Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 11, 2025

Siblings?

(Gasp) Wow, Luann!!!

OMG! How DARE Greg and Karen do this! They haven’t fleshed out multiple mundane details about the backstory here before hand! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!

Plus the so called ‘twins’ are not drawn at the exactly same height so the drawing is lazy too.

Tomorrow I’ll complain about the story not moving along fast enough either.

Shut the door, Bernice, and talk to him outside before the whole tribe comes in.

6 Kids!! No wonder he’s depressed!

Didn’t someone suggest babysitting? I’m sure someone did. They just won the internet today!

If he expects Bernice to babysit his sibs that’s a lot of darn gall. If he’s rescuing them his mother and is waiting for Child Protective Services to pick them up…. that would be the responsible thing to do.

Sadly, since passive-aggression is the norm for this strip I’m betting on babysitting with Bernice not refusing his unreasonable request.

Questions? Well, yeah! Are these youngsters all Piro’s siblings? Or are some of them more distant family members? Are all of them under his care, because no one else is able or willing to care for them? And are they all standing there with him because they have all just become homeless and in need of shelter? Are these what have preoccupied Piro for all the time he’s been out of touch recently? Is Piro standing there with them to ask Bernice if she can do anything or recommend anything to help? Where is cousin Tara? Is there any help possible from her side of the family? Is Bernice about to be faced with the need to point out that she herself is living as more or less a dependent on a family not her own, and that she doesn’t have resources of her own with which to help a situation like Piro’s? These nine or ten questions ought to cover the territory as a start. There may be more once they are answered.

Have you been a “busy” boy, Piro?? ;-)

..and that’s how they all became the Piro Bunch!

This is gonna be KEWL!

Well Luann handled her situation appropriately.

Bern – Just in case you thought you knew anything….

Well Bern. Something you’ll have to involve Nancy and Frank. You can’t just let them in and stay the night.

Trying too hard, Bernice.

Wow, they all look so sad. I wonder if they’re Piro’s siblings or kids?

Ah Saturday misdirection all the better to spend the weekend not thinking about all the bad news (pick your poison, but pray and/or beat wishes to our fellow citizens out in LA. This is the great LA fire, but I worry about worse ones in the future) and wonder where this plot twist is going. I think a reasonable connection can be made with Bern’s personal situation, where her brother has his kids by his Filipino wife, who is home in Phillipines taking care of her ailing father, while the kids are at Bern’s. Why isn’t she being shown with her nieces or nephews by the way? But Piro has exponentially a more serious situation than ,Bern does, and who is that that older kid? Oh let the speculation begin.

We have the aura of tragic or sad killing this storyline right from scratch. Happy campers they are not.

Are they all homeless?

BAH!

Luann had BETTER start asking Piro some gosh-darn “Personal questions!”

Because THAT bunch, standing on her parent’s doorstep seems to be looking for a place to stay.

And Lu, should wake up her mom and pop over this thing too! ;-)

Bernice is not comfortable around kids at all. What does Piro expect from her? Whatever he expects from her, he will not get.

Has Tara Starr met her new cousins? Will Walter “Piro” Starr provide answers next Monday?

Piro knows that Bernice is only staying with the DeGroots and has no home at this time. He certainly would not expect any housing help from Bernice. He should show up at Tara’s place. she is actually related to Piro.

The largest of Piro’s presumed sibs looks a lot like “stapler” Howie to me. But perhaps he’s just a doppelganger.

I’m wonderin where th other three are. With the other three he’s got enough to field a team

Ahh the Pirotechnics begin!!

OK, I’ve got questions. ‘To be continued’ hook.

There’s a story there for sure.

There’s Chandler’s law, which is if the plot is going nowhere have a guy come through the door with a gun – or at least something shocking that moves the plot off dead center.

He’s been busy

Kids, meet Aunt Bernice. Call Toni n Brad to get some advice on how to handle drop-offs. See everybody next week and possibly the week after.

Why wouldn’t he explain this over the phone before showing up?

None of them look like him, so I don’t think they’re half-siblings or his kids. If they are related, they obviously don’t have the same mother.

Uh oh

I hope he is there to ask advice not dump those people on her. Making them her responsibility. That would be shameless. And stupid. It isn’t her house.

Same-sex marriage to the tall one (look adult to me), who has custody of his 5 kids from a previous opposite-sex marriage. There! All explained! You’re welcome!

Based on the drawing, there are six daddies represented in this group. Maybe someone should try to find them.

Heaven forbid she’d be honest.

Let me think……. Piro’s a kid walker, and one of them needs to use the restroom.

Ho boy…

There are no questions because the situation is clear, but still Bernice is trying too hard to looks calm. Luann’s involvement seems inevitable, for now I’m really happy to see how respectful she is by giving to Piro and Bernice space. She was right, this is not a competition, but a rescue to a friend in need.

I had this happen in real life. I answered a knock on my door on a Saturday, there stood my son, his wife, two kids, and she is obviously pregnant. My son said, “Dad, we lost our jobs, our house and we go no where else to go.” “Come in, we’ll find a way to make it work.” I put the two kids in my bedroom, I move to the back bedroom, moved the tables and chairs out of the dining room and put a rented queen size bed in there.

A week later the landlord showed up asking, “Bruce, I’m hearing somethings about additional people?” “Come in, let me introduce you to my son and his family.” After he had looked at the place we went out on the front porch to talk. He told me, “You should have asked first.” I said, “Yes I know, and I’m sorry I didn’t, but they showed up with no notice saying they had no where else to go. What would you have done?”

Sometimes it is better to ask forgiveness than permission.

The results are in. You are the mother!

This should make for an interesting week.

Yeah, who are those guys with you? Some family members we have never heard of?

Oh boy…

Bern is in denial about what is before her right now; this is new territory for her.

this is where Luann will shine….she’s GREAT with kids!

Tuh-WIST!

Bern, as oblivious as ever

They all have his smile.

Well, I definitely didn’t expect that! Great twist!

Well, that was unexpected.

We’ve come a long way, maybe too far, since high school graduation. Not much fun. End of the line, perhaps?

One looks like Bern I guess it’s like the old joke when the women says, I don’t have any children, that I know of heh heh

Time to join Shannon

I liked how Bernice did the hair fluff just before opening the door.

Why are Bernice and Luann are so enraptured by Piro? The guy has, to use an overworked phrase, more issues than Time Magazine. He is seriously broken. I kind of get Bernice’s perspective – she wants to FIX him. But she needs to keep in mind that she is not a therapist yet. And she also has more than a few issues. As to Luann, she’s even less qualified than Bern. And why, in the name of all that is holy, would anyone their age want to tie themselves to a guy who is obviously going to be nothing but trouble? I’ve had a few “Piros” in my life, and I can verify that they offer nothing, and take everything – your compassion, your love, your desire to help, your self-esteem, and sometimes even your money – until you have nothing left to give. Then they go looking for someone else to drain. They’re emotional vampires.

Uh oh. Looks like he’s about to ask a BIG favor.

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No wonder he had to drop out of school. He has had a full time job taking care of these kids. This guy is in crisis mode. Poor Piro! They need to get Frank and Nancy involved at this point. They will have some ideas on how to help this family.

Does Bernice become Maria, or Mary Poppins?

Shocker!

CLIFFHANGER!

Okay, one of those girls seriously looks like Bernice when she was younger, only without the glasses. And the other girl seriously looks like Shannon, only with freckles. Yes, I do have questions!

I like the dude in the back who just got off the boat from Estonia.

So far of the comments I have read, nobody is saying boring, move on…..Like every day comments about the strip being boring and moving on, which is so boring and annoying. But there will be after the drama is revealed.

It kind of reminds me of what baby opossums look like when clinging to their mother.

Luann is backing off??? Impossible!! It’s more likely she peeked through the door window, saw the Piro horde, and decided to get out of there! On the other hand, she could very well be in the kitchen getting out paper and crayons.

How’s that for a cliffhanger?

fosters?

Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until next week to find out. Same Bat-time, same channel!

Someone said Bernice is much more mature than Luann. I suspect that we’ll find out Luann has the edge on Bernice here. She already told Bern it isn’t a competition and left her to be “alone” with Piro. When Luann sees the kids and the situation, she ‘ll step in, like a responsible adult, to handle the kids while Piro and Bern discuss his situation. And I’m thinking that the kids might open up enough to Luann to clue her in on what’s happening.

Uhh, just a few questions.

Piro is there to propose marriage to Bernice, kids are part of the deal. lol

This is a cliff hanger….

does that girl have twins in her jacket?

Piro has six kids?

This strip is starting to get a little too heavy.

Nice try Bernice at trying to keep your questioning face hid. You do want to know who the five kids are, and, who is the dude in the purple jacket.

I would have a few…..

Howie is standing behind Piro?

Well, this just got interesting…

Back story comes to life. We got a hint in his last appearance of his family being a mess. Continued Monday.

She may not have questions, but I do.

I knew this was going to take a weird turn! Is it gonna get real in here??? Hmmmm….. :/?

since B lives with someone else they can’t have the piros move in

Well, he did once tell her about some family drama and siblings, I’m not sure how many weeks back.

I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL MONDAY!!!

Bernice told him months ago that she would help him with is siblings.

Bernice, get Luann back. She knows how to deal with mass quantities of kids.

His posse.

Bring back something good like Tiffany in the shower, or Elvira, Mistress of the Dark anywhere she wants.

Goto May 18, 2023 strip. Tara Starr is related to his mother.

WTF?

Me,I like THE BIG FAT SURPRISE!!