Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 13, 2016

well, at least you tried, T.J., to come up with a sit-com

“Situation Room”

“Sketchy People”“We’re Living In A Material World…” (♪)“A Comedy Of Errors”“Easy As Falling Off A Dialogue”“Show And Tell”“Programs And Cons”“Feeling A Bit Skit-ish”“Channeling Your Energies”

“Giving Him Static”“Room For Improv-ment”or“Fodder Knows Best”

I like it when Brad wins one of these little ‘confrontations’ with TJ. TJ is just so smug about how ‘smart’ he is, compared to everyone else on the planet…

Good. Well, that’s the contractual obligation to have TJ appear in the strip over and done with for a while, again.

Whoa! My computer just switched into Daylight Saving Time, and is telling me it’s 3:10 am. I better go switch my collection of battery powered clocks…

Not amused..However..a change from the who loves who (or is it whom?)

And I have another dumb question for which the answer is “wait and see” … if Quill is going to be off doing Drama at Moony but apparently not seen (so we can quietly forget he existed) but The Fuse is still going to be presenting shows, does this mean old shovel to the face Manezon is going to show up again, or was her cameo with Zebō the end of her existence in the Luanniverse since Quill was her primary reason for turning up occasionally?

Brad wore the same shirt for 25 years, who is HE to judge? :p

I think a Knute & Krystal sitcom would be better.

Please get back to Gunther and Tiffany. Please have TJ go away forever.Thanks.

I have yet to see TJ at The Fuse. Isn’t he an owner?

not the author of the book TJ is reading: “Bets Shucant” … = Bets You Can’t .Wonder if it’s also G.E. poking fun at those who believe they can write a comic strip better?

Well Brad, at least You were RIGHT about “Grin-Boy” being an IDIOT.

Which makes Your continuing to ALLOW this Conniving Jackball to Hang Around, even MORE Inexplicable….,

T.J. is the Eddie Haskel of today.

I really enjoy how much was communicated w TJ’s eyes in these panels.

I can’t believe no one pointed out the sandwich groaner that TJ wants to document their daily grind(er) as poor boys.

TJ also partly financed the Fuse. Shannon actually got Frank and him to directly discuss it, if my recollection is correct.

I count five. “We’re a law riot” isn’t a joke.

By itself, without baggage, it is a funny joke.I can see what Puzz was saying, though. We all have some things that carry baggage and wound up really hurting us at some point. Of course, there is no way for others to know that. We all have such things and we all wind up at times inadvertently awakening pain in others, too. So, i think Puzz’s comments were not at all about you, Brd, but about the pain that recollection holds.

Boy, i am really typing in substitute words a lot today, aren’t i? Paper was made at that time often from recycled cloth, not paper, and usually from linen, if memory serves.

I have mild dyslexia. It never bothered my reading because i had books published in England amd ones in the U.S. so i figured many words had multiple spelling, and reading was fun, so… If i am rushed, tired or a little sick (today) it kicks up worse. Luckily, besides being exasperating at times it can also be funny. One day decades ago when i had influenza Steve popped in during the middle of the day to check on me. He’s a doting hubby, was then and is now. At the time i was having a long, hot soak to ease breathing and keep my body temp in a good range for fighting the virus. So when he called out asking how i was, i replied that i was in the tub, or more accurately i TRIED to reply with that. Instead it came out as, “I’m in the sink.” My second try was worse: “I’m in the toilet.” It was not until my third attempt that the right word came out.

In the U.S., BTW, one of the pushes to improve literacy was connected to the cost for shopkeepers of having illustrations near cans or boxes to show their contents. Words were cheaper.

So, we have to wonder if Bernice will thank the plague if they go out to fulfill the expression (as one poster said, rather like glad rags) and buy her the mentioned “party panties” for the NYC trip.

We also have to wonder if the students depicted ever thank the plague and grocers when they open their texts.

That was incredibly offensive, Ralph.

Whew! Glad to see the waters calm again!

I find your reasons for abstaining mentions of politics to be wonderfully considerate, Bird!

Life sure does have its strange silver linings to be grateful about, Jay! I am also glad i do not invert that way.

If anyone gets confused by Brd’s note to me, that is only because i removed the post. All is well!

I am guessing that “TJ and the Brad” is a parody take-off of the TV series B.J. and the Bear, which featured a pretty-boy truck driver (=TJ)and his pet chimpanzee (=Brad). Not distinguished as high art, but it did last three seasons….But I don’t want to accused of taking TJ seriously!

Ok, i have a question for those here with longer recollections about the characters. People often refer to TJ as a con man, but i do not recall anything that indicated that he really has been one, just some people wondering about his truck. So, that mght only be people assuming the worst.

There are two reasons i ask. The first is because his investment and the Fuse itself could be at risk if there is anything to it, maybe even if there isn’t but suspicion arises.

The second reason is that for at least a decade there has been a fable in tv and movies of the con man with a heart. It replaced the gun slinger with a heart fable, i think. Of course, anyone hurt by a con man feels differently, as did my hubby’s grandma about gunslingers. As a young child she was lucky to escape bullets shot through their front door by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who made most of their income with protection rackets imposed on those who could not defend themselves.

So, i was wondering if they ever played into that fable with him, or if only people’s suspicions voiced in the comments section were so definite. Anyone know?

Thanks for answering my question, Puzz!

Brad did a good job.

Comedy is lost on TJ today.

Last TJ appearance before today was on January 23, right before the “Gunther thinks he wants Bernice” story arc started:

The firefighter meal scam ran over eight year ago, starting on September 24, 2007. Here are the key strips from that story arc:

You’re welcome.

Thank you very much! – I’m sure your neighbor was very glad for your kind assistance! My wife and I can relate to the situation in a sort of connected way, in that we had a rear tire blow out a while back, (nail, glass, mysterious something or other), as we left a store parking lot, with a smoking hub trying to make it back to our place! Fortunately, we were only a minute away, a couple of blocks from our house. Gives me pause, though, whenever we’re out and about, in being mindful when it comes to what’s in/on the street, and when it comes to the potholes…especially if we’re getting on the interstate!

I guess Jay and I were both looking up strips at the same time. At least we only duplicated one.

Glad all are safe now, Brd. You folks are salt of the earth.

-SPOILER ALERT, MEANWHILE

No, Gunther, tell us what you think…

I’m guessing you’re from the US. The staff (including reporters) at BBC and Al Jazeera are just as human as the staff at any of your American media. So they also report based on their biases. Years ago an investigative reporter in the Chicago area (if I remember correctly) covered a case that seemed simple – a policeman was shot by a known bad guy. Later an informant told the reporter some information that also fit the facts – but showed the ‘bad guy’ wasn’t the bad guy. Same facts, different bias/viewpoint completely changed the case around. I couldn’t find the reporter’s original short squib about it – but here’s an article after he viewed the case with a different mindset: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1976/08/22/page/1/article/4-years-in-jail-and-innocent/index.html