Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 04, 2012

Wow…She’s inventing an entire FIELD! That’s AMAZING!

Does she realize that there will be math involved? :D

Orion

Ugh. Another lawyer. You’d better serve humanity as a telemarketer.

Sleep2 FTW…

Orion

Luann, the rocket scientist?

I KNEW Delta would pick law as her future career (and yes, I’m aware that Greg has no intention of ever really going there with her — I just always felt that Delta was exactly the type to study law, practice for a few years, and then go into politics when the time was right!)

SNERK!!!

For those of you wanting to see Luann, other than Sunday: Here she is.The comment count for the upcoming week will be interesting. Yesterday’s count was very low, even for a Sunday.

Holy crap, is that Luann? I haven’t seen her in a daily since march.

Its so simple to attack lawyers and the profession of law in such a general way. Considering how law and lawyers have protected human rights in this country and in the world in general and considering how those who besmirch lawyers run to them when they find themselves in trouble, this is so simplistic as to be aggravating. Of course, being one myself, I feel this way. -:) It is nice to see Luann, and I wonder what this particular story arc is going to lead too. Btw, go Delta!! good to see you every now and then.

Shakespeare:First thing I’d do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

Thus spaketh the Bard of Statford upon Avon

What did Shakespeare say the first thing to do was?

Who are these characters? Don’t recall seeing them before…

Re; Greg’s blog…he says readers are against sex in a comic strip. Huh?? Is this not America, the Sex Central? Everything on tv is sex. Free accessible porn on internet. Porn mags on shelves at Barnes and Noble. Sex manuals accessible to children on shelves at BN. My middle school kids knew all about sex by 5th grade – ages 11-12. Some even younger. Come on, Greg. You aren’t fooling us. It is YOU who are not comfortable with it being born in a different era. Lynne Johnston addressed it in her strips about Liz and Anthony when they were teenagers and in college with other boyfriends. Not to forget Lawrence – the gay childhood friend and neighbor. Lynne Johnston got a huge backlash about the gay controversy but her strips survived the storm. She still had strong readership. So it is Greg’s own queasiness about addressing sex AND backlash from the conservative readers. I do wish he would be honest about it instead of putting it on us readers.

Wow!! I can’t believe that Luann appeared in this comic strip for two days in a row.

and the burden of those college loans will feel so good…

Oh yes – Off in the distance I can hear it slowly building now that the impatient have finally got their wish. What’s that we hear, certainly by Thursday, but probably sooner, zzzzzzZZZZ – boooorrrrrrinnnng….

Now that’s on file, let’s see… this could have been a Sunday one-shot. What’s tomorrow? Tiffany & Crystal sharing their career goals, or Gunther and Knute chipping in? Maybe Quill reminding Luann of her singing career. Make way for Elwood as he opens up the way to fame & riches.

Lol. So is mine.

Actually, what I got out of the new blog posting is that there is going to be some interesting hanky-panky going on in a few weeks, and if the cut-art was not a misdirection, it will be between Quill and Luann!As for today. When I was a wee tyke, I wanted to be “an airplane driver.” Glad to see all the girls eating real sandwiches….

Is LuAnn a Queen fan? Brian May was a candidate for PhD in astrophysics, and the thermal dynamics are quite key to the movement of celestial bodies.

It is great to see Luann back in a daily strip.

My 3 shools were The School of Hard Knocks and then I went to Wasamater U.

Nice to see “the girls” again, I was beginning to think that Delta was just an airlines.

Dan Quayle said it best as he stood in from of the American Bar Association and said, “…there are too many lawyers.”

@luannfan1212 – don’t you have an ambulance to chase or some hours to bill?

My experience is that Mr. Evans is basing his conclusions on mail that he gets from his readers. Despite whatever reality may exist on the ground, it appears that a majority of Luann readers want to keep the strip sex-free. Just because some here feel differently does not make Evans dishonest.

Join a Union

Now that Luanne is back, how long will it be before so many start with how boring it is?

She wants to be the next Brian May. ( Yep, he has a doctorate in astrophyics. )

Greg -I had surgery and had to be in bed for a good part of many days. I started with Luann in 2002 and it kept my attention and sanity for hours. Thank you. MJ

Good for you Luann. That is a good field and you will find plenty of Job opportunities when you graduate.

Then you can go back to your 10th year class reunion and see Tiffany and her unemployed ex-jock husband putting on airs about how important they were in High school :)

It’s good to have mad Math and Physics skills.

Yikes. We’ve gone from Weenie World to the Golden Arches. I thought these girls would be smart enough to eat healthier. Supersize em.To match the boring diets, look how bored their faces are. This is a setup. I hope tomorrow something weird happens at the McDonalds, like the guy in the next booth is watching porn on the McDonalds free wi-fi.

and how…lol

Love to see the girls, Luann Delta and Bernice. Don’t want sex in strip. Not conservative, just sick of getting it shoved down my proverbial throat. Thanks Greg.

She’s back! LOL

I see Luann as an Elementary school teacher, maybe writing Kids books

triverse

I am repeating this remark I made earlier today:-—————————————————-For those of you wanting to see Luann, other than Sunday:Here she is.The comment count for the upcoming week will be interesting. Yesterday’s count was very low, even for a Sunday.

Luann did not look serious with her comment. Nevertheless I’m surprised she could come up with those words.

Re: Yesterdays strip did not having anything that could be viewed as controvesial…etc.-————-I agree.

I thought I heard you calling…I have a feeling today’s strip is a setup for Round 2 of the Tiffany went to LA arc – she came back with dreams of being an actress.

Also, why are so many people born without a sarcasm detector? Greg did everything he could to clue everyone in with Luann’s expression.

Luann will go to Broadway. What? It’s better than the Sam Houston Institute of Technology. Now that would not make a good sweatshirt.

@mojitobaby

I hope you are right about a Tiffany went to LA arc. That would be a blast.-—————————@brdshtt

She won’t say yes or no.

Beware of being too literal-minded when it comes to reading comments here! Also, you need to refine your search technique.

To come to think of it, most of the comments are on the comments, not the strip itself. The strip just provides a seed – e.g. Delta wanting to be a lawyer – and the comments grow from there. Comments cause more comments. Sort of like lawyers cause more lawyers.

That depends on how you define “chaos” – as well as “anarchy”. .Gandhi saw his theory of “ordered anarchy” as a minimum of government in a society, others claim that’s an oxymoron, and that “order” has no place in its definiton. The literal meaning of “anarchy” is to be without a leader; the common interpretation is to be without a publically enforced goverment – the implication is that without that social contract in force, public disorder and lawlessness results.

Whatsamatta U, Class ’73 with Bullwinkle.

With all due respect to Luann, my first impulse after reading this was to wonder how long she had to practice saying that proposed job title. She never impressed me as being all that academic.

You’d be wrong – it wasn’t just the papers who made the decision, it was the Christian Family Network (Ohio) and the American Family Network (Mississippi) who urged their members to cancel subscriptions and put a lot of pressure on the advertisers. Remember, papers run on advertising. The death threats and hate mail she got were just a fun bonus..Remember, Lawrence came out in ‘93, before comics were on the web. In ’97 (still no web presence) when Lawrence found a partner, the strip was running in 1700 papers, over 100 dropped the strip – some ran it again when the offendingly gay Lawrence wasn’t featured, I don’t know which ones dropped it altogether. .But comparing newspaper syndications now what they were the wouldn’t tell you much since so many papers have folded in the interim. Just to make it more confusing, many papers don’t carry a strip in the actual paper, but include it on their website.

“yadda yadda yadda who’s the blonde yadda yadda yadda we never hardly see her yadda yadda”Thanks, Dave53. My thoughts exactly, but you said it better than I would’ve.

Shucks, cowboy Dave, can’t we just put a curly wig on your avatar? ;D

Uh, maybe because they wouldn’t waste their time here since we’re NOT members of the congregation and therefore are not so suggestible to spoon feeding? .Also, “right the letter”? Dude, plz…. Look, people who have a religious or political axe to grind and want to close down something use direct pressure on the wallet – they target the advertisers first, along with members of their congregation that are subscribers, they don’t waste time on the damned.

As for me, lets see Quill and Luann go to the movies and then have breakfast together. The sex does not have to be seen, just implied.

Really? And in whose house is this post-unseen-coital breakfasting supposed to be taking place? You better “imply” an apartment or hotel room, as well as “imply” a landlord who rents to minors or “imply” a credit card that isn’t paid by either of their parents if you hope to see that scenario..And if you’re going to say Brad & TJ’s place, remember that TJ would rat to Nancy in a NY minute.

The sex does not have to be seen, just implied.Hey wait. I thought the singing sessions with the door closed implied sex.Yes, I’m sure of it. The whole “singing” thing was a metaphor, like train going in the tunnel.

Implied sex: Smoking a cigarette? – works in old movies. New movies – anything goes.

Back to lawyers:The more lawyers you have, the more lawyers you need.In electronics it’s called positive feedback.(Don’t blame me – Delta started it.)

Who-Hoo! A Luann, Bernice, and Delta one shot…will it lead to an actual story arc?!

Thousands of teens make breakfast in the back of a car? It’s your scenario – we’re not talking outright sex among 16 year olds, but your “implied” version of it, i.e. breakfast the next morning.

“If a church group, such as the Southern Baptists are told by their preachers that something is sinful, they will except it as gospel (Pun) even if it is not. As far as the majority of the parishioners are concerned, if the preacher said it, it is the same as if Christ said it.”.accept.But I think you don’t know much about Baptists. At the conclusion of most sermons the flaws in the thinking is discussed over the ensuing meal and related to those who weren’t listening and didn’t hear what was said or miss-said. In fact, Baptist are among the least likely to accept proclamations not backed by scripture and among the most likely to argue over the interpretations derived.

I personally know of one instance where an elderly widow left her estate to be divided equally between her two sons, with the eldest son appointed executor. When the elder son began appropriating most of the assets for himself, the youngest son had no recourse other than to hire an attorney. It all went downhill from that point. The attorneys for both sides profited handsomely.

good to see Luann on a day other than Sunday

And if you insist on focusing on sexual matters in comic strips, I call your attention to the discussion between Luann and Gunther regarding the fact that he finds himself unable to talk to his lady love. .Luann says, “Maybe you’re gay.” .Gunther says something like, “I considered that but part of me assures I’m not.”.Thus, his physiological response to the presence of an attractive, interested female is indirectly referenced. Ergo, our beloved comic strip is not completely sexless, it just does not directly address the specifics.

This sure feels like another Sunday throwaway strip as opposed to the usual M-Sa story arcs.

NIce pic Dave

TJ would rat to Nancy in a NY minute.".I thought it was called a New York second, defined to be the interval between the traffic light turning green and the car behind you honking at you to get a move on.

I’m happy with the strip as it is with the only implied sex being between Frank and Nancy.

After their divorce, she will stay at home and take care of the children she and Aaron have.Aaron Hill is long gone and surely she is over him. Besides, he was always like Archie Andrews to her Betty Cooper. She had a crush on him but he could never see her. He is one ‘boyfriend’ that she is well rid of.

If she can say it and sip soda at the same time, maybe she is capable of studying it…

I’m not implying teenagers don’t have sex, and quit trying to troll me – you’re about as subtle as your spelling is accurate. .Your scenario was going to the movies some night and having breakfast the morning after. Nancy would ground her for the rest of her life if that occurs, no matter where, so if you never want to see Luann again – and therefore Bernice – just keep on agitating for it.

I haven’t checked but it has to be going up – big time.

One problem: anarchy always LEADS to chaos. ALWAYS.It’s laughable to see the cartoonists at Big Head Press promote anarchy when power structures still exist right under their very noses, in the fictional societies they create. Those societies don’t have chaos precisely to the extent they aren’t anarchies.

For Shame! You copped the cartoon of Quill & Luann from Greg’s blog & didn’t even give him credit! Maybe YOU will need protection…

From a cynic’s point of view— “When you girls graduate from college, you will consider a job at Weenie World to be a great career!”

It is very nice to see a new story line involving Luann. Funny start, ‘advanced oneupmanship.’ A new summer job for Lu?

You’ve seen her report cards, have you?

Of course he could have Lauann walk up to Bernice and say, “Me and Quill did the nasty last night .”

Isn’t that British?—and ungrammatical at that.

It’s just that we know you so well, Leviticus!

II see that it just took me a whole hour to go through these comments.

The math would fry her brain from all social activities for life……

As for me, lets see Quill and Luann go to the movies and then have breakfast together. The sex does not have to be seen, just implied.

I agree – that would suffice.

Uh, please read more carefully. NOT what I said – Lev proposed a very specific way for Greg to depict it, I disagreed. While “parents” may go off and leave their kids a la Risky Business, didja ever notice that they tend not to leave their daughters at home?

“Sorry to disappoint you if your are trying to blame all lewd sex talk on me.”.When have I ever blamed any for their actions? The discussion went on and on and on as if it had never happened. I admit it was oblique but you don’t need a sledge hammer for every subject..I’m not sure why so many thing every subject needs to be brought up in every situation but that’s just me.. I’m reminded of how some movie critics in times gone by sniffed at assorted movies and called them “escapist”.. My wife said, “If I want reality, I watch the news — which I do. If I want to escape reality or simply be entertained, I figure I should be allowed to enjoy myself without worrying if it’s artsy enough.”

“The annoying thing is I know it should have been accept instead of except.”.I know you knew. It’s just too hard to ignore sometimes, just like when so many think they’re being proper when they use a subjective pronoun in place of an objective pronoun as the object of a preposition. .It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t trying to write right..And then there’s there, their, they’re, affect, effect (tricky ones at that), no, know, new, knew, gnu.

Frankly, I see Luann as a child psychologist. Seriously!

Thank you, Greg, this one really made me smile.

The first liar never has a chance! :o)