Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 18, 2023

It just goes on and on and on

well, Happy Father’s Day to you too, Frank

Good lord Luann, what have you done now?!

Good comebacks, Frank. :)

What a conversation! Or … sort of a conversation. Very cleverly written today.

This was stupid. He either should have told her to get to the point, or shut up and let her ask away. But it will be her fault.

Nice Father’s Day comic I guess… Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Keep raising wonderful children and thank you all for everything you have done!

Luann, just ask already…

Move on to the Big ask?

“I’m lost.”

Lord, so are we!

Are you pregnant? Did you wreck the car? Drop out of college? Most other things are small potatoes.

Hey Luann, maybe you should have just asked him for what you wanted instead of spending so much time with disclaimers askin him to not get mad about what you want.

Tenacious perseveration she seems to have not structured her thoughts in advance; sort of thinking things through “out loud;” while lost in the detail and can’t see the big picture.

We’ve run out of space and have no room left for the big reveal.

This doesn’t seem like a Sunday stand alone comic. Will there be a follow up?

When someone chatters on like this, the request is so huge the person is terrified to ask knowing the reaction might be… a rude no, a roll-thy-eyes no way, being laughed-in-the-face, you dare ask that?, what? you think i am made of money?, Can you actually handle it? Do you even know what you are asking? NOW, I am curious what the ask is! My take is big money for something she knows dad wiill say no immediately. Since she has been taking writing class and enjoyed a small success at the fair, she’s gonna ask for money to publish a manuscript to send to a publisher.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all the dads here!

And in the immortal words of Rodney Dangerfield… “Just remember, the best thing about kids… is making them!” LOL

Now for some perspective – a letter from a colleg girl to her mom an dad:

Dear Mom and Dad,

It has now been three months since I left for college. I have been remiss in writing this and I am very sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will bring you up to date now, but, before you read on, please sit down.

YOU ARE NOT TO READ ANY FURTHER UNLESS YOU ARE SITTING DOWN, OKAY?

Well then, I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture, and the concussion I got when I jumped out of the window of my dormitory when it caught fire shortly after my arrival, are pretty well healed now. Fortunately, the fire in the dormitory and my jump, were witnessed by an attendant at the gas station near the dorm. He was the one who called the fire department and the ambulance. He also visited me at the hospital, and since I had nowhere to live because of the burned out dormitory, he was kind enough to invite me to share his apartment with him and his three buddies. It’s really a basement room, but it’s kind of cute.

He is a very fine boy and we have fallen deeply in love and are planning to be married. We haven’t set the exact date yet, but it will be before my pregnancy begins to show. Yes, Mom and Dad, I am pregnant. I know how much you are looking forward to being grandparents! I know you will welcome the baby and give it the love, devotion and tender care you gave me when I was a child.

The reason for the delay in our marriage is that my boyfriend has some minor infection which prevents us from passing our pre-marital blood tests, and I carelessly caught it from him. This will soon clear up with the penicillin injections I am having daily. I know you will welcome him into our family withopen arms. He is kind and, although not well educated, he is ambitious.

His family background is good, too, for I am told that his father is an important weapons dealer in the village in Africa from which he came.

(continued)

Now that I have brought you up to date, I want to tell you that there was no dormitory fire, I did not have a concussion or a skull fracture. I was not in the hospital, I am not pregnant and I am not engaged. I do not have syphilis and there is no man in my life.

However, I got a ‘D’ in History and an ‘F’ in Science, and I wanted you to see those marks in the proper perspective.

Your Loving Daughter

Linda.

Now I am curious, luckily I am not a cat

Dang, she already has me saying NO with all those conditions and that build-up. Motivational Speaker, she is not.

YAWN!!!

It’s no wonder that Luann is just a minor character in her own strip!!

Whenever they start with the I want you to stay cool and calm, you know either you or your wallet are going to be damaged.

Frank makes an appearance. Must be Fathers’ Day.

Jeeze Frank.

Here. Let Me help once again.

”NO, you CAN’T:

“Borrow $5,000.”

“Get Me to co-sign on a purchase of a Tesla.”

“Get a Tattoo.”

“Let this Piro character move in.”

“Sleep-over at some guy’s house, Unless of course, it’s at Gunther’s.”

Next “Ask.” ;-)

Frank, just listen to your daughter!

Is this her father’s day gift?

Can Walter come to dinner Dad?

“Papa don’t preach, I’m in trouble deep…”

“Ask for” and “Request” often mean the same thing but “ask” and “request” don’t, in my mind. I can request a $10 bill, but I don’t ask a $10 bill. And I may ask what happens if you fall 97.3 meters, but I don’t request to fall 97.3 meters.

My wife finds me pedantic.

And this is the strip they came up with for Father’s Day? Just sad.

Happy Father’s Day from Luann and all of her friends.

No, “ask” and “request” are not the same thing. Asking a question just requires an answer, but requesting something requires the other person to do something.

Dad seems to forget Luann’s an aspiring writer. Like preachers, writers believe in never saying, or writing, 10 words when 100 will do just as well.

Wrote two sentences (that filled up a page) on a report for a doctorate degree; the professor indicated I should write to the 12 grade level. I asked him if, as a Ph.D. did he did not have the 17th grade level education level I was writing to; never got a reply to that question.

Just guessing, but she is probably going to ask for a car, money, etc.

Just a bit of boredom to ease the tension of the budding KipTiff arc.

So. On Fathers Day. Luann suggest that her father is someone who is impatient, assumes the worst, always says “no”, is close-minded, dismissive, frantic, paranoid and overprotective. After all those insults to her father, she shows that she is mentally incapable of getting to the point (she probably forgot what she was going to ask). Luann really is the most annoying character in this comic. I’m glad she only shows up once in a while. The only good thing is she’s being just as rude to her father on Fathers Day as she was to her mom on Mothers Day. I will say she’s consistent. A consistent jerk. If she was my daughter, and pulling this kind of act, I would tell her to get out of my face until she can quit with the gaslighting. I have no idea why they think this is entertaining.

She was going to say “Happy Father’s Day and thanks for paying my bills”

“The big ask”, obviously.

Happy Father’s to you, Frank.

Anybody seen little Shannon?

Wow. Dragging out a plot line longer than Days Of Our Lives and Gasoline Alley combined! I’m impressed.

Stop wasting time and just SAY it, Luann.

And, we never found out what the ‘big ask’ was.

How come this strip is fun on Sundays and annoying the rest of the week?

I know this is for Father’s Day, But if the request was really anything important. Luann would ask mom , not dad. Dad is not in charge of big decisions by himself.

Its obvious whats going on here. Luann didn’t realize that Father’s Day was today until this very morning and her big question is either if she borrow the car or needs a crap ton of money because Luann is a selfish idiot.

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads. You are so important. Fed up with the strip, but hanging in for the commenters. Hope Monday something happens, like the paint drying.

So what would a Simple Request be if it preceded the Big Ask? Just to listen to the Big Ask without saying anything? If I were Frank I would skip the dumb comments and find out right away what Luann wants.

Looks like nobody in Frank’s household remembered it’s Father’s Day.

It gonna take an additional week

And please stop interrupting.

Happy father’s Day to all the dad’s here.

Sometimes I think LuAnn has ADHD.

I hate it when someone uses a verb like “ask” as a noun.

Let’s all remember that Luann is supposedly a grown woman, so I wonder what this “big ask” could even be. I’m assuming she wants money for something, since she’s currently incapable of supporting herself.

Any request following an intro with that many disclaimers is going to be iffy in the extreme

That’s okay Walt, we’re as confused as you are.

God bless the bio-dads out there who are actually fathers to their progeny.

Luann is suffering from serious mental illness.

Love to see all the b**ching and moaning over this strip, but the keep coming back.

Happy Father’s Day, and may you not need to have a conversation like this today.

That which needs excessive introduction is probably something one wishes to avoid.

Yeah! I’d like to know what the big reveal is?

She went click happy on amazon and purchased 387 dollars worth of clothes. the big ask is to not blow his top. :D

“A Diatribe Called Request”

“It Stands To 80 Reasons”

“That’s How Eye Roll”

“I Am Woman, Hear Me Out”

“Ask, And Ye Shall Receive…Eventually…”

https://ibb.co/D8fBND8

Neither. You are still in the pre-interrogatory.

Can this be continued next Sunday?

If it takes more than 8 seconds to make your request, my answer is automatically ‘No’.

You’d think this strip would eventually get tired of “gags” all about how terrible Luann is and everyone putting her down, but not yet.

Cut to the chase. How many tattoos or piercings are we talking here?

This is very funny! I remember something of the sort and can still hear my mother from the other room, “Just spit it out already.” LOLOL

Oh man, Luan, what did you do?!

At this point “no” is the only rational, sensible response.

tomorrow: G&B fun? or The Many Loves of Bernice ?

stay tooned!

:-/

Luann, I hope you don’t do this when your future self asks the boss for a raise!

Get to the Point, assuming there is one, Luann! Or else, leave Frank alone and unharassed on Father’s Day!

Frank deserved a better Father’s Day. We deserved a better strip.

I think this simple request is going to be a big pain in the ask!

What Luann said in the last panel is exactly my father.