Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 20, 2020

Guess those weren’t final notes after all…

oh, boy

A grown man with his grown daughter? However will they survive?

This is actually the plot of an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” …

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559854/

I wonder if we have already had the moment where Laura tells the current staff of the Fuse that she is taking Pru’s old job, or is she is marching off to the Fuse to make that announcement and play her, “Because I am the owner” card.

Luann sounds like a good kid at this point. It looks like Luann – not Frank – is going to do the stuff that Nancy mentioned. Not sure what Frank is worried about at the moment.

Puddles is headed for the dryer.

Just WHAT does Frank do?

Why is Luann worried? What does she know about The Fuse or the Cafe Kablooie crew? Or that she will discover Pru’s secret? (No deposit and the illegal lingerie sales).

And does Luann KNOW why her mom is working now? My guess is she is clueless. I think she thinks her mom simply wants to keep busy and decided to work outside the home I hope Frank might say, “It’s your fault, you know, that my wife is not feeding me or doing my laundry. She’s gone working to pay for YOUR tuition.”

It’s Nancy’s turn to have a midlife crisis thing. The roller coaster car is about to leave the boarding platform…hang on!

We’ll see if they got it or not.

So who gets the vacant room? It sounds as if Frank’s best bet is to rent it out for free in exchange for housekeeping and cooking chores.

i’d love to say Luann has got this but we all know better don’t we? but she’s at least gonna give it the old try i think. Frank though is clueless

Frank is playing the weak, spineless, and confused husband!!

I wonder where we’ll go from here. Will the rest of the week be Nancy figuring out her new job, or Frank and Luann attempting and failing to manage even the simplest of chores because Nancy always does it? While I would much prefer option 1, my gut says we will be subjected to option 2.

I keep hearing this song by “The Who” playing in the background as Nancy is waving ’bye…

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♫ I’m free, I’m free

And freedom tastes of reality

I’m free, I’m free… ♪

The two of you doing the same jobs that she once did alone? I think you’ll learn how to do them soon enough.;-D

Fantastic, congratulations Nancy. I think she is doing this is much for herself, as for any help on Luann’s tuition. Community College tuition is quite reasonable, one of the selling points of community college. No I think it makes all kinds of sense, sort of women’s liberation Luannverse style. I think what is going to be most important, with some silliness of course, is the effect that a sensible, wise, loving, but very strong Nancy will be on the lost souls who work there, specifically, Tiffany and Leslie.

So it turns out that neither Luann nor Frank have done any housework like cooking, cleaning, or washing. Their reactions today make a great case for why all the housework shouldn’t have to fall on moms alone.

Hilarity will ensue … So let it be written, so let it be done ….

Oh. Guess enough time has passed for Nancy to have taken bartending lessons and gotten licensed to serve alcohol. Huh. Seems legit.

Wake up, Frank! 1974 is a new world!

By next Monday the “new job” excitement is long gone.

Domestic disaster waitin’ to happen.

Ah-HA!

See what you get for taking Nancy for granted all these years, family? Shame, Shame, SHAME on You!

But there’s GOOD News. There’s a guy that lives in a nearby Gulag that’s a great cook, and can handle a washer/dryer in his SLEEP. He’s good with pets as evidenced that he once saved Puddles life. And he would have GLADLY helped you for FREE.

The BAD news is Frank, that your daughter completely ALIENATED the poor “dweeb,” a couple of months ago.

We all have to make sacrifices in this time of great need.

Suck it up Frank it isn’t the 1950’s

Maybe her first day shouldn’t be a full shift.

Hate to say it, but I think there’s a strong possibility that this arc ends with Nancy having a hard time on the job, deciding that her true calling is doing Frank’s laundry, and going back home.

It amuses me that everyone gets bunged up and argues over a comic strip.Nancy, probably doesn’t HAVE to work. Why would she just now HAVE to. I guess they make decent money off of the Fuse or whatever it’s called. She hasn’t worked in 20 years, now she HAS to? I don’t buy it.And why would any of this be Luann’s fault? It’s a comic strip, relax and see it for what it is. MAKE BELIEVE.

Puddles need a pill? For what? Poor doggo. I like how much Luann care about her mother. Let’s hope Nancy will have a blast at The Fuse. Even if the first days are almost always the worst.

I hope this will force Luann to grow up a little. For Heaven’s sake, she should at least already be giving her own dog his pill!

Frank is a realist, and it’s sinking in now…

I’m impressed by the way Luann is stepping up! She seems willing to try and wants her mom to have a good experience. Frank, on the other hand is being drawn kicking and screaming into the new situation. However, if he will embrace it and learn a few basic domestic skills that everyone, male and female, needs to know he will feel better about himself and more positive about this change. I think he will eventually come around. When someone has been spoiled and pampered all these years as he has a big change like this can feel intimidating and uneasy.

and tomorrow’s strip will see her sitting at home exhausted

But she has no experience with bartending or event planning.

Luann and Frank should be able to shop for groceries. they have driver’s licenses and access to a car. they know what they eat.

No it’s cool Frank, you just keep sitting around at home rather than go check in on the establishment that you own. /s

My folk’s marriage was like that, my mom did all the cooking and house work. I think my dad could make scrambled eggs and that was it. It worked for them, they were married 66yrs when my dad passed. To this day she still wears both her wedding ring and his.

No, it’s not fair to dump it on Luann; her mother made it clear she WANTED to go to work over hiring someone. They brought this on themselves by buying and creating the Fuse.

The writers don’t seem to have thought until now about how owning a restaurant might affect a family’s domestic life. I imagine that it would actually be very difficult for the whole family to have just continued its daily routines undisturbed. Frank might have even had to learn a little about food preparation.

Of Course she should leave them a list of what to do! Nancy has been doing everything for over 20 years. Frank and Luann will not know what to make for dinner unless she tells them. I doubt if they will clean up after dinner. They would never think to look for wet clothes in the washer that need to go in the dryer. If Frank has been working all these years he should not have to do chores if Nancy has been at home. She has had plenty of time to do all the household chores since Brad and Luann have been in school.

you don’t know what you’ve got til its gone

Luann looks more mature and serious and sexy when viewed from the side. More cartoony when facing us.

I think Luann is 19 going on 20. I suspect most people that age in middle class families are not supporting themselves yet. But it’s time to start thinking about it. Luann moving on her own will yield some great arcs – where once again she is the star. Lately it’s been Tiffany or Gunther.

Luann hasn’t always been the brightest blonde in the strip.

Okay gentle people.

Here’s PROOF that Luann Knows how to do housework. It take’s place at Irma Berger’s house.

Start Here: https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2009/04/03

It Ends Here: https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2009/04/11

Ahh, the GOOD old days. (Sorry, Kauri)

I hope there will still be a house when Mom gets back.

I thought the cabinet panel with Greg’s signature was a box of Oreo cookies before I realized what it was. I must be hungry.

Fun and job do not belong in the same sentence

My guess is you can find out whatever it is you need to do by watching a video about it on Youtube.

I resent the “helpless” man meme

In light of the unexpected plague, should this ship make a mid-course correction? Aircraft carrier’s captain did, and the Navy kicked him off his ship, and maybe out of the Navy. Millions have lost their jobs and Nancy goes happily along to her new job. Will the shadow of the real world darken Greg’s story line, or should he just ignore it and stay the course?

Although I’m intrigued by Nancy’s return to work. I’m also puzzled by it! Where’s the payoff for the strip with a working Nancy!?!? Inept family member(s) left to their own devices in a tired old trope. Similarly, a bumbling inept new employee out of their element. (Recall Tiffany took to waitressing quickly, tho’.) Although both of these tropes are familiar to audiences and relatively easy to write for they seem to be a small payoff for such a big character move in a main character.

GnK have been disrupting the status quo lately. Gunther has a home town girlfriend. Leslie has displayed a softer, more vulnerable side with his pet, Punk, and seems less disruptive in the Gulag and at The Fuse. Tiffany has gone from poor little rich girl with no cares to poor little working stiff with woes aplenty. Now Nancy abandons home and hearth. Yikes!

Something’s gotta be up!.

At The Fuse. Nancy on the job story lines?? Disruption among the employees? TJ conflicts over power issues? Nancy restructures the whole Fuse into new venue? Nancy glams up; dissention at home? Nancy acquires an admirer and is mildly flirty; also dissention at home and disruption on the job? Nancy becomes the uber-executive and makes the Fuse into a booming business by hiring the Hall-A band, etc.?

Where goest thou GnK???

After reading today’s Luann Againn and thinking back over Gunther’s treatment over the decades, it is more than a little surprising to me that Gunther achieved young adulthood and is still emotionally functional. He was well into his senior year in High School before he was granted a true girlfriend; Rosa. And she had to be manufactured in Peru. He is into his Sophomore or Junior year before he gets a tumble from a local Pittsville girl. Some author’s say that their characters evolve a life of their own. If so, then*GnK* owe the character big time.

I know this must have been discussed a millennia ago but I missed it. Why is Luann the only blond in her family?

Looks like Luann and Frank are in competition to see who is the least mature. Frank is now pulling up neck and neck.

Oh, great, Frank. You’ve been the beneficiary of your wife’s unpaid housework and child care for over 20 years. She is now taking on extra work at the company you (and she) created, and all you can do is whine because you have to make dinner and throw in a load of laundry?

And once again Frank makes me grateful to be single. Is this a reflection of the authors’ values?

Oh, Frank! Are you really that incapable of coping with day-to-day life on your own?! Even your oft-thoughtless teenaged daughter is dealing with it!

Firs PAYING Job, you mean.

After raising Luann, herding Drunks will be a snap.