Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 17, 2022

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    lvlax  over 2 years ago
    It’s not a Hickey from Kenickie…. It’s a Blood-Spill-Thrill from Nil. lol

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    I’m starting to wonder if she really will break up with Nil. Her hormones are obviously out of control and it’s not like she has another guy waiting in the wings.

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    So who thinks she’ll really dump Nil and who thinks they’ll stay a couple?

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 2 years ago

    how else?

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    AnyFace  over 2 years ago

    Physicality was never the issue. ✨

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    linus82  over 2 years ago

    Bernice can apply Amber Heard’s, cover it with makeup

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    sallymargret  over 2 years ago

    Why does she want to break up with him?

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    J. Scarbrough  over 2 years ago

    Okay, well that was a legit unexpected reveal . . . Nil must be a lot more aggressive than he seems if Bernice still has a hickey after two weeks (unless this happened more recently while we were in the middle of that snoozer Privacy Hut arc).

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    Tyge  over 2 years ago

    Ooooo… Trying to break up face to face is hotter even than PDAs apparently. 8^ )

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    alasko  over 2 years ago

    Break up because Nil sucks?

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    beb01  over 2 years ago

    A hickey or a strangulation mark? Maybe Nil doesn’t take break-up kindly.

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    Joe1962  over 2 years ago

    Bernice if you going to show off your hickey you don’t want to end things. You go Nil !!

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    Tyge  over 2 years ago

    Now she’s just bragging!

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    Uncle Kenny  over 2 years ago

    FWIW, my first girlfriend when I was in high school dumped me because she was having sinful thoughts while we were making out. Broke my young heart.

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    Brdshtt Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I love rhyming games!

    Sooooo, Bernice – did you give him a hickey on his

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Ooo.

    It appears that Nil is in CONTROL, of this “relationship.”

    A “guy in control” is a “bad sign” in THIS Strip.

    Hence Bernice’s desire to “break-up.”

    Either that, or Nil’s a vampire. ;-)

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    Pointspread  over 2 years ago

    Now Luann will get jealous.

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    ronaldspence  over 2 years ago

    Just tell him it sucks to be with him!

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    Rhetorical_Question   over 2 years ago

    I blame this situation on Bernice’s Mother?

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    STEPUP  over 2 years ago

    A monkey bite, big deal!!!

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    luann1212  over 2 years ago

    Hmmm okay it’s about breaking up with Nil and there is the neck hickey? Notice that different of generations call it a hickey, others a monkey bite, and I’m as sure others. Never got or gave one and glad I didn’t. How does this complicate a breakup? Should it? No Nil and Bern are made for each other, but we shall see

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    gnmnrbl  over 2 years ago

    BREAKING NEWS: a woman in college got a hickey from her lover. So the boy gave you a hickey. whoopdee doo, not like you gave him your virginity and he knocked you up.

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    beb01  over 2 years ago

    Has anyone else been able to log into ArcaMax comments? They seem to still be using Disqus but I’m logged out and can’t log in. I went to another site that uses Disqus was still logged in there. Is ArcaMax having second thoughts about returning to Disqus?

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    GirlGeek Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I can’t believe we have to deal with this stupid girl for the next two weeks. She can’t admit to herself that she might actually want to try and have a relationship, but she can use a PowerPoint for a breakup? This is why Nil deserves better, if you are not willing to give him a proper chance then you definitely shouldn’t be constantly making out with him. You are so selfish!!

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    capricorn9th  over 2 years ago

    Still attracted to him. She wants to break up with him to get her control back. She doesn’t like that she loses it when she is around Nil. That is her reason for wanting to break up.

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    luann1212  over 2 years ago

    Trying to leave a reply to Ivlax but keep getting neverbound whom I flagged so this is my comment generally: I don’t think they will, or given how Bern gets the shaft often (although she often is clueless that she has been) if anyone does the deed it will be Nil. I hope not because with her fragile ego (as drawn) but how that ego will be crushed if he does. It won’t be pretty. Luann I think you will be needed

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    kenhense  over 2 years ago

    Yes – Life gets complicated when somebody else impacts on your train of thought.

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    Caldonia  over 2 years ago

    Put a “privacy hut” in Brad’s room so she’ll worry about getting caught with Nil all the time. That’ll get her going. (??)

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    Caldonia  over 2 years ago

    Looks like mascara, really.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Luann, your best friend is a fool who wants to break up with a great guy, who really loves her and cares about her, because she doesn’t like to lose control over herself. She’s unable to speak with him normally because her heart wants to be with him but she doesn’t want to use her heart, only her brain. This is so different from Luann, that broke up with a guy she liked because he was changed, he started putting his career first taking her for granted and leaving him was the only right thing to do. I hope this situation will finally cause Luann to open her eyes, begin to dislike Bernice and go away from her. Leaving her to rejoice in her world of rational loneliness.

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    Brdshtt Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Bernice’s Biology professor was wondering whey she wanted to borrow several of the leeches for the weekend.

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    Chopped Fowl  over 2 years ago

    LOL …. so …. what do you think, Puddles?

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    jmworacle  over 2 years ago

    Thinking with the wrong part of the anatomy eh?

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    Susan00100  over 2 years ago

    What IS that—a hickey??

    Or did Nil cut her?

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    c001  over 2 years ago

    Darn… what’s “Knutschfleck” in English, again?

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    OneTime59  over 2 years ago

    Physical passion is too pleasurable now to simply walk away from. Reading over the past two weeks, we see why Kip can’t leave Steffi.

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    atomicdog  over 2 years ago

    (Peppermint Patty voice) “Nil, you sly dog, you!”

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    akachman Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Domestic violence starts in elementary schools for some girls. Just ask some of us. Gets worse in high school. College:even worse.

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    mindjob  over 2 years ago

    Nil will leave her a going away present. That runs on batteries

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    joegeethree  over 2 years ago

    Nil is a vampire?

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    Purple People Eater  over 2 years ago

    Nil’s a vampire and he bit her on the neck.

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    Lord Hearteater  over 2 years ago

    Nil is no alpha. It’s merely Bernice’s female hardwiring working in her subconscious, steering towards a breakup. She still wants Jack. Meanwhile, Nil keeps getting a little bit more. She is indeed getting what she wants, but not from the guy she wants it from. This has become a kind of classic Western female thing, but I am not here to dispense red pills. Nil is not on the good side of the so-called rule of 80/20, like 4 out of 5 guys.

    That right there is the basic set of numbers behind “nice guys finish last;” they get “settled-for” by bitter wives. The ones with a lot of money just go younger, further embittering the gals who played the field and couldn’t lock down a guy until the pickings got too slim, or who stayed single. Welcome to the dating landscape of your own making, ladies. Equality ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, sometimes. The ladies wanted hookup culture, now have it, and are miserable, but are also reacting crazily to the thought of it being reigned in at the state level via the overturn of Roe. The point is that women have always had a choice; many modern gals have simply not made the best of choices at the start of the process, and thus feel the need of an extreme remedy.

    Back to 80/20; the guys in the 20% have too many options, won’t commit, and are thus the men that many women on Tik Tok videos “hate.” (Chad won’t commit; or at least, not to them.) Morality cannot be directly legislated successfully, but an overturn of Roe would have much of the same effect, among some women. Perhaps that is the real intent of the effort against Roe, to begin with. Not my monkey, not my circus, thank goodness. At least Bernice is trying to let her upper brain win. That may be the object lesson that the Evans intend with this arc.

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    Decepticomic  over 2 years ago

    Alright, I’m out. So long, Luann. Maybe someday, you’ll… continue being a background character in everyone else’s story.

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    Ellis97  over 2 years ago

    Bernice, is there something that you’re not telling us?

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    lmuller7  over 2 years ago

    " He’s about a loser! Hey Hey Hey "

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    Null Island  over 2 years ago

    So, Nil is a vampire. OK.

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    StoicLion1973  over 2 years ago

    Bernice & Nil are living that classic from George Benson, “Lady, Love Me (One More Time)”.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Oh, come on. I remember showing off my hickey in high school when I was 15. This is college.

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    WilliamVollmer  over 2 years ago

    Bernice actually got a “hickey”? No wonder she feels the need to break up with Nil. If that relationship continues, who know, she might get passionate enough to return the favor. And, from there romance novel cover time?

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    MS72  over 2 years ago

    My wife and I stopped for breakfast on vacation and got seated in the restaurant next to a group of girls. One of them was telling the rest about her romantic date with a fella. Funny!

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    rugeirn  over 2 years ago

    And where were his hands at the time?

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    lorenkinzel  over 2 years ago

    She’s not going to show Luann the other hickey.

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    Rick Parkhurst Premium Member over 2 years ago

    It is like a convention of 1st year psych students.

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    brick10  over 2 years ago

    Ah, a battle scar!

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    Airman  over 2 years ago

    Simple characters, with almost no backgrounds, exist in simple story lines . Sexually explicit Steff pursues Kip. Kip bangs Steff. Next day: repeat.

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    paldec  over 2 years ago

    She told Nancy that he’s interesting but not the one, and it’s unfair to him and untrue to herself to lead him on. I think she’s trying to convince herself more than Nil. I hope he prevails.

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    BuckarooDave  over 2 years ago

    I think Nil is going to surprise her somehow.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 2 years ago

    What ? He’s a vampire ?

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    marisas03  over 2 years ago

    I love how nosy Puddles is.

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    4everbound2  over 2 years ago

    That is the weirdest shaped hickey that I’ve ever seen (and the only one I’ve ever seen in a comic strip!). Greg continues to push the boundaries of poor taste. Apparently he’s never given or received or even had a close look at a real hickey – that Rorschach inkblot on her neck looks shaped like a bat to me. Gawd, Nil’s teeth must look horrid…

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    BlitzMcD  over 2 years ago

    The shameless hussy!

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    alexius23  over 2 years ago

    You have been branded

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    Rick Smith Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Wait until it gets even more “complicated.”

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    CynthiaLeigh  over 2 years ago

    Black mold?

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 2 years ago

    He’s a hickie making vampire?

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    The Pro from Dover  over 2 years ago

    He tried to do a tracheotomy on you?

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    danieljschmidt08  over 2 years ago

    He shot her in the neck?!!

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    198.23.5.11  over 2 years ago

    To Bernice,getting a hickey is like inventing the atomic bomb.

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    AndrewSihler  over 2 years ago

    Aw-w-w, she bit herself on the neck! I hate it when that happens.

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    comic reader 22  over 2 years ago

    WOW. That is just more information that what I needed today. It feels really distasteful and sleazy…yech. Now Luann is going to wonder what it’s like to get a hickey. Then Bets will decided to teach Gunther how to do it. Then Tara will write a manual on it. Then Tiffany will offer counseling for it. We could be discussing hickeys for the rest of our lives.

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    kaffekup   over 2 years ago

    Wow, Bernice has a hickey!

    Now they have to get married!

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    TravelinMan  over 2 years ago

    At least we know now that Nil wasn’t so ticked off after being unceremoniously dispatched from the DeGroots’ that he is eager to dump Bern.

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    Same2Ubuddy  over 2 years ago

    The thought of Bernice in maternity clothes is no laughing matter.

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    The Quiet One  over 2 years ago

    Oops.

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    OldsVistaCruiser  over 2 years ago

    By the time I was her age, I had learned how to suck on a girl’s neck without leaving a hickey, but turning her on just as much! My girlfriend had a domineering mother.

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    BearHamilton1  over 2 years ago

    Nil doesn’t fit Bernice’s concept of a button-down world. So many try to find order within chaos. Love is chaotic. Much of the world is chaotic. Most find a way to go with the flow, the ones who can’t, end up as micro-managers or helicopter parents or worse. Self control is one thing, trying to control others usually ends in disaster. How many of us have seen a relationship where one is constantly trying to control the other? Did either party look terribly happy? I rest my case.

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    Tom Eisenmenger  over 2 years ago

    He smudged coal on her neck?

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    dlaemmerhirt999  over 2 years ago

    HE PUNCHED HER IN THE NECK?!?X’D

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    CrzyDyeman  over 2 years ago

    Bernie got a burnie.

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    procentrum  over 2 years ago

    Let’s just say he isn’t equipped with an M777

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    MT Wallet   over 2 years ago

    Name, image and likeness.

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    jdsven  over 2 years ago

    Plot twist: He’s a vampire. Now Bern will be his bride and become Queen of the Night.

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    dtercho  over 2 years ago

    Capt. Kirk : [of Uhura] What d’you do to her?

    Nomad : That unit is defective. Its thinking is chaotic. Absorbing it unsettled me.

    Spock : That “unit” is a woman.

    Nomad : A mass of conflicting impulses.

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    Sisyphos  over 2 years ago

    A hickey?! Is that still a “Thing” these days? And, if so, does anyone care?

    Anyway, it seems Bernie is not yet ready to give up on Nil entirely….

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    lvlax  over 2 years ago

    Forget the books, Bernice. It’s time to visit a real expert for all your psycological needs….

    Lucy Van Pelt. The doctor is IN LOL

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