Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 09, 2020

Luann actually doing domestic chores? That is news-worthy!

“The rest of my room is still a pig sty, but I made my bed.”

Yeah, that’s breaking news alright. Luann made her bed and perhaps cleaned her room. But i see this is the usual sunday running gag: Luann and her “national geographic special” that is her bedroom. haha

It’s like Bernice moving in never happened.

Hahah. wait until Luann see her name in the Community Together8

LOL! That’s a home run, Greg!

It’s a once-in-a-century occurrence — sort of like the return of Halley’s Comet!

I love how Frank and Nancy react to Luann’s laziness as if it isn’t completely their fault for raising her that way.

Luann made up her bed! Wonder of Wonders!

Either Bernice living with DeGroots is quickly paying “dividends” or Luann has a gentleman caller coming to visit.

And what’s with the “pastel coloring?” ;)

Nancy calling the TV station to say that Luann is cleaning her room that is breaking news.

Arthur: Do you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take a bath.

Hobson: I’ll alert the media.

But will Luann do the laundry ?

In the last panel, is Frank more startled by Luann’s news or is he more startled by the fact Nancy took her hand off his leg? If this is how his life is affected by Luann’s made bed, then he might prefer a messy Luann.

Targeted news gathering links those interested in this fantastic news WITH this fantastic news! Everybody is happier thereby!!!!!!

…unless they only want bad news or depressing news. In that case, the feedback loop convinces them nothing good ever happens. And depending on their personal preference, they each get more and more bothered about completely different things.

Quick! Checque the weather report. Hades must’ve frozen over.

Not funny.

Holy moly! It’s a miracle, kids! the local TV news has got to lead with this breaking story: if it makes its bed, it leads!

Luann looks like a little girl in frame 2.

Sunday’s may never acknowledge that Bernice is living there.

Hopefully, Puddles is not in the pile Luann is carrying.

Better to send some photos too. Otherwise no one will believe it.

Luann, cleaning? Call the media.

Did luann pick up a copy of Jordan Peterson?

Summary of the week: Bernice took a pee and made toast. Luann made her bed. And, like the old TV program, “That Was the Week That Was.”

Classic! And Luann’s doing some laundry. Definitely breaking news but probably not On Air worthy.

Personally I like how Frank and Nancy are sitting there so comfortably, and almost erotically together. I know the gag has to do with Luann actually making her bed without being urged to, but to me the obvious love and attraction that the babe Nancy has to her man/husband Frank, and his luck in having her is the story. Brad is lucky like that too, and I hope Gunther and Bets stay together, she is very affectionate. Now how about Luann or Bernice?

A teenager or young adult making her bed being deemed ‘newsworthy’ by her parents is a really lame old joke. Talk about low hanging fruit in the humor department.

My gosh, Berns proximity begins a cleaning competition!

The real point is that if she made her bed she is apparently taking stuff to be washed. Why would she make her bed and carry things away? When I make my bed i leave the blankets etc on it.

“I’ll alert the media”

Signs of the Apocalypse are always a little unsettling.

Some kids think they deserve a gold star for doing basic chores. Did Luann actually take off the used sheets and put clean ones on? Or did she just pull the covers up to the top of the bed? When I make the bed I just pull the sheets and bedspread up to cover the pillows. Changing and washing bedding is a lot more work.

Now wait: Luann and Bernice have been lolling around on or beside that bed for years, and when they do, it’s always been made. So how is it big news that Luann has made the bed this time? Or maybe I’m misremembering past strips. . .

Ha ha! That is great!

So, Greg: Pru, who was likely an unwanted crack baby, bounced around from one foster home to another, lives the lesbian lifestyle, and somehow magically became the model citizen whom we should all admire and emulate. How did that happen? Frank and Nancy have poured their life into raising Luann in a stable, two-parent home with good morals, and every Sunday we see that they have failed. So if we want our kids to be like Pru, should we dump them off on the foster care system? Or should we realize that Pru is a fantasy, while Luann is real? Would it cost you your gig if you portrayed a lesbian with the real problems that real lesbians and homosexuals actually struggle with?

I liked Pru. She had a bad hair style and no eyebrows, but I don’t remember her hurting anyone. And, I don’t remember any crack baby background.

“Luann” recycling gags from the 80s, 90s, etc on Sunday, forever.

Displaying disdain for someone because of a physical disability, a religious background, an ethnic heritage or a sexual orientation is a character failing. Believing that you can ‘help yourself’ to someone else’s money or possessions is a character failing. All of these are actions that hurt someone else.

In comparison, living in a messy room or not making a bed everyday, which doesn’t really hurt anyone other than the person trying to find something in that room, doesn’t seem as much of a flaw. Except, of course, when the character with that so-called ‘flaw’ is Luann.

I am certain that if Luann discovered cures for cancer and COVID-19, the Luannhaters here would find fault with that.

Teenagers are pigs! Yuk yuk YUK!!!

Good reporters confirm what their sources tell them before going public. Best to take a trip to the bedroom before sending that text.

People are disgusted by Luann, but not by the person who writes this cr*p. Ho hum.

@Caldonia: I have been reading ‘Zits’ much longer than I’ve been reading ‘Luann’. The main character in ‘Zits’ is a teen (male), Jeremy, living with his parents, and his room is constantly a mess. Complete with plates of food shoved under the bed, piles of dirty clothes, etc.

His parents are constantly trying to get him to clean his room (or alternately his mother, Connie, gets unhappy enough to clean it herself). His parents also try to get him to (a) do laundry (he ends up destroying the machine by stuffing too much into it), and (b) empty the garbage as his other ‘chore’.

I have yet to see the posters on ‘Zits’ display the degree of ‘disgust, disdain or whatever’ toward Jeremy that is displayed routinely toward Luann. In fact, lots of posters get annoyed at Connie for ‘nagging’ Jeremy. I also never see anyone yarp about how ‘boring’ Jeremy is.

Conclusions? Either a massive double standard is at work, or lots of hate for Luann.

She had to.

The Old sheet finally collapsed into 2 balls of Lint and 3 dust bunnies.

Looking at this comic again this evening I think Luann isn’t just referring to making her bed, i.e. tidying the sheets and blankets but changing the linen which she is now taking to the washing machine. In a house with three other people that actually might be worth mentioning to explain that the washer is going to be in use for a while.

tomorrow: Bernice mops the floor! Bad Puddles!!

I’m getting a little sick of Nancy and her sarcasm, at Luann’s expense. Nancy doesn’t know when she has it good.

I REALLY wish there could be a “down” button. I am sick of the negative things said about Luann.