Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 28, 2024

Tonight was a real eye-opener.. wow!

Lolololol

“I can get ahead on my schoolwork and lay out clothes for a week???”

THAT, ladies and gentlemen IS Bernice!!

At the very least We’re looking Bernice’s future kid. ;-)

As an English education major, I have read many of the classics. Moby Dick was the most difficult book to plow through if all the required reading. I can’t imagine anybody having fun reading it!

Okay, is this the new Luann or are we just in Fantasyland. I vote Fantasyland, but I’m not 100% sure.

I was a literature major in college and couldn’t get past page 50 on Moby Dick. Years later I saw a Woody Allen movie where he said the same thing. I loved that!

We seeing a different side to Shannon.

Why did some say Moby Dick is hard to read? is it because of archaic words?

When is the usual art style back?

The whole family needs therapy.

Okay, NOBODY expects a kid to be like this!

i’m not even reading this. It’s not even funny anymore. If I log in, and I see this stuff, I’m moving on until it stops. Long time customer here, but now, bye.

Is anyone enjoying this?

This is a truly boring thread.

Why is the couch seat so high that Toni’s feet do not touch the floor?

Not that I’m complaining, but why the different artist? Greg and Karen on vacation?

Almost looks like they’re raising a Bernice.

Barf. Hate this version of Shannon. She’s not human.

Shan android? Brad and Toni having a private moment?

This is so cute, and so odd!

All that stuff Shannon’s tellin em is just somethin to throw em off track while she cooks up another batch of meth in her room

When I was in high school, two novels that were “required reading” were “Sister Carrie” and “The Return of the Native”. Naturally, I was resentful then; today, they are two of my favorites!

This week has been our fantasy, too: living out what we were supposed to do but never, or partly, did. Of course, tales to grandkids and nieces and nephews may reveal the we that never were.

They don’t want a child. They want a live-in servant/housekeeper.

I am thoroughly enjoying the Fantasy arc and the guest artwork. I love all of my kids but I would have paid large money for one like this, since we’re talking fantasy anyway.

Glad it’s not “Last of the Mohicans” – the book’s ending is more devastating than any movie script – not for kids without parent/teacher supervision.

End this.

Frazz had a Moby Dick reference, too.

Jonah shows up.

“So! What did you guys decide?”

“Oh – um, we haven’t actually talked about-”

“Great! Here’s her suitcase. See you in a month!”

Imagine me. It was the first book that totally took me in to the story. I felt that I was one of the crew. It blew my mind and made me look for more books that did the same thing. It’s been a wonderful ongoing journey.

Moby Dick is not hyphenated.

The Brothers Karamazov

Getting back to the real Shannon will be a needle scratching on the record moment.

Like I said, Toni has a very active imagination. Not to mention, she’s got some ridiculously high expectations for her potential offspring.

will this series ever be over? Don’t think I’ve ever been so sick of a plot lie before

I still hate this new artist, and the story line is putrid

Rather than that, maybe Shannon should simply read a good book.

So, is any of this supposed to be interesting? Or just someone completing some sort of school project (this weeks art/storyline)? I just find it grating. Is that the idea?

This is just stupid.

Yeah, a week of this is too much. The point seems to be that Brad and Toni want kids for silly reazons, but Saturday’s comic drove that home a lot more effectively than this entire week of self-delusion. Sometimes, less is more.

When, oh WHEN will this journey be over?

Are you using AI to draw your comics? Stop it, look’s dumb!

I’m sure of it now. Toni reads “Baldo” and sees Gracie as the ideal daughter, without seeing the deep sadness of a child who, without school, books to read or rules to follow, never knows what to do. I wonder if at the end of these fantasies Toni will sigh sadly because Shannon is not as she dreams and or will hug her for the same reason. Jay Fosgitt really knows how to draw overly happy children.

Call her Ishmael?

Obviously, you’ve never delved into Faulkner.

I think this arc is boring.

I hope today being Friday means we’re done with this story arc. Its one gag has been milked for all it’s worth, and then some! Others are more than welcome to disagree, but I’ve been finding it tedious since about Wednesday. (And for those who will predictably ask why I keep coming back to read it, I normally enjoy this strip so I come back every day, hoping — in this case — to see something new.)

This is NOT Luann. Skipping this until the real artists return.

wheres luann and no shes not with crankshaft

She said Dick. Heh-heh, heh-heh!

Well, they get an hour alone…………

Attagirl! Love ya, Shan.

Why not “Ulysses”?

Such a child would be intolerable, even to perfect parents, not to mention unhuman.

Sue Ellen, Moby Dick was the most difficult? Ever read Last of the Mohicans? The Classic comic was great and the movie was OK. But the book? Yikes.

They can vacate this stupid arc at any time. At best, it’s vacuous, at worst, totally annoying.

What happened to this comic? Is someone else writing it?

This arc is really, really annoying.

Can we get back to the real story? Dragging this fantasy out is going to make the return of the brat all the more annoying!

My dreams are never this good.

I feel she’s going to get beat up a lot.

…….and, next week when they finally wake up, they’ll be the real characters as drawn by Greg.

Ok, I’ve had enough of Fantasy Shannon. Let’s back to real Shannon. Like the art, tho; the style reminds me of Frank Cho’s Liberty Meadows.

This is just a truly bizarre dream sequence.

I’m waiting for Mr. Roarke to come out and ask them did they enjoy their stay on Fantasy Island.

STOP IT GREG, PLEASE!!!

A standard extra credit question when I taught HS literature was…What is the single worst piece of literature that ever cost a forest its existence? You guessed it…“Moby Dick”…

curious if we’ll see other characters in this art style

Brad looks so weird in the first panel. He looks more like a female than Toni does. Glad we only have one more week of the different art style.

This has to be an alternate universe.

I’ve had enough of this. Go back to the regular Luann!

Am I the only one thinking that you guys go down more rabbit holes than any commentors in the history of commentors?? How did the whole comment feed get on every classic that you read; didn’t read; liked; thought was too long (so stopped in the middle) and/or loved cause it made you a better human?

Can we talk about the weird Shannon that is weirder than any 6 year old in the history of 6 year olds?? LOL. I am over here smh…

Somehow i can’t imagine any firefighter’s fantasy (male or female) would be their child reading Moby Dick! (Or anyone’s really…)

So when does the strip become funny again?

No good story lines for quite a while!!

“Jane Eyre” and “Moby Dick.” Two books I could not stand.

I wrote about both on my Substack page in my essay: “How I Learned To Write.”

We had to do “Jane Eyre” in my middle school eighth grade. The book is perfect for 12-year-old middle-class girls who have just discovered that boys want to find out what’s under their dress and play with it. The girls all dream of being Jane Eyre and swept off their feet by a mysterious, chiseled, and wealthy Mr. Rochester. I couldn’t understand why Mr. Rochester didn’t just boot his lunatic wife out of that tower. He was a rich English gentleman in the Regency: he could have gotten away with it. If I hadn’t read the Classic Comics version, I would not have got a 95 in that unit.

With “Moby Dick,” I was done in by three things: first, I sympathized with the whales. I found the humans cruel. Second, the book was too long, with chapter on the biology of whales. Third, whales don’t eat people…they eat plankton.

I have a hard time remembering any book I read in school that I enjoyed. Maybe Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” Great journalistic description of the disaster at Caporetto in the War to End All Wars on the Italian Front. Nobody remembers that part of the war outside of Italy.

Brad has a full head of hair, looks good

I loved Moby Dick, it was never meant to be happy fun time, but it is great literature, harsh, insightful, and quite realistic. A lot of us have a great white whale we are chasing! ;-)

I’m one of the few people who has read Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. Talk about a hard book to plow through. My favorite book of all time is The Brothers Karamazov—I’ve read it a half dozen times. Great book, but tough to read: Make a list of all the characters as you read. It does have the greatest stand-alone piece: The Grand Inquisitor.

It’s time we get back to reality.

This is it. It’s the arc that gets me to remove Luann from my daily read list. It’s been coming for a while.

Moby Dick was based on a real incident. Look it up.

“Call me fishmeal.” … MAD Magazine

Me? I’m happy when what my grandniece does what she is supposed to without reminding her.

I haven’t read all the comments since the guest artist started but I have a question:Has anyone noticed how obnoxious Shannon is NOT recently?

What’s next? Shannon finshes Med School about the same time she finshes high school? She’s supposed to be anothe Doogie Kamealoha? (Diseny plus remake of Doogie Howser.)

All these references to weighty literature … and here we are commenting about a comic strip. Pretty good bookends in readers’ tastes. No pun intended.

“Moby WHAT???”… Harry Wormwood

One more day of perfect Shannon. Then the real Shannon will come back!

This Shannon must really, really, REALLY love a challenge.

Imagine if they suggested reading Harry Potter or Game of Thrones…

I’m wondering if Toni will come down to earth and realize that this absurd version of a 6 yr old child is unrealistic. Does she really believe she can raise a child to be this way? Will Brad rearrange her thinking on the matter (if he even knows what she is imagining).

Oh joy!!

If these 2 ever do get around to having a child; they’re in for a rude awakening! LOLOL

I kinda feel like I’m reading about a “mini-Bernice” but with a much more joyful personality! :D

So they imagine Shannon as a Caucasian Gracie Bermudez?

This MUST be a dream sequence.

Please get this storyline over!

Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) was unbearable for me. I liked Macbeth once I found it described in what I would call ‘proper’ english. Shgakespearean might make for great flowery speeches in plays, but for just trying to get your ideas across, not so much.

Read Moby Dick for the first time in high school. Easy to recommend it to almost anyone, especially eager-reader kids middle school through high school. It is a true adventure story a page turner. The visual imagery of book puts you right there with the action. Early on there was a comparison of sizes to whales to traditional library & publisher book sizes (folio, quarto and octavo) was unexpected and charming. At least, to a person that grew up in a used book store :p