Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 22, 2019

I think Frank needs to talk with Syd’s supervisor (for better customer service).

You can walk in running shoes, but you shouldn’t run in walking shoes.

Back in the olden days there was low tops and high tops. I am trying to remember the name of the popular brand, something like Redball.

So… I thought we established on Tuesday that cross-trainers were “next aisle over” ? Sort of a short communal memory they’ve got there.

Wake me up when the new arc starts.

Wouldn’t “regress” be more accurate?

Frank just doesn’t get out enough…

This is getting to be low tide on the humor…

I used to HATE high top sneakers as they made my ankles hurt too much. But i realized my despise of high tops because i was lacing the shoes up too high and too tight.

You can get something that’s good at doing a lot of things, but it won’t be great at doing anything. The “tool” dedicated to a particular task will always prove to deliver superior results.

Forget the shoes, Frank. Just buy a bike.

I’m honestly debating who’s more clueless, Mr. DeGroot or the salescritter. ;/

Didn’t Frank have the same problem buying shoes 21 years ago? Maybe he needs to go shopping more often.

Buying shoes is not a physics midterm, Frank! I’ve bought cars with less self debate and difficulty.

I’m wondering if the clueless salescritter in this arc is in actuality Jeremy Duncan from the “Zits” comic strip.;-D

Whats the point in this arc – or is there one??

Didn’t this whole bit start with cross-trainers?

It’s 12:28 PDT and only 27 comments. Everyone else has taken a vacation along with G&K.

Heck, I can run in my Farragamos…

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But they are made for running and they are just like these (I got them on sale):

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http://www.ferragamoshoes.us/men-shoes-new-c-36_60/ferragamo-running-style-sneaker-blue-for-men-p-2790.html

Greg must have had a bad experience getting a tennis shoe.

Our civilization still has too many gaps.

My first pair of running shoes was made by Puma.

He needs to take a hike.

This should be funny but its seriously true for 20% of young people and much, much worse in 2nd and 3rd world countries

Does he not understand that he can do both in running shoes?

RedBall Jets run faster and jump higher

How can you tell the difference?

Oh well. Tomorrow is another day. Uhhh, wait a minute! No its not. It’ll be the 1998 colorized strip for Friday. Durn!

Greg and Karen do a terrific job, but this week is just not up to their usual high standards. I think they made their point by Wednesday. This is getting a little toooooo dragged out.

Wasn’t he just talking about cross-trainers earlier?

Seriously Greg, it’s not that complicated.

Who remembers Nike Cortez,Tretorn Nylites and Trax-the K-mart version of Adidas Gazelles?

Has anyone considered the physiology of the foot while designing a shoe?

Main thing: If the shoe fits…..wear it. This is all much easier than watching Gunther and Bets, and trying to predict how far they will go.

Is anyone getting New Balance ads on the margin like I am right now. Those cookies really follow you around.

Try barefoot. Use the money you save to send Luann to college.

Redball jets man!

If this kid can get a job, anyone can get a job! ;o{

when I go looking for shoes I don’t have the luxury of looking for their preferred purpose. I take a very large, very wide shoe and my choices are generally the one pair in my size that the store has on hand or going barefoot. I haven’t paid under $120 for a pair of shoes since the early 1980’s. My size is scarce enough that I sometimes have to pre order them at the shoe store. And forget about shopping for them online, because Amazon doesn’t carry my size the places that do are priced in U.S. dollars and actually cost more after I pay the exchange rate than the ones I get at the shoe store.

Can he just buy some shoes already?

Does anyone actually believe that Frank is really gonna take up running? Reminds me of the guy that gets inspired to buy a high-end set of tools that just end up collecting dust in the garage.

I prefer basketball shoes for the ankle support

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This is cute… but the “dated” aspect of this rerun does show. It is very unlikely that Frank would be so curmudgeonly about the array of shoes in 2019.

But, back in 1998, these discussions WOULD have been quite humorous and funny and even wry when said by folks of the age of Frank back then, as it was far earlier in the transition to the plethora of models of shoes we have today.

As an aside…. I cannot recall… has Greg taken this sort of “vacation” before where there were rerun panels? Or has he typically taken the route of building up an extra supply of comics for use during “vacations”? It seems I would have noticed and remembered, but unfortunately I do not.

Two girls, one shoe?

worst use of newsprint ever

Frank tennis shoes are good for both. Frank just buy Puma or Keds

How does that kid talk and blow a bubble at the same time?

Similar to medicine., You go to your “primary physician” who shuttles you off to a specialist who, if you’re unlucky, finds that another doctor (with a sub-specialty) should help you. Whatever happened to a good doc who knew more than one thing?

I’m thinking this kid should be named KNOX – because he seems a bit like the love child of Knute and Ox. :-D

Strap a JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) bottle to each shoe, and you will get a Darwin Award.

Gen Z and younger Millennials, Gen Y (yes we are getting that old) are increasingly going with Converse All-Stars. I have seen young men and women with them on at the gym. I congratulated a young woman on a pair and she was practically blushing. I hope it wasn’t because an old, old dude actually talked to her though. (lol).

Frank: "OK, bucko!! I think I’ve found a new use for the shoe I NOW have!!

(I think the charges were later dropped.) :)

Or, in truth, Technology has Regressed while the Marketing Department has run Amok.

Watch it Frank. I think that he may get a Brain overload. See BC.

I agree with phgladkol701. this all seems silly. Frank should just try on a couple pairs and buy one. you can walk, run crawl in just about anything; barefoot might be even better. I hope G&K are taking a one week vacation (I wouldn’t bet on it); these two could talk about sneakers well into next week.

Okay. This shoe joke has been milked dry already! Please! We get it, really we do….

Oh-Oh wait a sec, ya mean it’s time to think?

Now, just earlier he did mention cross trainers

worst arc ever

General purpose shoes are so last century!

Converse were the shoes of the 1970 and they came out in 1917 they were the first athletic shoes we had.