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1. about 20 hours ago on Luann

   The Wikipedia article “Moby-Dick” says:

   The book was first published (in three volumes) as The Whale in London in October 1851, and under its definitive title, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, in a single-volume edition in New York in November. … Melville made revisions …, including a last-minute change of the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as “Moby Dick”, without the hyphen.

2. 2 days ago on Luann

   So, tomorrow, is she going to go outside and rebuild the engine in Brad’s Chevy Nova?? ;)

   At six year’s old? Toni didn’t rebuild her first engine until she was seven going on eight. Then again, there was that famous mechanic Cavy Drockett: “… Bilt him a car when he was only three. … King of the Wild Front Tire.”

3. 4 days ago on Luann

   But why do G & K have a guest artist for so long?

   I don’t have inside information, but my guess is that that’s the amount of material G&K wrote for Toni’s fantasy about what a properly-brought-up Shannon would be like. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that the strip for Saturday, July 6, will begin with more of Toni’s fantasy, as drawn by Jay, and that the final panel, drawn by Greg, will have her snapping back to “reality”.

4. 4 days ago on Luann

   I found an article titled “Luann Guest Artist: Jay Fosgitt” at the website of The Daily Cartoonist. I won’t try to slip a link past the GoComics nannybot, but you should be able to find it by typing the title into your favorite search engine. The article quotes Jay as writing the following on his Threads and Facebook feeds:

   My twelve-episode run as guest artist on Greg Evans’ LUANN comic strip starts today! Greg and his daughter Karen wrote the strips, and Greg drew the opening panel of today’s strip!

5. 7 days ago on Luann

   I don’t know about Toni having twins, but I keep hoping that one of these days Greg and Karen will connect the dots and let Shannon meet the twins next door.

6. 8 days ago on Luann

   We’ve seen TJ helping take care of Shannon before [e.g, 2010/06/03, 2019/08/03]. He has some empathy for her because he, too, got “bounced around a lot” between different adult caregivers as a child [2010/06/04]. But while he has been willing to pitch in, he won’t always be available, since he also works as manager and cook at Kafe Kablooie.

7. 8 days ago on Luann

   Maybe Toni and Brad could hire Fay Garcia to do some of the baby-sitting. Those lessons she got from Luann about overcoming her shyness and being assertive would really be put to the test.

8. 9 days ago on Luann

   From the strip of 2010/06/08:

   Toni: After our parents died, my brother sorta lost it. Just went wild.

   Brad: Resulting in Shannon.

   Toni: Yeah. And her mother was even wilder. She took off right after Shannon was born.

9. 9 days ago on Luann

   If Toni and Brad agree to taking Shannon in for the whole month of August—and I’ll go out on a limb and predict that they will—then they will be responsible to arrange for her care at times when they are both on duty as firefighters. Maybe the experience will help them better appreciate Jonah’s difficulties arranging for sitters as a single parent. Maybe they’ll be more organized than he has been and do better advance planning so that they won’t have to tap family members or other sitters on short notice. Maybe it will work until someone else at Toni’s or Brad’s station calls in sick and the schedule gets upended, or until someone they thought they had scheduled to look after Shannon has some other obligation come up at the last minute. Maybe the Evanses won’t explore the sitter dscheduling issue at all, but will take the story in some completely different direction. Stay ’tooned to find out.

10. 11 days ago on Luann

    For every famous actor who becomes single there must be many not-so-famous, not-so-affluent actors who become single.