Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 14, 2022

AWWWWW… All is well that end’s well…. NOPE!! This ending was a bunch of BS!

Good Riddance to this disappointing story line.

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So what’s next? Brad n’ Toni? Bernice breaking up with Nil?

Oh, happy day for Stefani. What’ll Kip say?

This storyline has had more mood whiplashes than a later season episode of M*A*S*H!

Wait until she finds out that he finally decided to dump her.

That lasted about a half-second.

And I think next week should focus on Kip not being thrilled about his love life being so public.

To paraphrase Jack Nicholson as Garrett Breedlove,

— Terms of Endearment

What Stef going to do when she’s away at “dance camp” where there a no privacy huts and no Kip?

And has it occurred to Tiff, Bets, and Dez that this “gift” of the hut to Stef is FOREVER?

That they will NEVER be able to use it ever again because they gave it away?

“Capitulation.”

It’s NEVER “funny.”

Oh, dear Cthulhu, please ay that this is the end of this story, and, perhaps let us never return to these idiots of the Traveling Privacy Hut.

They caved, paving the way for many manipulations in the future.

This is worse than a Funky Winkerbean storyline.

Train wreck, all around

Sorry, but she doesn’t DO quiet.

give me an E give me an N give me an E-N-D (of this story arc) please!

Careful with that cheer, Stef – your Screen Actor’s Guild card might fall out.

I’m just fine with this…they had the right decision but thet changed their mind when Steph turned into a crybaby. I understand her situation, but that doesn’t mean give her the hut in it’s entirety.

Well whaddaya know? From Tiffany’s closing remark, it appears that when this strip got sent in to the syndicators, eight weeks or so ago, the writers were already aware that a “privacy hut” made by hanging blankets in a corner of a room wouldn’t be soundproof.

Stef just took annoying up about three notches.

Tiff, Dez and Bets decided to let Stef use the privacy hut until she leaves for the summer. Stef is happy to have her way after all. It remains to be seen how much longer before university is finished for the summer. Can’t see Tiff, Dez, and Bets choosing to have a Stef as a roommate again.

Who knows? Maybe this is the beginning of a true, sincere and beautiful friendship ♡. But Stef needs to learn how to stay quiet! Only Dez seem totally happy for her really loud happiness.

DONE?

….Gimme a B! Gimme another B! Gimme an E! Gimme a D! What’s that spell?

Robbed. Of dignity and a bunch of other things.

Uh Oh – This doesn’t look like the conclusion. Please not another week of everybody indulging Stef.

Okay, school’s over for the summer. Tear down this den of iniquity and everybody bug out.

Beyond Lame. I was so wanting an Arnold Schwarzenegger “GET OUT”! for Stef but NOOOOOO. Spineless enablers they are.

But of course. A master manipulator.

Hilarity ensues, and it’s so aggravating for too many relentless troops who enjoy trolling for an intellectual living to keep reading the comic, FOR YEARS, only to tiresomely bleat about how disappointing the story line happens to be. Besides aggravating, there is nothing about the story, or what it really goes to other than that relentless need to troll. The strip is dealing with young adults now and I believe is informed by the daughter millennial here, Karen, causing me to become more and more convinced this is generational mostly, trolling by people who have been out of college for 40-60 years. No matter what happens I can depend on too many comments which really are nothing more perceptive than one’s own jaundiced views.

For her and Kipper to “escape” in? I’ve never heard it called that before. Gawd, every time I think of that blanket fort and what it must be like inside….I feel ill.

I can see Parker Posey directing a film based on Luann.

If a pre-school-age child whines and cries, go ahead and give in. But not often, and be ready to get more firm as she grows.

If an adult age person whines and throws a fit like a pre-school-age child, do NOT give in. They are screwed up spoiled enough as it is.

Tiffany has become the most liked character in Luann lately.

So Stef gets to bang her boyfriend day and night all she wants with no regard for her weak-willed roommates, and her roommates get to listen to her bang her boyfriend day and night.

This was probably the worst way to resolve this. If you give in to a screaming toddler, all you’ve taught them is that screaming will get them what they want.

I still say Luann?! Where is she?

It’s over, it’s over, it’s over!

Well, if we could see off-arc how that arrangement is going to work out, then the BREvah are gonna regret ever having agreed and allow themselves to have been swindled.

So Steph throws a hissy fit and they cave in to her no matter what Kip told them about her.

That Stephanie sure has some long arms in panel 2. I think the roommate’s made an excellent decision. Oh, and we got some incite into Stephanie from Kip. Definitely a Southern girl since her parents live so far away and her accent. “Evan” is definitely Deep South.

So the character who has no redeeming qualities whatsoever is just given everything she wants? Because she’s nervous? And nobody else gets any privacy at all? That’s the plot?

I hope we get a future arc where the three Roomie Stooges find out they have been bamboozled into giving Stef exactly what she wanted. And Kip dumps her like a bad habit.

So smarm, petulance, selfishness, manipulation and pettiness are the winners here. Great message (not)

She just doesn’t get it.

I’ll give you something you little…..

Gimme a Boopsie…

Yikes.

So, is the hut in the common area? I assume the suite has two bedrooms, bath and a common area. How big is the common area? Would it have room for a twin bed and room to do naked yoga and still have room for a couch/tv/microwave?

It ain’t over til it’s over…and Greg loves dragging things out FOREVER. lol

Color me disgusted. This one was a Fail.

Moral of the STory: Just when you have come together to take a PRINCIPLED Stand for JUSTICE….ALWAYS CAVE to the perpetrator of injustice engaged in self-destructive acts.

YEs, that is a PERFECT allegory for “modern” society, Perfect.

The dawn of a new era! All in the Quad are now Besties; dare we say BFF’s? What does this portend for the future. Will Dez perform naked yoga in the common area? Where will Bets and Gun get to pursue their intimate moments (and you know they do). And what about poor Tiffany? While Stef is off to her “elite summer dance program” will Kip seek to relieve his libidinal urgings by making a move on Tiff? Inquiring minds want to know!

So tune in in three or four weeks; maybe more!

If Stef is that stressed about her life, she needs better coping skills than fooling around with her boyfriend every spare moment. This is not helping her become a healthy adult.

Looks like we’re back to the random skin tone era! I wonder if *Sheriff Mordecai * is still the colorist.

Whoever this cheerleader person is, she’s the least likeable character ever in this strip and is reason enough to stop reading it. Can we PLEASE move on?

With Stef at dancers camp, maybe Kip will realize how selfish she is and becomes fiends with Tiffany, who will eventually turn him down.

Uh, Stef, your flanks look a bit heavy for a college cheerleader. Perhaps you need a little less lovin’ and a lot more exercisin’. And while you’re in the gym, you might find a new guy that really wants you, too.

I really don’t see Stef as the quiet type in bed (hut, whatever). Seems like the type that would be heard all the way down the dorm hall. And that hut has no soundproofing whatsoever.

Anyway, this whole thing is mega-stupid and would NEVER EVER happen in real college life. EVER.

They have all realized that despite her unsavory ways, she has feelings just like the rest of us. They have accepted her for who she is; and sometimes that is essentially rewarding a drama queen. Groups of “friends because they have to be” need to work these things out.Now maybe we can get off the privacy hut & get to see Nancy shakin’ it. And I mean hard!

Ok, this whole arc was just stupid.

She’s has real long arms.

So, Stef breaks out in cheer mode when the others gave the "privacy hut’ to her and Kip for the duration. The proviso being that they are quiet while indulging in there. But is Steff the quiet type while indulging? Or, is she as boisterous has she is outside the hut, with, or, without Kip?

How about an interesting storyline for Luann? It is her story, after all, and she has the most boring life in the strip. These four girls live on campus which is always fun and exciting, Bernice lives at her friends place, which is more interesting than living at home, and rendezvous’s with Nil. It’s time for LUANN to be front and center with a great story.

maybe it’s time to just read the classic reprints

Sounds like she just blew it!

Has there been even one panel this school year concerning school work? You would think they would be more concerned with finishing papers and finals. Unless Moony is like Walden College and everyone gets As.

Like “Garfield without Garfield” you could have “Luann without Luann” and it would be the strip we’re reading now.

So, they complain they can never have access to hut, then give her the hut? Why did we waste a whole week on this? This makes about as much sense as a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.

Does anyone else want to punch her in the face?

Tiffany has such potential but is stifled by all the boobs in her world. It’s like that old song, “I’m a lonely, little petunia in an onion patch……..”. She had the looks, the body, and the money, but somehow the artist decided to take everything away and cast her out into the cold, cruel world.

Oh happy days are here again for Stef

I would really like to see a storyline about LUANN!

If the next storyline isn’t about Luann, it’ll be time to move on.

Y’all are looking at this as a “cup half-empty” when, perhaps, we should be looking at it as a “cup half-full.” Afterall, the more time spent in the hut with Kip, the less time Stef is in the room with Tif. And, aside from Dez needing some privacy for nude yoga, neither she nor Tif currently have a boyfriend that they would like to have alone in the hut. As for the “noise” emanating from the hut, the hut is in the common room. The other young ladies simply need to go into their own room and shut the door. Noise-cancelling headphones or earbuds would take care of any sound that penetrated the walls. Most kids today have them or their phone permanently embedded in their ears.

I don’t agree, but this makes sense though

I don’t follow.

Gag me.

I’m not following. (Except that I hope Kip has a good stash of vitamin supplements.)

Any one notice that the logo on Stef’s top combine with the cleavage line makes it look like an apple? The “forbidden” fruit. Just thinking…

I am disappointed. I expected some major drama with somebody, anybody

“How did you know I also have a boyfriend named Ape?”

This will be great if Stef goes into the tent & never comes out again.

Panel 2 contains irrefutable proof that Stephanie’s father is Reed Richards.

Ugh! This can’t be the end? She’s still a spoiled brat and won’t be quiet. Nothing changed. I’m hoping Tiffany comes up with a better plan if this arc continues.

You’re rewarding her tantrum.

I got nothing.

“It’s all good, Stef! However, please be aware that as of the end of the term, we will light it on fire and then kick it down the banks of the river until it floats away like a funeral pyre on the Ganges. You and Loverboy are advised to find a new shack at that point.”

Can this be over now pleasepleaseplease?

I fear this isn’t the end.

I keep waiting for a story arc I can care about.

Oh, no! Steffi’s doing her stripper…err…cheerleader routine. We don’t need that!

Heck, we don’t need Steffi!

You other three have brought this upon yourselves, and upon us. Shame!

Sigh. Where’s those damn earplugs when you need them?

makes me wonder why she isn’t pregnant already

So the moral of this is arc is “we emotionally blackmail our roomies, we get what we want?” The roomies we’re not asking a lot of her, just to have their fare share of time in the privacy hut. I guess the one who cry the loudest wins!!!

Is Tiff trying to imply that Stef is a Screamer?