Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 07, 2016

This is more crooked than “Meals for Firefighters.” Anyone remember that one?

Everybody’s becoming a sucker to Leslie’s scheme. (I wonder who’s the guitarist; no recurring character I recognize.)

I think Les is giving us an example of his “Money Handling” skills. I’m betting the DeGroots know nothing about this “Youth Program”.

I bet the “youth” being helped is named Les.

The guitar guy is not a member of the Fogarty class. Is this allowed, in Pitts?

Looks like Les didn’t spell the name of his charity correctly…

Well its is probably pretty clear that Leslie may be running a scheme for the “youth program” and in fact Bernice questions it, which she tends to do. She should become a prosecutor after law school or an FBI agent. Luann of course is trusting. Gunther is kind, which is part of Tiffany’s apparent attraction for him (I am gradually coming around to her at least being attracted to him, I don’t know about him to her yet) and Ox is trusting as well. I love the characters, Ox and I believe Knute being Laurel and Hardy, Gunther and Tiffany with the magician and sexy assistant act, and Luann and Bernice with the head, little brain act. I think they all will be funny, but there are so many scenario’s that can still happen. This is nicely drawn single panel, with ms. sexy right in the center.

I would hazard a guess that the guitarist is….-….ahead in line.-Seriously, though, i would guess it’s possibly a fellow cartoonist.

hope for les, it happens the same thing as it happened to Lucy in I love Lucy ;)

Now, Now, Folks. Let’s give poor Les a Chance! He may have just forgotten to TELL His Pushy Uncle and Those NOSY DeGroot Slave Drivers, that He’s Taken it upon Himself, out of the Goodness of His heart, to ‘Help’ the Poor Youths in Pitts, because He’s DOESN’T want THEM, to End of Like Him. Just because He’s made One, or Two or Three, or Several Dozen ‘mistakes’ in His life, it doesn’t Give Us the Right to Pre-Judge Him. If You called Law Enforcement In, They’d only say that while “Mr. Knox Showed Carelessness and Poor Judgement, in His Collection Methods, We can Attach No Criminal Wrong-Doing to His Actions and No Charges Will be Filed. Thank You for WASTING Our Time!”

NOW, Let Us go about Our Day with a SMILE Knowing That Our Country’s Future Is Secure with Such Fine Young Men It!

Hey! Anybody Seen My Wallet?!!?

“D’oh! Nation”“Chari-tease”“Giving All Of Her? Hardly!”“Tell Laura Laurel I Love Her Him” (♬)“Five’ll Getcha Ten To Life”“Programs And Cons”“An ’Off’er’ They Can’t Re-Fuse”“A Robbery In The Lobby”“Fools And Their Money”“Donate-gate”“The Real Follies”“On Talent Night, Some Acts Don’t Take The Stage”or“Fleece Is The Word” (♪)

Uh Oh…..Les (we know where that money’s going). Uh Oh…..Tiffany (Wow! Evans can draw ’em).

“Uh… did you say ‘yutes’?”

“Yeah, two yutes.”

“What is a yute?”

Bernice is behind Gunther, I wonder if she’ll take the opportunity to apologize to him.

He’s also reasonable with the type of vehicle he drives. His Fjord Plunderbird is not even gas guzzling. It’s very stingy with its MPG. In fact, it even comes with a detachable syphon. It also has spare cinder blocks and wheel jack, in case he gets a flat, so that other cars can have a way to still prop themselves up. Wow, what a conscientious guy!

Les will need to quickly dispose of the jar and hide the cash (plus himself) and alibi “what jar? what cash? what youth program?”" when he is asked about it.

Aha, so Gunther’s fake stache is kept on with some kind of adhesive! That’s going to feel nice when he pulls it off the stubble on his upper lip!

I suspect the youth in question is Leslie and he’s more than happy to take any and all donations anyone gives to him.

Yes,Les being the youth who will be enriched.

with Les’ reputation.. I highly doubt this.. where is Management in all of this,

Les could go right to work for Hillary!

Good one! We’ll all suspect that Les is the “youth” benefited but also wonder if maybe he’s legit.*And we’ll keep wondering until something blows up.

This is really going to end well…8-0

So glad to see Ox and Knute back. AND someone not in their h.s. class.

5Interesting lineup today. I like the grey-haired guitarist, but I suspect he is just filler for today and we will not see him further. The “Laurel & Hardy” duo seems to be Ox and Knute…. which is interesting… I did not know that either of them knew each other particularly well…. so it is interesting that they paired up. I hope that we do get to see their “talent”.As I mentioned in response to Caldonia, it appears that Gunther has shaved off his mustache stubble to glue on a fake, “Snidely Whiplash” style curly magician’s mustache. That was a wise move to avoid the pain of the adhesive pulling on the stubble, but IMO he should have grown out his own mustache instead… or if shaving the mustache stubble, he should have shaved his whole face. As Kym commented back to me yesterday, I do see that now Bernice pulled her costume back from her eyes again to see. That is logical, and a good thing. Yesterday, I was unsure if she would because I was thinking it might be hard to keep readjusting it, but that is apparently not much of a problem.In my way of thinking (perhaps I am a bit of a penny-pincher), Luann… a poor college student who lives at home… $10 as a donation to a “youth program” seems like a lot of money to me. In her situation, my donation would have been smaller… but again, I have always been very careful about spending. Everyone (rightfully) is predicting Les is up to no good with his “youth program” donation can. I too suspect that Les will end up pocketing the loot he gets…. but, wouldn’t it be interesting if Greg shocked us and there really WAS a youth program that Les was collecting for…. and he DOES give the collected money to that program (without being forced to by Uncle Al after he catches Les)?

Oh…. I also just noticed the big “G” on Gunther’s Magic Top Hat. I wonder what he will call himself…“The Amazing Gunthino”Magic Superstar"“The Breathtaking GuntherMaster of the Unknown”“The Captivating GuntherioMagician of Distinction”“The Great GuntherianKing of Magic and Suspense”we shall see.

It’s a comic strip, yeesh

Hmmm, interesting juxtaposition what with Gunter right behind Tiff pulling some green backs out. Seems about right to me.

is tha K2 on Les’s vest imported from Bizarro?

Larcency a la Les…

It feels to me like the stage might be being set for much more than what currently seems obvious.

And the fox is guarding the hen house….no wait, there is no hen house, only Les’ scamming gullible victims…wait isn’t that how Bernie Madoff got his start?

This whole Les story line is so flawed. They make it look like no one at the Fuse is ever watching him. In reality there would be a lot of people keeping an extra close eye on him.

“A fool and his (or her) money are soon parted”, and boy oh boy, there’s a whole line up of fools in this strip.

I can see someone’s uncle getting involved soon.

G’man’s hat, the “G” is either Gunther, Gandalf, or Goofus.

(My, we have a sharp bunch here this morning!)

Unfortunately, several people couldn’t even be bothered to read five comments down (where I posted) before making that same observation as if no one else had.

What if they don’t want to donate to this “charity”. Will Les still allow them to enter the show?

I have a bad feeling about this…

Oh no…

What are you, the snark police?

Leslie’s uncle is gonna kill him! Good riddance.

Hmmm…. Why does “Youth Program” have me thinking of “Child Support”?

Such a shame so few have trustLes does what he does, he mustThe money he’s raised should be praised It’s helping the helpless, how it playsSaint Less is reformed, now he’s goodSo he’s sweet on his feet as he shouldIt’s no ruse, all’s good at the Fuse (z?)Nobody gonna be singin’ the Blues(Unless in the show, don’t you know?)

Leslie figures that If HRC can get away bad judgement so can he.

Les is a sleeze and a con, and if anyone notices, it will be the street wise Tiffany. It takes a con to know a con.

Quiet, everybody! Tiffany is re-doing her lip gloss!

Stan and Oliver/Knute and Oxford may have a winning act; certainly formidable competition for the Amazing Gunther and his Lovely Assistant Tiffany, and of course way ahead of Luann and the head-job.Leslie Knox is likely running a scam. He will get his, probably from Mr. Gray….

Ten bucks was three weeks’ allowance for me when I was in college in 1960.

Lookin’ right perky again today, Lu!

read… “and will you be donating to my pocket?”

-Frank and Nancy aren’t likely to know Les’s history. But ‘Uncle Mr. Gray’ does, and probably has his eye on the guy…

This is starting to get better.

Predictable, but better. I predict Les is headed for a “Youth Program”.

Is that Knute and Ox as Laurel and Hardy?

Hey who’s the guitar player? He and Frank DeGroot could get together as a duo.

I think when Ox gets to the head of the line he may ask Les about this “youth program” .

(Seriously, though, Les is probably being watched by Frank, Nancy, et al., off-panel.:)^Yep, a “possible possibility”. But one would hope that they don’t “lose him in the crowd”, at any point, and hope they don’t wait too long to bust him….

(“Oliver Sudden, The Money’s Gone”:) Ha, Ha, Ha!

Looks a little like Trump U. and his charities

I see the Les story-line ending with Les going to prison.

now that I observe a little more carefully, why is Ox being fooled by this? He should be more wary.

I actually like Les, not as a person / role model of course, but he’s the first character since Derek who introduces the element of “tension” necessary for any successful plot line ….

I don’t think Greg intended the good-looking guitarist guy to be himself – at least, guitarist guy looks nothing like the way Greg portrayed himself for Luann’s birthday strip (Sept. 28, 2014).

Oops – I see Kymberleigh beat me to that observation. Hat’s off to you, Kymberleigh!

Gee – I’m late in both my observation and my mea culpa. Just can’t win around here! ;)

maybe this is why Bern had to be in the ‘talent’ show. She’s the only one questioning Les’s youth program. She may end up calling him out on it.

“Being a bully hard case doesn’t make him guilty of theft before the fact…” but he did appear to “pocket” Ox’s tip a few days ago, which at a minimum makes him worthy of suspicion.

Bernice will question Les. Les will hassle Bernice. Gunther will stick up for Bernice. Ox will defend Gunther. Bernice and Gunther will end up in South America somewhere.

Being a bully hard case doesn’t make him guilty of theft before the fact._He’s already been shown stealing tips. . .

Les is scamming everyone!

Youth Program? Yeah, it’s a scam.

(Oct. 1, 2007 continuation:) Yep!

In a similar fashion, the Mrs. and I also engage in off the cuff things like this. We did manage to record a couple onto blank audio tapes, as we had them handy at the time.

I wasn’t referring to earth native. Kymber was upset because someone else made the same comment he/she did.

I’ll bet the kid being helped is named Les.

I’d bet you $100 that he is skimming money.

Too late. Les saw that Benjamin and pocketed it already.

t r GoComics said,@Mordock999“did you notice even les showed no affection for a certain dictator(now dead) of Iraq, nor a certain Italian of the 1930’s-40’s”.So we know at least one person that Les at his worst is better than.Now, if he doesn’t leave the till unguarded, we will know of two.

@locake saidKymber was upset because someone else made the same comment he/she did..Kymberleigh said,“Not upset, just disappointed that people don’t bother to read the comments that are already posted before saying things that have already been said.”.“If one will look at previous days’ comments sections one will see that I make similar remarks even when I am not the one being duplicated.”.Yes, you have.We have read it over and over.We love you.With that love in mind, you might consider griping slightly less..Nobody’s contract requires them to read everything written before they comment. Imagine if someone said, “Nice day isn’t it?” and someone yelled at them. “IamJayBluE already said that!!!”.Just a thought to consider

So do I! I really hope to right about this. Only time will tell.

Replying to:Night-Gaunt49 GoComics PRO Member said, about 4 hours ago@SukieCrandallIt feels to me like the stage might be being set for much more than what currently seems obvious.-I like that kind of surprise.

Go create your own comic then.

Spoiler:Sensibly. No weirdness apparent. ;-)

@Kymberleigh“The world doesn’t revolve around you.”.Having no defined center, Kymberleigh is as good a center as any other.(Actually, it revolves around me, but just being in the same galaxy makes it hard to distinguish the slight difference.)

The world doesn’t revolve around you.

I never said it did. And you’re not my mother either.

And i smile again and curtsey, David.

I hope none of you are in Dallas right now…

Wow – hope that Leslie guy gets what’s coming to him – jail time for embezzlement.

He Shoulda gotten a big plastic jug with an “UHO” sign on it.anybody here from NYC i’m sure will remember that rip-off.