is among the best.>Yes, it’s so great that they don’t even have a place to perform or rehearse, and their main drama instructor has to turn to an untrained amateur to show her how to design a set. The Moony Uni drama department is just the feeble excuse that Quill used so that he could come back to the USA to be with Luann during his third senior year of high school. (First at Pitt, then in Australia, and at Pitt again.)

I would love it if Gray registers his first emotion—disgust—upon hearing the place will be named after an opportunistic explosion.

If he’s anything like Jon Taffer, hire him!!

does mr. gray have a few “connections” with the mob?

Name’s Gray. Mr. GrayUsed to be known as Jack Black, but then I lost the White stripes.

“He could be a General Contractor who goes to her to get building permits. Or a thousand other possibilities.”^Another good scenario!

Ha ha!!!!

The portly Mr. Gray was introduced as someone who works with Gunther’s mom. He seems to be in his 50s, where Gunther’s mom is probably in her mid 40s, like Nancy. He had a casino background, surrounded by beautiful ladies, but his current companion is rather drab. I don’t know where they work, but the fact he still works and still has connections in a different city is strange. Could he possibly be Gunther’s repentant, long lost dad finally returning to the girl and son that he abandoned 20 years ago? To me, this is as interesting as wondering if and when Gunther is going to have sex with Tiffany.

“This just in ….. Karen Evans, daughter of famed “Luann” cartoonist Greg Evans, will undergo emergency eye surgery to correct an extreme case of strabismus”^Wow!!!- And I’ve heard permanent ball bearing implants in the orbital socket is a procedure with a pretty steep cost! I’ve heard it rounds out in the Six million dollar range….

I’m sure that if Mr. Gray is …connected, then Gunther will be the first in line to go: " Aha!!! Unhand my mother, you scoundrel!!! I knew there was something wrong with you!!!…. Well..I didn’t know what at first… but it still counts!!!!"

What time do the comix rollover? Used to be about 12:10 Central.Time now 12:30.