If the Evanses want to shake up the strip they might look to make the Sunday strip actually interesting. The Sunday strip has two to three times the real estate of the daily strip. So why waste it on a two panel gag? It would be easy to fit six or eight panels there, enough to run a fair amount of story. Run short stories of three or weeks duration on the Sunday pages. Use characters not featured in the daily strips, like Luann, or Ox, Dez, Leslie, Toni and Brad or Shannon. If Shannon is six she should be in 1st grade. There’s plenty of stories right there,. Don’t leave Sundays as the lamest of the lame.
I’m sure ill get a lot of flack for this but imo, the whole Shannon character has added nothing to the strip. Evans has done nothing with her deadbeat dads situation in years nor does he have Shannon do anything else but be a brat and probably just uses her character for filler when he cant think of anything else to do.
How cute is that plush walrus! Seeing Shannon so happy is really nice, Brad really knows how to be a fantastic father figure and has a lot of fun with Shannon and joking with Toni. I’ve always loved it when characters speak using slang, you always learn something new. Maybe it’s just an impression, but it seems to me that Shannon looks less childish than usual. She’s slowly growing up.
YESSSSS!! The Return of Tawny Tattooed ❤️Toni!! A Count Fave Bae! FAR too good for that Hedgehog Head Loser. And the much mouth little kid needs kicked in the slats.BUT… as even the lowliest of lowly unworthiest of unworthies can see, Tawny Tattooed❤️Toni is on her laptop booking a flight on a private jet to Paris on Bread’s Visa, to join… Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel and the other Hawt ❤️Eiffelettes in Paris for the Shoog Daddy season. You can bet your booty, Rudy, that Tattooed❤️Toni will reel in a record breaker, boy howdy, and dump that dork. What an Ann❤️Eiffel Day, boy howdy! So with that, lowly unworthies… The Count is outta here for the day. BUT no need to worry lowly unworthies. Our Hero, Yrs Trly The❤️Count will be back tomorrow, Labor Day, same time, same station for more mirth and the Wisdom of Ann❤️Eiffel, you lucky stiffs. TTFN and… see you in church… put a little extra in the collection plate and say a prayer for those in Florida and Hawai’i. Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day. Count…OUT!
I’ve been reading Luann consistently for about eight years now and even occasionally when I was a child. There’s something that I’ve never quite figured out, but always wondered. Why do cartoonists have to take a break from the regular story on Sundays?
Not really sure how old she’s supposed to be, but she really needs speech therapy. Took my oldest son at about age 5 or 6. Took about 6 weeks to correct it. That’s about the same age I went thru the same therapy. Once he got straightened out, his younger brother (who had picked up the same patterns), straightened himself out by parroting his brother’s corrected speech.
The little girl just had the best day of her life and needs to tell Aunt Toni about it…ALL AT ONCE! Toni (and I) couldn’t hear all the details, but today was unbelievable!
Not just Shannon, the Annoying Brat, but also Brad, the mostly-grown up husband, when excited by the fair doings try to speak too rapidly and loudly and slur their speech and blur their articulation. How long will Toni put up with this stuff?
lvlax 10 months ago
Awww.. Shannon is back. And her tooth grew in.
She’s definitely growing up. Brad looks like his hat is missing a propeller. lol
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So who’s ready for tomorrow’s steel cage death match between Tiff and Stef? ;)
C 10 months ago
She’s more intelligible than some adults
beb01 10 months ago
If the Evanses want to shake up the strip they might look to make the Sunday strip actually interesting. The Sunday strip has two to three times the real estate of the daily strip. So why waste it on a two panel gag? It would be easy to fit six or eight panels there, enough to run a fair amount of story. Run short stories of three or weeks duration on the Sunday pages. Use characters not featured in the daily strips, like Luann, or Ox, Dez, Leslie, Toni and Brad or Shannon. If Shannon is six she should be in 1st grade. There’s plenty of stories right there,. Don’t leave Sundays as the lamest of the lame.
diazch408 10 months ago
Toni still has a lot to learn about Brad the kid, rather than Brad the man.
Kymberleigh 10 months ago
The CIA should hire Shannon to encode secret transmissions into her version of gibberish.
Ivy Valory Premium Member 10 months ago
I’m thinking this is not just excited-speak. I’m thinkingthis is so-high-on-sugar-speak.
Caldonia 10 months ago
ronaldspence 10 months ago
you are a great uncle Bwad!
Rhetorical_Question 10 months ago
Yikes?
thevideostoreguy 10 months ago
I empathize. I have a really, REALLY hard time understanding children when they talk.
illuminare 10 months ago
handq 10 months ago
So happy little Shannon had fun at the county fair. She’s a great kid.
blunebottle 10 months ago
C’mon, Brad, bang a gong!
alasko 10 months ago
Koo-koo-kachew!
Joe1962 Premium Member 10 months ago
Toni you have been missed your niece not so much.
momofalex7 10 months ago
Angus swat? And guess what!
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction 10 months ago
It all made perfect sense to me other than when Brad went to talking but that’s okay.
RSH 10 months ago
A sugar high too maybe, after eating cotton candy and a waffle cone (those can be big).
howtheduck 10 months ago
I love Generation Alpha slang.
Wilkins068 10 months ago
Hells she talks like I type
Greg musta been watching my comments here
comic reader 22 10 months ago
Why is Shannon baby-talking again?? Kids don’t revert to that once it’s been outgrown.
wallylm 10 months ago
Looks like they brought in Mumbles from Dick Tracy as a consultant for today’s strip.
drewpamon 10 months ago
I figured out most of that but what’s an angus swat?
Aladar30 Premium Member 10 months ago
How cute is that plush walrus! Seeing Shannon so happy is really nice, Brad really knows how to be a fantastic father figure and has a lot of fun with Shannon and joking with Toni. I’ve always loved it when characters speak using slang, you always learn something new. Maybe it’s just an impression, but it seems to me that Shannon looks less childish than usual. She’s slowly growing up.
Wilkins068 10 months ago
Mebbe Greg’ll start selling that plush walrus along with th novellas
Shirl Summ Premium Member 10 months ago
She sounds like she’s wearing a retainer for the first time.
corpcookie 10 months ago
Brad looks like he put on a little weight. May be the drawing though
ExLax 10 months ago
So who’s ready for tomorrow’s three-way between Kip and Tiff and Stef? LOL LOL
Mordock999 Premium Member 10 months ago
Tomorrow
“Will Stef be going,”
“To Shann-Fran-Cisco?”
“Before Ms Tiffany, Rips OUT all her hair?”
“Stef might need HELP, from Captain Cisco.”
“Because He too, has misplaced all his hair.” – Scott McKenzie
Lord Flatulence Premium Member 10 months ago
Let’s check in on the boring couple.
French Persons Premium Member 10 months ago
And Jonah is nowhere to be found, as usual.
Curiosity Premium Member 10 months ago
At first I thought she was speaking Doric.
montymiff 10 months ago
Will Tiffany manage to remain “refined”?
Willywise52 Premium Member 10 months ago
Just watched the movie “Tusk” and will never look at a walrus the same…
lmuller7 10 months ago
Should, be interesting ?
GerryRoss 10 months ago
Brad hit a gong? Marc Bolan would be pleased.
Nekosho 10 months ago
Aw, I thought it was a cute Sunday strip.
Amina Rush 10 months ago
Great to see Shannon so happy!
atomicdog 10 months ago
Jamie Hyneman!
Count Olaf Premium Member 10 months ago
YESSSSS!! The Return of Tawny Tattooed ❤️Toni!! A Count Fave Bae! FAR too good for that Hedgehog Head Loser. And the much mouth little kid needs kicked in the slats.BUT… as even the lowliest of lowly unworthiest of unworthies can see, Tawny Tattooed❤️Toni is on her laptop booking a flight on a private jet to Paris on Bread’s Visa, to join… Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel and the other Hawt ❤️Eiffelettes in Paris for the Shoog Daddy season. You can bet your booty, Rudy, that Tattooed❤️Toni will reel in a record breaker, boy howdy, and dump that dork. What an Ann❤️Eiffel Day, boy howdy! So with that, lowly unworthies… The Count is outta here for the day. BUT no need to worry lowly unworthies. Our Hero, Yrs Trly The❤️Count will be back tomorrow, Labor Day, same time, same station for more mirth and the Wisdom of Ann❤️Eiffel, you lucky stiffs. TTFN and… see you in church… put a little extra in the collection plate and say a prayer for those in Florida and Hawai’i. Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day. Count…OUT!
MS72 10 months ago
The county fair is a fond memory.
Just-me 10 months ago
LOL, I had to read Shannon’s verbiage twice to decipher what she said.
syzygy47 10 months ago
In WW2, there were the Navajo codetalkers. Nowadays, trying to understand toddler is just as bad.
mindjob 10 months ago
Must be the diabetes talking
Ellis97 10 months ago
Maybe Brad and Toni will have their own Shannon someday. But even if they don’t, they’ll always be Shannon’s favorite babysitters
c001 10 months ago
No problem. Shannon is just retarded, we all have known this for a long time.
BlitzMcD 10 months ago
Justice for the Beach Boys’ County Fair song 61 years after the fact. Look it up. It’s worth the effort….
DawnQuinn1 10 months ago
Sounds like she is wearing teeth braces.
DawnQuinn1 10 months ago
Tomorrow Greg changes arcs. He always does.
Figif Premium Member 10 months ago
Hey! Anyone notice that along with all the garbled speech Shannon pronounced it “BRAD” instead of “BWAD”?
csf1989 10 months ago
I’ve been reading Luann consistently for about eight years now and even occasionally when I was a child. There’s something that I’ve never quite figured out, but always wondered. Why do cartoonists have to take a break from the regular story on Sundays?
BJShipley1 10 months ago
At least it’s a break from “teens are terrible, as Luann will now demonstrate.”
luann1212 10 months ago
AWWWWWWW
luann1212 10 months ago
Lots of Gezzers and Gezzets will be waiting until tomorrows tunew turns arund midnight, me included (lol)
luann1212 10 months ago
One more comment, major plot misdirection about to slap people in the face; you’ve been warned.
B UTTONS 10 months ago
What did Brad feed her before going home? Half a jar of peanut butter?
dbradway1 10 months ago
Why isn’t her father making these memories with her? I’m glad she has a caring Uncle Bwad.
docforbin 10 months ago
“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” made more sense than most of the dialogue in today’s strip.
sobrown51 10 months ago
Not really sure how old she’s supposed to be, but she really needs speech therapy. Took my oldest son at about age 5 or 6. Took about 6 weeks to correct it. That’s about the same age I went thru the same therapy. Once he got straightened out, his younger brother (who had picked up the same patterns), straightened himself out by parroting his brother’s corrected speech.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 10 months ago
I’m ecstatic! My daughter’s ex has been sending me pictures and videos of my grand children. #overthemoon
I hope I can meet them sometime soon (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
comic reader 22 10 months ago
Brad looks fat and frumpy. When did he age 30 years?
6foot6 10 months ago
When did Shannon turn 3?
2Goldfish 10 months ago
Why is this funny?
DaBump Premium Member 10 months ago
So adorable!
ACTIVIST1234 10 months ago
Toni understood Shannon perfectly.
The little girl just had the best day of her life and needs to tell Aunt Toni about it…ALL AT ONCE! Toni (and I) couldn’t hear all the details, but today was unbelievable!And Brad agrees.
The Quiet One 10 months ago
Yeah me too.
BuckarooDave 10 months ago
tomorrow: who rides the baggage carrousel.?
Liam Astle Premium Member 10 months ago
Send sixteen dollars to the writers to read about the fair.
JPuzzleWhiz 10 months ago
Oh, look — Shannon won a “Greg 9-4” balloon! d;o)
kaffekup 10 months ago
This is what my 4 1/2 year old grandson sounds like most of the time. Oddly, when he really wants to make a point he can speak clearly.
eddi-TBH 10 months ago
Sounds like my little sisters did. No commas, no periods, no spaces.
BuckarooDave 10 months ago
so who will end up with Kip at the end of the week?
Laurie Stoker Premium Member 10 months ago
This one is absolutely adorable! Thanks, Greg and Karen!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
eced52 10 months ago
Gong or a bong, Brad?
Sisyphos 10 months ago
Not just Shannon, the Annoying Brat, but also Brad, the mostly-grown up husband, when excited by the fair doings try to speak too rapidly and loudly and slur their speech and blur their articulation. How long will Toni put up with this stuff?
ctolson 10 months ago
At least Brad didn’t come out Bwad.
billdaviswords 10 months ago
Shannon’s WAY too old to talk wike thish.