Really would be nice if you’d link the new comics when they come out, before you start talking about them.
Now there’s a Luann story arc I’d follow!
Quill arrives home just in time to see a black Mercedes with tinted windows speeding from the scene. His parents brutally murdered, having been forced to kneel and shot in the back of the head, execution style. The house ransacked, his father’s computer and papers missing.
Quill goes into the Witness Protection Program. But using Cartoon Logic, that means he moves in with Brad and TJ and goes back to school under the name of “Quinn”.
Don’t forget “Ave Maria” and “Deutschland uber Alles” coming out of the car’s speakers. :mad:
But then the police (who are unaware of the espionage angle) find Quill’s story fishy and accuse him of murdering his parents. His alibi is that he was with Luann; but she doesn’t want her parents to know she was with Quill when she was supposed to be home alone, so she lies and screws up his alibi and now he’s in jail accused of murder and it’s her fault. So rather than own up to the truth, she enlists her friends in a wacky plan to save Quill…
I thought she’d at least get fingerbanged.
Based on today’s comic, my guess is that Quinn is making all this up just to ditch Luann and the rest of the insane people at school. He’s probably planning to hop a midnight bus out of town, just in the nick of time.
When Brad and Toni do it, we’ll know. I don’t know about Toni and obnoxious ex though - he didn’t seem like the type to wait, which might be her problem.
TJ is gay, that is obvious. 
Notice that while Tiffany plays hot, no boy actually seems interested in her.
Hard to say about Crystal, she might have a life offstage. Bernice was jailbait at the time of the wheelchair guy, so I doubt it.
In any case, by comic strip logic we’d have at least a month of strips leading up to any big event. These kids have about as much sex life as Puddles.
But it doesn’t work, he gets the chair, and she wanders the mall in a long black veil.
o/` Her name was Luann,
she was a schoolgirl,
with yellow feathered hair
and dressed all in teenage wear.
She used to study and tell kids stories,
and while her singing caused a stir,
Quill worked on recording her.
Across her bro’s bedroom,
they’d work from morn to noon.
They were young and they had each other
and their speech balloons!
…
Her name is Luann,
she was a schoolgirl,
but that was 30 years gone past,
and her youth, it didn’t last.
Now it’s a Ground Round,
but not for Luann,
Can’t fit the jeans she used to wear,
dyes her yellow feathered hair.
She sits there eating steaks
and downing all the cakes,
she lost her youth and she lost her Aussie,
but she’s not losing weight! o/`
Well, at some point that jumbuck does have to go into that tucker bag. Just sayin’.
Hasn’t it been made clear that they have?
Am I alone in thinking that strip bespeaks some irritation at editorial meddling?
It sounds more to me like Evans tweaking his readership. “What did you EXPECT to happen in a family comic?! Perverts!”
Which is kind of ironic, given how often Evans edges up to that line with various characters…
(As opposed to McEldowney, who tramples that line into smithereens on a regular basis.)
What, you don’t like hand-dancing?
“You see, children, when a chubby Amos hand and a graceful Edda hand love each other VERY much…”
"… everybody panics and starts running around like headless chickens, including trips across the ocean.
“Then it turns out to be a false alarm. But not before every character in the story arc has gone through a major meltdown. In the meantime, the readership is collecting torches and pitchforks.”
Resurrecting an old thread to note that Quill is back. While waiting for Mom and Dad to fix dinner, he and Luann are amusing themselves in Luann’s room. Luann has just closed and locked the door. Is Quill about to visit Luann’s Down Under? Will Dad interrupt the walkabout?
Poor Puddles shouldn’t have to bear witness to that.