Okay, and Speaking of Breasts…

Cidu Bill on Mar 26th 2009

How come back in August, Luann’s could stop traffic

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while in January
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not so much, even wet?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Luann, breasts, comic strips, comics, humor | 14 responses so far

14 Responses to “Okay, and Speaking of Breasts…”

  1. John DiFool Mar 26th 2009 at 09:52 pm 1

    Didn’t we do the 2nd one about a month ago (hmm in fact IIRC I myself submitted it)?

    In any event the answer is: the cartoonist thought it would be funny. No other reason.

  2. Cidu Bill Mar 26th 2009 at 10:02 pm 2

    Actually, we dealt with both of them (the first one last August, and the second one in January). I just happened to have looked at the two of them this evening and thought the comparison was interesting.

  3. PeterW Mar 26th 2009 at 10:04 pm 3

    Bait and switch?

  4. solarrhino Mar 27th 2009 at 12:37 am 4

    One of the greatest Letter From The Editors in the old National Lampoon was all about the importance of context. Full-frontal in National Geographic, for example, wasn’t nearly as good as, say, a visible shadow of public hair under the panties in the lingerie pages of Sears and Roebucks catalog. As you might imagine, the letter went on and on, comparing visuals in various magazines, but that particular example stuck with me, because it was so true. When I was a boy, it wasn’t like today. Those two magazines were treasured resources for the curious young man.

    The relevance of that to this is: one does not expect a young woman to stand in the middle of a hallway heaving her breasts around. That’ll stop traffic, if only for the amusement factor. But when one is all geared up for a wet-tee shirt peepshow by the bikini-clad hottest girl in school, lumpen Luann with her sensible shorts (and probably a bra under her shirt) isn’t going to cut it. Luann is kind of the National Geographic in this case. Even if she gets soaking wet and you see everything, it would be a little embarrassing to get turned on by it.

  5. John DiFool Mar 27th 2009 at 01:08 am 5

    Good call Bill, no snark or insult intended here. #4 does raise a valid point (I guess). I remember all the guys in junior high going gaga for a girl with some ample D cups-but otherwise she was not attractive at all really (daughter of one of our football coaches actually). I guess preconceived labels outweigh the actualities (Luann is certainly attractive as drawn). Hollywood Ugly-or Comic Strip Ugly, rather.

  6. 7 Zark 7 Mar 27th 2009 at 01:12 am 6

    I think the typo of “public hair” is really funny in this context, but I can’t explain why.

  7. Freezer Mar 27th 2009 at 02:21 am 7

    As I said when that second strip first ran: I didn’t think was possible to both overestimate and underestimate the hornyness of teenage boys in the space of one comic. But damn if Evans doesn’t manage to pull it off.

  8. Frank the curmudgeon Mar 27th 2009 at 03:14 am 8

    Speaking of breasts…, actually CIDU BILL, I’d rather view them.

  9. Rasheed Mar 27th 2009 at 07:57 am 9

    maybe they expand in summer and contract in winter? I’m assuming she’s wearing a bra in the top one (she was known to pad when she was younger)and just a suit in the bottom one. And the problem is she never even got the CHANCE to get wet.

  10. Mitch4 Mar 27th 2009 at 08:09 am 10

    Oh Rasheed, haven’t you learned about keeping the rooms cold?

  11. HM Mar 27th 2009 at 10:38 am 11

    The (to remain anonymous) university that I attended once published a brochure for the School of Pubic Administration. Seriously–saw it myself–this is not a “friend saw it” story. In a later experience the employer I had with “Public” in it’s name edited the spell check on the computers so that “pubic” would show as a misspelling, to avoid the same problem.

  12. Dan Mar 27th 2009 at 01:07 pm 12

    The reason Luann is smaller in the latter strip is that Tiffany is there - she’s smaller just to show the contrast between the oversexed cheerleader and the heroine of the strip.

  13. buzz Mar 28th 2009 at 12:14 pm 13

    I agree with Dan. It’s like the difference between being offered a cookie when there’s no other dessert and being offered a cookie after one has enjoyed cheesecake (pun unintended but welcomed).

    Also, Luann is sitting hunched over in the second strip while deliberately drawing (again, no pun intended) attention to her “Teens” in the first.

  14. Matthew Apr 5th 2009 at 03:45 am 14

    In August, Luann was giving it away, and in January she was being contrasted with Tiffany & was asking to get paid for it.

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