Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 06, 2018

Not exactly Jackson Pollock in Luann’s room there.

She said she would clean her room. And instead, she’s making a worse mess than she had to begin with. I guess nobody ever explained the concept of dropcloths to her.

Yes, Frank. Your daughter is showing you how she put your education dollars to work in her art class. Also, the house is going to smell like paint for awhile.

So to hide a green spill in the middle of the room, she adds brown to the floor at the wall and makes the paint rings on the floor as part of the design too.

I have got to see the newspaper black and white version of today’s strip.

What a bunch of fuddy-duddies. I think its cute, and her art professor would like it. I can’t remember his name but I am sure that will be easy to recover. This is Luann, and being silly is part of her humorous nature. Forgetting she is kind, funny, caring, and the protagonist of this strip seems to be a big theme (I know some think that I am Luann#1 fan, whatever that really means, so I know there is a contrary view that she is mean, boring, and uncaring, but that is, IMO, fake comic interpretation. (LOL).

This outcome cannot be rationalized as a bit of minor immaturity on Luann’s part, despite some of the posters who have been defending her.

No 19 year old girl would do this, unless she were either seriously cognitively impaired, or dropping acid.

Of course, for a comic strip, this can be taken as silly humor. But I’m really surprised that the Evanses would bring their title character to this sheer lunacy.

Fortunately, most of the strip’s humor is quite a bit more realistic, so of course I read on. Hope this isn’t the new normal!

the benefit of waiting

Luann is very talented to be able to use a paint roller without a tray.

Puddles is even more talented to understand that he should not walk through the wet paint on the floor.

Readers are not that talented as nobody as yet has asked how Luann painted from the floor up with only a roller and got paint right to the edge without getting any on the floor.

Greg and Karen are very talented, what with making the strip so entertaining that nobody really cares about the impossible details.

Say what? Cognitively impaired or dropping acid? Just because swirls of bright colors are not your cup of tea does not mean that everyone who has different tastes from you in design is demented or drugged. The result so far looks fun! There’s something about decorating your bedroom exactly the way you want it, no matter how eccentric that might seem to the outside world, that makes you wake up each morning delighted to be there.

Luann must have been reading an old copy of Martha Stewart’s magazine from about the time she was in jail. According to Martha, that year, stripes were “in”.

Luann, your mother and I have been talking. We agree living here with us is preventing you from growing as a responsible human being – it’s time you moved out to make your own way in the world.

Here’s five bucks.

Go. Now.

is probable ending up black but would had been better off blending all cans into one big one and use that color…. shakes head, is Saturday, so time for new storyline Monday

Purple and green;

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It’s the Barney scene…

Not bad, actually – better than I imagined it would be. Painting on such a large scale is easier conceived than done. As to the argument that nobody of Luann’s age would do something like this, I beg to differ – having lived in student housing in college that had many student-painted murals, both in common spaces and in private bedrooms. College students are all about exploring options and pushing boundaries (or at least they were in my day ;) ).

Quit now before she has you building her an atrium!

Hence why I am not Luann fan…look at her. It is not even funny at all. It is pathetic. Someone in here said it was charming. Please. For a 5 year old – Shannon – yes, but not for 20 year old Luann. Since today is Saturday, please end this arc and let me see others in Luanniverse.

This is probably just wishful thinking, but I came up with a possible good outcome for all this, that could make this silliness worthwhile.

First, Frank is beside himself. He tells Luann that he’ll have to repaint the room himself, with just one conservative color. Neither he nor Luann are happy.

But Pru, on confronting the situation, talks Luann into a more sensible multi-color scheme. Like ivory woodwork, two walls and ceiling in pale green, and the two alternating walls in a pale mauve. A reasonable decorator’s alternative, with a French touch. Pru and Luann get it done, and then Luann feels that she’s living like a princess.

But then, of course, pigs fly. And Kim will voluntarily turn over all his weapons to the South, and make peace.

DEFINITELY time for a new arc Sunday night/Monday.

Lately I find myself reacting to Luann the same way Kif reacts to Zapp Brannigan: https://i.imgur.com/VNGthwo.gif

Just a reminder that her parents own the house, not Luann.

Congratulations, Luann, you’re ruined the floor. You can forget your next year of college since Frank now has to replace the floor in your room because you’re such a moron you don’t even know what a drop cloth is.

Many commentators seem to hate Luann for being slightly silly, goofy, acting like a new adult without the experience of a 30 years old, and enjoying life but not too seriously. If they have children they obviously only have serious, grave, obedient, linear-thinkers kids who wouldn’t think of doing something silly for the fun of it and are mature well past their years. Or if they have goofy kids, I pity the kids.

“You have more stuff than you think.”

Today, the Allstate ad at the bottom of the comment list provided the best chuckle for the “next panel caption.”

Friend of mine bought a house all painted inside with POSTER paints, black ceilings. He got a really good deal on it, 1/3 less than the surrounding houses.

Folks RE-LAX! This Story Arc was just a STALL. A Light Hearted Holiday Romp featuring “Luann,” a Young Woman Many Have Complained “is never in the Strip anymore.” Well Here She Is, and yet 1/3rd of the “People” around here are complaining.

For the Record, the WORSE Christmas Holiday Story Line Was And Still IS, IMHO, “Puddles Goes to the North Pole.”

So ENJOY and Laugh and SAVE Your Compliants for Next Week when We Either Find out Ann Eiffel’s “business” is legit and She’s Now a Welcomed, PERMANENT Member of The Cast or Gunther Freaks When His Ma says “Yes” to Creepy Uncle Al, and in a fit of “Sullenness,” takes a Ball Peen Hammer to “Poor” Les’ Head, just as the Thug was about to “Turn His Ridiculous Life Around,” or Something…..

In my childhood home, my brother painted his room sunshine yellow with a large red sun on one wall. When he moved out and I occupied his (larger) room, I kept the paint job.

interesting …looks like the strain of e-coli that’s currently going around.

Better keep Puddles out of the paint puddles.

“Nightmare on Luann Street”.

tomorrow: Knute and Crystal standing in line to return presents.

Aren’t they forgetting something? They have an expert house painter available – TJ.

Didn’t anyone notice that Evans left Luann’s bedroom door and door frame out of the drawing? What the heck!

Aaahhh, the last few days really remind me of my own paint misadventure when I was 15…my family had just moved into a brand new house. My bedroom was painted light green with green shag rug. I was building a model plane at the time , and accidentally knocked black paint over onto the rug! I was trying to clean it up when my brother yelled “Dad’s home!” I managed to get by until he went back to work, then cut out a piece of shag, ucut out the ruined part, slid the replacement under, then hammered it in place. Whew! Fast forward 11 years, and I was being settled in my new place across the state when Dad told me that he was going to redo my room as a office/computer room. An old memory flashed so I told him what happened….a couple of weeks later, he called to compliment me on my camouflage job and remark that the patch was in so tight he really had to work to get it up….

Heck, I’d paint the outside of my house similar to that.

Not what Frank expected but much better than before. She will end with a multi-color nightmare.But only as long as the room stays clean, Im sure they will just “grin and bear it!” (Hey, I got it right!)

she forgot to put down tarps/newspapers in order to keep the paint off the floor

she forgot to put down tarps/newspapers in order to keep the paint off the floor

Anyone else notice that Frank’s eyes went full-on Charlie Brown in reaction to this?

Umm….Obviously she doesn’t have carpet in her room…..

I studied art for 6 years in college (kept dropping non-art classes). I was wild and crazy, but the character here just seems… very young. And somehow- Still naive.

My first impression: who let Peter Max in the building? His star rose in the psychedelic 60’s, but then he went out with bell bottomed pants and love beads. I think that he is still active, but I’m not familiar with any of his latest work.

I have some rooms in my house like that, and I’ve been here for over six decades. You can be boring, or enjoy life, take your pick.

Oh, lordie! Will Frank have to call in expensive professionals to Make It Right in Luann’s wild and crazy room?

Mom preferred “50 shades of beige” and off-white. Most of the apartment is beige or off-white.

I preferred vivid colors, but was mostly out-voted, Mom to 1. But my bedroom is brighter than most of the condo!

I suppose a lot ofyou want all 19 year olds to be perfect STEPFORD children. Utter nonsense.

wow…Luann’s next art project… I was hoping for more in that area but didn’t expect this. Luann is getting some practice in mural painting.

wow…Luann’s next art project… I was hoping for more in that area but didn’t expect this. Luann is getting some practice in mural painting.

next week: Gunther and Tiffany at the gym?

How old is she here, 12?