Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 20, 2019

There were a lot fewer choices back in the day. If you wanted coffee, it was regular or decaf. If you turned on the TV, your choices were ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe a PBS station or local unaffiliated channel. And either you watched shows at the exact time they were broadcast, or you hoped to catch them in summer reruns.There were a lot fewer choices back in the day. If you wanted coffee, it was regular or decaf. If you turned on the TV, your choices were ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe a PBS station or local unaffiliated channel. And either you watched shows at the exact time they were broadcast, or you hoped to catch them in summer reruns.

Still no respect whatsoever. (I was late coming in the past few days, people, because I was visiting my older brother… who lives in a different time zone! So now I’m back.)

The art here has definitely evolved since this sequence originally ran.

Wonder why the reruns. ✨

Reruns probably because the Evanses were at ComicCon last month when these old strips were submitted as they are due way ahead of the publication dates.

Let’s hope that this genius will graduate from popping bubble gum to popping bubble wrap with a six pack of beer. Hilarity would ensue, of course.

these i haven’t read since i wasn’t reading Luann back than i was reading 9 chickweed lane :) for that one i’ve read all of them from July of 93 to November 1 (1994) to somewhere from i think November 2000 to present. i haven’t really gone back to read Luann from the very beginning yet

This kid gets second prize for “least helpful.” The Grand Prize will always be in the movie where Peter Sellers (Inspector Clouseau) asks a guy, “Does your dog bite?” The guy answers “No.” Peter Sellers tries to pet the dog, which bites him badly. “I thought you said your dog doesn’t bite.” The guy replies, “That is not my dog.”

A living wage should only be paid to the living (not the walking dead).

Hey, I remember those shoes, Frank.

They were called All Stars……, ;)

They had a lot fewer choices back then.

Frank: Just do not ask for shoes that have gum soles – That kid will chew up a load for you and set you up with some real gum sole shoes.

Frank isn’t nearly as gray now. (“Just for Men”?)

When Frank was a kid he called them “tennis” shoes and he did everything in them. Now he’ll buy some “cross trainers” and not do anything in them. (Watching TV doesn’t count.) Lol

Frank dude, you just don’t get it… :D

There are two situations here. Frank is having trouble changing with the times (I understand perfectly) and getting little “help” from a “sales” person, who doesn’t wanna be there. Wait’ll Frank hears what the shoes’ prices are.

Yes, there were fewer choices. but why are you trying to make “a point”? Just buy a pair of shoes. If tennis shoes are the same thing, go buy some tennis shoes, and don’t explain it. Why would this kid want to hear you expound on sneaker varieties?

Is it me, or is Frank’s hair a little grayer than normal today?

Another great colorization job Sheriff! I don’t think Greg will raise a stink about you “debasing” his original 1998 art, though. I remember when The Movie Channel started “colorizing” old b&w movies. Directors up and down the line were wailing that they were ruining the original art. I never understood that argument. The original b&w still existed. It wasn’t expunged from the face of the earth.

As with the colorized movies, I like your version better.

And the art looks really different, too.

Who is this guy?

What aisle are the sneakers in?

Frank, please, stop living in the past!

Well Frank when I was a kid you could easily get tennis shoes made in the US, before Reagan killed the industry. We even had a local shoe factory I worked in for 3 years after high school. They were well made, durable shoes. Now that they don’t have many factory jobs lots of kids are working retail.

So many shoes types, so many manufactures anymore it is difficult for the consumer to know which product to buy. It’s knowing what you’re likely to do, what’s comfortable for you, and what’s in your price range/desirement to spend. What’s fun is the kid’s doing a pretty good job now helping Frank understand the world of shoes. As for a re-run; guess G&K needed a little vacation and as I recall this was like a one week set.

Talking to a millenial.

Blahblahblah… yet another generation gap joke…

Do they even have the old-style “tennis” shoes any more?

When I was a kid in the 50’s there were Keds and they came in white or black. Your choice.

In business there’s no such thing as too many variations… until you go bankrupt

Wait til he gets a load of the prices.

Make sure that the one-click shopping option is OFF.

I don’t care how many kinds of sneakers they have as long as I don’t end up wearing New Balance with velcro closures.

I volunteer drive seniors to their doctor appointments, grocery, etc. I took a client to the grocery and she had a modest list. The size, the lighting, the busyness of this very average store got her shaky. She told me which brand of bacon bits she wanted and I ran ahead to get them while she sat for a moment. She got the brand name slightly wrong so I went back 2×. Fine. Then we went to the tortilla chips aisle for her favorite Doritos. There had to be 28 different varieties of Doritos, not to mention all the other chips. And that’s where she lost it. She had a panic attack. Not blaming Doritos, just the possibly overwhelming array of choices of everything.

This kid is here to chew bubblegum and sell shoes, and he’s got plenty of bubblegum.

Back in the late 1950s, we called them “gym shoes”. It’s a different world now.

Yesterday’s didn’t ring a bell, but I remembered this one!

They still sell “old school” “tennis shoes”, like Converse. He might be shocked at how much they cost. He should just go to WalMart and get some generic “sneakers” there.

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Not a good time for a “history lesson”, Frank. The rude kid wasn’t interested in helping you to begin with…. he will not give a damn about how there used to be fewer types of athletic footware.

I haven’t found anything on the web, yet, as to why these are in reruns. MAYBE Greg is just on vacation, but good cartoonist usually build enough of a lead that they don’t have to resort to reruns. I’m reminded more of the “Lilian Jackson Braun” scenario (she wrote “The Cat Who …” series) where her “next” book simply never came out. Greg IS about to turn 72, you know.

I like how, while the teen is not seeing his point, he IS listening and helping.

Brooke McElDowney must be on vacation, too, as far as Pibgorn is concerned. Maid Luda and I have been peeking down her cleavage for the last ten days. Actually, I might miss it. Maybe I can turn it into a screen saver.

Welcome to the 21st Century!

The sale guy reminds me of a young Brad…

No wonder retailers are losing out to on-line shopping. However, this is a result of poor management. Good customer service is simple but management is too short sited to understand.

Consumerism. BLECCH.

There were four types, Black or White Chuck Taylor All-Stars in Low Cut and High top, and that was it.

Wait, I usually only see him on Sundays. Wait, what day is it again?

So go get yourself a pair of Keds deck shoes (or PF fliers off of ebay) and knock yourself out.

near end of the day, a repeat strip, and about 10X the number of posts of other strips. go figure.

You can have too many choices.

Ah, so the difference in style is a temporal anomaly, not a personnel diversion. Kinda like the shoes. In my day there were sneakers (PFs most commonly, or Converse All Stars) or (low-rise) tennis shoes. That was it.

Specialization.

yawn

Oh christ! It’s a rerun! Took me awhile to place Dad!

This is exactly how my parents bought me tennis shoes when I was about 10 years old in the early 1950’s at the beginning of summer. They were made by Keds and were high topped. Mr. Evans is making an excellent point about how ludicrous the shoe options are these days.