Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 07, 2024

And in the immortal words of Rodney Dangerfield, “The best thing about kids… is making them!” ;)

There you go.. Brad is in Heaven. I wonder how long it will be until Toni becomes pregnant?

So after all these weeks… what will the NEW story arc be on Monday??

There are “optimal” dates, and “optional” dates.

Practice makes perfect!

A simple smile works well on me.

And so the tradwife life of Toni begins.

No time like the present.

’Rmember Brad, we can only do it on optimal days.

Or instead you cn put it on a dish, slide it under th door and I’ll get to it later..’

I knew it!!! You dirty ol’ man…..wink….wink!

Hubba and may I say again hubba

Unseen fourth panel.

Toni: Brad. Down boy. This is not an optimal date.

Okay.

So it’s now “official?”

Toni is FINALLY onboard with having a baby?

Nancy will be ESTATIC when the “Toni announces she’s pregnant,” arc drops. No doubt when ANY of Us least expect it.

Good luck to Toni during that period.

And good luck to Brad who’s going to be the SOLE breadwinner for awhile. ;-)

Down boy..

“Let’s get it on!”

Daww…

I just heard “Bolero” start playing in my head.

Paul Anka:

♫ Havin my baby, what a funny way of tellin me that we gotta get married.. ♪

TJ – baby sitter?

Well, it’s a pleasant ending to this arc. Starting Monday, we can start to focus on something new.

Yee-hah!

Toni, if your young and healthy, you generally won’t need a calendar.

And to think, everyone was dreading this story before it started.

Lessee, for Monday, Dez needs to show off the artifacts she collected from her travels. Tiffanie and Stefani need to go against each other. Bets needs to come up with new endeavors.

Cue the Barry White music.

Optimal dates? I’m thinking at their age, Brad’s performance and optimal dates really isn’t something Toni has to worry about.

Go for it every day, and be sure to go twice on optimal dates

My guess is that is not what she had in mind!

We used a special calendar, the rhythm method…

Well, this turned out to be a special day. Toni gave the go-ahead. We’ll be coming back to this story arc a lot. Meanwhile, what will the artists focus on next? I’d like to get back to the college kids. I wonder if we’ll ever see them graduate?

Luck him

Toni needs to remember to roll her hips back whe they’re done so everything runs down hill, so to speak.

…and verily doth the Evans set 2025 as the Year of Toni’s Pregnancy.

I see a scientific opportunity. We can see how long Toni is pregnant in real time, and begin to formulate new theories about the passage of strip time, and whether the latter has accelerated.

As hoped since the beginning, the experience of having Shannon for a whole month has erased any doubts about having children. Now there’s just to wait for the announcement, but I think them will have a child in the next year. I can’t wait, I want to see Luann’s reaction and Shannon’s too.

TMI

Yea, Me too.

Baby time.

Stop talking, and get wild.

Sounds like Brad is about to get his freak on.

Geez, welcome to “9 Luann Lane.”

I doubt if I’ll see Toni pregnant in my life time. I’m mid 60’s.

Toni and Brad will make good parents. This makes me happy. I hope Toni has a good pregnancy.

From a literary viewpoint, the culmination of this recent story arc has been very enlightening and inspiring.

Ok….this was a wonderful way for them to decide they were ready for a family. Lights out…(click)

Noooooo! leave lights ON!

Typical millennials. Completely unable to learn from their own negative experiences. Sad!

Cue the disco lights and put on Barry White!

People who do that in the dark baffle me. Do you not want to see what you’re doing?

Quick, Brad, strike while the iron is hard! Once she starts getting hung up on dates, the fun could turn into a chore!

called it

I remember my wife planning those optimal dates, I had to be ready to perform(finish) at exactly 8:07 CST when the moon was blue.

Wait till Shannon gets dumped there again when they’re busy with a newborn infant.

Instead of a flippant remark on men and women and their differences, I’ll just say this was a sweet set up for what’s next.

So risque

I am thinking that to cut off a comic like this implies one thing but then the strip will go in another direction. I do not think Toni was going to finish with, to have a baby.

Well no misdirection here, it’s obvious that pregnancy is meant to be in the picture for Bwad and Toni, YEAAA!

Baby making whoopie.

I’m with Brad.

told y’all when this arc started…

Toni. Fertility charts might increase the chances of you becoming pregnant on a given night. But there’s nothing like spotanaity.

Is panel 3 the Evanses way of keeping us “in the dark”? d;o)

This stuff about Toni charting her “optimal” dates is really weird because that more what people do when they have fertility issues. There is no reason to assume that Brad and Toni have fertility issues. In fact at their age just not using protection should enough to get Toni pregnant in a matter of weeks. Optimal dates sort of implies that they rarely have sex and need to plan it far in advance. Maybe this is Karen’s way of showing just how committed Toni is but it just comes off weird,

practice, practice, practice.

At least we know he loves her!

I seem to remember someone in King Lear saying to a guy, “Thy sire thought not of thee when he got thee”.

So racy!

Ohne Licht? Na so was!

Yeah Baby! ;-)

Babies do not come with “automatic sleep buttons”