Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 12, 2022

”Paradox.” ✨

So Luann likes to write about things that are funny. She submitted a funny story for the contest. Just now she threw a funny metaphor to awaken the imagination. Perhaps she can write a book of jokes and puns. These are short compositions which is perfect for her.

May want to rethink binging Riverdale, Luann. First few seasons were okay but then it seriously jumps the shark.

Looks like this is a wrap for this arc. Will we go back to Tiff and Les on Monday or maybe some Brad & Toni?

So far it’s been pointlessfully pointless. Good night.

Luann write from your personal life experiences.

Poor Luann – I think she used up all her imagination on excuses not to clean her room.

It’s like Luann is trying to be derpy on purpose. Makes no sense.

Riverdale went way off the rails, please don’t binge it

So she can be creative just so long as no one says she’s being creative. Like the Invisible Man who is only invisible when no one is looking.

Poor Luann! G & K keep treting her like a little girl.

Keep at it Luann, you may conjure an idea yet!

“Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.”

That just came to me all of a sudden. And now, I have writer’s block – I have been trying to think of where I might possibly go with this for hours. I’ll let you guys know If I’m able to do anything with it.

exactly… some things are interesting and inspiring others, like that couple yesterday….yawn…, not so much.

It’s about time that Luann’s old high school class holds a reunion. The oldies could all return for an evening of fun and memories, and Luann could write a retrospective and read it from the podium. As she was motivated by her tape recorder to write her humorous story, she could be motivated by the reunion to recall some of the fun and adventures they all shared. As he did with the tape recorder arc, Greg could include the original drawings from that era. Not a long stay, just a cameo for the missing characters.

Is this a wink for Luann’s future career as a screenwriter? Because that’s where I absolutely hope her writing skills will lead her. Not to “Riverdale”, but to something more entertaining and able to bring happiness to the audience as well as a lot of entertainment. For me the best would be for Luann to be a screenwriter for cartoons, something like “Bob’s Burger” or “Craig of the Creek” with funny characters full of humanity, very united and not stupid. But Luann would probably prefer to write for the theater. She will write musicals! By the way, Tara is still an amazing and supportive friend ♡.

Turns out Tara is smart, supportive AND likable. She won’t be around much longer.

Luann is creative when she excited. She went into gleeful theatrics during the tutoring session. Luann is just not cognizant to write ’em down afterwards, like Vale did.

Don’t knock lack of imagination, Luann. It’s worked for 43 seaons of Survivor, 22 seasons of The Bachelor, multiple versions of CSI along with remakes of many movies like The Karate Kid and Arthur (to name a couple).

It’s amazing how profitable lack of imagination can be

Her problem is not a lack of imagination. It’s a lack of self-confidence.

I think an Air Fryer might work better than a microwave.

Never watch Riverdale. It’s a big waste of time.

Or maybe something interesting. Just hoping!

it still works. :p

“River-what?”

Say Lu? If you’re binge-watch something for inspiration, I’d suggest “Lower Decks” on Paramount Plus.

It’s the BEST (Satirical) Star Trek spin-off out there. And unlike (GAG) “Discovery,” it inheres mostly to long time Star Trek canon.

Plus, the show centers on a female starship captain and her hyper-rebellious daughter who’s an ensign. And the ship’s doctor is a crusty “feline” with an obscenity laden attitude that makes Doctor McCoy look tame.

Not a “Trekkie,” huh?

Then I suggest taking a peek at tonight’s Saturday Night Live hosted by Dave Chapelle, and go the controversy route for inspiration.

That’s provided the “powers that be,” don’t chicken out at the last minute and cancel the show……,

irony is such a lonely wordEveryone is so obtuse.irony is hardly ever heardAnd mostly passes over you

A road trip always works for me. But I have to be fed, too :)

Isn’t ‘Riverdale’ where Archie, Veronica and Jughead live?!?

She’s a poet and doesn’t know it

Luann has ideas but they weren’t coming to the surface so she put them in the microwave and they jiggled and jiggled and heated up, jiggled more and finally they burst out of their container.

Nice metaphor Luann.

About 5 years ago capricorn9th offered this comment:

“I’m beginning to think Tara is brought to the strip solely to mirror Luann, for her to see herself for who she is – a boring, bland, uninteresting, gutless, unimaginative, not to smart teenager/young adult. Tara is energetic, adventurous, gutsy, curious, creative (except when she says “I’m kidding!”) smarter (she got in at Moony University – universities are harder to get in than community colleges – have to get in by the base score on the ACT Test)…and she has been showcasing all that and gradually, Luann will begin to see that and realize just how opposite she is.”

Which is exceedingly prescient. Unfortunately she was on to opine:

" … Will [Luann] then decide she wants to be a different person? Have an epiphany? A life changer. God, I hope so because she is SO boring."

Sorry to say Ms cap your wish has not come to be yet.

This is a nice end to the arc. Luann (off-panel) can write a story titled “Imaginationless” about the events that led her to come up with the word and we can see a future arc follow-up on her slowly budding career as a humor writer :)

Dear Luann,

Start with “It was a dark and stormy night.” It worked for Snoopy!

Your friend, Tyge

.♫ If you want to view paradise ♫

♫ Simply look around and view it ♫

♫ Anything you want to, do it ♫

♫ Want to change the world? ♫

♫ There’s nothing to it ♫

♫ There is no life I know ♫

♫ To compare with pure imagination ♫

♫ Living there, you’ll be free ♫

♫ If you truly wish to be ♫

BIG difference between imagination and making things up…uh, uh, uh, well just because I can’t think up what it might be….never mind, I’ll make up something.

I think her creative juices are awakening.

Well, Luann’s imagining of what inspiration is like sure was something.

So Luann has plenty of imagination but is too stupid to realize it, much less put it to use? That’s really the point G&K want to make here?

By ruddy Jove ! She’s a veritable Henry James!

That’s kind of what I just said a couple of days ago: don’t force it, let it pop.

You know growing up I’ve never had this much drama in my life!!!

What do you think imagination is Luann?

Well, the idea “Popped”, but she doesn’t seem to realize it or know what to do with it.Maybe she should go back to recording her own thoughts, and writing from them.

As fun as it is watching Luann go through Impostor Syndrome, I was hoping to see Stef’s reaction upon opening the door to her dorm room and discovering Tiff and her things are gone.

I mean, who is Stef going to “borrow” from now…?

The word works.

A dream sequence where Luann plays a character in the town of Riverdale (Archie, Jughead, Veronica) ?

Wow. I hope they got paid enough to plug a TV show.

Apparently the Ditz can’t make the connection between “imagination” and “I made that up”! Help!

Tara seems to be a good listener.

Next plot please

“Riverdale” name check in the second panel? I’ve said for years that the comparisons to Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Forsythe Jones, Veronica Lodge, Moose Mason, etc. in this strip were obvious. And there’s the evidence.

And this entire stupid week of Luann being an idiot was just so G&K could fulfill their advertising commitment to Riverdale, geez.