I agree. This whole storyline feels so contrived and ill-conceived. Maybe even jumping the shark. The name isn’t catchy, the ideas are dumb…maybe if it moved faster or seemed like there was more than two seconds of thought toward any of it (in real life or in the strip), it might have had potential…but it just feels so pointless. Maybe we’re supposed to laugh at the irony of their bumbling in light of what they’re trying to do…or in theory this could have been a launching pad for a Luann evolution…but given how long this “joke” has stretched out without movement, I have lost hope.
This is way overthinking, but the more I think about it, I’d actually really like a pregnancy storyline and could see it being a pivotal and much-needed change for this comic. Those of us who grew up with it are in a far different stage of life compared to when we found random teenage drama funny. I just don’t see modern teenagers being into this strip, so why not grow it up a bit? I think it could be fun to explore pregnancy and how Shannon, Luann, and their parents deal with new roles in life. This strip has been lacking suspense or even a good milestone moment arc for years now…Gunther’s love life maybe barely counts. It needs new life and something more riveting than Luann’s dense self-absorption. If they’re not going to evolve Luann or explore Piro’s drama further, maybe this is where it needs to go.
I agree. This whole storyline feels so contrived and ill-conceived. Maybe even jumping the shark. The name isn’t catchy, the ideas are dumb…maybe if it moved faster or seemed like there was more than two seconds of thought toward any of it (in real life or in the strip), it might have had potential…but it just feels so pointless. Maybe we’re supposed to laugh at the irony of their bumbling in light of what they’re trying to do…or in theory this could have been a launching pad for a Luann evolution…but given how long this “joke” has stretched out without movement, I have lost hope.