Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 06, 2023

you have no idea, Luann

Wow. The euphemisms here are through the roof.

Nancy and Bernice have no clue that Luann knows all!

Tee hee. (giggle, giggle)

The girls sure are giddy tonight. 8^ )

Tee – hee, giggle, giggle…

Hey, what did youse guys do with lVlax??

Luann is, indeed, a writer!

‘Luann’ – has it ever been so steamy in years?

puerile!

Bonding over books. I like it. Very healthy.

So, the women in this comic have spent the past couple months catfighting, manipulating men into serving them while they fake an illness, tricking their family into more Xmas presents, and now obsessing over erotica. Also constant failure of the Bechdel Test.

So, according to this comic: women be dumb.

I agree with C and J. Scarbrough comments.

Watch out, Luann! That beverage may be poisoned. It’s clear Nancy hopes to replace you with Bernice.

Tomorrow?

Pull the rug from under them and accompany them to the signing, Luann.

And enjoy watching the “smug self satisfied smiles” disappear from their faces.

Cringing…..

So, in keeping with the downward spiral on this arc I offer this. I try not to speak using “innuendo’s,” especially in mixed company. But its hard……so hard. Please don’t block me!

geez. :o/

Yeah I know its a D##N cartoon, but this crap is getting old. Have Luann move out to start a new life and never be seen again. I’m starting to feel bad for the Luann character. Them laughing behind her back. Luann isn’t a main character on this comic anymore. Just a punching bag for insults, and to be ridiculed. Burnice lives there rent free and insults Luann. Nancy or Frank seems not to care about their daughter. Just drop the Luann character and start a new comic strip with the remaining characters. Nuff said.

Luann pull the rug out from these two.

Shameless hussies! Oh well, better that than the return of Aaron Hill…..

A double entendre!

Euphemisms? Are they hilarious?

Nancy and Bernice: lead the way. Adventure will follow.

Snerk

Luann is really totally unaware of the situation!? This is rather sad, but seeing Bernice making such an amused expression is so rare that I can’t help, but find this misunderstanding amusing. The passion for those intense romance novels is like a secret between Bernice and Nancy and I like this strange bond of complicity.

So what next: Nancy & Bern going to Chippendale’s? (Luann not invited).

What? Okay, Nancy’s stoned, and I guess she got Bernice stoned, too. It’s not cool that she won’t share with Luann.

How much you wanna bet D. Coverly is Anne Awful? And she’ll want to tutor Luann in the writing biz, just to get back at Tiff and Les?

Could this arc ever end. ?

I’m curious why they don’t just say what they’re reading. Grown women are allowed to own their joys, after all.

Either the author is going to turn out to be Ann Eiffel or some big slob of a guy with stubble and greasy hair.

Inappropriate and the cringe factor is through the roof here…

Nice to see Bern and Nancy bridging the generation gap. Almost makes one forget about the broken window.

His? He’ll? So the author of the chick poorn is a guy?

Inflatable dolls?

I bet D. Coverly is a female, and this book is nothing more than a “Harlequin Romance” type novel in hardcover.

Gee Luann, you’re sure taking this new bond between Nancy and Bernice pretty well.

“Inflation”… oh.. dear god no.. just no Luann. I don’t mind sexual puns getting into the comics but maybe not.. an adult woman slipping it past her teenage (If legal age) daughter. Just.. no. Please no.

Don’t have to ask WHAT is inflating. Greg is getting a little sexual here…and I like it. lol

They should be careful of the ‘speed bump’ outside the venue. Just sayin….

Okay Nancy and Bernice, get your minds out of the gutter.

So, either one of two things will happen: they will either end up knowing the author personally, or Luann will be there cause she’s secretly a fan of the books too.

Luann still thinks they are talking about tax guides. That is what Nancy and Bernice led her to believe and Luann never looked at the book yesterday. She was focused on getting something out of the refrigerator. Nancy and Bernice say the author is male and they don’t seem to be guessing.

Tomorrow’s strip: Woman at table signing books with her back to the readers; Nancy and Bernie in line waiting for an autograph. Monday: Bernie and Nancy at front of line vantage point is at their back, still can’t see the author. Tuesday: Close up of Annie Awful Eiffel’s face at the table. No reply’s please. I’m sure that I am wrong. But the length of time to see the author may be close.

They’re going to see D. Coverly at Borderline Books, the address is 9 Chickweed Lane.

I’m still surprised that Luann still doesn’t get that Mom could be into romance novellas. In this arc, she seems to be so engrossed in her own life so as not to see anything else around her.

These ladies need to re-think this decision to go meet the author. If it’s someone who doesn’t live up to their mental image, the books might never be the same for them. If it’s some handsome hunk or beautiful woman then fine, but if it’s an old geezer with nose hairs they’ll never read another issue LOL!

The stimulating position on inflation your mother is smiling about, and, Bernice is suppressing a giggle on, is FAR from the type of inflation you’re talking about, Luann. Although, I do believe you’ve experience it, once, or, twice. (The “third base” scene with Quill comes to mind.)

Boy the thoughts those ladies are cranking out! This would be a good time to give them some JD and dance for them.

I think Luann will also be a secret fan of the book and they’ll only end up realizing it when Luann shows up to the same book signing. The reaction to the inadvertent innuendo makes it obvious that Nancy and Bernice have definitely bookmarked and re-read specific pages in this book series.

Fantastic double entendre

I think the author is Frank.

I guess this confirms that Luann, despite being in the room for most of the conversation, still thinks they’re talking about tax books since that’s what she was first told. Oh well, nobody ever accused her of being very observant or perceptive.

Or maybe she’s just in denial since what Bernice and Nancy are doing is pretty weird due to the age/relationship gap.

I can hear the clutching of pearls from here! Late the prudes start with the wailing and the gnashing of the teeth.

Oooh, clever.

Definitely one for TV Tropes’ “Getting Crap Past The Radar”.

Oh my gosh, this is absurd.

But will we actually see who the author is ? There seems to be a lot of unsolved answers to recent past situations. Would be nice to get an actual answer occasionally.

People her keep saying LUANN is cluelss. She is clearly smirking after her obvious sarcastic ‘inflation’ comment, and her followup to her “Go where? To buy another tax book to snuggle up with on a cold night?” yesterday.

How do people not see that is beyond me.

Surprisingly, the Luann character hasn’t been a mover and shaker in this strip since she friend zoned Gunther at the Gulag and hooked him up with Bets!

Who is the mystery author? Bev, the lady from building permits? One of the Hall A denizens; Sun, Viper or …? Mrs. Horner, ex next-door neighbor, writing from her retirement home? Shy Fay? Margo Fogarty nee Phelps? Irma Gray nee Berger? Ann Eiffel????

The list is endless!

Luann is always so clueless

“That’s not my bag, baby!” ~Austin Powers

What until his next book comes out, its about romance on the Hindenburg

Jacqueline Susann once wrote about her pet poodle.After that it was all downhill.

Down ladies, down. Obviously you don’t want it down.

“Remember to wear diapers though. Sheesh!” Luann gets it, but knowing how h0rny her mom and BFF is still makes her a bit uncomfortable.

D. Coverly? Maybe its a She. Wouldn’t that take the wind out of their sails?

That kind of inflation creates drag making swimming slow and embarrassing.

“Why aren’t you swimming laps like usual, David”

“Too much drag at the moment. And where did you get that swimsuit?”

“It isn’t a swimsuit. It’s my tennis top.”

Later I learned she innocently did not know nylon became transparent when wet. Later she changed tops and I went back to being able to swim the length of the pool underwater on a single breath.

Life is good either way.

Since Bernice has moved in, Nancy seems to be treating her quite a bit as a confidant, rather than a as sibling to Luann. Aside from Frank, Nancy hasn’t been shown to have an adult best friend and/or confidant. Like over at FBOFW, El had a neighbor, Sue, and adult coworkers she could commiserate with..

Oh good grief. Nancy and Berniece have gotten waaay to silly. Run Luann! Trust me you don’t want to be a part of this little misadventure! Especially when the author turns out to be Fogerty!!!!

Phrasing

This is totally cringeworthy today. Run away while you can, Luann.

Bernice’s flirtation with Nil, as little as we know about it, seems to have broadened her horizons significantly.

Nancy is helping Bernice to understand that women have hormones, too, and that fantasizing in this way is safe and harmless. Harmless fantasies can help keep the spark aflame in a long-term marriage, and fantasizing about that “Bad Boy” may be better than actually going for him, as sometimes, our hormones can lead us astray.

“Speed Bump” by Dave Coverly (D. Coverly) ,a single-panel comic strip.

I don’t think I’m old enough to read this right now……

can’t wait to see what they do with vibration

Finally an interesting story arc.

Re: speculation on the author Coverly…could it be…Aaron?

I wish Luann wasn’t made the fool.

I think it’s rather sad that Luann and her mother don’t have the same close relationship.

With all that laughter to her sarcastic statements, maybe Luann might suspect something’s awry.

“Inflation” is a very specific fetish.

This has been a cute/funny arc.

Hmm. I should have followed my original plan and skipped this comic for the week. I’ll mend my error by skipping it now at least tomorrow and see if it’s improved by Sunday. i have nothing against a “risque” joke or a euphamism. G&K can certainly write whatever they like. But this is NOT what I want to read here on “Luann”. I enjoy “That is Priceless”, which is full of all kinds of bawdy humor, but I expect it to be that way. Worse than being “risque” to me are the actions and comments of the two newly crowned bimbos not only leaving Luann out of their plans, but actively making fun of what she says. I’ll now take my perhaps overly sensitive and assuredly grump self out of here. (To everyone’s relief, no doubt, lol).

Luann, the unawares Straight Man to Nan and Bernie’s raunchy fantasies….

Okay, now this has just sunk to that sort of double entendre…

Absent specific information (like a book-jacket biography), my first assumption about a writer of romance novels—especially ones that appeal to women—that she would be female—or at least pretend to be, the way some female authors have pretended to be male, like George Eliot, James Tiptree, or “U.K. Le Guin” (Ursula Le Guin’s byline for her story in Playboy). I expect that there have been some male romance authors who have enlisted female ringers for book signings.

(I always admired Thomas Pynchon, that very private person, for sending Professor Irwin Corey to accept his National Book Award for Gravity’s Rainbow.)

“The sleeper awakes” — with apologies to Duke Leto Atreides