Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 04, 2016

You got that right, Bernice, that Mrs. DeGroot isn’t up to speed… just like you were (before the New York thing).

I love how Berniece is trying to play it cool after the fact.

So, I guess Pru isn’t going to NY, she’s just going to give them some tips on the best things to see there?

I wonder what is in those white cans they’re drinking…

be careful Mrs. D ……….. if you keep it up, your eyes will stay wide open forever, almost like botox

-But Luann did talk to her mother about the possible trip to New York with Quill. So the surprise on Nancy’s face isn’t because of a trip to New York. It’s because Nancy didn’t expect to see either a Luann who wasn’t in tears, or Luann and Prudence acting like friends…

Dog forbid that there might be actual dramatic tension in this strip.

Ms. Deer, say hello to Mr. Headlight.

Nancy hasn’t scratched her scalp this hard…since the dandruff incident of ’93…

What would be the fun of going with Pru, someone who has had the experience of living in New York? It would be a lot more interesting to see Luann and Bernice bumbling around over there!

Not too many of you have been parents here I guess, particularly of daughters. They are full of surprises,so you roll with the punches,which is what Nancy is doing.

Well, at least we have now introduced Pru to the standard “sit on the floor and lean against the bed” method of havinggirl talk in the Luanniverse.

So you’re saying they’re not cans or glasses of milk but, what, coconut punches?

First sign that Luann is growing up.

“The Need For Speed”“A Brief Debriefing”“Fog Report”“Nancy’s Extra Worried Surprise”“Through The Looking Glass”“If You Only Knew”“That’s News, To Me!”“Great Un-expectations”“Bits And Pieces”“Out Of The Loop di Loop”“A Fine Mess I’ve Gotten Myself Into”

“There Must Be Some Misunderstanding…” (♪)“…Feels Like Being Cloned…” (♪)“She Ain’t Got A Ticket To Ride” (♫)or“Cancel Red Alert”

Any good cartoonist should get more than a day or two out of a situation where confusion results from characters having radically different information. Evans has now dropped that ball twice.

Funny! :)

….or drencrom…..

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I knew there would be a happy ending eventually but I didn’t know Quill would get killed out of the comic strip.

Well Quill was strictly for the birds!Just be glad he wasn’t out to feather his own nest…

yeah, and then after the hyper wears off, comes the crash. Standby Mrs. D.

meanwhile…back at the Fuse…father is still wondering how to get home!

life goes on

Quill may not yet be completely out of the strip. He is still roommate with Gunther, Quill may have left The Fuse, but not Mrs. Berger’s house. Possibly, we will see an arc between Quill and Gunther, with Quill packing to leave?

With Luann being this OK right after a breakup, somewhere in her heart she knew the relationship wasn’t good for her for a long time.

Gee, we’re up to Greg 3.4 Is that better than DOS 2.0 ?

Seems like Luann got over Quill really fast! What the hey!? His loss, right?

now it’s time for Luann to let her mom grow up too.

Strange asking it now, but wasn’t it strange Luann didn’t contact Nancy about the breakup after she texted Bernice? I would think Bernice lives further away than where The Fuse is.

Hmmm. Quill’s show folds, and he ends up stalking Luann and Bernice in NYC. Delta comes to NYC with a group of students to protest a Trump event, gets roughed up by KKK, tossed out, and rescued by L & B. Pru hooks them up with friends, who think L & B are a couple. L & B have a grand time sans guys, but get horribly mugged on their last evening.

Wonder if Frank got an Uber or if he’s still at the Fuse…

“We Are WOMEN!”“WATCH Us BORE!”“If You DON’T Like It,”“There’s the DOOR!!!”

A A REJECTED Line from that ANNOYING Helen Reddy Song.

Who can stay up to speed with the mood changes in females?

NOW they need some of Dez’s brownies! Let the celebration begin.

“How quickly horns turn into halos.”*(But I repeat myself— Mrs. D & Pru both had imaginary horns yesterday.)

why does pru look like the bride of max headroom?

What? No drama? Wait for it…wait for it.

I am loving this, so glad Luann is not a mess over the breakup and is handling it like a mature woman. Sure, she’ll have some sad times and regrets, but she realized the relationship wasn’t going anywhere with Quill’s emphasis on his acting career. About the only thing that isn’t realistic here is Quill’s sudden rise to leading roles in touring shows. Not really enough dues paid in the real world of Broadway.

It’s safer for them to sit on the floor. That way, when they finish those triple Long Island Iced Teas they are celebrating with, they won’t have so far to fall after they pass out before they hit the floor.

I can attest to this from personal experience. Back in 1995, I visited NOLA (pre Katrina) for the Microsoft “Tech Ed” conference. I checked into the Hilton, right on the Boardwalk. Hit the outdoor Boardwalk to check it out. Temps at the end of March were in the mid 80’s. I was burning up and offering Gunth some serious “hyperhydrosis” competition So I see a stand that looks like they’re selling “slushies!” “SLUSHIES,” I thought… “COOL! Flavors,,,, Hnnnnn…. Uhhhh OK, I’ll have an Ice Tea Slushy!”

“Long Island Ice Tea……”

Within an hour, I realized what I had done. Of course, I was unaware of the prevalence of “Frozen Daiquiri” bars all over the city.

I learned my lesson that day… thankfully, with no ill effects as the conference didn’t really start until the next day. But I was lucky to make it to dinner that night.

“Yes, that one day I spent with those little kids, I made enough money for this trip.”_“That makes sense!”

Delta has been replaced. Quill is gone for good. Life goes on.

What a mundane ending to what could have been drama. Mrs. D in an accident and the first responders Brad and Toni.

What’s not realistic is that no woman is like that after a breakup whether she instigated it or not. I suspect that will come later after the NYC trip excitement.

-Glad Bernice caught her up before Nancy blurted her misconceptions

You and I must have different versions of this ’toon. The one on my screen shows Luann telling her mother that she and Bernice are going to New York, and Prudence explaining that they will be going with the tickets that Luann bought for Quill. The only thing I see Bernice doing is a modified snark at Luann for not catching her mother up…

Thinks don’t just happen, but they happen just — and fast, too.

After racing all the way here, you bet she’s not up to speed.

Pru will not be going to New York for a vacation. She will be going there with her two new friends to show them the sights.

SO IT IS CLEAR ~ ALL THIS IS STILL HAPPENING ON VALENTINE’S DAY.

Boyfriends, they come and go. But buds are forever.*I hate to nitpick (not true) but this room layout really bothers me. Mom comes in looking straight ahead to people who turn out to be on her right. Anyone else care?

Best way to handle a break up.. a good Cry, Good Friends, Happy memories and a road trip. Wooooo

Luann and Ben in NYC ! Like the sailors in “42 Street” !!

8Very nice and funny. I especially like Bernice being all cool, calm and collected acting, when just a little while ago, she was in the same position as Luann’s mom. Thoughts I have been pondering:1. Is Quill REALLY gone, or will he return and Luann and he will reunite? At this point, all signs seem far more positive that Quill may really be gone! That suggests that there will be a lot of opportunity for Luann to have many, many fun story arcs!2. Although it is VERY realistic…. Luann saying "goin’ " instead of going is one of the behaviors some people use in speech that are wholly cringe inducing in me. I am not sure why the dropping of the “g” affects me so, but it always has. Long, long ago while my wife and I were dating, she used to have the habit of dropping her “g” sounds at the end of words. Even though I tried to NOT react, after we dated a while, she could tell that I was cringing internally when she dropped a “g”. She, very kindly worked to stop that habit, even though I never asked her to.

Better dead than not read, I s’pose.

Referring to Quill being artistically erased.

Bernice is rather smug considering the fact that she:1. Had the exact same reaction as Nancy, and2. Actually heard about the breakup straight from Luann, meaning she (unlike Nancy) had the perfect chance to get the full story before jumping to conclusions.

So yeah, Bernice sucks.

Was it Yogi who said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”? Well, Luann, don’t look at the rear view mirror, pack your party panties, and go.

Are those cans or flasks?

-Actually, Mordock seems much less morose when he has his daily quota of coffee. He’s been a sad soul since he gave it up for Lent…

-I would also like to see Ben return, and Bernice and Luann become a lot better about ‘sharing’ him. With Ben in the picture, no reunion with Quill is necessary at all…

-several things I dare not post here

LOL! Let’s hope we don’t have to call him POTUS…

Time to switch gears, Nancy (or should I say “Mrs. D”?). Instead of going bug-eyed with worry over Luann’s break-up with Quill, worry about her and Bernice alone in New York City, or, as you probably will think of it, Sin City!(I recall the time I had to shepherd my college debate team around NYC during a tournament there; we were from further down the coast, and I as a senior and president of the debating society was the one in charge and responsible….)

I think that people’s varied perceptions of Luann’s degrees of maturation reflect much more of what those individuals have as weighted values than providing an accurate assessment.

There are a great many ways in which people mature and it is not one steady progression. People mature in different ways, at different rates, and in fits and starts. That happens with us all.

So, there are ways that each of the youths depicted is more mature than others but also ways in which they are less mature.

Claiming that one is more mature than another simply bevause that individual has matured in a way a given poster values highly in his or her own life is an unfair statement, since in each case so far the reverse coukd just as accurately be claimed simply by weighting the areas of maturation differently, and that woukd be no more wrong or right because it, too, would reflect nothing more than a poster’s personal preference.

Hense, the observation that such statements say more about what the poster personally values than anything else.

Didn’t your friends warn you, “Don’t drink the (tea) water”?

They’d have had no reason to. And, besides, there were a ton of other flavors as well. I just happened to pick Long Island Ice Tea.

Um, it was a joke…

Oops, sorry… ;-) My boss at the company actually did warn me before I left, saying that the VP often frequented NOLA unexpectedly and to be sure I wasn’t “caught with my pants down….” or something to that effect. ;-)

Bob C. said, less than a minute ago @wiselad and namrepus if you think her eyes are wide open now, wait until she hears Pru’s story! Greg will be able to put two more panels – one in each eye!