Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 21, 2022

So Bernice is admitting that she doesn’t consider time spent chatting with Luann as having a life?

What more does Luann need to hear until she tells her to get lost??

Having a BFF is having a life. Bernice doesn’t deserve a friend like Luann!

Oh Bernice. Why don’t you dance around a little in your muse outfit and tells us about your actual life? No Bernice. You are Evans’ puppet and you will never be anything but the snarky girl you are now.

Wait, was there a conversation about majors, careers and finances? I think I must have missed that comic strip.

Nope, life tends to involve another who is more than your best friend growing up for the most part. A lot more between their age and getting old and grey.

No you don’t Bernice

Why not start now, Bern? Oh, I forgot, you don’t have any other friends.

So sometime after college Bernice is looking forward to dumping Luann. I guess that makes Luann her starter BFF. I wonder who her Trophy BFF will be? Her imaginary boyfriend, maybe.

Let’s hope you are still friends then…

Chance of Bernice getting an actual life? Nil.

So after they met in kindergarten they went to separate elementary schools — or did they just not talk about anything then?

Are they just going to ignore that Delta is alive some where…?

Bernice planning to abandon Luann and get her own strip?

Good luck with that, Bernice, given the way things have been going for you in the weekday strip.

You haven’t managed to find a life now, a few more years won’t change anything.

Puddles seems to doubt it.

…….and ladies, you will discover that men now think that a well endowed woman is judged by the size of her IRA not her BRA.

Good luck with that.

It is already a life.

They will talk about the good old days.

You go, girl.

Looks like Luann, in her infinite wisdom, has mapped out her senior years already!!!

Luann’s best friend actually hates her, part #523 of an ongoing series.

Bernice even snarks in her sleep – it is a condition called snarkolepsy.

Why not have your own place by then, huh?

If Bernice really wants a “life”, she’d get rid of that d@mned phone!!

I’m starting to think that Bernice is more hated than Putin.

Bernice has been saying that since…..Kindergarten.

Something tells me that Bernice’s plans for the future will fail miserably. I hope Luann will be the one who won’t want to talk to her anymore. Or at least talk to her less.

We used to go out with friends and talk about the latest trips we took, plays/movies we had seen, etc.

Now we talk about who died, what doctors we are seeing and what procedures are lined up for next month. Getting old is not for the squeamish, that’s for sure lol!

My MIL has started to read the obits every morning, just in case….

See, it’s funny because Luann’s best friend (who wants to be a psychologist) keeps telling her in no uncertain terms that she’s pathetic and her friendship has no value. Ha ha?

They should bring Delta back. There needs to be more of a dynamic. With just the two of them, it gets monotonous.

Good Luck!

They really should bring Delta back. They could really use someone to be their middle ground.

They will compare their perfect grandchildren.

Bernice gave up on a “real life” when she ditched Nil.

Puddles is like…. “Oh God… I don’t know how much more I can take of this today…“

This is how their friendship has evolved. They remind me of older married couples I see in the store, jibing each other with little quips and insults, it becomes a habit. Maybe Bernice not seeing her adult self sitting on Luann’s bedroom floor in the future is a good thing. Luann, on the other hand, has been deprived of a sincere, caring, supportive friendship in her life, and has no idea what that would look like.

Nice future she’s planned for herself where she has no time for friends whatsoever. Meanwhile, I spent last Saturday catching up with my high school friends, some of whom flew in from out of state. We played d&d for nostalgia, had a delicious meal, and talked about ultrasounds of grandkids, good vs bad neighbors, and the stresses of aging parents.

Hey Lu. Kick her out on her smarmy, snarky keister now, so the can get started with her wretched life.

“Yes, Luann. I plan to have an actual Life and Career where I’ll point out the flaws and deficiencies of others, not unlike yourself.”

“All you will PAY me to DO it.” – Bernice Halper

Shouldn’t they be discussing what fascinating and exciting college classes they are taking this coming semester?

“A life” is what happens in spite of your plans not because of them. And it seldom bears any resemblance to your dreams.

there’s that little poster behind the ‘save me’ earth poster that says ‘B kind’.

Between this and last week’s, I see why my late father told me not to lament that I lack lifelong friends. He and the friends of his youth grew apart over time. And perhaps not having such long term makes getting along with others as you get older easier.

Noticed she skipped over marriage and kids…..

Bernice may have a life, but she won’t have any friends.

Sounds like their next topic should be the future of their “friendship”.

Bernice might as well be the dumbest person on Earth if she thinks she can get away with everything.

Don’t count on having a life, Bernice.

Sounds like Bernice has her life planned out.

Well, Bernice! By all means, don’t plan. Do!!

If Berniece is planning for that life she’s sure going about it the wrong way. She and Luann both need to get off the sidelines and into the game.

And Puddles is thinking, “that’s a typical snobby Bernice reply”.

And Luann won’t?

No you don’t Bernice. You were born to observe and then translate those observations into snark.Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, but that has been your life so far, you don’t show any signs of altering your life’s course.

Actually, you both have been living mostly very interesting lives up to this point….

Next to talk about doctors and friends that died.

Uh, Bern, if you haven’t got one by now…

Unless my eyes are deceiving me, it appears Bernice is getting prettier and prettier while Luann is the same never changing Luann.

Most of these comments miss the point IMHO, on Luann and Bernice. And where does Delta come in, all of a sudden? There is no hate here, Bern is naturally drawn to be acerbic, dismissive, and totally clueless although she has an unrealistic and exaggerated sense of her own importance. Luann is, in the mind of many here basically dim, silly, clueless, frustrated, and has terrible success with men, school, work, even her family. So why do so many of us read this strip for 30 years or more? Because they, as is the strip, are more than these personality traits. Their life progression, and their friendship is not unlike a lot of real people. Too close to home? What they are saying is so typical in terms of not just their relationship, but also the story. Remember Luannverse? Bern is doing what she always does, Luann is also. But in the scheme of things, in Luannverse and as an analog of real life, I think Luann is closest to truth.

And you tend to keep it that way,Bernice?

Hey Bernice. All that stuff that Luann mentioned IS actual life. Especially gray hair and wrinkles. Not to mention such body breakdowns as arthritis, blood pressure, and internal organ functions. Don’t believe it? Just wait and see.

whatever you are doing at the moment is your life.

Just wait, Bernice. Eventually you come to a point where the main topic of conversation is pain, medicine, and mobility aids.

If Bernice wants a life she needs to go out and find it now, and not sit around in Luann’s bedroom killing time. Bernice once offered to pay Nancy room rent and while Nancy said it would be free it does raise the question where would Bernice find the money to pay Nancy? $400 seems pretty fair for a bedsit but if Bernice could afford to pay that then why couldn’t she pay for her dorm? And what became of Ben and his two adopted children? Hasn’t he found a job yet? Hasn’t he moved back to the Philippines?? And even if Bernice has a scholarship it would only cover the four years of undergraduate schooling. If she wants to become a psychologist she’s going to need at a minimum an MA and probably a PhD. Which will have to pay on her own dime. So why isn’t she working to put aside money for then? Also, who pays fir her car, car insurance, gas and oil. Luann at least works two part-time jobs to support her car. And why does “having a life” excluding finding time to talk to an old friend.

See, this is why I could never write Luann, because I think too logically. I would know that a "full-ride scholarship includes room and board so there would never be a need for Bernice to crash with Luann.

As for bringing back Delta, Greg needs to do it to prove that he’s not biased against black people. He replaced Delta with Dez then did very little with her. Then he added Bets and turned her into a vblogging monster. He says he couldn’t come up with storylines for her but most of her appearances during the first 30 years were just sassy lines and back and forth with Bernice. So he made her into a social justice warrior, which only made her obnoxious. Delta ended up only appeared to browbeat Luann into highway clean-up and so on, Greg could bring her back by having her cancer return and wanting to be treated by the same people as last time. While getting treatment she could take a class at Mooney where she tries to set up a Black Lives Matter chapter only to find that the university is mostly white. But while Delta had made a vow not to fall in love, she ends up doing with one of her recruits to the BLM chapter. There, A story that could be played out over a year.

Better get to work on that then….

Me thinks Bernice is going get a life by the time she gets to the retirement/nursing home!

So Luann is planning the long game, for after their kids have left and their husbands have fled or died, she plans to live with Bernice in some type of “Golden Girls” comic? Co-starring Tiff and Gunther, with Les as the loser ex(of Gunther)?

Bernie’s “plan” put-down sounds good—until we remember that this is Bernie huffing and puffing and most likely not following through….

If Bernice doesn’t get it in gear, Luann’s prediction will come true.

Just skip right over marriages, kids and jobs huh?

Bernice doesn’t seem to realize that “wherever you go, there you are” holds true when discussing “real life”. She already IS in the midst of her “real life” and hasn’t figured out how to recognize it yet. The more I see of Bernice, the more pathetic I consider her to be in relation to herself and her “friends”.

Bernice had her chance with Nils.