Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 11, 2024

Great idea.. use up all your good will with your folks and call in all your favors to help Jonah take a month off. So worth it!

I recall Toni couldn’t wait for Jonah to come pick Shannon up, last time they watched her. Man this is going to be fun ! ;)

Maybe Frank & Nancy will have the spine these two lack and use the magic word “ no”.

Lol Toni! Good one!

Worth a shot.

The title of today’s strip is: “What Happens When You Don’t Say ‘No’ to People.”

Nancy needs to tell Shannon the bedrooms are off limit. She stays in the living room or backyard. It’s not her house and if she learns to respect things that don’t belong to her, Nancy would be open to watching her. Toni needs to teach her that. Children tend to prefer touching things that aren’t theirs as if they’re something new they just gotta test or try. Bed is a bed is foreign concept for children.

The way that works is if Nancy lays down some ground rules, and puts someone she can trust in charge of Shannon.

Dirk’s out of jail by now, isn’t he?

Did Jonah paid for the broken bed?

做我妈妈一直做的事……雇一个保姆！

So, they agree to watch her but need a multitude of back up. Just another sign that this isn’t a good idea.

Toni is way out of line on this one. She expects Brad to inconvenience his parents so that her brother can dump on someone else. Frank and Nancy are entitled to a life. And, don’t give me that “but it’s family” excuse. It will only get worse.

Shannon isn’t even Brad‘s kid…

How about Bernice? She brought out the best in Shannon last time.

Brad is talking about Shannon, Toni!

This arc is going to last a month?

Um, won’t TJ be there?

Panel 2: Way to attempt manipulation there, Toni.

I have a feeling we’re rolling toward permanent custody.

Tcch! Call Children’s Services. Nobody wants this kid; dump her! (and let the ddl297 bashing begin!)

What about Luann and Bernice? Could they help?

By this point, they probably feel they are Shannon’s parents. It seemed that way to the guest cartoonist, and definitely seems that way to me! So what’s another month :)

maybe Luann could help.

she’s good with kids. and she has her own comic. sometimes.

Parent practice with a sometimes out of control youngster.

Should build a lot of character in all of them. TJ is like a big kid. Brad’s folks will be reluctant at first, but they will help knowing Shannon needs more stability.

That child has never been given boundaries or discipline.

This visual made me laugh.

What about Tiffany? We haven’t seen her in a while.

Or they could try quaaludes

ok if shannon ios actually breaking things then that is a whole never level of misbehaving, not just acting out but active destruction. make her dad pay for it any maybe he’ll wake up to responsibility

Sign Shannon up for day camp so she can be with kids her own age.

Shannon “broke” the DeGroots Bed?!!?

You have any idea how much new beds cost these days?

And did Jonah offer to PAY the DeGroots for a new replacement bed?

No, of course NOT.

All of a sudden I’m longing for Jay Fosgitt’s “Perfect Shannon.” ;-)

Shannon can coach him.

It’d be an easier sell if she was your kid… hint, hint.

I didn’t expect there would be any problems with Nancy and Frank. This strengthens my hypothesis that Toni and Jonah’s weird aunt will be contacted, even though it’s already clear that Toni doesn’t think she’s reliable. Or Luann will have to sacrifice her free time babysitting Shannon at their house.

Pretty impressive when a large, fully-grown man does it.

do they have a rotten tomato awards for comic strips ?

If TJ is so on board for having Shannon around, get TJ to care for her.

Does TJ work?

It’s so sad to watch this play out. Where is the “Adult” in this situation?

What happened to Shannon’s mother?

NOOOOOOO

I can understand Toni wanting to help her brother, but common sense has to enter here sometime. It seems, at some point, Jonah should be here discussing the situation with them. While they may enjoy babysitting and have good intentions, putting others out is different. Frank also works? And Nancy takes care of the Fuse’s books. Parents make sacrifices for their kids, Jonah hasn’t and it doesn’t seem he will in the future. I find it sad and him selfish.

Bwad, Toni, wake up. Click on “Go Comics” and click back to the string of strips from about a week or ten days ago where your sister, LUANN (who worked in childcare) and BERNICE (who loves to practice her psych skills) are totally entertaining Shannonstein. Then you can finish off the week by offering to pay them out of your fat double salary. You could also dump TJ, but that’s another story.

Wow, Toni certainly has become quite the manipulator. “Use that” is what a son should do to his parents?

Let the brat go be Mrs. Horner’s caretaker. All she needs is love, right?

Doesn’t Toni have any other relatives?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Does he do that if he wants some loving……..

Does anyone ever say no to this child? And surely there are other things to write about besides this interminable Shannon focus?

Isn’t Luann, the daycare teacher, on summer break from school?

Mom and dad…..say NO!!!

Hire Luann?

I have to be honest: I’ve always been under the impression that Jonah had a habit of occasionally leaving Shannon with Brad and Toni for weeks at a time as it was. Perhaps that just because of “comic strip” time but it always seemed like she was there for long stretches before this.

Kind of refreshing to have a story line with these characters, of course at Luannverse speed we’ll be here at least until cooler weather, lets hope they both come soon!

Going downhill from here….

On second thought Brad, maybe try a more mature tactic.

Did Jonah do something responsible in his personal life for a change, and, at least offer to pay for the bed Shannon broke. Did Jonah reinforce the punishment both sets of DeGroots gave Shannon for that?If so, then Frank, and, Nancy, would help with Shannon. (After all, Shannon is the closest thing to a grnadchild for them.) Bernice, and, Luann will be even tougher sells.

She is being remembered as Olive Oyl in the 1980 live-action “Popeye” movie with the late Robin Williams.

Shelley Duvall has passed away at the age of 75.

She will be missed tremendously. R. I. P.

Get Bernice on call!

My “cousins” draw a great strip every day! It never disappoints!!!

How about finding a DAYCARE place and stick Jonah with the bill? He can’t be totally broke, he can certainly find the money to travel to wherever his latest gig is taking place.

They are seriously flogging the mule with this Shannon/Jonah story. Geez, move on already, we all get it. Jonah is a flake, Shannon is a brat, Toni is an enabler, Brad is a wimp. They started it weeks ago, let a horrible guest cartoonist play with it for two full weeks, and now we’re right back to it for who knows how long. I appreciate Greg’s great artwork, but their storylines have a tendency to get tedious, redundant and boring, like this one has. Just wrap it up and move along!

Is this strip ever going to refocus on its supposed main character?

I called two granddaughters The Little Hurricane and The Micro Hurricane. Sweet As all get out but left a trail of destruction behind them.

Hey,if they want grandkids Shannonwill be good practice