Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 20, 2022

I think Nil is expressing his frustrations about Bernice quite well, right now.

Instead of a make out session, are we going to witness a breakup?

letting in a stranger… yeah, let’s go with that

If the neighbor is Gladys Kravitz, maybe. . . .

Gotta hand it to Nil: he knows how to think on his feet.

Poor little Puddles is thinking Uh-oh, what IS that?…..

For all of Bernice’s lauding her intelligence over everyone every chance she gets, Nil appears to be the smarter of the two.

And the train wreck continues to develop.

The boy’s got game!

Sounds like Nil understands how Bernice thinks.

time for a thrill with Nil, if Bern can chill!

Are these opening moves to the big dance. Bernice is lookin’ good this week!

Will.he fix the cable?

Could it be he’s used this entry technique before?

Gee I wonder if the Degroots will find him.

Bernice: …. “Bowchikkabowow!” :D

Greg and his innuendos – Nil is bringing his “package” over for Bernice.

I think the neighbors would freak just seeing Nil on the street, package or no package. He’s a bit weird looking.

The neighbors are just glad Bernice is distracted and therefore not listening with a glass against their front doors.

Bernie likes kinky.

Yes, Bern’s eyes light up at the idea of kinky. She’s super freaky.

Puddles is wondering who’s that?

Did Bernice dress-up? Or she wearing airbuds?

What? We have to wait yet another day before anything happens? Prepare for an anticlimax.

Where’s Tara? Isn’t the front room sofa where Tara sleeps?

Abbott and Costello – “Who’s On Top?”

Isn’t Monstro a rival ?

Nil is a Community College Art Student?

You seem more than just a little hopeful there Bernice at the thought of Nil being in to kinky roll playing.

Bern likes kinky as someone said above, and Nil is smart and aware of the potential embarrassing issues. But a breakup is not what is going on. People project so much with Been they totally miss the story.

Oh, he knows her well!

But if the neighbors don’t see an Amazon delivery truck, they might still call the police.

This is serious now, Bernie is even wearing earrings!!!

She has dressed up sexy for him as well.

Nil’s got through the first Bernice navigational hazards. This shows promise.

Bernice is following in her parent’s footsteps.

So far in this strip tease, Bernice has taken off one sock.

Wait until the Dekooks get home. She’ll hide him under the bed, or make him leave thru the window.

SNL skit if he carried it a bit lower.

Nil knows Bernice even better than Bernice herself. Maybe he’s a little ironic about her fears, but I don’t think what he’s doing is an exaggeration and he does it for her ♡. Bernice will feel safe with him♡.

Nil has done this before haha

Break up break up break up break up break up break up break up break up break up……

Get ready for disappointment. In multiple ways.

You’re learning, Nil…

it’s a box full of whipped cream & handcuffs.

really should have left the whipped cream in the container.

live & learn.

He know’s Bernice so well! ;)

I don’t know …. something tells me that this ain’t gonna end well.

Time for Bernice to enter the transfer portal with her N. I. L.

Bernice likes a man who is strange and mysterious.

1, cut a hole in a box 2, put your junk in that box 3, make her open the box And that’s the way you do it

Puddles looks befuddled.

Oh ! Sweet , " UTE ! "

Bernice is going to run and change into her school girl uniform.

Snerk.

The Postman always rings twice.

Game point to Nil for the useage of ludicrosity in the battle against ludicrosity.

Poor Nil…but honestly how do we 2+ weeks of Bernice and her nerves and only 1+ week of an actual Luann storyline?

The whole thing is just a tease. Remember Luann and Quill in the pitch black room making all sorts of noises before turning on the lights and cutting it off. Bern is way too uptight to lose her maidenhood before marriage. Still, it would be something to talk about for quite a while if it did happen.

Bernice will wake up from her dream by Saturday’s strip.

“But he can keep his hat on..”

So all she does is put on earrings? Oh well, just don’t let the dog out.

and its a big and heavy one.

Someone’s going to get lucky today

I know this is the least likely scenario, but I hope the Evans’ end this arc by at least hinting that Nil and Bern got it on.

“Kinky role play?” Well – this is going to get interesting. How come this never happens to Luann?

I bet Bernice would like to see his package. I hope they don’t show her unwrapping his package.

There is something different about Bernice’s face in the 3rd panel, made me think of what she might look like as a middle-aged woman.

The word for today is ”Banana”… ( ͡  ͜ʖ ͡ )

You notice, of course, that she’s SMILING when she asks about “kinky role-play”??

Did anyone else notice little Puddle’s face?

He knows her so well already!

D*ck in a box?

Nil, don’t be a dope.

I wonder where Nil got the package. I hope he is not a porch pirate.

question is who will walk in on them

Nil knows Bernice better than she knows herself. ;-)

Nil’s will get a better view of things if he removes the hair from his eye!

Anyone want to bet that Bernice will get pregnant before Toni?

Actually I think it’s time for Bernice to get her freak on.

So, lucky Bernice! Apparently Nils has a heavy package!

Nil is the Fed Ex guy.

Nil the Plumber is here to clean Bernice’s pipework.

“What’s that you say? You can’t pay for this package?”

BERNICE IS INTO KINKY ROLEPLAY! It’s finally happening! The oul’ shrew’s going to get her cobwebs knocked loose!

Nil is sick of Bernice being embarrassed of their relationship.

Respect for her minor idiosyncrasies.

Once again he gets points for thoughtfulness.

I think the real question is, do you want it to be some kinky role play?

Give a box, get a box?

If it was’nt on her mind she would not of said it, but what is kinky for Bernice?

But what will the neighbors say when he doesn’t leave? Will they call the police?

maybe Puddles will freak; looks like he’s doing so already.

As fun as this looks, Luann or her parents or her brother will walk in on them before anything even remotely happens

“Kinky role play”? She IS a shameless hussy, after all.

Now that they have all the privacy they wanted, now what? Ah yes, it’s time for that timely interruption. But who shall be behind door #1 to be that interruption?

She’s already talking role play and they haven’t even made it to second base?

Who will catch Nil and Bernice? Maybe Shannon?

The way Bern is talking, it seems that they’ve already known one another in the biblical sense.

If it was kinky role-play, Bernice would freak out over the fact that she’s “into kinky role-play ohmygawd!”

Maybe the guy who commented about romance with today’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ was on to something.

Mildly creative, Nil, but not a prize-winner.

Nonetheless, now that you are in the DeGroot house, I guess you and Bernie can get down and dirty. That is the real objective, is it not?

The irony of course: Bern got all judgmental when she believed Luann had a boy in her room overnight, but is quite fine to sneak in Nil. Not even her own home.

I hate to say it this strip is getting boring and weird