Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 02, 2025

As I mentioned last week, I have a lot to comment on this week’s Sunday, and I do. . . .

Oh, lord, Shannon is here. I guess beb will have to hate this ‘Luann’ comic. Just like he hated all the others, because they had characters and stories he didn’t like.

Or just because he is a Troll.

If this is Shannon she’s aged 3 or 4 years since we last saw her. Meanwhile Luann remains 19.

Looks like she needs to get together with Danae @ Non Sequitor

It looks like Adam@Home has been tutoring Shannon

Many people don’t know that Margaret Mitchell wrote the end of GWTW first. And the heroine’s first name was “Pansy”, not “Scarlett”.

Sometimes it works better to start at the end of a story and work backwards. It’s not a crazy idea…

Compared to the past Shannon has really calmed down a lot. Luann seems to really enjoying spending time watching her now. She’s really cute in her attempt to write a book from the end and Luann, who has written short stories and knows how difficult it can be, enjoys the scene.

Shannon’s pretty clever. For th last page she pulled the bottom piece of paper from the ream of paper. Only 499 pages to go based on that

That’s how I wrote all of my term papers.

Hey, Shan.

How about a story where this deadbeat father drops his precocious daughter off on unsuspecting relatives without warning?

And if they complain, he lays a guilt-trip on ‘em? ;-)

According to Franklin Covey, we should “Begin with the end in mind.”

There is no need to write once you know the end.

Shannon has aged!

It’s nice to see Shannon growing up.

Good. She got the hard part done.

And Shannon makes an appearance. Her dad must have dumped her off again or she got tired of bing watching on the big screen TV and wanted a break.

Wonder how many other books are created just like this?

It’s a work in progress.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Wasn’t there a whole arc about how Jonah got a job working from home and therefore wouldn’t need to dump his daughter on people anymore?

Serious waste of black ink on this cartoon.

Luann’s hair is green. Why, because it’s Sunday, or you lost your yellow crayon?

Jack Kerouac she ain’t…..

BEST SELLER EVER!!

Conquering the tyranny of the blank page!

Thanks, we didn’t need this.

One of the Highly Successful Seven: Start with the end in mind.

Title of story should be “Shannon the brat”

We all know how Shannon strips end too. Shannon enters the room Shannon does something annoying ,the end.

If Shannon becomes a prize-winning children’s author, I’m out. She needs to connect with that tiny Elvis dude that scammed Tiff.

Hilarious.

Yeah, just skip to the end.

Kind of reminds me of this strip:

Https://www.gocomics.Com/peanuts/1958/09/28

Shannon experiences something known to many prspective authors: writer’s block.

Where’s the duck? This is her purview.

Shannon is catching on lol

Finally a follow-up to the Monstro / Puddles bestseller.

I can relate. I’ve been writing a book for a long time for fun, and the process is a journey. I’m not going in order myself, either. Good luck with this story …

Edgar Allen Poe wrote of doing precisely this in “The Philosophy of Composition”. I doubt he always composed his works in this manner, but he definitely felt it was a perfectly valid way to compose a work. If you know where it ends, then you can build the structure to get there.

Ok, let the Shannon bashing begin ! ;-)

First of all, I like Shannon – come at me, don’t come at me, my opinion remains the same. I think she was completely out of control when we first met her, but I think her dad is starting to mature a little and I think Brad and Toni (and fam) have given her a great deal of stability. Now’s she’s just six, and acts like a typical six year old. I’m also impressed with the way Luann doesn’t try and interfere; just let’s her work it out. I guess being a fellow writer, Luann gets it!

I was going to sit on this comment, but maybe now is the time to speak up. Years ago, when the coloring gig was new for me, I got a kick out of posting hints about upcoming dailies, but—big BUT—I learned it was a selfish act that violated the trust placed in me. So I stopped. ’Nuff said?