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

… I had held out hope until now. I hoped he was pulling everyone’s chain because most would assume he was sending off Quill. I still have a shred of hope that he’ll have Quill stick around by other means, but after the quote someone posted yesterday from Greg about not liking long term relationships and ‘ditto Quill’, I know that’s the smallest of possibilities… and very unlikely.

Yeah. My interest in this strip just dropped to zero. I can just re-read the old strips and they’ll be the same. I had hopes for Brad and Toni, but those appear to have been dashed. Then for Gunth and Rosa, but those went belly up…Apparently, this is the cartoon version of Groundhog Day, except none of the characters realize that it’s the same day over and over again.

Orion

It is amazing how people complain about their interest for a comic has dwindled to zero, and keep returning to it every day.

So true…what you really regret in life are the things you didn’t do.

This is it! Luann is moving to Australia to go to college.

I think Quill was getting wishy-washy with his non-committal attitude all the time. Luann needs a more outgoing type as she is outgoing herself. I also don’t think Gunth and Rosa were matched well.Again, the two were polar opposites in character. Even Luann had more in common with Gunther than she does with Quill.

@peterhuppertz – I had hopes that I might be wrong that perhaps Mr. Evans was going to pull some sort of twist, but…Nope.

It’s not working for me either..

Please, enough with the Gunther talk.. He is not right for Luann. Not ever.

I think I’ll leave this comic for a while. Boycott is a valid form of protest.

Now, now, let’s not get hysterical.

Greg is “uncertain” of how to handle a long term relation for Luann, and thinks he has no talent to do that……the funny things are…………….. he does a great job with her parents, and with Brad and Toni, he CAN DO IT with Q and L, specially when he has established a great barter between them when they talk, which SHOULD NOT BE HINDERED because they are a couple…………. I guess eventually when Greg “sees” that the only alternative for Brad and Toni is to be “engaged”, he will make something happen that will break them up……… and eventually he will make Rosa disappear again, thus ending Gunther’s potential love interest………. and he will have poor Knute and Crystal with an eternal “should we be, or should we not be?”

Kinda done with all these story lines that have crappy endings…..This is really a bummer.

This reminds me of the old tv series, THE WONDER YEARS, I just knew Kevin and Winnie Cooper would get together. In the final episode, however, we find Kevin married someone else and Winnie had gone off to art school.

I have a hunch we’ve not seen the last of Aaron Hill. If people move away, sometimes tney move back.

Gunther “keeps falling too easily with other women” (Rosa, Tiff, Lue and Bern) and has shown a little jealousy streak that I don’t like, not as bad as Toni’s ex, but still something to consider, and actually Q and Luann had lot of things in common, Music, Acting to name 2……….. and they found it very easy to have a conversation with each other, and taking aside Luann’s fear that he would one day “fall for Tiff”…… he brought the best in her………. and that fear seemed to be “solved” during the time Luann and Quill were with Tiff in the pool

Ha!

A few months ago, when I’d said (posting as Bill the Butcher) that Evans had lost his mojo and was just recycling tired plots, I was roundly condemned by a chorus headed by High Priest Mordecai of the Holy Church of Greg Evans. Certainly, I’m not too high-minded to gloat right now at the general uprising of discontent. I mean, what did you lot expect? Can anyone mention a single plotline on this farce since the Great Washington Trip Snorefest of 2008 which did not fizzle out? I’ve stopped reading this comic for some months now but will be back for a few days,until this too fizzles.

Odd that anyone would think that anyone might want today’s strip as a collectible print. Framed yet. No thanks. Seems a twisted notion. One with the kiss from the other day would surely appeal more.

lol, read through the “love interest” section of the Luann wiki page. I’m starting to see what you guys are talking about . . . it is like Groundhog Day, over and over and over.

All I can say is Aaron Hill better be coming back. The both of them were so alike but immature, but now Luann’s matured a great deal and hopefully, Greg thinks it’s time to bring the ‘never was’ couple together.

Gotta say, Greg, this seems a bit forced and repetitive. Next, Aaron will come back for a brief vacation. Let her grow up, please.

I still think there’s going to be more to this arc than he’s saying. They’re going back next week, but NOT PERMANENTLY. Alot of loose ends to tie up in OZlandia before the final move to Pittsville.

and i thought that this was just a comic strip. Something written to amuse and give a break from reality… guess i was wrong.

time to elope

All I can say is Aaron Hill better be coming back. The both of them were so alike but immature, but now Luann’s matured a great deal and hopefully, Greg thinks it’s time to bring the ‘never was’ couple together.

Ahem – Quill’s a senior, did he have any concern about Luann when faced with the prospect of graduation? .As for Luann – do you remember when you were 16.5? Two years/graduation was an eternity away, so of course Luann wasn’t concerned yet about what would happen to Quill. At that age “now” is now. The only planning these two have done regarding the future is deliberately not get involved so they don’t get hurt, and you see how well that turned out. We’re not exactly talkin’ brain trust here, people.

Maybe Greg doesn’t like summer weddings without long planning.

ahh poor kids here it is 4th of July and no fireworks for them

Quill could learn some basic manners and turn off his cell phone.

Not only he didn’t turn off his cell, worse he did: he responded to two calls.

I despise people who won’t turn off their cell phones in important situations like this one, letting them ring, respond, and spoil the moment.

A more heroic Quill could ‘accidentally’ forget to get on the plane and miss his flight.

Quill doesn’t seem too heroic right now.

OK now, Greg- here’s the thing: it was my interest in Luann that brought me to this site, as anyone who has had a teenage daughter can appreciate the ups and downs of that time of life (I also relate to Zits, having had sons) but this thing of building up a relationship just to let it die is getting tedious. She has finally made a mature decision about her feelings for Quill. I’d like to see that rewarded with an ongoing courtship.

Okay, Luann; cool your jets and stop bawling like a baby! If you have any hope of staying in love with Quill, you will have to deal with this setback in a much more mature fashion!

Well, hey. I’m pretty sure every fan in existence would like to see Charlie Brown finally kick the football, but that’ll never happen either.

Maybe quill will get to stay. TJ can always get ann eiffel to sponsor him i’m sure. So she can keep her sales up due to tj….lol. That way its a win win scenario…… Either that or Toni will sponsor him. Who know’s…….

I hope I am wrong. Oh how I want to be wrong, BUT I think this is going to end in frustration for everyone.

Quill, you can still go for it. They haven’t called your flight. Besides, grief is the number one afrodisiac !

Here’s how I handle strips that fail to satisfy: I don’t read them. Just a little tip from the country doctor.

Bill, no need to re-introduce yourself. Your style is your signature.

Distance makes it hard to develop a relationship. It’s not that much of an obstacle to a preexisting one. There are several ways around this, but it needs to start with Quill giving Luann a hug, holding her and telling her everything will be okay and they’ll find a way – i.e., making it clear that he WANTS this. This is why my brother and I don’t start anything we don’t plan to put a ring on.

That top would look great with black stockings and a garter belt.

Please twist this! There is no way Luann should be with Gunther

Johnny ONE NOTE. Is this the only storyline Evans can come up with? I’m done reading this strip. Just one big tease after another with the ending always the same. Isn’t that the definition of BORING? Yes. Boring.

COME ON GREG!!!!!!!!

This is a family comic strip # 1.

2, you try coming up with new material all the time. Good Grief! Charlie Brown!

Relax, folks. I DOUBT that Mr. Perfect will be gone for GOOD, as much as I would like to see him disappear.

Ever hear of exchange students? Or student visas?

Greg will FIND a way to KEEP Quilly around.

ESPECIALLY when he gets back from Comic-Con and Finds a LARGE ANGRY Lynch-Mob camped on His front lawn…..,

It’s getting hard to be an optimist when there’s so many disappointments. Hopes dashed so quickly. Reminds me of Fiddler on the Roof when Motel Kamzoil says “Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!”.Maybe Greg will pull “some happiness” out of this, but it almost seems that he playing on the insecurities and disappointments of teens as they try to solve the puzzle of adolescence.

dumb and dumber, Greg hs NO new ideas just repeating the same story line over and over….

I just keep a 3×5 card near the computer so that I can hold it over the distracting blinker. Otherwise, I can’t concentrate on ANY of the comments on that page.

Oh come on Greg……really, again?

I like the design of this strip, contemporary references, wide cast and multiple arcs. As far as the, um…‘anticlimactic’ current strip – big deal. Fan fiction and Rule 34 exists for those who must have completion. I’m not volunteering or interested, just sayin’. ProTip: Don’t search for My Little Pony fan fiction – you’ll gouge your eyes out.

Aw nuts.

Hmmm…well Quill could find a host student exchange family to stay until graduation..AND..Brads old room is empty…..that would be a twist..Quill & Luann living in the same house..wouldn’t that drive Tiffany insane…lol…

Will you please tell your Avatar to stop SHOUTING!

When Quill first came over and sat down he immediately started talking to Luann about how they had decided just to be friends because he knew he would be going back to Australia. Probably he had come over just to tell her the time had come before he realized she had other immediate things in mind. This would explain why he went quiet for a surprising time, even folding his arms, which seemed strange at the time. Maybe Luann is right today that they should have given themselves the year. Maybe this is why Greg has hardly ever let us see them together in the year—her time, longer in ours. None of this makes it less frustrating and disappointing for us—infuriating for some in fact.

Or the converse – doing a different thing each time but expecting the same result.

Oh well, it seemed like a good thing, but this is how all teenagers learn about heartbreak and real life. Get the hurt out of your system, yell, scream, stomp, and move on.

Poor old Luann. Always a loser in love.

This kind of reminds me of a soap opera when viewers complain when the storyline isn’t going the way they want it to go but yet keep on watching day after day. Oh me? Yes I watch one soap. The young and the restless.

Blame, I KNEW I was gonna hate today’s strip. The kiss scene the other day was so perfect.

I’m torn on this storyline. I can sympathize with posters who still want to see Quill and Luann “do it” because there is a sweetness and honesty to their relationship. As long as done safely, and what they both want, no problem. For as tacky as this sounds, something to remember each other by (I really don’t mean that quite; try to read between the lines).Yet I think to one person’s (sorry on forgetting names) post about comics are supposed to be funny and not reality; another referred to people wanting to see Charlie Brown kick the football. That’s where I’m torn the other way; Greg has always done a great job (IMO) of showing that real life is full of disappointments. Luann is a strong character, but the strength comes from making lemonade out of lemons.So, bottom line, I don’t know which is best. Will be interesting to see how this plays out-and sorry for such a long post!

I don’t know what sort of subliminal message your icon is trying to tell me, but after staring at it for awhile, I suddenly desire a cheeseburger. And I want to have my hair cut into a mohawk. But mostly the cheeseburger. Is this what you’re aiming for, or should I adjust my monitor?

Once again, Greg has caused “comicus interruptus”.

:(

really really disappointed in this plotline direction. As other have said before this was done with Aaron Hill (good thing) but redoing it with Quill is definately a bad thing. Boo-Hisss!!

I forgot what grade Luann is in, could there be a chance for an exchange program to Australia?.Probably not, would make the strip too complicated.

Luann = Charlie BrownHer love life = FootballGreg Evans = Lucy

NOOOO! Jeez Greg, just had to do the obvious huh? why wasn’t the phone call from Quill’s dad asking if Quill and Luann wanted to join him for dinner?

The Problem: Greg’s “Principle Protagonist”, Luann is only 16 years old.The Solution: Letting her age a bit to oh, say 18. Then he can depict her in more mature settings.Unfortunately at THAT age she loses some of charm of being an awkward teen….,

Obviously the long running Days Of Our Lives series is in part an inspiration for this strip. For just like that show’s Sami Brady character, no matter what the circumstances, or no matter who is in pain or crisis, Luann always makes it about herself.

Star Trek rule #1. Female who falls for captain dies. Rule #2. Crewman with red shirt on away team dies. There must be a Luann Rule too, Any boy who is interested in Luann moves away.

Well, to some extent today’s episode IS about freedom. Unfortunately, it’s the freedom to be unhappy. But hark back to the days of arranged marriages – and in some cultures, that’s still the case. I’d rather have the freedom of choice, even if that choice produces unhappiness..And who said, “You Can’t Go Home Again”? Oh, yeah, Thomas Wolfe.

I know that kick-in-the-stomach feeling so well.

Hey ..who called Quill going back to Oz first… the other day?Your a winner and I owe you a quarter….

This happen to me couple year ago.

That stupid friend restriction was YOUR idea Luann. You wasted a year in which you probably would have fallen in love, and then out of love, and there would be no pain now. You’re dumber than dirt.

Next week? They have a week to pack up and move from a house they have lived in for more than a year? A bank foreclosing on your mortgage gives you more time.

NOO!!

Lu, how many opportunities did you have? How many did you pass up? All.A lot of us can probably relate to this too.

Boo. What a letdown, agree with the groundhog analogy. Quill is perfect for Luann, unlike any of her previous flings, which were only that. Aaron was just a childhood obsession. Greg cant pull the same dissappear act with Quill. There has to be a solution to keep them together, or I will join the boycott group.

I do believe UH is doing a variation on a Troll theme. I plan to scroll past.

Thanks for the great strip Mr. Evans. It sure gets people tapping the keys.

Luann wouldn’t be Luann without the teen angst. HS life is full of tough lessons.

Yup, Evans is a damn misogynist who’s had some horrible relationships in the past and loves to make Luann’s life a living hell.

I think I’ll just stop reading..too repetitive / disjointed.That face in the last frame looks like Olive Oyle

Yes, my first thought was how epileptics and other people who have to worry about strobe lighting would respond to the icon. UH if you’re not a troll, and even if you are, please keep in mind the safety of other readers, even if you are enjoying the annoyed responses of other people.

You know my diablo side tells me that this is just a ploy to get to you know where and what, but noooo, this is a family strip. Down nasty diablo thought, down. (lol)

Considering some of the progressive things Greg has done in this strip, a “Luann-loses-her-virginity” plotline is almost certainly in the works. However, this is just not it; at least I hope not. The past week and a half the strip has been just dull and awkward (and, yes, I know first time sex is like that, but it’s just stretching out a one-joke (or incident) affair.) Let’s just get out of the bedroom, call it Pam Ewing’s dream, and move on until the plot is better suited.

Sometimes you also regret the things you did do.

That may be, but it’s sure not true in this case. Now all they both have is the pain of breaking up, and in addition, they’ve missed out on all the fun, romance and enjoyment of time spent in each other’s company. Talk about a lose/lose situation…

. * sigh * It’s: “For all sad words of tongue and pen…”. .John Greenleaf Whittier knew that mice don’t speak.

Nicely said about some of Nabuquduriuzhur well thought out but preposterous rambling

“Well thought out”? Not hardly, if it’s based on the premise that every movement or school of thought that he doesn’t agree with is either de facto “radical” or communist. If he could find a radical feminist communist movement to blame it all on, he’d die happy.

“Having to see your blinking icon as I go down these comments, is really ANNOYING!!

Reply – Why thank you, I am very happy that you like my Avatar so much too express such admiration for such greatness.!!".Don’t forget I told you I was impressed with it. Still am.

Under a dictator like Stalin it really wasn’t much in the way of Communism and it was very similar to National Socialism, they even said it out loud. Why early on they were willing to help the Germans.

“Said out loud” – where exactly? Uh, nope, it wasn’t because they were “similar” that Germany got economic aid from Russia – it was strictly a quid pro quo deal. In ‘39 when Hitler’s rearmament efforts left Germany dangerously short of raw materials, Stalin offered valuable supplies, but it was In exchange for territory, technology, and equipment which was needed for its own rearmament efforts, not because they were idealogical buddies..Thing is, not all totalitarian regimes are alike in their aims or ideology. You really should look closely at the anti-Bolshevik propagada posters the NSDAP put out in the late ‘30s. Stalinism saw the creation of a “New Man” as liberating a non-ethnic humanity, the Nazis saw that “New Man” as a master race that would dominate the world in terms of racial hierarchy. Hitler personally opposed communism as an ideology even though he found it admirable that Stalin was purging the party of Jewish influence. .“Very similar” in other aspects depends on whether your view of Marxist socialism is a Trotskyite one or not. Failed proletarian revolutions in Europe prompted Stalin’s concept of “Socialism in One Country”, and turned the ComIntern ideology from world revolution to a defensive posture.

For this reason Stalin did NOT see the German Nazi Party as an ideological BFF – far from it. He saw it as a movement that would keep other European states unbalanced and prevent them from uniting and attacking Russia. The NSDAP, for its part, not only blamed the Reichstag fire on communists, and in spite of the non-aggression pact still attempted to disrupt relations between Finland and the USSR in 1940.

Readers may forget that Mr. Evans pulled the greatest dodge of all some years ago when LuAnn et al were about to “graduate”…necessitating the cartoonist sending her off to college, supplying a largely different supporting cast etc. But at the last moment, he let it be known that they were graduating grade school, and would now do an identical high school all over again for as many years necessary.

Heh. Or perhaps Greg was inspired by Joss Whedon. The creator of Buffy and Angel hath sworn on a stack of Bibles that no character he writes shall ever be in a happy relationship. EVER. Quit whining, get over it.

Not that we should just open the floodgates to baboons, or, worse, Australians. Luann and Quill finally advanced from endless flirting to light making out, and within minutes, the U.S. government moved to deport his entirely family, making sure that he keeps his filthy foreign paws off of virtuous American girls.

This scenario brings back some memories, which I related on the comics.com site when Quill was first introduced. It goes like this:.A young fellow from Australia came to the U.S. some 30-40 years ago as an exchange student. He was here about a year and then returned to Australia to make a life for himself. However, while he was here he met a young lady and they dated rather seriously and then they broke it off. After some time in Australia, he realized that he wanted to continue his life with her and he returned to America. By this time, she had developed a romance with another fellow and they were engaged to be married. When he showed up, the engagement collapsed within a few weeks and they were married soon after. They had children and the family spent some time in America and some time in Australia. The first child, a girl, is now married to our son.

something tells me that this isn’t the end of the story.

Aaron Hill is too busy playing 2nd base for the Arizona Diamondback’s to mess around with Luann anymore.

How did you do that?The jerk’s screenname says it all!!!!!

Right now I feel the most possible source of romance is a hot relationship between TJ and Ann. Let’s face it. The rest of the cast seems to be suffering from hormone deficiencies.

hormones rule – ask Don Draper !

Yes, I thought of suggesting that, as well. But from later responses, I doubt s/he would listen.

Yes, and Thank You.

Doesn’t like long term relationships? So when do Luann’s mom and pop get the divorce? Or when will Brad & Toni break up?

So is it that you don’t like long term relationships or just ran out of ideas where to take this one? Just curious.

I feel sorry for LuAnn.

As I said, Stalin dealt with Nazi Germany out of political self-interest, not because the two countries were ideologically aligned. Henry Ford was more in love with Hitler than Stalin was, and he was also for complete control when it came to the lives of his workers..FYI. a “non-aggression pact” is about the most passive form of alliance you can come up with, and again, it wasn’t based on any sort of similarity. Also, each side did its level best to undermine the other as soon as the damn thing was signed, so yeah, so much for the love. .You forget that not only was single-party leader Lenin the target of a multiple assassination attempts by various socialist groups, but European states were actively involved in trying to overturn the new revolution five minutes after the Romanovs were out of the Winter Palace. It was this active interference and overt hostility from the rest of the continent that led Stalin to take a defensive posture in the first place. .FYI, there’s no better example of leadership over a huge majority than 300 years of the autocratic and absolute monarchy by the Romanovs – Lenin didn’t invent anything new when it came to leadership, he took charge of a country that was conditioned to be loyal and follow orders from whoever led them. If they didn’t, Dzerzhinsky’s Checka under Lenin was doing the same job the Ochrana had done under the Czar – so it’s a case of “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”..Take a look at what happened in postwar Japan and its transfer of loyalty from Hirohito to MacArthur – its’s the same sort of unwavering and unquestioning devotion. .The “outcomes” were actually different due to those ideological differences – Germany was intent on ethnic cleansing and genocide so that the so-called Master Race could then inhabit the “cleansed” territories. Everyone who was ethnically impure or otherwise seen as a gene pool pollutant was scheduled for the ovens sooner or later. Stalin was suspicious of many ethnic minorities and due to this paranoia they were deported tfrom strategic areas and resettled in Siberia and other inhospitable areas. Assimilation or exile was the aim since these minorities were seen as not being capable of contributing to the socialist struggle, but forced assimilation or containment was the goal, not genocide per se.

I don’t consider “German” to be an ethnicity, but anyone “foreign” was automatically seen as suspect. I don’t want you to think that I’m somehow minimizing or excusing your family’s persecution and murder, my point was that it wasn’t done with the same intent as the exterminations in Germany. However, it doesn’t make your grandparents’ family any less dead, does it?.I was referring to Rom/gypsies, Crim Tatars, Balkars, Chechens, Kurds and others, many of whom were actually indigenous to Russia – it was these groups that were deported en masse and “resettled”. Stalin’s paranoid suspicion of anyone not Georgian, or not him, is pretty apparent when it came to his treatment of the Ukrainians.

You are right, it would be better if it were slower. Still impressive, though.

One final note:.This strip shows that avoiding the good things in life to avoid the pain of losing them fails because there is still the pain and added to it is the knowledge of the joy which could have been

I’m deleting this strip from my list here, and I’ll probably write my local newspaper to suggest they delete it from their comics page as well. There are a lot of promising new comic writers out there, so strips that have become old, stale and outdated, such as this one, should be pulled so that new writers with fresh stories and ideas can take their place!

The best parts of LuannWorld are the soapbox announcements when someone is leaving the comments area for good. Even Bill who likes to let us know that he’ll check on the rest of us misguided fans at some later date, y’know, to see if the strip’s getting any lamer.

Yup, the music sure sucks at this club so I’ll make sure everyone knows it. I’m leaving now. Ok, I’m at the door. Here I am opening the door. Evervbody? Anyone care to know why I’m leaving? I really mean it. Ok, got one foot out the door now.

blah-blah-blah…

Just

Go.

Poor Luann.