Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 13, 2023

In the words of Jimmy Stewart, “Well this is a very interesting situation!”

This is going to get complicated.

Wow, what a twist!

Now he won’t read it.

What a cliffhanger to end the week upon! And I can’t believe how unaffected Luann is by Piro’s Bernice comment!We better not be off somewhere else come Monday!

This is going to be an awkward conversation! Since Greg has long avoided writing actual awkward situations, will Monday’s strip feature Piro telling Bernice about his story or will we pivot to something mundane? History says pivot to mundane but if Karen has taken complete control of the writing we might see Bernice blowing up long-distance.

the thick plottens!

“Starr Falling” is about Bernice?

So does that mean Bernice was his “muse” for the story?

I don’t think this is going to go well. It’s the cliff hanger, and we have to wait until Monday.

This was a twist I was not expecting.

WOW! Nobody was expecting this turn of events! I like it!

Will Bernice speak to Piro or will he hang up on her? They’ve certainly set up quite the cliff hanger.

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So does this continue on Monday or do thousands of readers riot in the streets? lol

Who’s on first….

Three ships passing in the night on the phone convo

Abruptly changing fate?

Wow, we really can’t have a single Luann arc without Bernice showing up, can we?

“**ahem** Gene, Gene, had a machine. Joe, Joe, made it go. Art, Art, let out a huge…”

Piro’s story title: How I Learned I was a Terrible Kisser Thanks to Bernice

disfunctional virgins, for the rest of their lives. except brad.

I kind of like the artwork, but what are the black, curved lines in her hair. Are they supposed to be her eyebrows?

Please G&K—let’s go back to Dez and “T’s Teas”. Also the Kip, Tiff, and Steff “triangle”.

Is Bernice going to be snarky with Piro? Hmmm ᕙ⁠ ⁠(⁠°⁠ ⁠~͜⁠ʖ⁠~⁠ ⁠°⁠)⁠ ⁠ᕗ

AWESOME! Piro’s tragic and personal story that Mrs Horner found good enough to choose is his story with Bernice!? Maybe it’s a tragic love story that tells why he had to leave without seeing her after giving her a kiss. Luann immediately understands how important this is and decides that the two absolutely need to talk. Even if she likes Piro, his happiness is more important to her and she’s happy to help her friends. I hope he can talk to her and that Bernice will listen to him. That she will be in the audience while he reads, to the great embarrassment of both perhaps, but she needs to see him. This is really a great story.

I always hate it when people I’m talking to hand the phone to someone else and say, “Here. Talk to (insert name here)” with no warning. And it’s usually someone I really don’t feel like talking to.

You raise up your head And you ask, “Is this where it is?”

And somebody points to you and says “It’s his”

And you say, “What’s mine?” And somebody else says, “Where what is?”

And you say, “Oh my God Am I here all alone?”

Piro wrote a whole story about Bernice? This I gotta see.

Okay, no need to panic.

There is no reason to think that Walt will actually mention Bernice’s name when he reads his story about her.

And if that’s the case, then only people at the fair who’ll know the story is about Bernice will be Walt.

And Luann.

And Bernice, certainly.

And Tiffany, maybe. But she won’t care because she’ll be too busy trying to spirit Kippie away from Steffie.

So, it’s all good.

But real winner will be Nil.

Walt’s about to do him a big, BIG, favor……….., ;-)

The fellows in this comic have in several instances now…. fallen for Bernice. And, truthfully, I can understand why.

Regardless of what all the anti-Bernice crowd says, Bernice is attractive physically, emotionally, and mentally to a lot of guys. I know she would have been the type of girl I would have been drawn to (hah, pun…. not intended) at that age.

Just like a lot of young people her age (hell, I would say nearly all her age), Bernice is “trying on” a lot of different “hats” as she figures out who she wants to be. She is not perfect at it… sometimes she is a bit uptight, sometimes she is portraying “knowing it all” when in fact even she knows she doesn’t, and on and on.

But…. at her CORE, she is a kind, careful, thoughtful young girl who WANTS to do good in life for herself AND for OTHERS. And she is leaning and trying to figure out HOW to be that.

THAT is attractive. That is why I think Nil finds her his muse…. and why now we find that she was a muse for Piro too.

Didn’t see that coming

Oh no! I slit a sheet.

Someone needs to teach that girl some decorum.

what exactly is a surprise to many commenters here? Unexpected development? really? It’s exactly what one would have expected reading the past few weeks of strips. :-/

Monday starts an arc with Shannon being hyper

Piro…has a story about Bernice………?

Pretty outfit. Interesting subject matter. Bernice is unforgotten.

The most shocking thing about this comic is that Luann would make a phone call right before she is going onstage! Who does that? Of course the phone call will be interrupted and she will not be prepared to read in front of the audience. Really dumb thing to do.

Piro seems to bring out really good traits in Luann. Supportive, helpful, caring. No jealousy or issue with him possibly connecting with Bernice again.

On the other hand, I can’t stand the thought of Bernice being Piro’s muse. There will be no living with the girl if she finds out she has inspired not only an artist but now a writer LOL!

70/30 that we get a new arc on Monday.

I don’t think Piro is romantically interested in Bernice. I think she had some effect on his thinking and life when she let him spend the night in her dorm and he wants to thank Bernice for that. Bernice inspired Piro in some way, but he doesn’t want to date her.

My only hope all this time is that Piro does a good job in his reading, that he summons the strength to stand up in front of the audience and read his story. If he can just lock his eyes on someone he knows (sitting out there) that might work. Luann is reading first so she could then go out and sit in the front row or maybe now it will be Bernice who gives him that final bit of confidence.

We still don’t know if Bernice is there. I’d be surprised if she isn’t. Maybe he’s grateful that she was the reason he got help from a therapist.

I am trying to interpret Piro’s expression in the last panel. The corners of his mouth are going down. Does he see Bernice on Luann’s phone? is she at Nil’s booth wearing that ‘over-the-top’ bohemian muse outfit w/ hat?

Such good writing, drawing, story-telling, involving our name character and the mysterious Walt/Piro with a PATENTED MISDIRECTION PLAY! I spent a careful few minutes yesterday constructing my projection that this all portends a passionate revealing love affair, for Lu and W/P, given that Bern put herself out of connection to W/P, but this development puts them, as a couple back in play. The hilarious ramifications of this arc became suddenly even more interesting. But remember there is Bets, Gunther, and the Irma/Al issue, including Tiffany, and at least one or two other fraught issues, waiting to be resolved. Buckle up!

It seems very weird that Piro and Luann would get to this point without Luann having any idea at all what Piro’s story was about.

great timing

Surprise outcome: Luann’s humorous story gets nothing but crickets; Piro’s gets laughs.

“What can you say about a girl who still thinks boys have cooties? Her name was Bernice…”

Luann, how could you? You were doing so well with Piro and then you pull THIS?! I’m so disappointed. : /

a new arc please, i’ll even take the female con artist, Eyefull.

Knock em dead Luuann.

So NOW we know what was in Piros note to Bee.

Sunday: TJ and Brad scheme …

And now, the song Killing Me Softly comes to mind…

If Bernice is in the audience she isn’t going to hear Luann’s reading because someone called her, and then threw their phone at Piro. Wierd.

She totally threw him under the bus.

Poor Bernie. What? Never mind. Luann will find a way to a bad outcome for everyone involved!

Well,you can’t fly so you’d better be down there