Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 28, 2022

what your daughter is doing, Frank and Nancy, is overreacting

Frank saw the dognapper???

Frank ,did you get license plates?

I don’t know, BUT … I have a feeling that The Mysterious Shadow Man will somehow be Luann’s new heart throb!

Your daughter comes in clearly worried about where her dog is. Your husband comes in saying he thinks he saw the dog in a stranger’s car. Yet you still can’t connect the dots that the dog is missing? Wow, Nancy when is the last time you’ve actually paid attention to what goes on in your daughter’s life.

Maybe Luann should go into acting

Is it just me or….. Does Nancy’s head look like it’s complete spun around backwards, (Exorcist style) in the first panel??

Chaos and confusion, yes, this is going well!

Frank saw Puddles in someone else’s car and he did not RUN after him or CHASE him in his car?? By now, Puddles is long gone. AND without a collar, the Animal Control or police would not be able to identify him as belonging to the DeGroot family. Ultimately, the chip is what will get him back home if he ever is found. And now we know why Luann is the way she is – from Frank. He saw Puddles and did nothing.

That doesn’t mean your going to get the dog back so easily

Luann’s elation will be short-lived.

Especially when Frank explains that he has no idea who that “someone” is.

Does anyone know what Frank does for a living?

Frank, did you go back to work or don you where a suit to the Fuse? And oh yeah, was Ann Eyeful driving the car with Puddles?

Where does Frank work? I can’t remember the last time I saw him with a suit, tie, and briefcase.

I know that Karen does not like Luann because she based off her. Stop making Luann the punching bag.

Well, Frank, if you saw the family dog going off in a strange car, would you not have questioned it? Or at least got more details about the car and possibly the driver?

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Gads…

Why would you understand what’s going on with her when you haven’t listened to her yet, weirdos. Thank God I didn’t have a family like this!

I still don’t like this story line – mainly because I lost a cat as a kid…. so thanks for bringing this up.

Why does the car make me think of Ann Effie?

Or an unkindly person. Stray dogs can be used to train fighting dogs and keep them aggressive.

If, after 19 years Frank and Nancy don’t understand their daughter, then they are failures as parents.

Frank and Nancy are wondering what kind of offspring they spawned.

And what they did to have such a dope for a daughter!!

I hope we find out who actually did snatch Puddles.

I hope it’s someone who will actually care for him and give him a good home.

Luann is clearly unqualified for that job!!

This is the ultimate proof that Luann hasn’t freak out in front of Jack because she wants him to keep thinking of her as the girl who is always calm, rational and knows what to do. Or she just wanted to let him see that she’s s able to follow what she had just decided after her speech about stop overreacting. Yep, Jack’s opinion is really important to Luann♡! Now let’s hope the person who took Puddles is really kindly, because I have a very bad feeling about it and I don’t like it at all.

Maybe Puddles was found, by Ox.

He didn’t say that Puddles was released… Just that he saw him in someone’s car…

Luann, for all you know, that man could be stealing Puddles for his own personal gain. You should be a good mother and be worried sick about him.

Frank had no idea the dog was missing. Of course he would not go chase a car just because they had a dog who looked like their dog.

It is not dog napping if you pick up a stray dog and put it in your car. Puddles has no collar and ID on. If the person who found Puddles does not try to find the owner then that would be bad.

Oh thank god someone took your dog in their car. For a second, I was worried.

Kindly person who will get him scanned and return him, or person who thinks they just scored a free dog?

I don’t think Luann heard him well!

Likely Puddles is going to be rescued just before he is used as a bait dog for a pitbill in training for fighting.

In the first panel Nancy’s head is spun around – exorcist style and Frank is wearing his suit jacket. In the second panel Nancy’s right hand is bent backwards at an almost impossible angle and Frank is pulling his suit jacket on, not taking it off. Greg is losing it as a comic ‘artist’…

Pud might be a good bait dog. I hope they find him before that.

Was he saved by Dirk? Or better yet Aaron Hill home for a visit. I’m getting teary-eyed just thinking about it.

Epiphany! IT WAS FRANK WHO PICKED UP PUDDLES!

Maybe Frankie boy picked him up. He always liked picking up dogs.

Premature conclusion there, Luann — if the dog’s still in a stranger’s car, they may not be bringing him to your house.

And, Luann turns into a stereotypical 50’s-60’ssitcomwhere the father (and/or, mother) is clueless as to what the kids are up to.

Lets just hope it’s a “kindly” person.

Still spell trouble unless dad knows the driver of car

Rarely….good answer!

It was the owner of the amusement park. He’ll probably get away with it because those meddling kids were all on a plane flying to a Stop Climate Change event.

Boy some of these comments are so off he wall, but Lu1212 remember this is fine, good, what should be part of the pastiche of commentary on a comic, I admittedly have been addicted to since nearly the first day. Which motivates me to make a critical comment when people take Greg’s drawing, criticize an angle of Nancy’s neck for example in Panel 2, and say Greg has lost the ability to draw. That is like telling Picasso to hang it up because he did the neck of some figure to the left instead of the right, nonsense. Anyway, away from a mini-rant; let’s not make assumptions about whether the new person who has Puddles is good or bad (although I think good based on how the hands were drawn, plus I think Puddles recognized the person) and lets not be too critical of how unorganized it appears at this point in the story (remember story?). I say wait to see by Wednesday, hump day. to get an idea of what really is happening here. No Farley fate plesse (for those who know about Farley and For Better of Worse—it was quite a shock and painful but then Lynn Emmerich’s toon is based partially on real events in her family.

A thread of unprecedented tedium.

Luann seems delusional.

and she knows that Puddles has been saved because?

COTD seen elsewhere (Beer Baron at The Comic Strip Club):

“Did I just see our dog in someone’s car”

From your car? At night? With the foot-high dog sitting on the seat of the other car? No you f&@ing did not.

Let’s hope that the mysterious person who picked up Puddles isn’t Dr. Fauci mistaking him for a Beagle!

Those who think they know what is going on are generally (majorly? privately? corporaly?) mistaken.

Well Frank didn’t recognize the car so that lets out people like Bernice and Gunther, I would think.

The kindly dognapper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApthDWoPMFQ&list=PLc60gkdW0bcFbUwumMvBpxVrFbkeRzoPf

The mysterious savior is Aaron Hill coming back home.

I used to have two beagles, both females, who had a dog run entirely on my property. Kids would walk through my yard after school and see the dogs, so probably everyone knew I had two beagles. Several kids came to my door one time and said they had my dog. It was a beagle, but a male, and mine were outside in the run. I told them to go look at my two female dogs who were in the dog run, because that dog was not mine. The coloring wasn’t even close. They handed him to me and left. No leash, no collar, nothing. I introduced him to my dogs, and they all got along fine. He seemed in good health, probably just went for a walk, as beagles are escape artists. I started calling the police, etc, giving a description and location. I tried to guess his name with no luck. After a few hours I got a call from the police giving me the number of a man who had been driving around in his truck with the windows down and his beagle jumped out. I called the man, put a collar and leash on his dog, and agreed to meet him at a nearby fire station (it seemed safe to do that). He showed up, in his truck, with the windows down. I gave him a bit of a calm lecture about driving around with an open window, because mostly dogs will stay in, but obviously you can’t count on it. I offered to keep the dog, if he just didn’t want him anymore. I offered my leash and collar, he just said, “Thanks,” and took off with the dog. The dog clearly knew him and was willing to go. Puddles was walking around with no leash and collar…

So, obviously I was wrong about thinking that it might have been Brad that picked up Puddles. Frank surely would have recognized the car. Lots of speculation by the other commentors …. still the big question is who has the poor little pup?

Saved by the kindly person, or adopted by the kindly person ?

I’m saying it’s Ann Eiffel….

perfect answer

Puddles is currently palling around with Annie’s dog Sandy.

Her dad is the driver and he’s having a good time watching her freak out.

That’s a strange comment from Lu: “Saved by the kindly person!”

Using “the” indicates she knows the person, whom she hasn’t even seen. And Pud isn’t home, so how is he saved? I would be beside myself until my dog was in my house.

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict a scenario where the dog napper does not mean well, has no intention of returning Puddles but that Pud breaks free and runs to safety.

I think Ox picked up Puddles.

Whoever the driver was, Frank doesn’t seem to know the person.

Monday strips are hard ones to write when you are trying to recap the events of the previous week and make a “funny” at the same time. There is so much information to pack into a small form and the funny has to be appropriate to the situation. In this case airly prolaiming that he doesn’t understand his daughter (after 19 years) in the midst of a crisis of a missing pet, which for most people is on a par with a missing child seems painfully off-key.

Luann is such a sweet naive bumbling girl!!!!

Rejoicing may be premature at this point, silly, flighty Luann.

Frank is cool in this situation!

anyone who would stop a car to grab a dog that looked like it knew where it was going does not strike me as someone who intends to return it to its owner. It’s one thing to come across an ownerless animal while on foot, but pulling a car over to grab an animal, it would seem like that person has other plans.

Well, whatever happens, its better that Puddles getting run over in traffic; at least in the short term

Takes no interest in the dog when they are at the park, and then freaks out when she can’t find him?