Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 08, 2013

“We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again”….

“Time AfterTime…. Time After Time….”

Parting is such sweet sorrow she shall say g’day till it be morrow. </butchered Shakespeare>

“See You In September”…

For all the drama and comedy, Luann is written as a good human being. I hope Greg has written a good future for her; I would enjoy seeing Quill as part of it.

Sounds like a firm commitment to me! Yeah!

And as her hero flies off into the sunset.

Guess its been a while since greg/karen have been to an airport.

Lu is taking it “better” today! Stiff upper lip and all, kid!….Pretty much “Cassablanca” style……

“Midnight Plane”, Ronnie Foster…..

Surprised none of us mentioned “Just A Song Before I Go” , CSN…..

So reminds me of John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (fact: John thought of originally calling it “Oh, Babe, I Hate to Go”, but his manager didn’t like it).

I’m leavin’ on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again………………..

“Sealed With A Kiss” – Brian Hyland, 1962…

“Wake Me Up When September Ends” /Green Day ^Probably also sounded good in the musical adaptation they had….

Is Qantas 312 going to make it to Sydney?? Just a thought . . .

Yes.

Forgot to stick a ’to be continued graphic on this one…ha ha!

You can tell this is a comic, she’s gotten past the security and screening areas into the boarding lounges. That can’t happen anymore. :( ^One possibility is that it’s not the actual gates, but the corridors that direct boarders to the staging areas and then the actual gates… The airport here has that style, with security before the actual boarding gate areas, and the signs that direct people to which stations to go to for the “security check” before those actual gates…. and on the one side, certain areas where people waiting can shop and eat while waiting for arrivals/departures, and those boarding also have a “shopping mall” and other services as they board and arrive on the other side….

After hearing that, I feel privileged!.. =And anybody who doesn’t like Noel Gallagher will find that they have one less excuse for not listening to an Oasis song, now.. ha ha!

Awww. . . So sweet, yet so sad.

“We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again” is a England Dan And John Ford Coley song…

Hey kiddo, we’ll always have Skype.

parting is such sweet sorrow

“It Might As Well Rain Until September” – Carole King 1962

…Last time I flew international… ^Yeah, that’s right… the “big wait” once they stuff you into the “winged tube”….Well, even if there’s a line, maybe their checkpoints are close to the gates, where you can see them, still.. the one in my area is like that, where even at the international, you can get a glimpse of stuff, but you just can’t go through them… maybe it’s like the “goodbye” gathering last week… that we have to imagine that the checkpoints are just ahead…. like I said, at my airport, it’s not the biggest building, though they are rated as a national/international hub…=One other possibility is that they announce the “boarding”, but it’s understood that that’s the warning to get in line, and it’s still in the whole process of security checks and passenger boarding, and then the final call where after that time, no more can board, as they shut the plane’s doors…=One last straw is that Qucumber was an agile Association footballer back home, or maybe a rugy enthusiast, and does the Austrailian version of OJ in the old “Hertz” commercials..

Is this the end of Act One, or the end of the movie?I hope Quill does get back safely in September.For Luann’s sake, of course….

Qantas 312. So wefinally find out where Luann lives. Port Moresby! Pennsylvania, right?

It’ll be a ’g’day’ now that this sickeningly mawkish storyline is back-burnered for a while.

FYI: QF312 Leaves PORT MOSELY,PAPUA NEW GUINEA and arrives in SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA. The distance is 1710 miles. The time zones are different. The flight is 2:55. The time difference between the ports is “0”. You leave at 5:41 PM and arrive at 5:41 PM. Look it up!

Correction: flight time is 3:55.

He believes he will return, even though he said, “I hope.” He doesn’t know if he can count on his parents, but he can count on himself, someday. So, yes, Quill will return. Luann represents most females who has had to have faith in what her man promised. It is a poignant experience for us all to revisit.

In the army it’s always: see you later!

MUSIC PLAYOVER: Leaving, on a jet plane.

On a lighter note, I used to work in a Travel Agency, so I can tell you QA 312, operates between Ports Moresby Papua New Guinea, and Sydney, NSW and it’s approximately a 4 hours flight. So now we know, LuAnn and the gang live in Papua New Guinea.

hides :)

Well, at least Quill goes home knowing he’s worth a maiden’s tears. That’s gotta give him some confidence.

But now, it’s back to kissing computers and phones. :P

Aloha means hi. Goodbye or love. I woulda gone with aloha

Too young, too far away. It’ll never work.

Does Greg Evans really think airports work like this?

Ohhhhh BROTHER.

Didn’t This Gal do this “Aloha-Bit” with another Pretty Boy Named “Aaron” Once?

Well, Most of Us KNOW how THAT one turned out.

But Seriously, Some of You Folks: Luann Falling Love and MARRYING the FIRST Guy She goes “Steady” with?

Pleeeeeeease.

“Here’s looking at you, kid.”

“Leaving on a jet plane”!!!

Luann, I am in an LDR too so I feel your pain. My love is from the UK. My boyfriend and I have been together for 11 years and it’s painful when we have to separate. But we will be together again because he is now my fiance and I can’t wait until he is my husband.

Once again, Evans has no sense of reality. Non-passengers have not been allowed to accompany people to the gate for years.

Okay, I’m ready for a new arc now.

If Greg really wanted to spice things up, Luann would run into Aaron Hill and his family who are moving back to Luann’s town.

Gag! Lets move on.

I’d like to see Aaron Hill make a reappearance to see how Evans draws him now.

Isn’t this how ‘Casablanca’ ended? Or am I thinking of "Top Secret’?

Okay, I think Quill should stay. And let’s take them for the long haul. My sister and her husband are high school sweethearts, so why not these two

Good. Now let’s have a funny strip again. This drama needs some actual laughs again.

Quantis has an excellent safety record, but it is a long way to Tipperary — however you spell it.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Does anyone remember “Kodak moments”?

I never thought of that, you’re right. You only get to the gate if you have a boarding pass since 9/11. On top of that, it’s an international flight, so he’d have to go through the INS Checkpoint. JPuzzle, we’re overly analyzing, but that’s ok. :)

I like this budding relationship…please let it continue!

How was she allowed into the boarding area without a ticket? This scene should have taken place outside the security check point. Or Evans wrote this pre-9/11.

Oh spag me with a goon!

Or it could be Evans’ way of moving the story along. ^Ding! Ding! Ding! Succinct and driving it home!=And it also goes along with what I was saying, about us using our own imagination, just like last week’s outdoor goodbye party, where everything can still be reconciled with imagination, and not be totally linear…

Better not break her heart Aussie, or a lot of people in the real world will turn into cartoons and come find you Quill. Luann is our girl you know. -:)

And in the “Irony” Dept.

Notice in the third panel, Lu asks, “Is that like Aloha?” Did Lu just have an “Aaron” flashback/Freudian slip? ;-PPP

Well, Even Weird Al was able to parody “Lose Yourself”, with “Couch Potato”, a very funny parody of TV culture…. but that still doesn’t say much for the state of music these days…..

Quantas flight 312 goes from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. to Sydney. And I thought Luann was set somewhere in the US. LOL

Yes, I realize the flight number was probably just randomly chosen and meaningless.

That’s sweet.

@Donny – responding to your comment yesterday. the future of the strips is NOT newsprint, hence the fear of being dropped doesn’t carry the clout it once did. Universal, Creators, etc. are not investing heavily in digital content for our amusement only. Akin to cable TV, content providers are no longer just a small handful of power centers. The syndicates, in opening up to the Net are reaching well beyond traditional borders and taste barriers. While good taste is still fashionable, Evans is still wayyy on the safe side of sensitive issues.

What a Debby Downer you are

I tell you what… if you ever get a chance, please do search out any of his older albums…. one example is ’King Of Suede", a take on “King Of Pain” by the Police, unless “in 3D” is one of the ones that you have… and his video collection is a whoot and a half!….

“Or sailing the S. S. Minnow for a “three-hour tour”!^Lol! Maybe Greg could do that, where he gets Quill stranded in a situation with a “Gilligan” type, etc. and Luann wakes up and realizes it was a dream, “Dallas” style…

For as much as I’ve tired of the drama for Luann, I have to agree that Greg’s handling this long distance relationship thing pretty well. Doesn’t mean I don’t want it to stop…I definitely want it to end, tired of seeing Luann hurting all the time. I do think that Quill has proven himself to be serious about her..have him back in the fall as a permanent character. Time for them to be together.

If you’ve listened closely to the lyrics of ‘Waterfall’, you’d realize that most of the characters in the song die because they push themselves past their ‘natural limits’ So are you suggesting that Luann will die unless she sticks with the waterfall (Gunther) that she’s used to? Seems a bit harsh.

Dunno where you learned your Aussie slang, but I’ve always been told that g’day (gud-eye) is used day or night, as a greeting, but never means ‘farewell’. So stop your yabbor, Quill is a fair dinkum Aussie…

all this talk about airports etc etc etc,…bah. It is a plot device. NOT everything has to be spelled out.^^For once, I agree with you

I’m not sure how this bodes, seeing as how flight 312 out of the U.S. appears to be a ghost flight, but Quilly might want to check this list of his fellow passengers…

.Otis Redding.Jim Reeves.Patsy Cline.Jim Croce.Ronnie Van Zant.Glenn Miller.Rick Nelson.Bill Graham.John Denver.Randall “Randy” Rhoads

…

All are missed, RIP^^How could you forget the Great Buddy Holly, the first “Rock star” to die in a plane crash?

The future of story line drama is secure.

… Will Rogers, Wiley Post, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, …

Forgot to say, that he actually is still in his heyday, but with the media saturation as it is, for these newfangled groups and all, he is not on every commercial, or having talk show rounds, but his albums are still selling well, he just had a stop here in the Mid Atlantic on his national tour for “Alpocolypse” his latest album…. and he is on many radio promos, is on FB, and has his YouTube channel…

Ha ha ha! So true! =Also as an Interesting aside, even Al has felt the thumbscrews placed on him by corporate, and some songs he put out were not out of his choosing…. He says that he never liked “Girls Just Want to Have Lunch”, but the label wanted to see a Cyndi Lauper song on it, as she was on the charts at the time, so he says he was put under compulsion to pen that one….

No, NO, N O!!! Quill’s plane… please, no crashes and this is Luann’s last moments with Quill!

There will be more drama in there future. Both are in high school and their permanent homes are half way around the world from each other. Sad, but true. In the end they will be lifelong friends, I hope.

I am hoping Luann’s hope of seeing Quill in September comes true…if not, perhaps he will save his own money from a job he gets with his father’s firm (a “summer” intern, albeit paid) and will get on That Jet Plane back to her… and also, perhaps, to a local community college with a notable drama program…(this would solve the whole high school thing).

Or When Will I See You Again.

I too want to see a Tiffany story – who paid for her drama camp tuition? Did that person also arrange for the drama camp to double as a modeling agency, so that Tiffany could get the picture frame job? Is Elwood behind this, or MasterDad, or who?

As for Quill, he’s halfway through his senior year in Australia. If his parents let him pull out with so little time left before graduation and then let him spend another year attending high school in the USA (at who knows what expense) just so that he can hang out with Luann and (mainly) Gunther, then they’re completely nuts.

ENOUGH OF THIS ALREADY

As Daria once put it, is it fall yet?

Since when does TSA let non-ticket holders near the gates, especially on international flights? Someone is not doing their homework.

Ha ha ha ha all day for that one, sir!……

Betcha Aaron Hill comes back!!

I was going to fill in and “break some news” about some smoke signals coming out of a volcano in the Pacific, but a call to the news desk and then subsequently to me convinced me otherwise…..

This comes from Songfacts.com : “Chasing Waterfalls” is TLC’s way of expressing how people chase intangible dreams with no thought of the consequences. The first verse is talking about an inner city mother and son relationship. He is chasing “waterfalls” (money and respect by dealing drugs), but his mother knows this can only lead to a bad end. The second verse is talking about a man’s relationship with a woman. His “waterfall” is casual sex. The lyrics say that he has a “natural obsession for temptation.” This could mean he is cheating on someone or the woman he is seeing is cheating on someone. Either way, he contracts HIV and dies (“three letters took him to his final resting place”). TLC were big on AIDS awareness – Left Eye would often wear condoms attached to her clothes and in her glasses to promote safe sex.

Cee-Lo Green sang backup on this. He’s well-known as a songwriter and producer, and as a member of Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley. Cee-Lo recalled to The Guardian newspaper March 22, 2008: “I was working at the same studio and of course I know the girls too, because we were on the same label, so they just asked me. I didn’t realize at the time what a big song it was going to be.”

Wikipedia:

For the 20th anniversary of the group they collaborated with the famous Japanese singer Namie Amuro and recorded a new version of the song, in 2013.

The music video was filmed at Universal Studios Hollywood from June 8–9, 1995 and it was directed by F. Gary Gray and features Ella Joyce, Bokeem Woodbine, Shyheim, Paul J. Alessi and Gabrielle Bramford. The song and video tackle the issues of drug dealing and HIV, two problems plaguing the inner cities. A young man (played by Shyheim) is going against his mother’s advice to stop selling drugs, and is killed before a drug deal. In between the scenes, they show a couple and the woman convinces him to not use protection. Afterwards, he looks in the mirror and sees he has an early symptom of AIDS on his face, in the form of Kaposi’s sarcoma. He then sees a small picture frame on the dresser which displays all the people she has had sex with previously. The video also shows intercut scenes of the group performing the song while standing on top of an ocean and liquid bodies of them performing the song while in front of a real waterfall. At the end of the video, the young man appears. He tries to reach out to his mother as she is walking up the stairs to her house, but he disappears. The couple both fade away, as they both die from AIDS.

How nice.

What is Aaron comes back. and he’s “out of the closet”? And Quill meets him, which leads to his realizing that he’s been playing in the wrong ballpark?

I never appreciated the Aaron character. It seemed like he didn’t quite understand what was happenin. He didn’t have the intellectual quality and maturity of Quill. Sort of epitomized the saying “He’s a brick short of a full load”. Seems Greg had to retire him to develop Luann’s personality.

Don’t cry Luann sweetie, he’ll be back in a month! : )

Seriously, what is going to transpire Fri. and Sat.?……

At last — something sweet happening to Luann — YAY!!

Perhaps one day later, the call from down under?…..

Well, to be fair, this has been a few weeks long (our time) in goodbye….. or as Qcumber has stated, G’Day…. it could be said to be a nice goodbye session all this time, but it has been a long process so far….

Is it wrong to hope that his plane crashes?

I really, really want to believe that this relationship will make it, but with the distance and time, it’s going to be rough. A lot of things can happen between now and then. But I have hope.

Never say good-bye, becausegood means forever, just say, so long until we meet again