Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 24, 2025

TJ is right. Most children aren’t planned for and it usually works out fine. TJ is a good person.

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So just how soon can we expect this “maybe baby” to become a reality?

Never try to make a point with a sentence that ends in “and I turned out all right” or “look how I turned out”.

Is Toni on board, Brad? Or are you doing this on your own?

Oh great, we’re back to this. Can we just have Brad come down with adult Mumps and end up sterile, thereby relieving us of any drama about Toni’s forced child-bearing? Can we just forgot that Brad and Toni exist because they no long are part of Luann’s world. This is Luann’s story. It should be about Luann!

You have 9 months during the pregnancy to plan.

With this much aggravation, Brad and Toni are better off not having kids. After all, they have their experiences with Shannon to think about!

Brad doesn’t like uncertainty, and certainly not complexity. He just wants to keep everything simple.

Motivation by example

That was cruel, Brad.

We do know how TJ turned out when he was a teenager. And that’s why Brad went back to his computer.

Uh Oh. A perceived weak spot in TJ’s self-presumed armor? We all come up short to varying degrees. And maybe that just occurred to him….

This is silly. You don’t need a perfect situation to raise children.

useLes’s mom didn’t have a parenting plan and look how he turned out… Speaking of… Bring back Ann❤️Eiffel!!

I’m sorry for Brad, but even planning everything perfectly is no guarantee of success. I’m starting to worry that Toni won’t get pregnant this year. But I’m usually wrong in predict how the story will continue. So…

That explains so much!

In my experience, good people have good kids despite their mistakes.

Nice motivation there.

Brad?

Like Luann’s latest “conquest” Phil, you’re over-thinking this baby thing.

Re-Lax, And as Louis Cole sang, ”Let it happen.”

Oh.

And if you feel that way about Old Smiley, why did you let him hang around you all these years?? ;-)

That got him back to reality very fast!

need he say more… :}

I really dread Toni losing her figure. :-(

Do I see smoke rising from Brad’s Laptop?

With all due respect, I’ve been reading this strip for about a year and have no idea who these characters are.

Mmm-hmm. What was I saying late last week about a certain paramour delivering a certain married couple’s baby? I’m oddly smug after reading today’s strip.

Heh, a bit old and predictable, but nicely executed.

That crick in Brad’s neck sure got better in a hurry after TJ’s pep talk!

Good One!!!!!!!

Hurry Brad, you must plan out all of the child’s activities for the first 14 years of life at which age you’ll have the kid irretrievably screwed up.

Work schedules- They’re firefighters. They work 2-3 24 hour shifts per week. Easy to alternate. Insurance- See answer 1. Great benefits, and since they are married, only one needs to take them, and the other likely gets a stipend for not taking it.

Great example, TJ.

A friendly joke between Brad and TJ, about a “pregnant” subject (sorry, couldn’t resist) presaging a major possible event, Brad and Toni, being preggers! Tease so far, along with the absurdity, that anyone who has raised children knows, all the baby planning in the world goes out the window when that baby comes in the world. Good parents make up for that, even though kids, and life reality, keeps parents on their tippy toes. Or should.

I always wondered if I was unplanned. My older brother came 7 1/2 years earlier. Ever if I was unplanned I always felt loved and adored by my parents and my brother was always kind to me growing up as well.

Want to give your patents a good laugh? Show them your plans for raising your children. They know how well plans work out.

The gestation time for an elephant is 22 months. I predict the gestation time for Toni will be 27 months!

There was a Comedian who had a bit where he described how,”We are all accidents. No 2 people ever said they were about to make Tom, or Sue or anyone.”

It was a great bit.

We had our children and while trying, it took time “trying” and we lost a child during pregnancy.

There is a lot of God and/or magic involved in having and raising children.

This cast of characters is less interesting to me than some of the others. Not sure, but I think it might be Brad’s baby moon face LOL! The three of them haggling over how to prepare for a baby is pretty dry, even with the inevitable crib assembly disaster. Bring back the dorm drama!

We’ll see some looser fitting clothes in the future

Any day that starts with TJ being insulted is a good day.

Brad and Toni are overthinking it. Just let things happen naturally. Toni will eventually get pregnant and then there will be a whole new perspective on them as expectant parents. I’d much preferred they waited a while—-maybe let them build on their careers or buy a starter dream home. They always appear to be financially strapped in spite of both making good salaries. Having a baby will make things even tighter.

There was great potential to write so many things for Brad and Toni—-furthering their careers, buying a project car to fix up together, buying an renovating a dream home, helping TJ have more of a life outside of their kitchen and of course, helping out with Shannon. Instead, we get a baby arc. A baby arc down the road might be good, but it’s disappointing in a world where so much could be written about this power couple this is what we get. But it will be interesting to see what comes next.

One of them’s going to be infertile, aren’t they

Whereas, I don’t see where TJ turned out so bad, it did inspire Brad to get back to planning.

Maybe this is the trend for last year and 2025, these overly naive and innocent characters (Nothing wrong with that) will finally start moving forward in their lives. Cartoonists don’t live forever ….. ;-)

Did I miss something? Since when is there even a “baby maybe” situation for Brad and Toni?

Only in these commenters’ dreams…

Q: Is Brad a homophobic racist?

A: Only if he voted for Donald Trump. At least according to the site pseudo intellectuals. Personally… The Count does not believe him to be neither homophobic nor racist (like The Count and most other Patriotic Americans) even though he voted for Donald Trump because even Brad isn’t dumb enough to have voted otherwise. Dilly! Dilly! God Bless America!

Props to Brad for managing to wipe that sleazy grin off TJ’s face.

Honestly….. I am at the point where I simply CRINGE involuntairly when the arc is featuring Brad and Toni now.

The ONLY arc(s) they ever seem to have anymore are “baby”. Either Brad and Toni are a) talking about a potential baby, b) talking about not wanting a potential baby, c) having implied sex with an intent or lack of intent to potentially produce a baby, d) watching Shannon in order to be INFLUENCED positively or negatively in a) or b) or c) above.

They (Brad and Toni) USED to be far more interesting characters with MANY DIFFERENT story arcs. Now, the two of them have become basically uni-directional, having only one….. repetitive to me….. arc….. over and over again.

Do not get me wrong…. having a kid or kids is GREAT. I have several. But, I really would prefer there to be a bit more of a balance in what Brad and Toni are represented to “do” in these comics. It used to be interesting/exciting when the arc would switch to Brad or Toni or both of them…. because there were a WHOLE BUNCH of different possibilities….. including SOMETIMES (not ALL the time) talking about a baby.

TJ is definitely the bright spot for today’s panels.

Brad&Toni should drop into GASOLINE ALLEY—babies are routinely abandoned on doorsteps over there

That got him going!

Brad, don’t do it. Kids suck. They really suck. They suck bad. It’s one of those things… You don’t know what you don’t know. If you want to lose all your free time and be broke AF all the time, cleaning up other people‘s messes, etc., then have kids. If you want to enjoy your life, then don’t have kids.. Seriously. Kids are not worth it… ungrateful, entitled, they’re just the pits.

I like TJ. But, isn’t it long past time that he moved out?

Most pregnancies are not planned. Mother nature planned it that way. And it seems to be working. :)

That is a classic best friend/brother reaction lol

And now we return to the world’s most boring couple.

TJ, did Toni set you up for that?

The more research they do the less likely they will have a kid.

He certainly knows how to incentivize.

Brad is wasting time. There’s no evidence that Toni is even pregnant; he’s making plans and agonizing over something that may never come to pass. He definitely doesn’t know how to keep things simple.

My gocomics’ comics just disappeared. Arco is still there.

I don’t know and I don’t care! Any arcs with those characters AND Shannon are SO boring and not amusing at all to me!!!!!!!!

Anyone else reminded of George Carlin and his sketch about birth control on the AM-FM album? Something like this: "Eventually there will be an unreliable birth control pill called ‘Baby Maybe’ "