Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 30, 2011

Awwwwwwwwkwaaaaaaaaard!

Passion Pit Theatre.

Wow, what a great line. Good luck with that in the real world.

Welp, looks like Quill’s chosen the make-out flick of the summer… though I’m not sure he chose the right date… since they’re so adamant that it isn’t one!

Quill’s line sounds to me like he’s rethinking the “no date” concept….

Thank goodness I never went thru anything like this. 50 years passed before we got maried though.

…if I had a nickle for every time I’ve heard that line…

BAZINGA !!

This must be a California movie theater thing.

………….. I’d only have a nickle?

Teenage Movie Night-Out?ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Did the movie start yet?

I know. There are a few commenters here who are either forgetful, lying, or had really, really boring high school years.

This is kind of mild compared to what I’ve seen at the movies, at the ball park, even driving along the freeway.

You know, I don;t think that Mr. Quill is really as awkward and shy as he’s PRETENDING to be. Our young Heroine should be wary. I for one don’t TRUST this guy.

so much talk about the “lap girl” when actually her and the blond girl are the sweetest of all the couples, the rest are simply kissing or PRETENDING they are NOT on a date in one case :P

Did you notice the big grin on the guy’s face? I think she’s doing a bit more than just sitting on his lap… BTW, where’s her other hand?…

Why doesn’t she insist on pretending it’s not a date, when it’s a hot guy with a sexy accent?

…..and that is just during the previews or the lights would be off …

I agree…I went to TONS of movies with my BF as a teenager and never ONCE did I sit on his lap!!! Maybe this is just exaggerated a bit to show the awkwardness between Luann and Quill??

true Jen, it is extremely rare but not impossible to see that in a regular movie. But at same time………… taking aside the “locker room mentality of some guys” and their “imagining” the reason for his smile; they are actually the sweetest and “more realistically IN LOVE” couple, while most of the others seem more in the “kissing game” type of thing(kiss might be meaningless)…………………………. Greg just wanted to showcase the “difference” between the others and Lue and Quill’s game of “pretending not to be on a date, as we scared of Quill’s time to go back Down Under”….. Greg could have easily shown all couples hugging and cuddling instead of having 3 of 5 kissing, and had been more “realistic”

Luann is an obvious tease. She needs to put out or shut up! Quill should moe on to Bernice or Delta.

What? No same-sex necking?

Daniel Craig is on the screen. The boys in that theater should be in the middle of their man crush – which is good, since every girl in the theater would be watching Daniel Craig move.

In my HS days (50s), we went to drive-in movies to make out (where speakers clipped to the car windows)- so you had a lot more privacy.

I WAS thinking that the movie they mentioned did NOT seem like it would be much of a date film. On the other hand, when I left the drive in, I could seldom say what the movie had been about.

You don’t go to matinees eh? When I came in once, midway through the movie, I saw a girl bouncing on a guys lap. I don’t want to know what they were doing.

Professor it is a comic strip not a docmentary sit back and enjoy the strip. We had drive inns in my day and a lot going on during the movie those days. Even have a drive inn theater in Kettle Falls WA. still open during the summer.

Look at the grin on the Feather’s face in panel two. I for one will celebrate when he exits this strip. One manic grin (TJ) is more than sufficient.

My dating experience is mid-sixties. The movie theatre was for watching the movie, holding hands and/or putting your arm around your date/girlfriend’s shoulder. The drive-in movie was the old “passion pit” where all the heavy “necking” (and “petting”) went on. I doubt very many of us teens could tell you much about the movies we “saw” at the drive-in.

Thus far, Luann and Quill, though repeated arms-length kissers, have not done any cuddling at all.

Time to make up for lost time. Only need a little tweaking of the rules to allow it !

Time to tweak !

Note that he is calling her “hot” This reveals his feelings..Do “only friends” say such things?

Wasn’t Bernice once in Zane’s lap ?.Miss the old archives.

Yay!1 He’s making the first move! Go for it Luann!< 3

Though they are not on a date

They both feel it must be fate

Their eyes meet, they share a kiss

It doesn’t at all seem amiss

Slowly his hand slides beneath her top

She makes no move to make him stop

Carressing there her smooth soft skin

He hopes soon will be in like Flynn

With low moans and an audible gasp

The prize is almost within his grasp

His moves are smooth, his delivery slick

He won’t even have to use the popcorn trick

Suddenly, they both are drenched

The passionate fires have been quenched

Coke and ice, their ardour did smother

Courteously provided by her big brother

He sought to enjoy a show

With no work at which to go

Young lust in the bud was nipped

The rest of the movie could be skipped

He’ll take them home, parents will never know

Just how far they were about to go.

Thank you, RinaFarina and Ladyfingers86.

Now that’s romantic there! Sorry Luann.

My Jaw just dropped. I have never seen anything like this. (man I guess I’m just a nerd)

this has never happened in every movie theater i’ve been in… LOL way to be realistic :P

Me either. I am an avid movie goer and I’ve never once seen this kind of thing in a movie theater. I see a couple of two teens smooching and necking but not like it is depicted in those panels. At drive-in movie, probably, as vehicles provide more privacy. This kind of activity is very distracting and as an avid movie goer, I know I would speak with management to put a stop to this kind of activity. I paid to watch a movie, not the sexual activities in the audience. Perhaps during Greg’s time when he was a teen, that was what they did. Because adults did not go to movie generated at teens.

And let the fun begin! Good opening line, Quill.

You don’t pay 8 bucks to make out with somebody in a movie theatre, you don’t let them pay your eight bucks to make it in the movie theatre with you.

Sally Forth has a 12 year old version of much the same story. Well done IMO. But the movie bit was tamer..At least I think they are 12. The boy is in town only for the summer, but is not Australian.

Wonderful opportunity to rekindle one of life’s most embarrassing moments…

I’ll guess that the rest of the theater audience is “On A Date”.

“Is it hot in here or is it just you?”

Best. Line.

Ever.

The pistol is loaded and being placed against my temple

From Disney’s The Little Mermaid, “Sha-la-la-la-ko-me-ka, you gotta, kiss the girl”

Well, the scene is probably not meant to be taken entirely literally. Of course the entire audience does not consist of perfectly paired teens making out. But there are enough of the latter that it feels that way!

Never been in a theater like this. Glad of it, too.

oh baby!!

it’s a good thing reality has no basis in this strip.

well, Jug, Riverdale is to real life as The Family Circus is to real families…

Never would’ve thought of “Cowboys VS. Aliens” as a make-out movie.

I didn’t find “Cowboys and aliens” to be really smooch material, although I must admit it could’ve been different had I gone just with my wife instead of with more friends.