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

I think it’ll be a lot less fun when Shannon starts shooting the piping hot cocoa at Brad and Tj, though. lol

Apparently marshmallow blaster guns are a real thing and cost around 25 bucks. I remember back when I was a kid, we had a lot of fun with ‘tracer’ guns.. which shot out little plastic discs. They even made a Star Trek version of them. Fun times!

So when will Toni get home?

Needs a chocolate cannon and a Graham cracker cannon.

Pee-wee Herman didn’t do so well at shooting PEZ into David Letterman’s mouth.

Oh, oh! This could get out of hand. Worse yet! Think about what Shannon will learn from it. Y I K E S!

What we have here is a failure to domesticate.

Awww, this is so cute. It’s great that they’re able to go with the flow for Shannons sake so she doesn’t feel unwanted.

Immaculate reception, marshmallow version!

I imagine Toni is going to walk in at the height of this mayhem! (heh, heh)

They look to be having fun. When is Toni due to walk in?

Things got out of control and soon, out came the potato gun, the pumpkin trebuchet, and Gallagher’s Sledge-O-Matic.

Body parts were lost. Lessons were learned.

Love this! Would rather watch this crew juggle a selfish, irresponsible man and a high-energy child desperately in need of guardrails than ever see Shallow Stef say the word Shoog again. Kill her off please!

It’s all fun and games until somebody chokes on a marshmallow. I hope somebody knows how to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

That is a very unflattering picture of Brad. He looks as if he’s been eating too many marshmallows.

Tomorrow Toni walks in. Brad you are supposed Shannon uncle not he cool Uncle.

I have to say, absent dads, parttime dads, wanna be dads. These two are real dads!

That wasn’t interception by Brad, it was just a fumble by T.J..

TJ couldn’t catch a disease in a hor….ribly cold place.

So I guess Shannon is needed to babysit these two guys.

Yesterday I suggested that Shannon should be given some balloons to shoot at. Today it appears that she has been provided with a couple of buffoons, instead. [:)]

I’ll offer another suggestion, today, that this toy ought to be accompanied by some hand-held nets with which to catch the marshmallow projectiles, which would be a little safer than trying to catch them in a mouth where they might be a choking hazard. With a little home-grown ingenuity, this could actually become a family game with scoring for the performance accuracy of several shooters in turn, and for the catchers who may intercept a marshmallow before it reaches a given target. Points could be awarded for the number of marshmallows intercepted; and subtracted for any marshmallow removed from play by eating it. [:)] Of course, points should be awarded for hitting designated targets; and possibly subtracted for missing one.

Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun …!

Not sure if anyone else noticed, but the design of Shannon’s marshmallow cannon has all the marshmallows in the clear tube in FRONT of the compression diaphragm or plunger. Every trigger pull would launch every marshmallow in the tube all at once. Notice in the last panel, several marshmallows are missing from the end of the three still visible in the tube. They all should have launched, there is nothing to hold the remaining ones back.

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Of course, when we check our hat and coat and enter here, we have to engage our suspension of disbelief. It is all good…

I sense trouble coming.

I love how Brad and TJ are still young and able to enjoy silly, light-hearted challenges. They really are lifelong best friends and Shannon loves them.

The trouble is likely to come when Toni walks into the room and her foot smashes a marshmallow into the carpet.

There is something about age inappropriate toys for adults!

So they wound up humoring Shannon after all and she has taken over. Brad is not intercepting the marshmallows, Shannon is directing the shots to him.

Not what I expected. I thought that the Brat would be shooting marshmallows at Bwad and TJ like an unhinged Vietcong guerrilla with an AK 47. But it’s only Wednesday, three more days the Shannon’s true self to emerge. Unless TJ wreaks havoc over the interception.

Hilarious end to the Luann year, but I am a little worried about what Toni might say or feel now, not about the three “characters” acting silly, after her busy shift (I’m sure) not about them but something else that will be percolating in the new year. You heard it here, or not.

Why is everybody ignoring what is really important. Two grown men are having as much fun (maybe more) than the kid that they are playing with. And as immature as that may sound, they are giving some badly needed positive attention to a child who has been deprived of it from her own parents. Whoever Shannon ends up with tonight, hooray for Brad and TJ!

I would like one of these!

Nice to see that Brad is having a good time.

Ruh-Roh – TJ looks like he’s going to get serious with that marshmallow gun!

And, right about now Toni comes home.

Well, Brad you just screwed up.

You are not supposed to have “fun,” here.

Only Shannon is suppose to have ”FUN” at EVERYBODY’S expense, whenever she shows up.

The “good” news is, with Brad “consuming” all of the marshmallows, there won’t much of a mess to clean up later.

The Immaculate Reception, small-scale.

Guess we’re going to have a couple of very upset stomachs when someone’s wife comes home…Still, it’s cool that these guys get along so well with their pseudo sibling. Brad would never have done this with Luann back in the old days.

Adult supervision is overrated.

TJ is a poor sport! LOL

The guys seem to be enjoying it. We’ll see what Toni thinks of it after she gets home.

Adjusting quickly t o Shannonland

Excellent plan, try to wear her out before Toni gets home ready to collapse.

I guess it’s a Good Thing that Brad is having fun, and that TJ isn’t. But I still don’t like the idea that Jonah can just drop his brat off on Brad and Toni any time he wants….

Ah HAH! I knew the boys would end up enjoying that.