Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 16, 2023

How is a newspaper a hardship Luann asks.

Oh listen to Luann and her First World Problems.

Luann looks confused… What’s that paper thing Dad is handing me??

So will the Love Tea continue on Monday or do we get a new arc?

LOL, he thinks Luann has a short attention span, and out of sight, out of mind.

I hear you Luann.

Dad: “Here, Luann, I’ll trade you 2 toxic train wrecks and a Chinese spy balloon for your wad of tissue.”

“There’s a sale at Penney’s!”

Reality check.

Luann lives in her own universe, not this one!!!

Happens to me every time…It’s not just you.

“One more hardship in life” is what one would say sarcastically when complaining about something that minor. Frank’s reaction seems too harsh because Luann was just making light of it.

Is that paper open to the want ads?

Why can’t we get Luann to have good things in life and a character development? Or atleast a loving relationship?

In grade school – many moons ago – I was overheard by a teacher while complaining about something. She said to me, “I once complained about not having any shoes, until I met a man without any feet.”

Smartass fifth-grader’s response: “Yeah, but the guy with no feet wouldn’t need any shoes; I would.”

(This was in the days when corporal punishment was authorized, and it was utilized regularly. Guess what happened.)

However, I still think it was the correct response.

It’s so annoying when you open a newspaper and you cannot get out the first issue without a whole big ad coming out that you have to try and stuff back in (or you can’t read the headlines).

One’s life must be pretty easy if tissue box trouble gets labeled as “hardship” rather than “annoyance” or “irritation.”

Lu is right about the tissue box. I think it’s intentionally manufactured that way so that people waste more.

I take the “wad” and put it in my pocket, for later use. Not rocket science; you’re gonna use it eventually!

What is that thing dad is looking at?

Nice, yet perhaps a bit too subtle, way to get Luann to gain perspective, Frank.

I do miss reading an actual newspaper. It was a much different experience than the electronic methods I now use to obtain news. Most remaining newspapers in my region are poor facsimiles of a “news”paper these days. About every other week I will splurge on a Sunday New York Times. That is still… a real newspaper…. and I will slowly work through it across an entire afternoon. Very pleasant.

A newspaper… how 1990s-ish. Problems from the 1990s… seem trivial compared to 2023. Dollar Insolvency, anybody? Bank bail outs. Sending billions to Ukraine. Anybody want a Bud Light to wash down their problems?

Is Frank trying to put the paper in the box?

Everything is relative.

More like tearing the first tissue to shreds getting it out, rendering it useless. the cube box es are the worst.

Syndication is killing newspapers these days. Thank goodness in South Carolina. We still have some local newspapers.

Well, Frank is either showing Luann about other hardships, or she is about to sneeze and is covering the unused was.

Frank, that’s too much!

Frank’s Booming again.

First-World problems…. Luann, be glad that you even HAVE access to paper tissues and you don’t have to blow your nose on a freaking corn cob…Also, that you are able to drink the water right from the tap without boiling it first, and you don’t have to do your laundry by beating it on a rock by the river…

Life is made up of petty annoyances. Then you die.

Ah- HA!!!

See?

SEE?

I Told you that the biggest “problem” with Luann these days is that she is NOT facing enough REAL adversity in her life! And the writers just verified it!

“Wadded tissues,” indeed.

And Lu? That’s by design so the tissue companies can sell you MORE tissues. ;-)

It is frustrating when you wind up pulling a half dozen tissues out in tatters before they dispense properly. I press down on the tissues to compress them a bit before extracting the first one; that process is of dubious efficacy.

Sundays strips are always different.

Today is Charlie Chaplin’s Birthday. Can you imagine a hook up between Charlie Chaplin and Ann❤️Eiffel? WOW… just WOW.

What is that large piece of paper that Frank is holding? Seems to have printing on it. perhaps describing newsworthy events that would normally be listened to on a device… Is Frank paying homage to the past or is he an early adopter? I’m so very confused…

Yes. Luann, let your father show the real hardships in life. If you remember how to read a newspaper.

The cure for ‘first world problems’.

Clueless Luann.

Still waiting to see what Pyro wrote to Bernice…….

Exactly…

That’s the way I feel about the ‘struggle’ to determine what gender to be today. Sorry to all I’ve offended, but it just seems so trivial when basic survival is a real struggle for so many.

My mother and I have that same problem. We just put the extra tissues lying on top of the box and use those next time. Problem solved.

Being dead is the worst thing that can happen to anyone, so nobody gets to complain until after they die.

Or you can’t even get the first one out without tearing it.

What? Didn’t break a nail on the perforated seal? No complaints about how hard it is to blow your nose without Mommy’s help?

yes… some things (most) are more important than the kleenex coming out of the box.

Luann has no clue about hardship.

Another shooting yesterday in Louisville and one this morning in Alabama. Blood sacrifice for Second Amendment.

I’m not sure I would classify it a hardship but it is an annoyance.

i wouldn’t call it a hardship but it is annoying

Just another First World problem…

Cry me a river…..

When I was a kid and my dad and I would go get the Sunday papers, I’d start reading (aloud) the headlines of the paper on top, and Dad would turn the bundle over so the comics were on top. I didn’t understand why he did that.

That’s not as bad as starting a role of toilet paper that has no detectable beginning point.

Life is filled with little annoyances. Some people’s lives are filled with real world problems. And approximately 50 million people are living in slavery today. Perspective.

HUH?

“Would you like to read about REAL hardship?”

Good to see Luann making an appearence in her comic strip.

It feels like basically every interaction Luann has with anyone in this strip anymore is just to make her look stupid/selfish/lazy.

The way I’m seeing it, Frank isn’t merely covering up the tissue box, he’s letting Luann see the headlines so that she might realize that there are people with much bigger problems than the one she’s complaining about. Frank is helping her to put her problem, or, annoyance, in its proper perspective.

Clueless Luann lives in her own tiny bubble of a universe. Frank is trying to open her eyes, but I fear that’s a Lost Cause….

She said one more, not that it’s the only