Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 11, 2022

Puddles didn’t deserve it, Bernice…. You did! LOL

Sympatico. ✨

I liked yesterday’s strip because it was sympathetic towards Luann. I don’t like today’s strip because it so unsympathetic towards Luann. Bernice can just STFU.

Thru the wall talk finds no solace from Bernice. I’m start to really feel sorry for our eponymous leading lady. Girl can’t get NO break!

Oh, shut up already, Bernice.

I don’t want to wait another week to find Puddles.

I’m surprised Gunther hasn’t seen Puddles’s photo on Bets’s fan page.

So Bernice feels Puddles at times…

Confirming, she shouldn’t have pets. Or friends.

Who needs ice cubes when you can have Bernice hold your drink for you for a couple of minutes.

Puddles will be missing for 3 weeks tomorrow.

Luann being an Ernie keeping a Bert-like Bernice awake when she just wants to sleep.

Reading between the lines – they’re about a foot apart.

Not much joy in Luann’s world lately. Someone needs to get laid.

sad

Luann wallows in self pity; how self absorbed…but who has ever expected anything more from her?

God forbid Luann or Bernice ever get lucky – with those paper thin walls…

With friends like Bernice, Luann doesn’t need enemies.

Enough!!!! Time for a break from Luann. When your de-stress mechanism is stressful, time for a vacay from it. Only a minor help to know Steph has him – she has NO sense.

Wow, breakthrough time. Bernice is a true BFF, contrary to some interpretations of this arc and developing story. Luann musing an honest inventory, Bernice understands it but does not want to broach it because it’s true and painful, doe both. But she will. I think I discern where this is going

Luann is going to get a crick in her neck with that pillow.

Be a better friend Bernice

Well. I don’t know who will win “Biggest B of the Week” yet but Bernice is always a good bet, Steffo is getting pretty nasty, and Frank was a flake.

Reminds me of when Luann and Brad used to converse through that common wall.

“…and you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.

They paved Paradise to put up a parking lot!!"

I’m not really convinced Bern has a great future as a counsellor… :D

Seriously?

Luann taking Puddles for granted??

NONSENSE.

NOBODY loves Puddles more than Luann does.

In fact, the only other person that loves their pet in this Strip as much as Luann does is Les with his cat.

For a minute there, I thought Luann was talking about Gunther in panel two.

But all kidding aside.

Bernice now officially knows that Pud is missing.

All that’s needed now is a contrived set of circumstances to get her to visit Tiffany’s quad and make the “discovery.”

Too bad Bern is no longer an “R.A.”

Or is she suddenly about to be reinstated?? ;-)

Yep, that’s the response I expect from Bernice – the toxic dump.

Bernice is the “hey hey what about ME” middle child..

Kind of ironic that the character with “Be nice” in her name just isn’t.

And now we know what Bernice’s opinion is about Puddles being missing. She thinks she’s in the same situation as him with Luann… I almost hope this could be a premonition about the breakup of the friendship between Luann and Bernice. Even in such a situation Bernice’s only thought seems to be how hard it’s to be friends with Luann!!! Let’s hope tomorrow she will try to console her BFF. After all, she’s still awake for talk with her.

Bernice, just can’t COUNSEL for a change, just once, instead of SNARK.

Dez will finally remember.

Get this over with!

Bernice…the “cold fish”.

And again, Bernice, proves why I dislike her.

Question: Does Bernice deserve kudos for putting up with Luanne’s foolishness, or condemnation for her perpetual snarkiness?

Somehow, I don’t see this arc ending by tomorrow. Somebody has to finally realize who he belongs to, argue those two turds into giving him back, then actually getting back home. Unless this is one of those very rare arcs that rolls over into a Sunday strip.

Luann really does think she’s a horrible mother. She says it word-for-word. Probably thinking that Puddles deserves a way better mother than her.

So, now, Bernice is the Puddles stand in. Perfect.

Shoot me now, shoot me now.

I mean, Is Luann really Clair from Clueless? It just seems like she never learns anything.

You mean like yesterday at the dog park where you ignored him?

Time to wonder if Bernice is considering the way Luann treats her, or is considering her own treatment of Luann. I really think it’s time for an honest reckoning of feelings and a mutual, mature parting of ways.

After they get caught with the dog in the dorm Tiffany realizes how comforting a little dog is and decides to move back to the mansion with Puddles.

Don’t criticize me while I’m wallowing in guilt and self-pity! :-o

Geez, Bernice can’t win, even when she’s agreeing with Luann, according to some posters…..

Luann is blaming herself when no blame is due her. She has forgotten about the time when she lovingly cooked Puddles heart shaped dog treats. How many times has Bernice done that for anyone? How many times have the heartless commenters done that for their dogs? https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2022/02/14 Why do so many people hate Luann?

Is this going to get resolved tomorrow, dragged out another week???? Gaaawd. Getting old.

Perhaps on Saturday someone will enter the dorm and say “What is Puddles doing here?”. But we won’t see who the mystery person is.

I cook down and then mash up chicken, hamburger, yams, potatoes, peas, carrots and celery with rice and pasta in a crock pot to mix with kibble for my dogs. I store it in week size containers in the freezer. My son thinks I’m nuts but it costs a lot less than buying those grain free dog foods that advertise having vegetables, and I feel good giving it to them.

One more week before Puddles is home, I hope.

Of course Bernice has to make it all about her!

Like she’s never done any of those things to Luann, Ben, Gunther, etc.

Not Miss Know It All Perfection!!!

GAG!!!!!!!!

Bernice is going to find Puddles. It may be tomorrow. Or it may not be tomorrow!

Can you imagine being married to that sourpuss?

So Berniece is equating herself to Puddles?! Give me a break!

Don’t you hate it when you’re looking for sympathy and you get a lecture instead??

Regardless of Berniece’s attitude, I truly hope this is a turning point for Luann. She loves Puddles but takes him for granted. Perhaps this may make her cherish him more when and if they are reunited.

Nobody’s mentioned today’s art,which is terrific.

Look,Luann is AVERAGE.So are Mike Doonesbury and Charlie Brown.Things REVOLVE around them,but that doesn’t make them the most talented,the most aggravating,or the weirdest looking.

You know, if Bernice didn’t want Luann talking to her about Puddles she could’ve just not answered when Luann asked if she was awake. So she shouldn’t act like she’s being burdened. I wonder how she’ll act when a client calls in the middle of the night because the voices are telling him to do something awful.

Puddles didn’t like the way Luann tricked him out of the room with a promise of food to get him away from her sandwich that she put on the floor. In my house if it’s on the floor it’s dog food, and Bernice was right when she told Luann it was a mean thing to do to Puddles. Then he wiggles through a fence to get garbage. Does she not feed her dog? Does he have worms?

Use this lesson to not lose anymore friends, Luann.

How is it possible to burden a dog with your personal problems?

Bernice Halper, Where is Nil?

Didn’t Nancy Degroot say “stop worrying”, Puddles isn’t coming back?

So if a kid runs out in front of a car chasing a ball, and gets hurt, the time is NOW to tell the parents "That’s what you get when you don’t teach your kid to watch out for cars’? If your answer is yes and you did that to me you might find yourself looking up from the ground.

TIMING AND CONTEXT ARE EVERYTING IN ALMOST EVERY SITUATION. Compassion is a thing.

The typical reply from Bernice the snob.

I don’t think Bernice was snarking Luann at all. Just agreeing. It was Luann who all of a sudden didn’t want to hear someone agree with the very true things she was saying about herself.

I actually agree with Angel of the South. Luann has displayed a fair amount of self absorption over the past couple days. For example, when Jack remarked (in the dog park) that he had not seen Puddles, Luann’s first thought had to do with the appearance of her response not where Puddles might actually have gone or what actions to take. Now with reality setting in it’s ‘Oh woe is me I’ve been a bad pet owner…." It’s just constantly about her.

Guilt-trip much, Luann? Though rare, this is one of the times I agree with Bernie, I fear there can be no hope for Lu, who is terminally air-headed….

“Uh, I mean I can only imagine.”

OK you are all right. Luann is hopeless, she deserves no friends. She deseerves all the sh*t that can be piled on her because of it. she is all the bad things you can all express. No one else is ever wrong whenever they denigrate her.

Did I leave anything out? Oh yeah, she also deserves to never have a dog again. She is so useless. Such a wasted concept.

HEAVY SARCASM NOTE with a asmall but definite hint of distaste…