Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 04, 2019

Enjoy yourselves, Luann and Bernice. (Of the times I’ve been camping, I don’t recall there being a camp store which had food… just at times firewood.)

Bernice looks for the authority figure. Luann thinks about her physical needs. Dez communes with nature.

I hope they brought some food. No camp store is in the area!

Run, Dez.

If Greg Evans wanted to make young women look like brainless idiots, he’s succeeded.

Tara’s ability to hunt would’ve come in handy on this trip.

Dez, you sure you’re in the right place? The place looks vacant – not a campground but unpopulated by any human. You did say the camp is sponsored so there should be other people around. And Luann – surprise! No modern conveniences up there.

I hope this camping trip was planned to be just an over-nighter……

I think Jack will confuse Dez’s crystal powder for salt while cooking.

I’m sorry, this is sad – not funny. Karen, you go with the concept that women are clueless?

I’d say they’ll miss the 4th of July fireworks but it looks like there might be fireworks when Dez gets back to the car.

I concede on the buzzards. They’ve been following since Tuesday and right now it’s looking good for a payoff for them.

How long has this arc been going on? I am so sick of it! Let’s move on to something that’s interesting!

(Just kidding. Just wanted to be the first to say it!)

CLUELESS!!!!!

“Here We Are,” Huh?

“Camp Middle Of Friggin’ NOWHERE?”

I got a swell idea, ladies. Quickly, Quietly, Get BACK in the car. And head back to civilization Muy Rapidido, leaving ”Dezi-Array,” HERE.

Just tell the authorities a Bear ate her. Then Bern, your only “problem” will be “Who” do you want for a NEW “roommate:” Tiffany Or Bets?

See? Dez is at home. She’s happier than a tornado in a trailer park. But Luann and dez, they’d be happier camping out in a pop-tent outside a store waiting for black friday sales.

Ruh-Ohhhh! Don’tcha think that it might have been a good idea if the girls had met up with the guys somewhere in town, or even the local Walmart parking lot, and maybe, just maybe, they could have driven to Camp Wilderness together? Instead of having, say, crucial items with the guys, and unfortunate things could happen (guys get a flat tire, car trouble or they’re lost) and all of them are in an area with no cell reception? So, that would mean the girls wouldn’t have any tents, nor a stove at all?

What we have here is a massive failure to communicate… or plan. I hate to find myself saying this, but I hope the boys have thought to bring food and will save the day.

The car knows that they are in trouble. In the first panel, the car is sending smoke signals.

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Unless it just needs a ring job…

No. Just. No.

They should dye their hair blonde and rename themselves Tiffany A Ferrel

Luann is NOT going to have fun.

Ladies i have never heard of a camping store. You might have to go to closest City!!

Dez looks like she’s ready to run nekkid…

This is hilarious, and people are being judgmental again. Guess I will just wait and see what happens. I mean Jack and Nil will arrive and I bet they won’t starve. You all forget high school. Ugh. You remember College, you really remember college? You survived it and graduated? Well this is that. Enjoy.

Okay. We get the point. Three very different ideas about what ‘camping’ means. Luann expected a provisions store. Bernice expects someone sitting around with rules and regulations. Dez expects total freedom. Just can’t wait till they start catching bugs to eat…

Oh dear, and reality is about begin in earnest. This will either be the end of a beautiful friendship or the experience will strengthen the bonds of a lifelong friendship. Let’s hope that the boys will bring some food as well as the tent and cooking equipment.

I think Dez is the one with the most sense out of all of them

This already looks Awesome. Dez runs happy, free, wild and beautiful♡! Luann and Bernice will have a rude awakening. Probably Luann will be able to adapt at the situation and enjoy the camping, especially if Jack will be with her. Bernice, on the other hand ….

In three months, all this strip will be is three piles of bones bleaching in the Sun. Luann can’t feed herself, Bernie can’t function without a chain of command and Nature Girl Dez will fall down a cliff and break her neck. Jack to the rescue?

Good job, “realist” Bernice. Do you see a check-in area?

Looking up “wilderness/primitive camping” sure isn’t what it was way, way, way back when I was young (in my teens). Back then, we went camping with a knapsack containing some canned goods (like pork & beans), a couple of blankets some fishing string and hooks, a 22 rifle strapped to the back (shoot small game for meat), a hunting knife and a hand axe hanging on our side for making a lean-to. We would hitch-hike to where we wanted to go and people picked us up without a problem. Of course, today, they would probably run you over or call the police. And yes, bears did do their duty in the woods (or wherever they pleased) and you could hear a tree fall. :)

Camp store?

happy campers!!!

It looks like two out of three people is going to be disappointed.

Hope they brought extra fuel to get home.. I think we’ve been down that road before with Lu!

Have a safe and Happy Fourth, folks!

So this isn’t a campsite. This is a place with no bathroom. This is not a good idea.

Lovely. So they’re in the wilderness without any provisions or equipment? Hope they make it back to safety soon, or we’ll need a new title character for the strip. :D

I think I see the Hotel California in the distance!

They should start gathering firewood. I suspect it’s going to be a long night. And why is everyone so sure they forgot to bring food?

I used to go camping with my cousins in my uncle’s living room by putting blankets over chairs and tables. Camping sure had changed a lot by the time I joined the Boy Scouts.

Well, one of them is happy. Find your inner, uh whatever, girls.

Remember some of their gear fell off the car in the first strip…. Not sure if it was a sleeping bag or tent or ???? Should be interesting.

Some touron sprayed graffiti on the rocks…

“Mother Nature”? Unless she’s prepared to eat like the Bears, Wolves, and Foxes eat, that ain’t happening. After one night in the woods, and they’ll be clambering back to modern man civilization in no time flat.

Anybody want to take bets on Dez going “back to nature” sometime in this arc?

Ok, Here is my question. if only one of them knew where they where camping, does that mean Jack doesn’t? I guess we can only assume this information was passed on to Jack and Jack knows where they need to go? because I am seeing things getting worse and worse here if no one informed jack where they were meeting up. also, Camping store? Like REI?

♬I never promised you a rose garden.♬

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2019/05/27

Of course the naturalist took them to an actual campground. No conveniences, no pool, no nothing. Luann and Bernice are going to just “love” it.

Everybody have a safe and fun 4th …

I’m looking forward to scarfing down some chili dogs with onions later ;-)

ttfn

“Well, Luann, this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.”

Quite a few folks are complaining about women/girls being “clueless.” Luann, Bernice and Dez are not clueless girls/women. They just play ones in the comic strips. ;o)

This is going to end badly (hilariously – but badly).

Nobody discussed bringing food? Since they didn’t make reservations (parks are FULL on the 4th) they may be evicted by the ranger (hopefully)

Shouldn’t Luann be at the annual July 4th Degroot family reunion?

Mother Nature is about to teach you lessons you won’t soon forget!

And they haven’t noticed the naked roof yet. I guess we know what tomorrow’s strip will be!

Eek! No (fill in whatever was up there) !Whatever will we (lame) female types do?

1) In swoops Jack and Nils. Shining knights to save the day.

2) Dez takes charge. Makes a shelter from rocks, moss and buffalo dung. Starts fire with mystical incantation.

3) Doug (remember Doug?) happens to roll up in his 45’ Newmar King Aire motor home. Luxury ensues.

4) They turn around and go home. Watch the fireworks at Pittsville stadium.

Have a Great Independence Day! Y’ALL

Primitive camping is awesome, long as you come with plenty of food & water, and have at minimum a tent, sleeping bag, mat, flashlight, toilet paper, and a little shovel or trowel to bury your, um.. organic waste. Very bad move on Dez’s part not to inform them in advance, so that they came unprepared.

…and they were never seen again…

Hopefully they’ll meet legendary Texas naturalist Rusty Shackleford who will show them the best mushrooms and berries to eat.

Hopefully they’ll meet legendary Texas naturalist Rusty Shackleford who will show them the best mushrooms and berries to eat.

She (Dez) might not be any better informed than Luann and Bernice. She just suggested the idea – never said she was a pro.

All they need to see is just one rattlesnake or scorpion and they’re outta there!!!

When are they going to notice that the stuff they had strapped to the top of the car is gone?

Add a few phosphates and nitrates.

And that’s the last anyone ever sees of Dez… Vaya con Dios.

C.L.U.E.L.E.S.S. the whole lot of them. Sadly, they will likely survive to breed.

I am surprised we didn’t see her clothes flung off in the background.

This …. is …. ridiculous …..

But it’s a comic strip, so … lol!!

I hope everyone who celebrates has a safe Fourth. And remember:

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He who imbibes a fifth on the fourth, might not come forth on the fifth…

The totally unprepared leading the totally unprepared.

what a bunch of dumb asses

Well, goshdarnit, hope nobody breaks a nail!

I’ll betcha they’re here. It’s fairly close to San Diego, free primitive camping in the California desert. Mountains in the distance and many rocks at the campground. It’s a guess…

https://www.hikespeak.com/campgrounds/culp-valley-campground-anza-borrego-desert/

Observant girls still haven’t noticed the stuff Missing from the Roof Rack …

I’m surprised Des didn’t leave her clothes behind!

It doesn’t look like there’s water nearby. Did they bring any? Hopefully Jack and Nil will show up soon with the necessities that these three didn’t think to bring.

My camper and I have traveled to some incredibly scenic places (Catalina State Park, Mormon Lake, Tortilla Campground and Picacho Peak State Park to name a few) and gotta say, there has always been some type of store close by. Too old for the real roughing it thing anymore.

Without looking back to the original conversations, I can’t be sure. But I don’t remember that Des ever said anything about a “campground.” She said they were going “camping.” The others assume it’s a campground. Again, I might be mistaken, but that’s my take. If anyone here knows differently, I apologize and welcome a correction. At any rate, I learned long ago to pay very close attention to what people actually SAY, not what I assume they mean. Not that I’m perfect at it, LOL!

Oy! These gals are so not ready for camping!

“Two desiccated corpses located in desert; college student says they may be her missing friends…. Film at eleven.”

Well, at least they’re not “naked and afraid.” Yet.

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