Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 23, 2022

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    lvlax  about 2 years ago

    I have an idea, Luann.. Why don’t you create a comic strip about a 13 yr old girl who has lots of love trauma with a boy she’s crushing on. Maybe she has lots of friends and a best friend that’s nice at first but later on ends up super snarky .

    It could be a HIT! lol

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 2 years ago

    Genius!

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    C  about 2 years ago

    It is traumatic to listen to

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    beb01  about 2 years ago

    Once again Greg builds up to a dramatic scene then walks away from it. No-drama Evans should go back to writing gag-a-day comics.

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    Mordock999 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    “Snipe, Snipe, _Here,”_

    “Snark, Snark, _There,”_

    “And a couple of Ha, Ha, Ha’s!”

    “That how Bern spends the time of day,”

    “In the Merry Old Land of Blahs!”

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    ronaldspence  about 2 years ago

    Bernie is trying to make up for her snarkiness…

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    Pointspread  about 2 years ago

    First time I’ve seen LuAnn that inspired in a while.

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    notbornyesterday  about 2 years ago

    Is this setting up a “Return of Aaron Hill” ? and who will he fall for? Bernice!!! Now, that would be a story line.

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    Wilde Bill  about 2 years ago

    I think she should do the Quill saga as a comic book.

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    Ms.fish  about 2 years ago

    Don’t fall for it, Luann! Bernice is still being super unsupported and superior. How about your psychotic “romance” with Nil. And you don’t have the excuse of being 13 for being that messed up. Bernice isn’t just emotionally pathetic; she’s being lousy in so many ways!

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    kenhense  about 2 years ago

    Bern looks nasty smug in the first frame.

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    Airman  about 2 years ago

    “The Traumatic Love Life of a 13 Year Old” and here come the cops.

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    kenhense  about 2 years ago

    It’s painful to see Luann remaining so naive. Lu perceived condescension from Bern – but then she jumps like a dog when Bern fakes throwing the ball. We just got through watching that big lummox Vale make a fool out of Luann. It’s time for Lu to leave the Sunday DeGroot nest and pick up some real world smarts.

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    mfought  about 2 years ago

    it is possible she doesn’t know anything?

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    Brdshtt Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Luann’s love stories are funny, while Bernice’s are

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    capricorn9th  about 2 years ago

    Well, Luann is not upset about Bernice laughing at her. So why are YOU Luann fans upset? YOU fans are more upset than the subject of Bernice’s supposedly mockery. Go figure. All I can say is Luann knows Bernice better than you do. My take is Luann knows she is not being mean or intent on hurting her feelings. That’s BFF. And now Bernice is giving her ideas on what to do with her recording. If she were not her BFF, she would tell her that her recordings are lame and just leave. No, she stayed and made suggestions on what she could gain from these recordings.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Do it Luann, DO IT!!! For once her BFF is being a BFF and is saying to her something really precious and sincere! Luann can write funny stories, open an account on some social and post them in it, try to submit them to some magazine (printed or digital) and use her creativity, maybe doing even an illustrations for every story♡. This could become a hit book with a movie/theatre adaption and Luann could choose Fay as main character for it. Now I understand Nil, Bernice IS a muse! Even with her sarcasm and annoying behaviour.

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    beb01  about 2 years ago

    The thing is that I think it would do the strip some good for Luann to have a screaming fit and tell Bernice that she never wants to talk to her again. This is actually classic sit-com material. Since they live together it would be difficult to not talk. Eventually Nancy would notice and try to intervene, but this would immediately make things worse because when Luann complains that Bernice all her humiliations in middle school were funny, Nancy would agree. At which point Luann would storm out of the house. “Wjat are you going?” Nancy asks. “I’ll let you know when I get there!”

    The next week we see Brad and Toni hanging up “Have you seen this child” posters.

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    Susan00100  about 2 years ago

    Maybe Luann will become another Danielle Steele or Jackie Collins.

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    Johnnyrico  about 2 years ago

    Oh, let’s see… How about “being a scatterbrained slob”?

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    sueb1863  about 2 years ago

    Yes, Luann, then the entire world could laugh at you, not just Bernice!

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    OneTime59  about 2 years ago

    Harlequinn had to start somewhere.

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    maxiesmom2 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    When has Luann ever shown any interest in being a writer?

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    buer  about 2 years ago

    This starts to get heavily meta so it could really bring the comic back to its origin and wrap it up.

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    mourdac Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Maybe John Lustig would use them.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 2 years ago

    Inspiration.

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    Goshen  about 2 years ago

    “Oh Aaron,” I still have that Aaron Carter album somewhere.

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    Rauderi  about 2 years ago

    Uh oh, is this a build-up to the CW show “Luann”?

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    wtepps  about 2 years ago

    To give the devil her due, Bernice is actually being helpful here, instead of her normal condescending, self.

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    Ellis97  about 2 years ago

    I have an idea, Luann! Why don’t you write a story about a dimwitted blonde girl, her obnoxious know-it-all friend, her slacker brother, her parents and her cheerleader nemesis? It could big.

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    WilliamVollmer  about 2 years ago

    A new career suggestion from Bernice for Luann? Writing teen girl angst as humor. Is there a maket for that?

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    Kenmazing  about 2 years ago

    Warning, warning, 4th wall break imminent, breach could occur

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    RSH  about 2 years ago

    I guess if there is anything funny about these recorded diaries it’s that there are no topics other than Aaron Hill.

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    essar1 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    This storyline reminds me of a great podcast, Mortified. The premise is adults read their diary/journal entries from when they were kids, to a live audience. The new episode is about kids in love/crushes.

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    Crann Bethadh  about 2 years ago

    Hmm, Greg figured out a way to rewrite his original strips.

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    Camiyami Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I think that is a fabulous idea!! Do it, Luann!

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    locake  about 2 years ago

    This is too unbelievable, even for a comic strip. The densest person would figure out that these memories are Painful and would stop laughing at them by now.

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    mindjob  about 2 years ago

    She was 13, but I was 19. Things didn’t go as I had hoped

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    locake  about 2 years ago

    Bernice has to get what she deserves by the end of this arc. This is painful to watch. Luann deserves much better than Bernice for a friend.

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    Rich_Pa  about 2 years ago

    I don’t like where this is going.

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    raybarb44  about 2 years ago

    Play to your strengths always….

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Bernice needs to get a life of her own?

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    Tyge  about 2 years ago

    Perhaps Luann will switch to a literary major and pursue the next “Great American Novel.”

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    Airman  about 2 years ago

    Bernice says, “Write what you know.” How can Greg, the author, stay credible on the thinking and world of teenage girls? They all look alike to me: skinny, tee shirts, long hair, and plugged into their cell phones.

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    locake  about 2 years ago

    Luann knows what her real feelings are about the Aaron Hill issue. Bernice is trying to convince Luann that her feelings are not valid. That she does not really feel what she feels. That is not what a friend does.

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    BuckarooDave  about 2 years ago

    Now we see the “left turn” Greg intended all along.

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    luann1212  about 2 years ago

    Ah the friendship is intact, no surprise. I know I always kind of snark about story versus personality; when I went back to graduate school to get my ABD in Adult and Higher Education they always talked about context, and I guess it stuck. But looking at the strip the way it works for one is the best way, although of course we have all kinds of varying views.

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    wantcomicsnow2  about 2 years ago

    I hope this gets dropped, and fades into nothing like many other story lines from the past. We don’t need to see Luann trying to become a writer, failing at it (because G&K can’t possibly let Luann succeed at anything) and then have to listen to Bernice mock, criticize, and otherwise disparage her efforts.

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    baeb37  about 2 years ago

    I see why everyone is being so positive about this idea, however, one point does bother me. What is funny about teen love, infatuations, etc.? They don’t feel funny when it is or becomes negative. Just a thought; if Bernice wants to be a therapist, instead of laughing, talk about the affect on Luann and help her to form better relationships in the future. As I said, just a thought.

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    YorkGirl  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    There are a lot of viewers who weren’t born when this strip started 30+ years ago and know nothing of the characters’ backstories. Maybe this will be a review of sorts.

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    BJShipley1  about 2 years ago

    “Love trauma”? If you use the word “trauma” to describe the experience of liking someone who doesn’t like you back (something that literally everyone on Earth has had to deal with), you must be either incredibly lacking in emotional resilience, or had an insanely pampered life. Or both.

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    RSH  about 2 years ago

    I think it would be difficult for Luann to write a teenage romance comedy given that she doesn’t think any of it is funny. That would have to be the starting place. it’s hard to know where this arc is going anyway; there’s no focus except for these tapes.

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    priyansh.jeziel  about 2 years ago

    What would you want to bet that LuAnn’s deepest secrets will soon become public knowledge, thanks to Bernice’s gossip to her friends (assuming she has any)

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    Joe1962  about 2 years ago

    Bernice face says it all smug,

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    Tyge  about 2 years ago

    I guess Argythree was right yesterday when he intimated that Luann’s problems were caused by “love” trauma in her tweens and early teens. After all she just admitted it in today’s strip.

    I wonder if this wasn’t what Greg told Karen when he handed the strip management over to her? “Write what you know!”

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    lsapphire  about 2 years ago

    what finally happened to Aaron??

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    JPuzzleWhiz  about 2 years ago

    One point I have an issue with, here…

    In panel 3, Bernice says " ‘Write what you know’! What do you know more about than love trauma?" and Luann responds, “Absolutely nothing!”

    Maybe not “more than,” but Luann does know something about other topics, such as theater set design, she’s good with kids (the incident with Tara’s archery talk notwithstanding), and she did a good job mentoring Fay. She is also a fair mechanic, as she showed when she helped Jack change a tire.

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    The Quiet One  about 2 years ago

    Uhh Bernice last time I checked your love life wasn’t all that.

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    BluNova  about 2 years ago

    I was really hoping Luann would tell Bernice off and put her in her place!

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    comic reader 22  about 2 years ago

    This is just like going to the circus and watching the trapeze artists, it just keeps swinging back and forth with an occasional somersault into the net. I am sincerely hoping this ends on Saturday because Luann and Bernice are really boring. Luann because she is so easily led and never wises up, and Bernice because she never minds her own business. Just because she’s gets a sadistic kick out of Luann’s love miseries doesn’t mean anyone else will.

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    D.E.N.  about 2 years ago

    Definitely a possibility here … Luann a Tutor and a writer, yep, it could work. Go to it, kid … :-)

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    ComicsInMyPants Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Bernice’s last line should be “You should write what you know! What do you know?” Then, Luann’s response of “Absolutely nothing!” makes sense.

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    ViscountNik  about 2 years ago

    It worked well for Taylor Swift….

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    eladee AKA Wally  about 2 years ago

    Look! She’s smiling. She’s actually going to do it. I hope it will bring her insight and perspective about the past.

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

    Not true as Luann knows about set dressing.

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    BJShipley1  about 2 years ago

    I saw the below posted online today and was shocked at how much of it applies to the way Bernice treats Luann on a daily basis:

    Ten truths of an NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) person

    Yes, they know what they’re doing

    No, you cannot change them

    Yes, they know that they’re hurting you

    No, they will not apologize for it

    Yes, they can control it, just like they do in public

    No, they’re not capable of empathy or remorse

    Yes, they could stop if they wanted to

    No, they don’t love you, even if they say they do

    Yes, they are capable of unconscionable manipulation

    No, they don’t care about how their words or behavior affects you or your life

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    beb01  about 2 years ago

    This arc is begining to sound like Luann is going to write something like Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Big Nate , which I hate to tell Greg, but they have already been done.

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    eced52  about 2 years ago

    She would make a great stand-up comedian

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Love trauma, then love hangover?!!

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    tutibug5  about 2 years ago

    It will be like the movie “Groundhog Day”. repeat, repeat, repeat.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 2 years ago

    Must art always come from pain and not joy?

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    DaBump Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Turn your negatives into positives. Good strategy.

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