Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 11, 2021

Yeah, reading campus maps can be quite confusing.

Yikes reality check?

I can only hope that the rest of the week will continue to be about Luann. Has she graduated from Community College and is starting her Junior year at Mooney?

Too true. ✨

Seems more like a Sunday comic.

Feels like a Sunday.

Nice map, though.

Nice! About time we get some Luann in college arcs… Is she now at M U??

Did she reset back to her first day of college or something? Or did she finally transfer over to Moony?

Glad to see we moved Luann into a College arc.

But I thought this was a so-called community college, what we used to call junior colleges.

I remember my junior college. On the wrong side of the tracks in Skokie.

My high school was more impressive.

Just get a skateboard, bicycle or scooter.

Ah, the forbidden yellow zone. Otherwise known as the Mathematics wing.

Luann is late for class?

The destination looks like the theater?

At least she’s attending a real class and not virtual.

Today must be a holiday filler.

I hope she has a space ship with warp drive. :-)

Finally! Back to Luann, maybe? After all, the comic is named after her.

Well it looks like we’ll finally take up what is happening to Luann (and perhaps Bernice) with respect to schooling. The utter confusion she is showing seems to hint that she is starting at Mooney U. She has already completed two years at Pits C.C. and should be at the point to pick a major and move to Uni or seek employment. Given the topic of the previous week, we may see the living arrangements addressed. Remember, Bernice received a “full ride” scholarship to Mooney so they may live and attend together.

And who will transfer with them? Nil? Jack? Or will they seek other avenues. Let the good times roll!

I like that they’ve taken a second to discuss her transition. It feels less like a sitcom where everyone conveniently stays with the same group as high-school.

Yep. Our Luann has trouble reading a campus map. Well, it is a good practice before she goes on a long road trip or to a museum.

This reminds me of my former job, where someone put up a map of the world in the public area, and we lowly workers wrote funny (or snarky) comments on it.

What made it funny (to me) is that in elementary school, I had a teacher who considered proper map-reading akin to knowing the Bible—and seeing those comments reminded me of her.

Well…. depends on the college.

You’ve got this Luann!

Wonder how many classes she has in the Greg building.

Is the Ptivacy Hut in the yellow building?

Malls used to have maps like that too. Remember malls? Those were the day.

So true. And at Foothill College in the Los Altos foothills in California you have to add in the vertical factor.

https://www.swagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/c7ff50ce_foothillcollege001_1100x1100.jpg

Greg could have pulled a Bill Keane and put a map of dotted lines showing where Luann went during her day.

Makes no difference, she’s going to get lost, and show up late for her class!!

As for me, I knew that the college I attended was bigger than my high school. i was just glad to get out of the hellhole that was my high school.

I was hoping for a Luann story but after being reminded that this is a national holiday and/or day of mourning for indigenous Americans, this is probably a throwaway strip like most Sundays. I don;t know why but so it seems. Which means that tomorrow it’s probably back to the Horniest Little Wh*rehouse Not in Texas.

That looks suspiciously like a map of my alma mater! And of an exact same situation I had for one particular class, which was held out in the Outer Reaches of the Solar System, and we had 15 minutes to get there from the class just letting out in the furthest possible opposite corner of campus. It was fun trekking across the wind- and snow-swept waste in wintertime—with ice forming on your face, like in Doctor Zhivago—arrrrrgh! Flashback!!

I don’t know about anyone else, but I felt more comfortable visiting the campus and finding where my classes were before the first day.

Who is this character? Is she new? Kind of looks familiar.

So implausible it’s not funny

This looks like the beginning of the huge and important arc on Luann’s school life that I’ve been waiting for so long! The one where Luann ends up having a clear idea of her future and will choose her major. This will most likely involve Jack, Tara, Nil and Prof. Zebo. Can’t wait ♡!!! GO LUANN!!!!!

Ah, just graduated to a bigger pond!

Wait until you see a University with an Urban Campus with buildings dispersed across several city blocks.

I thought this was the Sunday comic and I was wondering what was taking go comics so long

There are community college campuses that can be pretty large, with several buildings spread out but this map seems more likely a 4 year campus. So she has transferred to a 4 year? I think it’s just as likely it’s her community college and getting around in time for classes is a challenge. But you know there is always more.

This makes no sense. She’s been in college for a couple of years now. This would’ve been appropriate if she was a new incoming college freshman… But right now it seems like she should be her 3rd year. Of course, everything moves at a much slower speed in the Luannverse, so we’re never quite sure..

It can be really hard to go from being the popular “Big Man/Woman On Campus” in high school to being “Mr./Ms. Twerpy Nobody” in college.

Hey – high schools are becoming like that now…

And don’t forget the Free Speech Zone, which means you can get beat up for free if your speech is… different… from what you’re taught.

I thought Luann spent all of her time ar home

OREO? 10 × 11? Do these have secret meanings?

The college I went to had 3 campuses and the maps for 2 of them looked more like circuit boards than anything else. I lived at home and had to commute to school. I tended to get there early, park where I would be at the end of the day, and take the inter campus bus to travel where I needed to go. At one point a whole bus load of us spontaneously burst into song – ‘Another One Rides the Bus’ by Weird Al.

She’s still at Pitts Community College, tho it does seem larger than one might expect.

“I’m a germ on God’s face.” ~ Sylvia Plath

I predict in the not so distant future the downsizing or elimination of many US campuses and universities as online learning continues to grow. In fact, I’ve already seen it happening here in Ohio. When I see the obscene amounts of money spent on university facilities, paired with student loan payments spread out over a lifetime, I’m not surprised that HS graduates are saying “No thanks” to such a bad deal.

Unless you’re in a major fraternity, you rule nothing.

Is that the map of Muni JC, or, Muni U? Seems awfully big for a JC, but then I’ve heard that California JC’s are really big.

Doesn’t matter which college, what does matter is Luann needs to go from A to B and there a fair amount of distance between them. At least it’s not on the other side of town or something. Something to remember is not all community colleges are small 1-3 buildings. Many have several campus’s and some of their campus can support several thousand students at one. Also, we haven’t heard of her starting at Moony so patience… Also hopefully this will bring back Jack, Nil, and probably also Tara. Game on!

She thinks that’s bad? Just wait until she graduates college.

How about “Aperson”?

My college was so big it had two subway stations and 8 public bus lines; just in the main branch, it also had 5 different sub colleges among 3 other cities. Worse part is that you had to go to the other sub colleges for paper work or tutors or to the main library.

What the map leaves out: it’s uphill. Seriously, if you replace the map with the UC-Berkeley map, getting to the upper right corner requires some reasonably serious climbing.

And that’s just a community college. I’d be heading for the Oreo building for a snack.

In the first frame – Luann doesn’t look so cartoony as usual. She looks pretty good. Time for Luann to grow up.

I wish they had Segways back in my day

Luann rises from the debris of the previous arc to reclaim her rightful spot as number 1 in this strip bearing her own name.

At first, I thought Luann was looking at a circuit board. Didn’t we already see this map a few years ago when Lu began community college?

love the double-headed arrow on the N

Starting at the bottom. Always an adventure.

I remember those days.

That “college” campus would be the size of maybe a small junior college. I get that space in the strip is limited, etc. and the point he was going for: a college campus can be overwhelming at first when you think back 9th grade when the high school campus seemed huge and complicated.

That community college looks to be the size of the University of Michigan.

WOW! Buffalo State College was HALF that size! D8

When did Luann rule in high school? I don’t remember that ever happening.

I sometimes have stress dreams of being back in college and not knowing where my class is or having to rush across the campus to get to class in time.

That ain’t no “Logic Tree,” fershure !

Hint: Go straight to the yellow rectangle.

Or a holiday maybe. At any rate I totally get it had blisters on the bottom of my feet the size of quarters from all the walking in the first couple of weeks.

Wow, her campus is actually compact. Mine was one long narrow strip. And at least three times a week, I had ten minutes to get from one end of the strip to the other end.

Once a big frog in a small pond.. Now a small frog in a much bigger pond.

Ain’t it the truth.

I didn’t think MU was that big.

Try going to Texas Tech University…HUGE campus. I was SOOO glad that when I started law school we got premium parking at the law school…no more hikes to get to class!

the 180° compass indicator is a clever touch, or maybe I mean nightmarish. Anyhow, scale is everything, and college can be pretty overwhelming, at first, but bless me, hasn’t Luann been in college for a semester or two, now?

For those who wanted Luann to star in her own comic, here she is!;-))That’s a fairly big campus for a small community college, unless she’s graduated and gone on to MU. If so, will she get involved with the drama in the quads!

For the original depiction of the Pitts CC map :

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2014/09/04

LSU the flagship university in La. Has 14 community colleges under the LSU name.

Boy, does that remind me of my July, 1970 orientation at Enormous State University!

Did I see the word Oreo on that map?

Maybe it’s Moony. Why would she be looking at a map for a college she’s been at for 2 years? I hope so. And bring Jack and Nil along.

Did Luann finally start at Moony? I would think after 7y, she’d know her way around the CC by now. Pffft!

Looks like a filler strip.

In truth, I think maybe the situation is just the reverse. Even though the high school was much smaller, I had a greater fear of getting lost (or anyway not finding my classroom) there than on the much larger college campus, where everything was signposted. There, the fear was of not getting to the next class on time if it were on the far side of campus from the preceding one….

“Are You Here?”

“Do The Hustle”

“Buzzed Light Years”

“Send That Girl To Campus”

“The Pursuit Of Map-piness”

“Directory Assistance”

“Size Matters”

“Exception To The I RULE!”

High school, where she is a big fish in a little pond. University, where she is a little fish in a big lake.

高中绝对比大学容易

She’ll need GPS.