So How Long Does a Pregnancy Last in Luann Time?
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As readers know comic strip time has a different continuum than real life.
A Luann Comic Strip timeline from Karen Evans:
[I]n 2014 Luann aged for the second time in her life, turning 18 in September that year (and therefore, because he’s three years older, Brad quietly turned 21–how did we miss telling that story?!).
Luann had previously gone from being 13 when the strip started in 1985 to turning 16 in September of 1999. So, she spent about fourteen years being 13-ish, and about fifteen years being 16-ish, and has now been in college for 12 years. We think of Luann as being 19 now and trapped in her Sophomore year of college.
That 2014 jump put Luann in college. But…
It just seemed too weird to have her be a Senior repeatedly. And so: for the first time in LUANN, the strip officially moved in Real Time for the 2013-2014 school year. Luann graduated, turned 18, started college, and life in the LUANNiverse subtly shifted back into murky Strip Time.
Greg Evans talks Brad and Toni:
Karen talks in her essay about the weird Comic Strip Time Conundrum in LUANN and it’s no more glaring than in Brad and Toni’s marriage. In the strip, they met in 2002, said “I Do” in 2016 and are now having their first child. In “Real” Time that would mean: if they met at age 20, they married at age 34 and are expecting a baby at age 44. But in Strip Time, they’re 22ish?
So how long is a pregnancy in Luann time?
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Back to Karen:
All that to answer the question on too many readers’ minds: WILL TONI BE PREGNANT FOREVER? No no no, we are not going to have Toni’s pregnancy move in Strip Time. It’s bad enough that we’ve trapped Luann in teenhood for 41.5 years. We aren’t going to torture Toni, or our fans, with an indefinite pregnancy. Therefore, hold on to your hats, mark your calendars, get ready for Real Time: we will be welcoming a baby in March of 2027.
Follow Luann DeGroot’s family and friends in the comic strip and at the Luann Fan site.
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