Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 29, 2020

Home Alone? AAAAUUGGGH!

I’ve said it more than once endlessly: I’ve never owned a dog in my life.

Pets in the COVID-19 world wish we’d go out more often. ✨

Puddles is bouncing because he needs to empty his bladder!!

Another down side of Nancy’s day job rears is cute puppy head!

Jack and Luann home alone? What an interesting development!

Without Nancy, Puddles is home alone! Jack to the rescue- Puddles needs “home alone training”!

You know things have gotten bad when Puddles has been taking Professor Zebo’s art class and decides to do his homework at home in the living room. Zebo’s class has gone to the dogs.

Why did we not see this nature of Puddles?

Keep the dog in the basement until somebody comes home. That’s what my Mom always told me.

Were the paintings on the walls done by Shannon?

I bet that the paintings were selected by Nancy.

I’m thinking somebody was doing some controlled substances on the coffee table…

Still feels like Sunday strips.

let’s see if anything does develop once they clean up ? anyways, read 9 chickweed classics it kinda caught me by surprise cause it’s from Summer July actually (1995) and i think they suppose to be 12 years old i think? and we all know what did happen since than with them

Fortunately, Jack is good at cleaning.

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2018/07/23

And I’ll go out on a limb and predict that he helps with the cooking and/or the dishes.

Frank is at his unspecified job during the day and Nancy is at the Fuse having unspecified fun and laughing at Ox’s Humor.

Don’t go messing around with Puddles. Use some other flunky to set up a romantic scene for Luann, which she will screw up as usual.

Gunther and Bets = spontaneous combustion. Luann and Jack = fizzle.

This kind of dog, I keep in the laundry room with a doggy gate. My dog cries at a closed door so I have to use a gate so he could see out. I’ve been keeping her precisely because what Puddles is doing here. Can’t leave her loose in the house.

Is this the consequence of forgetting to give Puddles his pill??!?

Change his name from PUDDLES to DISASTER AREA.

Between cooking that stew and cleaning up that mess, they should be eating around midnight.

Wow, that looks like “Hair” from Bernice’s dorm hall had a party there with some of the other party animals! Mega trashed!

Isn’t Puddles a little OLD to be doing this sort of mischief?

With any luck Puddles will eat the stew meat when Luann’s not looking. What a beast!

As Macaulay Culkin would tell you, being home alone causes nothing but trouble.

It has been discovered that dogs can carry Covid-19. https(:)//news(.)yahoo(.)com/pug-tests-positive-coronavirus-may-115800463(.)html

Puddles is small, but with a kinda impressive destructive capacity. Seeing Luann and Jack together made him come out of himself for the joy. I love seeing Jack helping Luann bring the groceries home♡. Now I wonder what Jack will suggest to do for change Puddles’ destructive behavior.

yikes, time to get a cat LOL

So Mom’s working all day AND night?

Jack always has that ‘forgot to shave this morning’ look. if he was to grow a short, trimmed beard, he’d look a bit like Hercules actor Steve Reeves https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTk1NzQwMzE4MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTY3MzYyMQ@@.V1_UY317_CR8,0,214,317_AL.jpg

Nice. Luann and Jack have a little more to do before Frank gets home. Get the stew started, then clean up the place. Jack seems to be taking a more “take care of things” with Luann. If this keeps up… well that won’t happen for a few years but… oh well, let’s see where GnK take this for the short term;-)

This seems like unusual behavior for Puddles. Hope all is well…

Works better when they are in a dog crate if left alone. Mine don’t mind it. They always get a treat when they go in. The door to the crate is left open if we are at home. They sleep in it at night with the door closed. Now if I want them in the crate for the night or if we go out, I just rattle the treat bag and they go running into the crate. To them, the crate means treats and a nice comfy mattress to sleep on.

Puddles has a date with a crate.

with everyone at work (and / or school) Puddles IS alone. Jack’s dog is probably alone right now too (unless Jack has a room mate). But Puddles is not used to this. Jack will help to solve this problem, an indoor pen maybe.

The Luann comic strip is like a scratch off lottery ticket……..looks good, usually disappoints, but people keep coming back for more.

Some dogs don’t handle being alone. I imagine we’ll be seeing this a lot after the plague is over and the family goes back to business as usual.

We have a 9 month old German Shepherd Corgie mix. Think slightly smaller GS medium size with slightly larger ears. She gets the heebie jeebies and bounces off the furniture and shoves the rugs across the floor.

Where did he get the green paint?

So now a huge mess to clean and a complicated dinner to make . . . bet Jack does the cooking!

Looks like it will be clean up before food up! Where was Frank during this episode? And who left the open soda can on the table?

Am I the only one that noticed this? Since he was first introduced in 2016 Jack has appeared every year in April or May. May of last year he was a “wingman” on Luann’s “date” with “Doug.” But that arc culminated with a “tender moment” on May 15th and 16th.

And now here he is, back again! Just in time for another Luann Spring infatuation?

Most of the comments here seem to be focused on Puddles and that is understandable, but the relationship between these two are, to me, what is really the theme of this arc, in the middle of related arcs. They are at her home alone, which Luann had to know would be the case, and Jack, who we know loves dogs, seems just a bit surprised when he sees that Puddles has been alone in the house, he is a responsible type in certain ways. I just have this feeling that we are being subtly conditioned to see how they each meet needs in the other. Sweet dufus Luann needs an understanding but responsible type, who jumps to help with the little foibles she has dealing with life, while Jack really thinks Luann is beautiful, fun, and compatible. I know I am projecting, but I happen to think I am on the right track here, Time will tell though.

Tyge’s History of Jack

When Jack 1st appeared, along with Nil in Zébo’s Art 101 class, he was very much the Big Dumb Jock, looking for an easy-A. He was on the football team, tho’ not a star. He was clumsy, physically and socially, and fancied himself a player. n November 1st thru the 12th of 2016 he and Nil tried to pick up Luann and Bernice at The Fuse, then brushed them off. On May 9, 2017 he first became date material when Nil caused a double date with Luann and Bernice and went bowling. In the strip on May 12th, Nil alluded to him being a “player” dating “18 girls” at once. Toward the end he dropped a ball and broke ger foot. During this arc it appeared Bernice and Nil were becoming an item after her dalliance with Piro. This was also the time when Tara was pulling Luann into adventures outside her comfort zone. In mid to late April of 2018 Luann “encounters” Jack in the life drawing class. April 28’s strip is the first time Frank and Nancy hear of “Jack the Nude Model.” Then comes a whole series of Luann encounters with Jack leading to folks (me included) to believe he was the next Aaron/Quill reincarnation. Then “friend zone!” In 2019 he was only a “wingman” on Luann’s “e-date” with “Doug.” But even that arc culminated with a “tender moment” on May 15th and 16th.

So, will this current encounter be another friends only encounter ala Christmas shopping and wingman? Or something more?

Since when is there a couch against a wall in the Degroot house?

When my dog is home alone she spends the entire time in the laundry room, next to the garage door.

puzzled..all the years Puddles has been in the strip, surely he’s been alone before..but now he flips out and destroys the house? Hmm….okkkkk…….

“Home alone” Puddles is part of the Nancy’s working at the Fuse fallout. Is Frank picking up the mail? Is Luann giving Puddles his pills?Since Luann is now “alone” in the house, potential plot for some romantic relationships?

No dog, no problem.

I was going to comment that my dogs never act like that when they are home alone, but they are never home alone. They have the cats to keep them company.

And he scribbled all over the paintings too! Bad dog!

Since this is somewhat of a “slow day” (aka nothing particularly controversial), I did a “deep dive” into the 2015 strips. A lot went on! Luann’s first class with Zebo. Surly Gunther, the beginnings of The Fuse.

In the comments, there were references to a poster “RB2” and Luann parodies. I could not find any actual postings by RB2, only some posts that referred to him/her. What happened?

My dog was pretty well housebroken, when left alone he’d either sleep on my mom’s bed or sit on top of the couch so he could look out the window for us.

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

That room went to the dogs.

OMG Puddles it looks like the kitchen after Alex riped up the floored, chewed the cabinet in half, put holes in the pantry, took the Dr. Peppers off of all the bottles with not one of them busted open, and took all of the other items in the pantry out too. In addition to chewing a hole by his water dish under the window sill. Or the following days of chewing all the TP holder after taking the TP off and TP paper on the stairs and in every room. It was a nightmare to come home most days. So we bought him a dog house and put him outside. Where he decided he could take the cable down so daddy could put it back up when he got home.

I think we’re building toward Luann’s “first time”.

I don’t think it’s the dog. Look at the scribbling over the pictures. Shannon?

Today’s strip is about a dog having separation anxiety that they didn’t know until Nancy took a job at the Fuze. Totally bogus. This cannot be the first time that Puddles was left alone.

Does Jack remind anyone else of Bolin?

the question here is will Puddles be corrected or disciplined in some way? This behavior isn’t OK. If Jack is the ‘dog whisperer’, what kind of remedy will he propose?

Yet another one of those jobs that Mom always did that you never knew about, Luann.

I believe Puddles name is now Mud…

Yikes. Sorry you got roped into this, Jack.

When my cousin and her husband went on vacation (many years ago), I visited their house twice a day as kitty-sitter. What their cat did was much worse than what Puddles is being blamed for….

BREAKING NEWS** Hurricane Puddles has made landfall and the damage is major. Puddles has some serious separation anxiety issues. Luann, don’t leave puddles alone anymore.

Aww. He’s playing.

Puddles is making a mess.