Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 26, 2019

Older brothers bullying younger sisters. {eye roll}

Well this is disappointing not to find out for certain that Santa was Brad or not. Also that is not the big chest Luann had in mind Brad.

i think he knows that he’s not that stupid, at least i would hope he isn’t but either way he has to tease her anyways. & it would be really funny if he was that stupid to climb in though

“One-Off” …

Just what she meant.

(Some are confused about such.)

He’s thinking boobs. She’s thinking murder.

Well played, Bwad…Well played.

I take it this is a repeat of a strip published some years ago, before Brad got married.

Luann didn’t notice that he paid $0 for her Christmas present.

POOF!

And just like THAT, the Shannon arc disappears without any resolution. This is, Without a doubt, the SHORTEST Shannon arc in recent memory, not that I’m complaining, mind you. Just surprised. It’s not often that horses are changed in mid stream. Or in this case, mid week. I mean:

1) No Beard pulling.

2) No Shannon snitching.

3) No sparks flying between Jack and Luann.

4) No gift for Jack’s niece.

Nothing. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch.

Just a clever pun about Luann’s “chest.” (Bravo, by the way :) )

I’m going to help the Luann and Jack shippers here. Luann should “re-gift” that chest to Jack. It would look great in the back of his pick up truck. Or maybe she should use it as a peace offering to Tiffany. A (locked) chest would come in handy to secure what few valuable she has left, in her new dorm room.

So. What does next week bring? A visit with the lads at the Gulag. A meet up with Tiffany’s new roomie? Or an untimely announcement from Ann Eiffel? ;)

At first, I thought that maybe Brad didn’t understand what Luann meant by wanting a “big chest.” Then again, considering Greg Evans’s penchant for dry humor and subtle teasing (and Brad’s smile), I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just banter between the two siblings.

This is a like the strip for December 25, 2009

Where’s Toni? Did Brad stay the night at the elder DeGroot home? He looks like he is dressed as if he had spent the night.

Paybacks can be Hazardous to your Life, Bwad.

Siblings are legally obligated to tease each other every chance they get.

Shouldn’t he be home with his wife?

I know it’s not brad’s style but he has matured a great deal. Maybe Luann should open the footlocker, could be another present in it. But if i know brad as well i do, he gives what he thinks are practical gifts—- even if he misunderstood something. Yes Brad, she meant bigger boobs to compete with Tiffany. But this works too…i guess this works too.

Good comeback Luann!

Luann has a decent chest – just not a giant one.

And the barbs with brother and sister still goes on.

Hmmm. The Christmas tree is black. The wreath on the wall is black. The ribbon and bow on Luann’s present is black. I’m wondering if there is a body in the box.

Brad – Well played- a Double Entendre gift and still frugal with giving. Hopefully Toni did better

Luann does have a big boob, for a brother.

“I said ‘…like the girls in Judge Parker or Liberty Meadows!’”

Wait a minute. Brad’s in his bathrobe. Didn’t he spend Christmas Eve with his wife at his house? Why was he sleeping at his parent’s house?

Fun banter between them! A little joking, with a practical gift as a bonus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwWJDk1aayA

The lad’s still got it! ;o)

Must be a throwback to the time before marriage or why would he be appearing in a robe at the DeGroot’s on Christmas morn in a robe. (And clean shaven to boot.)

Gotta believe that this is just an old cartoon resurrected to be a holiday fill-in.

Brad knew exactly what his sister was talking about so this is a very puny gift.

Love the play on words.

This is probably a Sunday strip, with no relationship to the plot

Old Army footlockers are better. The drill sergeants used to throw them around if you didn’t follow the pattern for layout correctly.

I got socks. :-(

Good one Brad. And the best part is that Luann loves both gift and joke. Their parents seem so happy to see what great relationship between siblings their children have.

The trunk/chest will come in handy when she packs to move into a dorm when she transfers to another college.

A return to those thrilling days of yesteryear.

flashback to old times!

Score 1 for Brad.

Oh…

? Toni?

If you had a big chest, Luann, you’d have more people interested in you because of your boobs. YOU decide if that’s a good thing.

Think I’ll take the rest of the week off. Sure looks like G&K have.

Let’s see: Luann fans are divided between Shannon-haters and give-Shannon-a-chancers. And frankly, both of us should feel gipped.

We saw neither Shannon destroying Christmas and Santa Claus for the rest of the kids (which the Shannon-haters were expecting) nor the touching realization that Santa, real or not, sometimes needs a hand, and the man who is the real father figure in her life was coming through.

Rather disappointing no matter which point of view you want to take.

At any rate, Happy New Year!

Repeat strip: It’s possible because I have seen other strips, when they do repeats, replace the copyright date with the current date.

But I agree with others: This strip is probably new. The fly in the ointment is Bwad in a robe (what is this, a Toga party?), suggesting he is still living at home, and the trunk, since his working for the fire department came after he no longer lived at home with Luann.

Methinks this is a “flashback” of sorts – with G&K unable to keep their retcons straight!

This is Brad’s revenge for what LuAnn did to him in “LuAnn Againn” today.

Perhaps something is in the trunk… Stay tuned!

Okay, that made me genuinely laugh.

Tacky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI

Two quick observations: One Brad is looking more and more like his Dad, Frank. Second this is a family mini-arc where Brad is clearly teasing his sister, and she is giving back as good as she gets. The fact that he is in a robe might merely mean that Toni was working, and he decided (have to keep reminding myself this is Luannverse, so I am projecting a narrative in fantasy, but I am clearly not the cartoonist)to stay over in his old room over the holiday gift-giving. Prudence said she would be visiting, although that was over Thanksgiving. So that ties it together in my mind anyway.

Eeewwww. This is about as disgusting as I’ve ever seen Evans get.

Brad, don’t talk about your sister’s tits.

I’m disappointed that Jack (and his shopping excursion ) got dumped from this arc. I’m still hoping there might be a gift from him in the pile.

A bigger chest would not improve her life. 1) She would have chronic backaches. 2) There’d be a number of things she couldn’t wear, like halter tops or tube tops, without looking like a sack of potatoes. 3) Drive-by shouters would continually harass her on the street, screaming lewd suggestions in the grossest language available, or simply hanging out the window making animal bellows. 4) She wouldn’t be able to jog, dance or do other bouncy exertions without either serious breast pain or wearing a strangling sports bra that leaves aching red marks . 5) Her job prospects would drop, because most employers—male and female—have a weird, unconscious prejudice that there’s some sort of inverse proportion of intelligence to cup size. (This has been tested and proven, using actresses posing as applicants, with identical resumes and interview styles but varying between their real size and seriously padded bras.) 6) She’ll have to take a whole new level of precautions against yeast infections underneath the mammaries.

On the plus side, they do make wonderful flotation devices.

Pretty sure he did not connect “chest” with boobs. He’s a guy after all. Sorry guys.

Still a clever kid, Brad. Satisfaction for Luann; cost to you, zero….

If you go through the strips over the last few months Luann’s bust measurement looks to be about the same as Toni or Tiffany. And there are some guys who prefer a woman whose individual breasts aren’t the size of her head or bigger.

No confusion here. For anyone above the 5th. grade, this is a joke about boobs, the kind of joke that girls call “cute” and the boys just smile knowingly.

For ~$4k Luann could find out

What brothers are for.

A footlocker, just in time for Boxing Day.