Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 01, 2016

Aaaaand…here comes the “E” word.

Remember the Luann Tracker?Yeah, me neither.Anyway, it’s being ressurected as Basket Case, aimed more generally at webcomics and newspaper strips as a wholeRight now, I’m asking for people’s recommendations for best single-panel gag strips.

Yeah, December 11th (or was it the 21st?) is so far away.

Elope just went to even money

elopement?

Perhaps Brad decided to take me up on my offer from yesterday:.BrdshttBrdshtt GoComics PRO Member said, about 24 hours agoThen do it now! Don’t hesitate! I’ll even go on line, pay the $3 to become a ‘ordained minister’, and perform the ceremony myself!

He’s going to recommend that she appropriate his mom and sister.

I just hope they take Shannon along to the Justice of the Peace to strew flowers to her heart’s content.

And while there get a 2 for 1 and adopt her already.

shes says i just want to be married already.time to end this nonsense and kick her to the curb.

I appears that Greg Evans is adamant about getting his 15th anniversary of 9/11 exploitation – er, “tribute” – wedding one way or another, no matter what.

I base it on the timing that will probably transpire for a “quickie” wedding.

There it is…

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm in 3 days? or in a sneaky move……….. in 11 days?

A lot of Sean Connery eyebrow action from Brad.

Get married, now, then repeat the vows on the scheduled date and have a party. . He might also be thinking in terms of a wedding planner or assistant (hopefully not TJ), but Tiffany would be quite good at that job. Tiff would love fussing over all that girly stuff.

[Psst. Hey Brad? Over Here! A some of questions BEFORE You take that Fateful Step! 1) Are You going to get Toni to sign a Pre-Nup? 2) Are You going to be using the Traditional Wedding Vows? You Know. Having Toni to Promise “Love, Honor” and Especially OBEY Bit? 3) And Will You Be…..,WHAT???

And to make the 9/11 wedding come about, they had to recon Brad into acting like a detail-oriented prissy freak (“table placement”???) instead of the slob that he has always been shown to be. A poor concept, poorly executed.

It’s hard to imagine a character like Toni having no friends.

An impromptu quickie at the Fuse with family and friends pitching in to celebrate seems like a happy alternative.

I like how Brad responds to Toni’s despair in panel 2. Very loving and mature of him.

Home ,home on the range ,where the dear and the elopement play………

Yep!

Yup, Brad’s going to suggest elopement tomorrow.

What ever happened to her girlfriend from EMT School?

We can only hope!

(Taking advantage of the 9/11 issue, to rouse comments:) The provocative force is strong, with such ones……

And I keep saying it… keep it simple and get it done!

Elope!

Looks like they are building up to eloping just in time for 9/11 which was the date they were initially interested in in the first place.It’s not a date I’d want for an anniversary but it’ll work for them.

I have a crazy idea… let’s drag this out for another week, at least!

Courthouse, here we come!

Mad About You

How many of us seen this coming?

if brad don’t I will

urgh…… please don’t be cliche

However they get married is fine. Really.

“I have an idea…”“No Brad, I’m not dancing naked in the fountain.”

Well, they did originally want to get married on 9/11. And, it’ coming closer. Elopement with just a SMALL group of people, or at the courthouse would be perfect except 9/11 this year is a Sunday. So SMALL wedding on a Sunday at the house.

JP at City Hall or the Fuse: “Toni, will you take this man so that we can end this arc once and for all…”

Small wedding at the The Fuse, where Leslie steals the wedding presents and is caught, revealing him as the low life he is.

Grab Nancy and Frank and Luann, Shannon and TJ, and get a quick bridal dress and Maid of Honor dress, and two Men’s Wareehouse tuxedos, then get married at CIty Hall, assuming they have the marriage license. These are Toni’s family now anyway, or the only one she knows. Done!! And Shannon gets to throw flowers over everywhere, as someone else suggested. Then they can face life together, including Toni’s brother situation.

EVANS PLEASE DON’T GET TONI HEART OR BRAD EATER

I’M 73 YEARS OLD CAN’T SPELL NEVER COULD LOT OF MISS SPELL WORES

Get out TJ – We got 24 hours for our honeymoon.

And don’t worry about knocking down any more walls, we’ll take care of that.

Is Brad about to go from fantasies of a huge, elaborate wedding to suggesting Elopement?! That seems hard to believe. Maybe he’s going to suggest that they live together starting now, before their marriage….

Elope and then a kick-ass party at the venue in December!

“… instead of stressing out”.

Get married now.That takes the pressure off the ceremony.(Wedding ceremonies are merely public displays of private decisions.)

Yay!!!!

5I really HOPE the two of them DO NOT decide to elope or do the “justice of the peace” thing. In my opinion, it is only going to short change the family (at least the DeGroots side) and could cause hurt feelings. I think a wedding should be a celebration with family.

I just don’t get the “elopement” buzz here. Doesn’t that mean to run away secretly with each other in order to skip the parental consent part? None of that seems relevant. And isn’t September 11 still problematic because of job conflicts? So that leaves us with 1) J.P. quickie, 2) small intimate wedding with close family only or, my favorite, 3) loving civil ceremony conducted by T.J. with entertainment provided by the DUO of Jonah and Shannon. yay ….

Meanwhile, Shannon is strapped into a hot car. . . . .

I’m putting bets that they’ll be married for the 9/11 strip, as they had originally wanted.

Toni has no girlfriends. Any friends at all? Looks like Brad found a gorgeous loner.

Who had September 1 in the elopement pool?

Perhaps eloping on 9/11? (gotta drag it out for a few days, right?)

I’m calling it, they’re going to elope and the strip were they get married will run on September 11th just like Greg wanted to have their wedding on in the first place before people complained.

“Acceptance Speech”

“A Walk To Clear The Air”“Nitty Gritty”“Core Expressions”“The Heart Of The Matter”“Skinny Deep”“Communication Channels Open”“Happy Wife- To- Be, Happy Life To See”“Acknowledgement Is Power”“Listen And Learn”“One, Two…If Only I Could Skip A Few”“Time….And A Word” (♪)“L….O….V…E…” (♪♬)“Hurry Up And Wait” “Hall Monitors”“A Court Of Popular Opinion”“Bench Press”“A Spotter Waits To Spot The Weight”“One Wild And Crazy Guy!”“You Look Sharp, When You Use A Paring Knife”“You Can’t Hurry Love?” (♬)“Wine On The Vine, A Fine Time On My Mind”“The Doctor Needs Patience”or“Fast Forward…But Not Reverse”

Common law bride!

Loaning her his sister and mother will not work. Doesn’t anybody remember that it was Brad’s DAD who sad that he wished that he’d had a fancier wedding? Mom didn’t care.

Been saying it since last week. Saturday’s strip is them coming home and telling TJ and Shannon they eloped.

Maybe Brad will punch Jonah out after the ceremony and spend the wedding night in jail.^^Brad is NOT the fighting type

Nothing going on here for weeks.

And it’s a damn site cheaper!

Toni is exhausted from working a full shift at the fire station, dealing with Jonah and a screaming Shannon. All she wants to do is go home and sleep. She would not get married this day.

I hope Brad’s idea is “you go home and sleep, TJ and I will take care of Shannon and make sure she gets home”.

I would rather see a wedding because there could be so many things done/said with the other characters as they witness the wedding. Also I love bridal gowns. Plus, having had a very small wedding my first time, I did not have the joy of having pictures (did not have video then) to look back on. By the 2nd time I had children so were able to have “first family pictures” which they could do with Shannon (even if they adopt her later on she will have memories of being part of the beginning of their family)

Oooooh so many disappointed DeGroots. I don’t think Toni’s brother gives a damn. Shannon might though…

Well, i could be wrong or i could be right, but ever since Toni suggested the Fuse for their wedding i have been expecting a fun, slightly to somewhat informal wedding there for these two. To heck w the deposit on Cottage 4 2. In three months of Luanniverse time (less?) something fun could be put together there. Time will tell and meanwhile we get a fun ride in getting wherever we are going.

Frank… regarding the comment you left for me yesterday:I actually do have a pretty robust sense of humor in my day-to-day life. I had hoped and thought some of it at least percolates through here in the comments, but I do admit that I am a bit more careful in my attempts at humor here. For me, I have seen often how electronic communication has some distinctive pitfalls inherent in it, that makes intended meanings by authors sometimes difficult to “pick-up”I know that my own abilities to express humor electronically are less than perfect, and so I tend towards more earnest (perhaps overly earnest?) communication electronically because I feel more successful in imparting what I really mean.When I do find ways I feel I can successfully interject my (somewhat odd, somewhat dry) humor in my electronic communication, I do… but sometimes I shy away a bit because I fear my humor could be misconstrued and inadvertently hurt someone’s feelings…. which is never my intention.So, I guess, in a nutshell…. I feel less confident in my abilities to write out my humor successfully…. and so I probably don’t seem as “humorous” here as I (hope I) do seem in real life. As far as my avatar (which you also asked about)…. it is actually no one famous, but it was painted by Van Gogh and is entitled “Portrait of an Old Man with Beard”. I chose it because it damn near looks like it actually IS a portrait of me. My wife even was surprised when I first showed it to her.

Hmmmm, i notice that a couple of people who chronically appear to complain (yet sometimes their clarifications read better and less as complaints) are not only postulating but going into complaints about the author – NOT about what is actually appearing in the strip but instead how that interacts with the hypotheses they themselves have advanced. That is rather like borrowing trouble since none of us know if the ideas they are advancing will actually come to pass. You do realize (or do you not?) that until we know if your postulations are correct it is more accurate to admit that you are complaining in large part about your own postulations rather than about the strip, right?

Isn’t Shannon still in car??

elopement in his original intended meaning, meant someone running away never to comeback with the lover (usually to get married, but sometimes if one or both are already married, to simply live together ) but today usually we talking about avoiding big wedding and its cost and having only a very small party ( from 2 unknown people as witnesses to usually biggest party of witnesses being a dozen as in family and/or very close friends )

Yes, i think Toni is shy so some people she thinks she just knows might consider her a friend because they care more for her than she realizes.

I said it last week

Elope now, don’t tell anyone, plan Brad’s big day with the pressure off. Follies abound! That’s been done so often I’m sure Team Evans will come up with something more original.

I’m waiting for them to sit down in the grass and get ants in their pants.

It blows my mind how many people commenting complain daily about the plot, and yet they are here everyday to share their wisdom. You would think they were paying ticket prices for a show.

I was married on 9-11-82. On 9-11-01, of course like the rest of the world we were horrified. We had actually gone to a concert the Saturday before, as a pre-anniversary gift. We were planning additional activity on the week-end following. On 9-11-02, we went out for an anniversary celebration dinner. We REFUSED to not celebrate on OUR anniversary. To do anything else in our thinking, was , and IS letting those bastards win something from us all. Our Anniversary predated the awful events of the day by 18 years. If anyone had asked on 9-11, even now about our celebrating ANYTHING i would tell them the same, and tough if they don’t like it. We are not being selfish. we are taking a stand.

FYI, NO ONE has ever questioned us.

addendum to my post:I said “We had actually gone to a concert the Saturday before, as a pre-anniversary gift. We were planning additional activity on the week-end following.” I meant to add that of course we did not.

trilogy said,“Some people like to lob a grenade and run…but the always return to the scene of the crime.”.Maybe they’re spreading the joy.

I am not so sure that Toni would be all that “giddy” if she had mom, sisters, etc to get excited with. I wonder if it is just in someone’s nature or not. Sort of a giddy-gene. My ex-wife had 4 sisters, an enthusiastic mother, and tons of girl friends. So we had a quiet wedding on the beach with only one witness and the minister!

Foretold the elopement at the start of this string! Yeah.

I hate how it takes over a year for super predictable things to happen in this strip.

How come she doesn’t count Shannon as some female to get giddy with? Shannon was so excited she threw flour everywhere. Watch, they’re going to have Shannon be a witness to the elopement. It’s perfectly appropriate because she’s just six and can’t figure out that weddings involve flowers.

My outlook on smoking: I never could see sticking something in my face and setting fire to it.

Yes please! Elope and put us all out of our misery! But, I suspect even eloping will have its moments…

Las Vegas IS for quickie weddings…RENO is for quickie divorces

Wow! The definitive word today appears to be “jump” with some people jumpy and some people jumping to conclusions. The second can be cured with time when we see which guesses were right or wrong. For the second, perhaps a number of us are under added pressures right now and just need a bit of gentleness not only from others but from ourselves, as well as perhaps a reminder to treat others that way, too. There do seem to be some who are picking fights without cause or even triggers. Jump much?

Maybe Brad will punch Jonah out after the ceremony and spend the wedding night in jail.He’d also have to learn a new line of work, since he would get fired. I think that if you have a criminal record, it disqualifies you from being a firefighter.

it’s about time…… :D

Don’t get lung cancer or have a heart attack if you still use tobacco. High School golf teammates of mine have dropped dead; major girlfriend in summer of ’68 dead from lung cancer 11 years ago, and all of my parents and step-parents dead from tobacco use.I sympathize with you. My mother was a heavy smoker for as long as I could remember. We all tried to get her to quit, but she’d stubbornly refuse. She finally did quit in 1989, but the damage had already been done. She passed away on July 15, 1992. The last day I saw her alive was the day she went to the hospital on June 30 of that year. (She requested that I not visit her, as she didn’t want me to see her dying.)

SPOILER

YAY!

looks like Bwad got the point! save the wedding money and have a good honeymoon,somewhere warm!

Spoiler Alert III: They are headed into the courthouse to sue each other for marriage.

Heavens! What will all the 9/11’ers here on the board have to gripe about now? This is likely to ruin their whole day week…

And I wholeheartedly approve. Didn’t Michael and Deanna of “For Better or Worse” elope as well?

Aw man, why is toni’s eyes like that? Its been like that for the past comic strips