Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 14, 2016

Oy…

Memorable

A fitting end, I think. And a shout out to all Singles Awareness Day celebrators.

Maybe I’m being a bit too literal-minded, but what do the first four panels have to do with Luann and Quill’s relationship and them having bad timing?

Just a few ghosts of Valentine’s Days past.

So, was it all an act? I wonder what Quill had for Luann on Valentine’s Day.

In the last panel, Luann is no longer wearing the boomerang Quill gave her.

I thought you were supposed to break up right before Valentine’s Day, to save having to buy a present.

Of course they’re going to break up on Valentine’s Day. Remember, this is the strip where people propose marriage on April Fool’s Day.

Let us have a moment of silence for Frank & Nancy DeGroot, as, having not fulfilled the request of one Mr. Gray, are now sleeping with the fishes. Of course, this is of no concern to Luann, as this day should be all about her – and no other …

The most tender St. Valentine’s Day scene since that one in the garage in Chicago.

I’m not sure where he’s going but two months of Luann moaning over her lost love would not be an enjoyable read.

Maybe it’s more meta. Her middle school crush. The great love of her life (Quill). And a hint of what’s next (Gunther)?

Hmmm…am I happy or sad?

Ah Quill, you “broke up” with Lu a long time ago. You just didn’t have the decency—-or the balls——to tell her about it.

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Or maybe you just thought she’d always be there patiently waiting for you to find some time for her, when you could tear yourself away from your good buddy Pru.

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Pity. Unlike some people, I really liked Quill when he was first brought into the strip. Not so much now. If “working on his career” is occupying his every waking minute, then he should be man enough to tell Luann that instead of stringing her along.

That last panel’s a downer.

Most of this strip is about Luann and Aaron Hill. The once and future flame? Or will next Valentine’s Day be devoted to a year’s look back on Lu’s romance with Mr. Jock?

Meanwhile, has Mrs. Berger eloped with Mr. Gray?

The crux of this strip is Luann, a sweet, emotional, sometimes scatter-brained young lady. The day Luann has a great, uncomplicated, committed long-term relationship, that is the day the strip signs off.

Am I really the only person here who actually wanted Luann and Quill to stay together?

There’s still her brother’s friend there (name escapes me it is o dark thirty) they had that little “why aren’t I good enough” for the other comic back when. It is a comic though so can we get pass the bu quickly please?

I was expecting a resolution in a Sunday strip rather than on a weekday and was not disappointed. Luann and Quill breaking up is sad but necessary for them to keep their own identities. At such a young age, they don’t need to make sacrifices and career changes to keep a romance going .

Ah, a “Sunday Flashback Sequence!” On Valentine’s Day, Yet! Lovely!My, How Our Young Lady has “Matured” through the years, in matters of Love!

1st Lu had CRUSH on Aaron Hill and Pursued Him RELENTLESSLY, despite the Fact that He Barely Knew She was Alive. Poor Lad had to Escape to Hawaii and seek Comfort in the arms of another Gal.

Next was Gunther, a Guy who was (is?) ALWAYS there for Her, helping Her though Tight Spots, Her Homework, even sort Saving Her Life Once. Unfortunately Gunth’s BIG Mistake was “Not Looking Good Enough” for HER. But, the G-Man will ALWAYS Occupy a SMALL Place (That’s Why He got only ONE Panel, Today) in Luann’s Life. Who Knows, She Might NEED Him Again Someday.

Now We come to the Foreigner. Sure He had the “Looks,” BUT Despite the Fact that He came at GREAT Expense from Oz to America Just Be with HER, He made the Unpardonable SIN of NOT Putting Luann FIRST Ahead of EVERYTHING including Breathing. So Its Dumpsville for HIM.

Of Course in EACH Instance, it goes Without Saying the Failures Were All “THEIR” Fault!

But the Future looks BRIGHT for Lu. I for One, Can’t WAIT to See What Happens When Gets Her Clutches on that Creepy Piro, Bernice’s Imaginary Boyfriend!

SERIOUSLY Though, HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY to ALL!And Especially to the Writers of THIS Wonderful Strip!!

I have a dreadful feeling that they won’t break up. That would upset the Trufan Church and also introduce some dramatic tension into this strip. And that’s verboten.

This Trufan wailing is about as “straw-y” a straw man concoction as there is around here. People have different tastes and expectations out of this strip. It’s that simple. But I like the ideological challenge it presents.

Aw. I’m sad. I know it’s just a comic strip, but……

This theme goes all this week!! Mr. Gray will ask for Gunthers Mom’s hand. Bernice will kidnap Piro, and Tiffany will seduce TJ.

If somebody brought that drama and possessiveness into my life I would break it off, too. Luann is just too clingy.

The boomerang necklace is gone….

Used to read this strip quite a bit, but it got all collegy and too far up the ladder for me. High school was more fun, especially for a cartooning geek like me. Unlike real life, here most of her HS friends are with her in college. Not quite in real life. This strip is losing its touch, with me anyway.

Quill was introduced to the strip as a character with no substance. His only attribute was that he thought Luann was wonderful, and his purpose in life was to be her boyfriend. As soon as he left her presence, he essentially vanished, since he had nothing going for him to support a story on his own. Now that he is developing into an actual character who can engage in personal activities (such as the internship) that aren’t center on Luann, he must be dumped. The part of “boyfriend” in this strip demands being on call 24/7. Bring in the next empty shell!

Maybe Quill will re-evaluate the situation and ask for another chance. Let’s see how important LuAnn is to him…. Either that, or maybe Aaron Hill will reenter the picture…that could be interesting. And Quill will be jealous..

Well, well, maybe Luann can hook up with Piro now!

They get to sugar they’re own churros now.

Some readers are jumping the gun. Luann and Quill have not actually broken up yet! They may yet work through this, however implausible that may seem.

I’m sure this relationship can still be saved. (After all, they have to make some use of those airline tickets.) But should it be?

Must be serious… the plot line has crashed into the Sunday panel.

Hope the tickets are refundable. I’m surprised that QUILL is surprised. Isn’t this what you wanted? Weren’t you peevish that you had nothing in common anymore? Wasn’t the problem that this relationship wouldn’t last after high school (which seemed nice, then. And then it got harder to be together?) What were YOU holding on for?

Oh, and no punchline today, just the end of an arch.

Same as it ever was. Luann sorely lacks a passion and is unwilling to support and share Quill’s. She could have gone to NY and gone to school there. As for the next year, there has got to be more than Gunther and Luann finding each other and growing old together – in their twenties.

Still a better love story than Twilight.

Now Luann can find someone who is all about her. She’ll also have to find a wedding date if anyone ever gets married in this strip.

she has the airline to fight with for a refund. and the hotel people too. she may find “pru” love over the phone. heh heh……

Yup, her boomerang necklace is gone. Go back to N.Y. Quill, and take your little friend with ya. You took Luann for granted, and just assumed that she would always be waiting in the wings for you. Guess what? She wants more than you can give her, and I can’t blame her.

…..so these next two months wont be dull at all. i’m sure Luann wishes she was married to quill already, but it is not the time for that, yet. they are not even into the same things or lifestyle.

thank goodness, finally

We all do what we have to do, Quill. Luann is simply not on your radar anymore. You’ve made your choices, and she finally recognizes that.

I noticed the reappearance of the boomerang earlier, and its’ absence now. Now quill can focus on theater.

This relationship should be filed away under “high school – going steady”. It’s time to move on to “college – serious relationship”. Bring in new cast members to make that happen.

That’s too bad. I think I’m in the minority of really pulling for this couple. I was hoping this would be Luann’s actual successful romance.

It would have only worked if she could be a techie to his actor.

For a professional actor, the work is number one. It’s an uncertain profession and you have to do what work you get and wherever it is. Very, very few can dictate their work.

Yeah, Quill was a bit tone deaf. But Luann is still drifting herself. Only random luck will get them together again. I classify this as something that was sad, but probably bound to happen.

As to Piro— I kinda think his part will expand some. But he seems like the kind of guy that can satisfy little parts of more than a few females. But probably not enough of any single one to make a difference.

Well that’s a bummer. I registered after being here for a long time just to comment on this.

I liked the pairing. But once Quill came to NYC his real GF was the theater, not Luann. She was a distinct second. I don’t blame her for being frustrated and I didn’t find her at all clingy. Any time they tried to even talk, the theater interfered. And Quill let it.

As for clearing the field for Gunther; the day they get together (if it happens) is the day I jettison this comic after years of reading it. I find Gunther to be nasty and unpleasant and he has been since he returned from Peru. He’s a man-baby – can’t even bear his mother having a BF and is unsuitable for Luann. He’d actually do well with Tiffany.

Rather disappointed in Quill and this story line.

Hadn’t Quill gone back to Australia then, and they were still “dating” via Skype? His abrupt departure from the USA (on about 10 minutes’ notice) was the ultimate “bad timing” (albeit it exactly the right timing, to keep the strip spinning its wheels for another year).-Luann’s romance with Aaron Hill was also bad timing, in that he too had to move away before things got serious. Of course, in this case it was because the readers preferred him to Gunther (as you noted), and in the Evansverse that is simply not allowed.

I was actually hoping they would have a full fledged fight where Luann said “This thing with Pru bothers me because you’re spending less & less time with me, but you always have time for theater, for her, for anyone else” & for Quill to admit at least once that he was flaking on their plans & then blaming her for not being supportive enough. The breakup was inevitable, but without that conversation it will continue to seem like Luann is the only one at fault & that’s just not true.

Maybe we’ll see Quill talking to Pru about the breakup, and maybe she’ll explain to him how women feel when their guy spends more time with a female “friend” than with their SO. If Pru really is just a friend and there’s no romantic interest, she should see this. I think it would be a nice twist if Pru helped them get back together.

They weren’t speaking since New Year’s Eve anyway. That was when the fight happened. Pre-broken up.

let’s talk about Q, in “real life wise” mode, he is a great match, both are into arts, and like making music and are into theater plus both enjoy and feel comfortable in banter mode…………………. BUT…………. most readers DO NOT care about how they click on real life…………… they want exciting and full of drama characters, and Q is simply in their minds bland, without any colorful past, and seemingly without much fault, thus most readers CAN"T self identify along him, while a lot of readers “self identify” with Gunther ……thus reason so many want G and L together, even thought G is shown in many cases in the past with a small hints of a fiery temperament and likes things “his planned way” and hates when things suddenly are not going according to his “life guide book” …and as I said yesterday, do not be surprised if Pru ends up putting L and Q together again

I see the other panels as contrast. They illustrate what happened on some Valentines Days in which Luann was appreciated.

Luann is growing up. It a lumpy road. On the New Years Eve panel I think she realizes that it’s not about Quill, Quill has his own life to live, just as she has. but (at age twenty) what has she done but looked for others to define herself. she has done lots of “shoulds” Graduate high school, start college, help out her family… I think she is realizing that she now has to start finding herself. She SHOULD be putting herself first at this point. For every choice you make a door closes. Others open, true, but other doors close forever. If Luann were my daughter, I’d recommend that she spend the next two years or so leaving home (at least 500 miles away) go live in or near a REALLY BIG city and trying new things. Go volunteer for a presidential candidate, or become a spear carrier for the Washington Opera society, work in Chicago head start and take classes at Second City. But build your own foundation and make it strong, strong enough to last loss of partners (marriage is no sinecure) health and wealth.

Okay, that’s a wrap. The Goodbye Girl sings “The Party’s Over” and Quill exits stage left. Time for the Mr. Gray Collection Agency to visit Nancy and Frank. (Although I’d love to see Rosa return and give Gunther the Valentine’s Day gift of his life).

I wonder if one difference in commentors might have to do with their personal histories of comic book reading. Several decades ago there was a study on reading ability. Comic book reading was included. If memory serves we first ran into mention of it in the New York Times back then. It turned out that those who read comic books as kids scored much higher in reading skills. The conclusion was that kids who read comics found the fun in reading and read more. Now, i am not of that generation, but i read a lot of comics in the middle of the last century, and i recall some other aspects then in comic reading which may have impacted how much a person thinks about what has been written and illustrated. Remember the variety in comic types available? We had Classic Comics, Adventures in Science, Metal Men (who had to echo their elements), Mad Magazine (which was a richer experience if kids also read the newspaper, as was also true on the morning cartoons w Rocky and Bullwinkle). We knew that cartooning had the ability to get some deeper ideas across than slap stick and kapowee fight scenes even if our parents had not all realized that. I think that skill as a habit carries over into reading the “funny pages” when we look at varied interpretations of what is happening in comic strips. The authors are so constrained by space that even with very careful wording choices and illustration there winds up being plenty of room for people to see how they interpret things based upon their own experiences, and i think the degree to which they do so is partly based on how much they have had that become the way they read, which in turn may be partly based on how much and what they have read — even back when they were children.

@maveric1usa – Better still. Luann goes shopping and sees a scarf she likes and buys it then the girls see her in the scarf and think she is with Piro and start asking her questions she can’t answer.

I want to send big thanks to Imp for yesterday posting the link to the Bonus Materials. My personal favorites all illustrated childhood perceptiveness and inventiveness. Shannon illustrates some of that, but i think i would like to see those aspects included more, and i suspect that Luann’s work helping with children might be a great venue for that.

Good point about being there vs. not.

Don’t break up! Don’t break up! Happy Valentine’s Day!

I’m not going to say that Gunther is really a romantic, but Luann made the valentine for Gunther specifically because he had given her valentines in the past:And here are a couple of examples of that:

OK can we now move on to what Mr. Gray wants…he said he and Luann’s parents would “talk” in February.

Why is everyone so down on Luann. All she wanted was Quill to spend a little time with her. He just ignored her when she spoke to him about her brothers wedding. They did have plans for New York and took a job without even talking to her first.

Yeah. Wasting our time is ONE way of saying this boring couple had bad timing.

Ratings certainly are ignored when the purge of the old kind of shows like Green Acres, Petticoat Junction and Beverly Hillbillies were ratings giants yet they were canceled anyway when the PTB wanted to change formats of their shows.

Except that you have it somewhat wrong.

I am a historian of television in my spare time, and I learned long ago that the reason those shows (and Hee Haw along with them) was that CBS felt their demographics had gotten too “unsophisticated”. That much you allude to properly, but the network didn’t ask for changes, they simply cancelled everything with a “rural” theme in 1970-71.

The network was looking for something new, not “fixed” versions of the old. And they got it, in the form of All In The Family, MASH, and Mary Tyler Moore.

There was an article in the Socionomist a few years back that made a correlation between those actions and huge dips in the stock market. Try Googling that.

A good call by Luann. She is not a priority in Quill’s life.

And I have a general question for those who post the old strips. I’m aware that the past few years are indexed at The Cartoonist Group, where rights are sold for reproduction, but how are you managing to find the really old strips you’re linking to here? Is there an online index of strips going back to the beginning that I don’t know about?

“If I could point out a nitpicky thing, why would a young boy like Aaron Whatsisname in the first panel be thrilled to get a great big flower arrangement from Tiffany? What’s he going to do with it, give it to his mother?”

I thought that was weird too. It’s usually the women who are thrilled to get flowers, and I’ve never seen a man even get a bouquet much less be thrilled about it. And these are kids which makes it even more weird.

Why is everyone so down on Luann. All she wanted was Quill to spend a little time with her. He just ignored her when she spoke to him about her brothers wedding. He was texting and calling back and forth with PRU but ignored Luann. They did have plans for New York and took a job without even talking to her first.

“In the last panel, Luann is no longer wearing the boomerang Quill gave her.”

“She’s not wearing the blue shirt we saw her wearing yesterday, either.”

Lol, very observant of you :)

this is the first time L & Q have actually talked (calmly) about the status of their relationship. If only they had done it earlier on instead of all the posturing and petty fights… BTW, when Tiffany gets wind of the break up she might start going after Q again and forget about Piro.

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Don’t you hate it when that happens? ;)

Let’s just kiss and say goodbye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue2_HrIth0Q

I just say it’s about time no matter what day it is!

Bummer. Hope they work this out.

Implausible said,Even though the flashbacks don’t make sense for the punchline, this was one of the better Sunday strips. So long Quill, and thanks for all the fish.======Yes, I had remarked (yesterday, I believe) that sometimes the Sunday strips have had relevance to the plot.

This is all cause we were upset with the cop out breakup when he was suddenly called back to Australia.

Yet the result is the same, they were about to have sex so they broke up.

@seismic2Don’t knock it, I proposed to my wife on April 1. It has been wonderful for the last 36 years and going strong.

This would be an interesting time to bring Aaron Hill back. I would be interested to see what has happened with him since we last saw him.

I love Luann with all my heart, that is why the following song keeps going through my noggin:.Come back when you grow up, girlYou’re still livin’ in a paper-doll worldLivin’ ain’t easy, lovin’s twice as toughSo come back, baby, when you grow up.You look real good like a woman nowYour mind hasn’t gotten the message somehowSo if you can’t take it and the goin’ gets roughCome back, baby, when you grow up.I want you girl but your wide-eyed innocenceHas really messed up my mind, yeahI’d rather you get your very first heartbreakSomewhere else along the line.Come back when you grow up, girlYou’re still livin’ in a paper-doll worldSome day be a woman ready to loveCome back, baby, when you grow up.Come back when you grow up, girlYou’re still livin’ in a paper-doll worldLivin’ ain’t easy, lovin’s twice as toughSo come back, baby, when you grow up

Come back when you grow up, girlYou’ve still got a lotta time left in the worldYou’ll some day be a woman ready to loveCome back, baby, when you grow up.

I’m glad this story line is over – at least I hope it is – but I am sad that their relationship is over. We will see what happens tomorrow.

“The Walking Dead which has real drama and the horrors are just window dressing.”

I’m a big Walking Dead fan, I just love this show because I have become so attached to the characters. The first episode I just happened to see was when Rick’s wife died and I was so moved I cried, which made me start the show from the beginning. When I thought Glenn had died I was almost hysterical and I felt sad for weeks. The character and plot development in this show is phenomenal. You are right; this show is really a character study before it is a horror show. Yay! The new season starts tonight :) I’m gonna check out The Strain now that you’ve mentioned it, I haven’t heard of that one.

Love, man it brings out commentary! Judging from the comments of the last few days, including deep ones on cartoonist motivations and business methods and the muse involved in producing a successful cartoon, GE and company is doing a job the stock market should be jealous of—constant upward growth and interest. Even with all the trolls, they at least show the interest level. On that point I just state my contrary view and move on, because some people just look at he world that way, glass half full, constant criticism, or to use a contemporary colloquialism, are snarky by nature. I would be a positivist, although that has another connotation in terms of being a rationalist, hmmmm… Anyway, I stated my feeling a few days ago that this relationship is coming to an end, but I reserved a possibility that this comic drama may have a misdirection play. Judging from this strip that still may be possible, given its view of the past of Luann’s adventures in love or affection, or affirmation. Quill was the one who reciprocated in a positive way, shown through his Valentine’s Day greeting over Skype while he was still Down Under. Now a year or two later he is here, they have been gf and bf , but now appear ready to break up on Valentine’s Day. Somehow I think there is a fox in the works here somewhere. Getting back up to my my comments about a successful cartoon the dramatic tension, expectation, unrealized possible plot devices, the device that keeps one, troll, or trufan, picking up the paper, or checking the internet listings, or both, is brilliantly done in this strip. Anyway lets AGAIN await developments.

Most of the commenters and observers seem to be getting their wish here. Team Evans often endures a lot of criticism, but appears now they do read the comments, opinions and suggestions. after all.

Well, yeah, I know all the strips are here. Duh. But people seem to be able to find specific strips to post regarding specific questions or statements made here, and I doubt those people are manually sorting through the online library to find them, as there are (including today) 11,292 daily installments.

I have to presume there’s an index somewhere of all those old strips.

So, on this Saint Valentine’s Day, Luann DeGroot realizes that she is and always has been Unlucky In Love, and splits from the Aussie actor. Ah, well, Quill, we hardly knew ye….

I don’t think I’m making myself very clear.

I know all the strips are archived here on GoComics. But I also know that on numerous occasions, people have been able to find exact strips to illustrate a post, and I sincerely doubt they haphazardly search all through that archive to find the “right” strip.

The Cartoonist Group (www.thecomicstrips.com) lets one search by topic or keyword or character name and is easy to use when trying to find a recent strip (and then, armed with the date, one can post the strip here by linking to the GoComics archive), but it only goes back around seven years.

What I want to know is if there is something like the Cartoonist Group archive covering the entire 30 years of the strip, because there sure seems to be …

You see, she was gonna be an actressAnd I was gonna learn to flyShe took off to find the footlightsAnd I took off for the sky

And here, she’s acting happyInside her handsome homeAnd me, I’m flying in my taxiTaking tips, and getting stonedI go flying so high, when I’m stoned

Yeah, not exactly relevant but it made me think of that song.

Ehhh, nice try, no prize. Not close enough to be a good match for a comment. The song is 100% about two phonies, two losers, who have proven their lack of drive for success. Right now, we don’t have enough detail to make that conclusion here. And if a breakup IS the story line,well, let’s see if you can find a song that fits the reality better. There are plenty of them to choose from!

We have only 2 more weeks in February to learn what Mr. Gray expects Frank and Nancy to do to repay him. It’s time we find out.

My opinion? Both instances were highly contrived reactions and overly aggressive in their focus and relentless drilling to make a point. If Sun disappeared (not trying to be funny with the weather image) because Greg figured it just wasn’t worth the time and effort to sustain a new minor and easily disposable character, then it’s an academic win for the challengers. How nice.It’s the 9-11 “outrage” here irked the crap out of me, though. There’s no way Greg was going to dishonor the legacy of that day, but all I kept reading about was the big party that shouldn’t happen.Allow me to drift off topic slightly to explain why some of us take offense to terms like “Trufan” and other monikers that suggest we blindly eat comic swill. Maybe we trust the cartoonist.Who remembers the arc about Delta’s cancer back in the late 90s, 1998 I believe? This was years before I knew Greg, but Luann ran in my hometown paper, so I knew his work.A small group of high school students, who probably hadn’t done their homework nor were they familiar with Greg’s track record, were up in arms that such a serious subject was part of the funnies. One of their favorite teachers was gravely ill from his battle with cancer.Most pro cartoonists had a pretty good hunch what inspired Greg to create this story. But all these students knew was that cancer was appearing in the comics. Inappropriate. Insensitive.Greg went out of his way to reply to the students, who (if I remember correctly) wanted the paper to drop the strip. Everything settled down and Luann survived. Unfortunately, the teacher did not.Today there is a memorial and celebratory run held every summer in this man’s memory.But there’s a Paul Harvey spin on my message. About 6 years after Delta won her battle, my wife and I lost our 21 year old daughter to a rare cancer that was detected when she was 19, just a few months after 9-11. Long story short. We’re making plans for the 12 annual 5k run and awesome after party party in her memory and for the thousands of kids like her. We’ve replaced grief with celebration and honor. The music is loud, the beer flows, hundreds of baskets are raffled off and the fun is non stop. When the celebration is over, there’s serious donation made to the pediatric division of our local prominent cancer research institute. Every year my town looks forward to the next run and party to remember these kids.Whether 3,000 people die at once in one location from one deadly enemy or whether they die over many weeks in hundreds of different hospitals and homes from another kind of terror, at the individual level loss is loss and the pain is just as real. Greg’s got a heart, I want him to be able to show it in his work if he wishes. Even if he “slipped” I’d know his intentions and motivation were in the right place and I’d want him to take on another important theme.Maybe the 9-11 wedding was moved to 12-11 to play it safe, but I think the whole stink put up here was an artificial exercise, mock outrage and an explicit attempt to spoil the party. If that’s the case then I think we were robbed of the opportunity to see how one of the best in the business would pull it off. Another “win” for the challengers, but really a loss for the rest of us.After a couple of adjustments like this, I wouldn’t blame either Greg or Karen if they never laid eyes here again. Let the driver drive. Over.

cspenols GoComics PRO Member said, 6 minutes agoWhat if Elwood Druit is the one giving Quill the spring Break job?======Elwood is no fan of Quill’s.

I still suspect Luann & Quill will end up reconciling and get back together. Although I do hope the breakup sticks. I think it could be far more fun to have Luann date someone else.

If he were only looking at her with his brainHe would’ve left, long, long agoPhysical desire holds a powerful swayBut ranting and ravingMight scare any awayHe wants to have herSoft and warm in his armsBut screaming and shoutingSets off DANGER alarms

@ sheriff mordecai: A celebration of love on 9/11 would swell my heart, but then, I’m looking to have joy in my heart. This year when we give to the Jimmy fund, we will think of your family. Today’s strip seems like Lu and Quill are finally getting real.

SPOILER ALERT

Oy, take two…

This is a cartoon and faults are exaggerated, but there needs to be some truth in the situation for there to be humor, right?Quill and Luann had a repeated argument about doing things together not often enough for her. Luann wants to do exciting things with a guy—a boyfriend. That isn’t reason enough to have a relationship or to time manage your life.IF Luann can have some insight to the problems of her expectations and relax in meeting and dating fellows (without falling into the compete with Tiffany syndrome), then this arc will not have been a waste.Luann can choose to do exciting things with her life without being on a guy’s arm. She could meet people that way.Yes, it is time to start growing up—just as Brad was allowed to do.