Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 08, 2022

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    lvlax  about 2 years ago

    A new arc starring Luann AND a new character?!? Unbelievable! lol

    Welcome Vale! Is it possible your dad is Tank McNamara??

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    Dear Diary… Will Luann be able to help Vale?

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 2 years ago

    Oh, this is going to be tough.

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    Namrepus  about 2 years ago

    Actually, you look like Jay Leno’s college yearbook picture, but that’s beside the point.

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    AnyFace  about 2 years ago

    He looks like something all right … ✨

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    Tyge  about 2 years ago

    Gosh, doesn’t this look exciting. /S

    Soon Luann1212 will remind us that it is early yet. Hilarity will ensue. Maybe so Maybe so.

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    Black76Manta  about 2 years ago

    good point

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    Mordock999 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Ugh.

    First axel, now this….,‘person.’

    He’s like Jay Leno’s hidden lovechild or something.

    How come all of Luann’s “students” have been obnoxious males so far?

    Are there no obnoxious females that need tutoring??

    Well, We can at least take comfort in the fact that We didn’t switch to a Bernice or Shannon arc this week. :-)

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    Joe1962  about 2 years ago

    Luann he asking for help and a famous Artist is in your lane.

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    Cheapskate0  about 2 years ago

    Looking forward to the next Shannon arc.

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    alasko  about 2 years ago

    I already don’t like this story arc.

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    ronaldspence  about 2 years ago

    you look like someone who might work at a dairy, is that close enough?

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    capricorn9th  about 2 years ago

    Hm, Vale, Seeing that you have an overgrown chin and small crown, no, you don’t look like someone who can write in a diary, much less, write. Methinks you are a connoisseur in writing football plays.

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    Prescott_Philosopher   about 2 years ago

    Well, there goes our last chance for a Hawaii arc.

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    Brdshtt Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Steffi will love this guy.

    ♪ Two vapid airheads sitting in a tree, K – I – S – S – I – N – G.

    First comes love, then comes… ♫ uh, what comes after first?

    Derp, derp… Oh yeah! Second!!

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    notbornyesterday  about 2 years ago

    what, a story line involving luann ? be still, my beating heart !

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    beb01  about 2 years ago

    Apparently Greg hates cheerleaders and football players.

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    Tyge  about 2 years ago

    We’ve come off a pretty long and dynamic arc revolving around the Quad, Privacy/intimacy issues in the Quad and storage fallout from leaving the Quad on summer break.

    I was hoping that we’d get back to Luann with something new but it looks like we’re due for another “Axel” sequence. Even so, Vale(?) looks like he has potential. He looks better than Jack did back in “Introduction To Art” class in 2015. This guy looks like he could give Oxford a run for his money.

    P.S. Luann has the studied counselor look. Neutral dressed, forward leaning attentive posture, simple jewelry. A Margo Fogerty in the making.

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    jroggs  about 2 years ago

    Well, hello and goodbye to you as well, jerk.

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    beb01  about 2 years ago

    Be kind, He’s Irish: Vale O’tears

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    luann1212  about 2 years ago

    like TG said above I say wait. I think I have a hint of where this is going, but wait to Wednesday to see where this “may” be going.

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    BabyBlue  about 2 years ago

    He looks like someone who breaks down doors with his head. But that’s what tutoring is. You don’t get the smart kids.

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    Dreamer86  about 2 years ago

    Better question, can he write?

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    R.W.Singer -SF  about 2 years ago

    Luann’s next drama/love interest

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    Enter.Name.Here  about 2 years ago

    No, you look like someone with a severe jaw deformity. Your last name wouldn’t be “Leno” by any chance?

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    GirlGeek Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Well…no

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    Johnnyrico  about 2 years ago

    Dear Lord, the boy’s deformed… too bad he wasn’t alive in 1943, his chin could have defeated Tojo’s Japan all by itself..

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Art history is one of Luann’s favorite subjects, so I’m thrilled to see how she will help doing this weird assignment. I’m just afraid helping students like this guy is really stressful for her, but she’s trying to do her job with a smile of trying to do the best of her. Luann is spending her summer like this, probably working non-stop. Let’s hope something good comes to her. Like an invitation from Tara, or Jack, to do something.

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    kenhense  about 2 years ago

    Jack looked pretty gross at Luann’s first encounter – but we got kinda used to him and he got a bit less Neanderthal looking. But please don’t fix today’s new guy up with Luann. Give Lu a break.

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    OneTime59  about 2 years ago

    Interesting new character. Teammate of Kip’s?

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    Susan00100  about 2 years ago

    No, he looks like a stupid jock who can’t even write his own name!!

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I have no idea what someone who can write a diary looks like.

    I also have no idea how to write a fake diary for someone else myself.

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    bittenbyknittin  about 2 years ago
    How does one write a diary by someone else?
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    tremaine53  about 2 years ago

    “The first question is, ‘Can you write at all?’ "

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    Bernedoodle  about 2 years ago

    Hey, give Vale a break. Remember what Jack looked like when he was first introduced to the strip?

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    don.snowdogs  about 2 years ago

    Obviously, not a “student athlete” at UNC-CH, where their classes are fictional, per the NCAA it is OK…

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    seismic-2 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Luann is helping high school students with their schoolwork? This is the ultimate retcon…

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    Wubbie  about 2 years ago

    Hey, who is this young woman? I don’t remember seeing her in this strip lately.

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    Ellis97  about 2 years ago

    He looks like someone who could smash a diary.

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    scpandich  about 2 years ago

    Wow. Even a Habsburg would say, “Jeez, that’s a big jaw.”

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    chris_o42  about 2 years ago

    Vale doesn’t look like the kind of guy who’d be studying art history in the first place.

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    ttuerff  about 2 years ago

    Well, at least he’s honest…

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    mleugs  about 2 years ago

    Not exactly a promising lead-in to a new storyline…

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    Jason Allen  about 2 years ago

    He doesn’t look like someone who can write anything.

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    BradFilippone  about 2 years ago

    Ah, the stereotypical “dumb jock.” Of course, it’s hard to know his full character just from three panels.

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    Barnabus Blackoak  about 2 years ago

    does he have a problem with his teeth or something?

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    seismic-2 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    With that jaw bone, is his Daddy the principal back at Lincoln Elementary? That could be awkward.

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    Tyge  about 2 years ago

    I cannot understand why Luann gets such short shrift in her eponymous strips. Think about these other famous comic strips and how often they didn’t appear; Popeye, Little Orphan Annie, Alley Oop, Mary Worth Andy Capp and on and on!

    Can they not come up with some dynamic arcs for her?

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    RSH  about 2 years ago

    answer=no. but more art themes and this is an assignment that Luann might like to have so she’ll do a good job. That said, we have to look at this creature for a week (at least)… sigh….

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    pontiac59  about 2 years ago

    He looks like he could break one in half by biting it

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    Diane Lee Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Do Van Gogh, the part with the prostitute and ear should make it a good read.

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    Brazosman1  about 2 years ago

    He doesn’t look like someone that walks upright!

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    jrankin1959  about 2 years ago

    Well, that’s honest…

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    comic reader 22  about 2 years ago

    So you pick an artist, find out where he lived, research his life and then write two weeks of made up diary entries. Today I painted a picture that I think am going to call Starry Night because I was out at night and the stars were bright and it made me want to paint a picture so I did.

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    The Quiet One  about 2 years ago

    Do you even know how to write?

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    oldcomicsfan  about 2 years ago

    My first take was “Butthead”. lol

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    BJShipley1  about 2 years ago

    Hey hey, Luann’s back! And not as the butt of a “teens, am I right?” joke!

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    BuckarooDave  about 2 years ago

    So, does Vale “hit on” Luann like Jack did at first? Make suggestive comments?

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    filops  about 2 years ago

    Another new face that will never change expression.

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    dbradway1  about 2 years ago

    I’m always leery of guys whose necks are thicker than their heads.

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    Tetonbil  about 2 years ago

    No you do not. However you do look like you could be one heck of an offensive lineman.

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    Dr. Whom   about 2 years ago

    What kind of dumb jock would ask a question like that?

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    Joe1962  about 2 years ago

    The moptop should be asking Nil or Zebo

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    locake  about 2 years ago

    That sounds like a dvmb assignment. The students would learn more if they studied what the famous artist actually did instead of making up something about that artist.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    His name is Vale. ‘Sup?

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    phileaux  about 2 years ago

    A relative tutored athletes as a uni job. Said they are of two extremes with few in the middle. Those who don’t care and want someone else to do it and those who knew what a college degree meant especially w/o student loans.

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    rbullfogg  about 2 years ago

    Looks as though he could have shorten that t last sentence! “Do I look like someone who can write!”

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    Need coffee  about 2 years ago

    I like people with self-awareness. Good on ya, Vale.

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    paulscon  about 2 years ago

    It’s nice to see a new character. Unfortunately a cliche of a dumb athlete. I hate that. I was a defensive tackle on the football team and also in the top 10% of my class.

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    tomcervo  about 2 years ago

    Clutch Cargo?

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    RSH  about 2 years ago

    Luann says what’s the problem? because she sees it as a cool exercise that she would like to do herself; she may end up doing it herself. Vale? he comes across as incompetant (and not exactly eye candy).

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    rrsltx  about 2 years ago

    Is it just me, or are the arcs featuring Luann as dull as a three month old razor?

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    spikelovesmusic  about 2 years ago

    When dealing with Moose here, refer to it as “keeping a journal.” Call it a stereotype, but “diary” sounds more feminine while “journal” is more neutral or masculine.

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    howtheduck  about 2 years ago

    Judging from the shape of his mouth, it look like Vale has some kind of facial paralysis. Maybe Bell’s palsy?

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    howtheduck  about 2 years ago

    Diary of a famous artist:

    Day 1:Slept with some of my fans again. I wish my fans weren’t so old. My daughter is bugging me to draw the latest Luann, but she didn’t bring my favorite drugs. My assistant went out to get some drugs for me. Did some interviews with the local newspaper. I don’t remember any of them. I got my drugs and my daughter is bugging me to draw the latest Luann. Some guy that is all jaw. Easy peasy. I miss the old days when I used to care.

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    comic reader 22  about 2 years ago

    This sounds like the type of assignment you would get in jr high, not college.

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    198.23.5.11  about 2 years ago

    Big Moose doesn’t look like he can write his own name.

    But he may cut his ear off thinking it guarantees an “A”

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    Demobius  about 2 years ago

    Evans really doesn’t like athletes.

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    mfought  about 2 years ago

    jesus christ he just got here give him some time he might turn out like ox

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    BuckarooDave  about 2 years ago

    R.I.P. : Olivia Newton-John

    :-(

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    JPuzzleWhiz  about 2 years ago

    If You Love Her (Let God Know).

    Olivia Newton-John has passed away at 73, after her battle with breast cancer.

    R. I. P. to one of pop music’s greatest.

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    Scoutmaster77  about 2 years ago

    This guy is somewhat of a stereotype.

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Good luck, Luann!

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    Homeboy1865  about 2 years ago

    This Neanderthal jock needs a Jack makeover.

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    beb01  about 2 years ago

    Even if Luann us able to walk Lockjaw through his course assignment nobody going to care because Vale is such a dismorphic, repulsive character, as the comments today make very clear. Vale is not destined to be a part of the strip so his and Luann’s action are completely meaningless. Greg would be better off bringing Knute back as a community college in need of tutoring and doing from the old Fogarty-Knute routines.

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    Ammo hates the comment policy  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Seems Big Guys are the last group that can be stereotyped in a bad light. Big dumb jocks in Luann do tend to age well same with hot girl firefighters. Jack, Ox & Toni are deeper than the main characters recently.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 2 years ago

    You don’t want stereotyping, but he fits it to a tee.

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    DonCoyote®  about 2 years ago

    I wonder how many characters get drawn before a new one is chosen to be in the strip? A dozen,….. a hundred? I wonder what all the “rejects” look like?

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    Sisyphos  about 2 years ago

    At a minimum, we can appreciate that Vale is a New Character, seemingly even bigger than Oxford. I suppose Vale is a football player. I’ll bet now that Luann fails again, in every possible way.

    I recall a similar incident in an earlier life of mine….

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 2 years ago

    Write whatever is bouncing around in your head.

    It is how I keep mine empty.

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    eladee AKA Wally  about 2 years ago

    This is cool artwork on this new character. A jock, obviously, but perhaps not entirely a stereotype. Time will tell. And I don’t think either Greg or Karen hates anyone in this strip. They are just used to working in broad archetypes. It’s time to let Luann grow up and spread her wings though. I don’t really care if Karen likes or doesn’t like it. She needs to get over it and understand that SHE is not Luann and let the character develop and change. Time to cut that cord and let go.

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    kittysquared Premium Member about 2 years ago

    So, the P is for Pitts? I guess it’s the community college. Could it be the high school? Axel was in high school, right? Sadly, nothing new for Luann. Not even the storyline. Another jerk boy that doesn’t really want help. Would be refreshing to meet someone who wanted to be helped. Ugh. Why is Luann still in community college? Couldn’t she have transferred with credits to Mooney? Nothing moves forward with her.

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    mnexplorer+  about 2 years ago

    I don’t like him already.

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    comic reader 22  about 2 years ago

    Oh great. Now Luann will start helping him get in touch with his “feelings”, he’ll get a crush on her, and she’ll lose another student.

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    comic reader 22  about 2 years ago

    Vale looks just like his daddy Arnold.

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Are you asking to be judged by your appearance

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