Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 12, 2023

And skipping this week again too. So sick of this never-ending dorm drama.

Leave phone in pool house, check

Bummer. Not looking forward to this senario.

It’s almost like Stef thinks Kip wants to dump her, I wonder why.

Stef sure has some weird eyebrows. And where was this pool house during the Ann Eiffel arcs, when there was supposedly no room for Tiffany to sleep?

WHEN is he gonna dump that …….her?

GPS stands for Get Paranoid Shug.

Trust… but verify! All’s fair in Love and War! 8^ )

I once asked Siri where I was, and she said I was across the street and down one house where a really hot chick lives.

If Stef staying at the manse, too? Or is she just checking out the situation before summering with memaw and papaw?

Why put Kip a half footfall field away from the main house? Isn’t the main house the most likely to be broken into?

Where’s CopOx staying?

There’s a swimming pool right there — use it! If she’s a witch she’ll float and if she’s not…that saves everyone a lot of trouble.

How soon can we get back to Luann?

So.

Kip, will be the new “pool boy.”

Yep. No “hanky-pankY” there at all. (Rolls Eyes). ;-)

Turn off phone!

Kip’s living in the pool house isn’t going to prevent a break-in back at the main house. All Tiffany has to do is just let the work crew install the super-duper security system that Tom has ordered, and then she can sleep worry-free for the rest of the summer (all by herself).

The only thing entertaining about this story arc is watching Steph shooting herself in the foot over and over again.

Kip is the man.

He could leave his phone by the pool and claim he was swimming.

Stef, here’s some free advice about men: They are trustworthy. Or they are not. Phone tracking won’t change that. Standing up in front of a crowd of people and promising to forsake all others won’t change that. Wearing her ring won’t change that. They are. Or they are not.

So what difference does 10 yards vs 100 yards make if Tiff and Kip want to do hanky panky?

Well, pool house is close enough for Kip to mosey over and pay Tiff a visit. A smart girlfriend would know that and say an absolutely no.

I imagine Siri can only track Kip’s cell phone (or other device w/ signal) not Kip the person. He can just leave it somewhere.

How can Kip protect Tiff if he’s in another house??

They have a pool house? Sometimes I forget how filthy rich the Farrells are! Stef seems to be here to just check things out and not to stay with them. She’ll spend the holidays at home obsessing over where Kip is and shaking whenever he’s near Tiffany for more than a minute. That’s going to be definitely stressful…it’s weird that she’s letting him be with Tiffany instead of making a scene and forbidding him. Stef wants to look like she has an open mind, but she fails miserably.

The place looks more like a deserted ghost town.

Dump her already, Kip! Enough is enough!

How is Kip , being in the pool house, going to stop burglars from entering the main house?

And even if she can track Kip.. how would she know if Tiff was with him? It’s ridiculous to think he’s not going to be at the main house and enjoy its amenities, at times.

It’s too bad.. the pool house would have been a good place for Ox to live and keep an eye on things.

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So will Kip dump Stef in this arc?

Kip – leave your cell phone in your car. Unless Stef has you micro-chipped?

Kip? It’s time to drop her. She has no future except the one in her mind, she borrows money with no intent of repaying, she has insecurities that only a professional can deal with, and her narcissism knows no limits. She’s not girlfriend material; she’s fling material at best. Definitely one-night-stand material.

An Tif can visit with Kip in the pool house then Kip can visit wit Tif in the main house. The two of em skinny dippin in the pool late at night. What a summer it’ll be

Nothin to worry about Stef, Nothin at all

Just want to mention, unless she’s implanted him with some kind of tracking chip, Kip could get around her surveillance just by leaving his phone at the pool house. Or just get a new phone.

I suppose for someone like Stef, that’s like detaching a limb. Can’t even imagine it.

He isn’t really planning to cheat on her. But he’s less and less happy with the relationship. This being Luann, and Tiff not being an aspiring boyfriend thief anymore, I don’t see any wild affairs happening. But they could start getting closer. And Tiff could leave her phone in the main house.

Stef’s phone will run out of power checking up on Kip all the time.

Kip is getting more fed up with Stef!

And Stef doesn’t know that Siri tracks Kip’s phone and not Kip himself? I won’t ask how she got into college. I’ve had a lot of Stefs in my classes. But I suspect Kip knows how to leave his phone where ever she wants him to be.

A pool house? Manse has more features and territory than we were first aware of.

If this leads to another love triangle, I’m gonna scream my face off.

Kip needs to turn off the GPS on his phone so Stef can’t track him. Unless she darted him and tagged him like a wild animal.

I’m thinking that Kip should just break up with Stef. Him gaslighting her into trusting him while showing her utter contempt and flirting with Tiffany makes him look pretty messed up. I could excuse it when it was the two sort of catching feelings over the tea thing when he wasn’t really able to break up the right way (not over the phone), but this is just him trying to have both.

Hey Siri: Turn off Location Services. Done!

Hmm I wonder if tracking can be disabled or phones left in the pool house.

Hmm what will the new security camera’s see and report to tom about his trustworthy daughter?

Looks like Stef is a cyberstalker!

Kip as the pool boy…reads like a script we’ve likely already seen or heard about. BOWCHICKAWOWOW!

Kip, your sarcasm needs to come on a little stronger. Maybe try “Nope, that’s it, this relationship is over. Cheerleaders are supposed to wave pompoms, not red flags.”

That’s where Kip’s phone is, no where Kip is. Burner phone coming up.

A more modern take on belling the cat…

Stef apparently believes in trust but verify. But what if he leaves his phone in the pool house, and, visits Tiffany in the Manse? Not that Tiff has shown any real interest in Kip (besides admiring his physique.)

The pool house is a smoke screen. Tiff has been after for Kippy Boy since the “Hall A” days.

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2020/02/26

So Kip just leaves his phone in the pool house, aaaand…

Kip, you just learned a valuable lesson!

I keep waiting for Kip to dump her…

Give me a ?, or whatever that symbol on her shirt is. Go Moony. ??

Geeze, is she trying to lose Kip? It sure seems like it. He shouldn’t have to feel like a piece of her property!

Stef knows her boyfriend. Tracking where he is and what he’s doing has probably been brought on by his wandering ways in the past.

Tom’s got himself a cozy little spread, there. I’m waiting for the buffalo to roam, and the deer and antelope to play.

RUN Kip, RUN

45 yards away in a separate house? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of a house mate to protect against the prowler?

Kip can leave his phone in the pool house. And anyway, what security does it provide having someone not even in the Manse with you?

I know generationally most of us here are either Baby Boomers, like me (1946) or Gen X, who generally think a truth, Baby Boomers are way too overbearing, to them anyway. But I digressed. We’re commenting on late Millennials, or even arguably Gen Z, young, college-age, college attending adults. The comments are funnier than the strip, although the writing has been really good, such AS today’s. Very funny, Kip ypu et to mouth the punchline. But I just want to remind that young people really haven’t changed, the only real difference is technology and social media. Other than that human kids are human kids, everywhere.

So with him next door, how does that help Tiff’s fear of being alone in the house?

My wife tried to talk into putting a tracker in my phone. I realized that not only would she be able to track me but so would whoever else had access to the info. Yes- I realize that they probably already are. I told her no.

Kip, the gaslighter, quite the catch.

It is summer. I imagine that there will be times when they are both in the pool.

True. Stef can tell where Kip is, but she can’t track Tiff.

Stefi expects Kip to have his phone with him at all times. She probably texts him every 5 minutes and demands he reply so she knows where he is every second. No one should date or marry someone that insecure and possessive. If you don’t trust them, then just leave. You won’t be happy if you have to track them like a dog all the time.

You said it Kippy

. . . and now break up with the stalker. How long Kip? Until the negative is great than the positive.

Interesting, but will having Kip in the poolhouse make Tiffany feel that much safer? Could he even hear a burglar trying to break in from there?

Hey… I’ll stay in the pool house for the summer. Maybe longer! I’ll even keep my eye out for burglars, rock throwers, and vagabonds.

Kip, visit Tiff in the manse as much as you want. Leave your phone in the pool house.

Why is Kip still with Steph??

Well, it shows where Kip’s PHONE is at least.

Steffie knows her man, and she recognized Tiffany as a possible threat from day one. I’m sure she’s developed a sixth sense for it over the years, but why she wants a hound dog like Kip is beyond me. I also don’t understand the readers that see Kip as a poor misunderstood picked on person.

She sure knows how to make a man feel special.

My beloved wanted both our sons and me to have a cellphone at all times so we would be in reach/trackable. I believe in her case it was because her mother harped on the time a coworker’s son was killed while she was off in a bar and nobody could let her know his dying request was for her until it was too late.

For her peace of mind, we keep our phones handy. She keeps misplacing or losing hers. Such is life.

Kip better search for that biometric implant Stef put in while he was sleeping

until Kip accidentally leaves his phone at the manse (or loses it there) and Stef breaks up with him.

Asleep 45yd. away will severely limit burglar protection.

You’re so full of it, Stefani.

Way over there in the pool house isn’t going to help her in the mansion if someone breaks in. One of the more important elements in a relationship is trust, and there doesn’t seem to be any in Steff’s with Kip.

I’m a bit amazed that she knows how to use that app to track him. ;-D

The current version of Tiffany is not terribly attractive – either physically or psychologically. The only reason for Kip to “engage” with her would be for a change of pace. Neither of them is fit for long term involvement..

Give her the shaft, Kip. If she’s stalking you now, she’s an Ann Eiffel in the making!

All those little nuances, like the eyebrows and lines and such are what make the characters different from each other in such simple drawings.

Ok, Kip.

Turn and bend forward for the insertion of the Apple Tag with an invisible Manse guard.

First time I’ve seen the mansion look beautiful, rather than some big empty pile.

Kip seems to have no concern over what Stef will be doing all summer.

Where’s the barbecue pit?

Time to dump her Kip.

My father loves these tracking apps because it means that he and my step-mom are aware of where they are when they get lost, which is apparently fairly often.

Dump her Kip, no trust means there is no good reason to have a relationship.

You can block her Kip

There’s the pool!! Where’s the pool party that I want?

Why is Kippy staying in pool house, I thought Tiff was looking for someone to be in the “manse” with her in case of break-in

How is she tracking him without his permission? She would have had to put an App on his phone and he could easily remove that!

Having a hunk in the pool house won’t provide the manse with much security.

I was going to rant at kip…but while its fun to rag on fictional characters I am so very tired of this love triangle. Kip is emotionally checked out and emotionally cheating while stef is outlining how she’s going to stalk him. This isn’t A compelling portrait of a broken relationship or well done soap. This is praying for death but death won’t come

Jealousy thy name is Stef.

Kip in the pool house is not going to be much help to Tiffany in the manse when she experiences a for really (as we used to say when I was a kid) break-in!

But Kip is right to tell off Stef about her trust issue. She, however, is too oblivious to heed his admonition….

Leave the phone and go for a walk

Why is Kip still in this relationship? Is the sex so great that he puts up with Steff’s trust issues?

If I had a girl friend that did that. She would be an ex in a flash,

Wouldn’t it be lovely if he gave Tiff the boot? He’s showing a lot more backbone lately.