Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 01, 2023

You can get the fish food after the party, Bernice! You don’t want to be so late that you miss the whole pool party.

On a side note.. I’d like to say RIP to Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman. He passed away at the age of 70 after battling cancer for 6 years. He was a unique person and talented comedian. I absolutely LOVED watching Pee Wee’s Big Adventure when I wasa kid. He will be missed.

And the predictable bickerfest

You can stop on the way home.

Get the fish food, fashionably late is a thing.

The main difference I see is that Luann had no way to predict her hair would resist going up and take extra time, whereas Bernice knew she was out of fish food and could have predicted she would need more months ago.

This is getting goofy. And it’s only Tuesday.

Get the fish food on the way home from the pool party, Bernie.

OMG just turn the car around and go home.

Bernice you can get your fish food after not before you don’t want to show up late.

Arguments aside, they should stop for fish food.

They’ve been together so long ( 20, 30 years?), that they bicker loke an old married couple.

It’d be funny if they showed up an hour late an no one else showed up. Jus Tif and Kippy gettin it on in the poolhouse cause they thought no one else was showin up

Durned fools they shoulda closed the door

What? Did Bernice bring the fish with her or does she expect a feeding detour as well? Why stop now?

B, there’ll be no stopping without the magic word. Didn’t your parents teach you any manners?

New car – 2 seater?

What if Jack and Nil are the party? Or Piro makes an appearance? Or no one important like TJ?

More like contrasting than comparing.

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water -———————”

Anyone want to wager that by the time these two divas show up at Tiff’s manse, the party will be over?

The front license plate would have been a great place to put “Greg” and the date. Otherwise, can’t they just stop at the pet store on the way home?

But Luann did get her ponytail to cooperate. Will something happen in the pet store – besides just buying fish food ?

Comparing fashion to fish? Well, there are certain similarities.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/golden-globes-fashion-trend-2012-fishtail-dresses-vs-fish-photos

Luann should get to the pool party ASAP. Then Bernice could find someone else to annoy.

She has a point Bernice. You were gripping with her about how she should hurry up and do her hair

Come on, Luann. You don’t look any different with that hairdo. If you want to look different, do something different with it, go to a hairstylist. Or Tiffany. She fixed Bernice’s bland hair to this cute style. A ponytail does not make you look cuter or different or anything. Look at Toni. Whether she wears her hair in ponytail or loose, she looks the same. Time for you to nicely ask Greg or a college-aged hairstyle – that you’re done with this high school hair.

Luann is trying to compare something important to her with something important to Bernice… Sometimes I get the impression she don’t realize how much her best friend is self-absorbed and feels superior to her. Or she understands this, but she always hopes it not like that. A ponytail looks really good on her and don’t drastically change her look. I hope Luann changes her hairstyle more often, maybe because she’ll start going to parties more often.

Fashion first

What is the humor in Luann’s comment to the humorless Bernice? A waste of panels…

Bernice’s request.. is resonable, she just wants to stop real quick. They’ll likely be tired on the way back if the party goes on a while and simply wants to get it now so she dosen’t have to worry about it. Yet it speaks to how utterly intolerable the character has become when she can’t even accept Luann UNDERSTANDABLY razzing her over it. Luann wasn’t even saying no outright, she was just mocking Bernice after Bernice likely spent half an our whining for luann to get ready… and instead tries to frame it like Luann hates her fish or something.

Oh, good golly. What would any of us do without a Best Friend?

Compromise and go see the ‘Barbie’ movie?

Typical friend chatter. Tomorrow the fun starts.

Drop Bernice off at Betty’s Pets and then drive off without her.

Bernice, you are so entitled and indecisive. Just wait until the party is over to get fish food.

Will the store still be open after the party? If so get it later. If not, get the food. You don’t let a pet go hungry.

WWA❤️ED? Stop on the way home for fish food after calling Door Dash to go over and feed the finny little critters while they are at Dippy Kippy’s Skinny Dip. Still, anxiously awaiting the moment when The NEW IMPROVED ❤️Eiffelette Sexy❤️Luann sheds the Target one piece and rocks her Victoria Secret string thong bikini. Woo hoo, boy howdy! Tuff Tiff will also be sporting one, of course, and not impossible screaming hawt Stef will turn up wearing one, too! And a good time will be had by all! Well, some. The Insight Fairy has yet to wave her Magic Wand over Bernoose’s head and Dippy Kippy and Pedro will be… playing that game trying to toss bean bags into holes on an inclined board. The Count wants to make that perfectly clear and not be misunderstood by some filthy minded lowly worm… we know who you are. Yet another day saved by Our Heroine Ann❤️Eiffel, boy howdy. What in Heaven’s name would we do without Wise Ann❤️Eiffel to guide us? After a bit of face time twerking their cheeks at the pool, ❤️Eiffelettes Sexy❤️Luann, Tuff❤️Tiff and Hawt❤️Stef will join the rest of the gang Stalking the Wild Shoog Daddies. With that… adieu unworthy lowlies… Gotta Run, Hon… TTFN… Count OUT. P.S. We all ❤️ Ann❤️Eiffel, The Woman all men want and all women want to be like. Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day and let’s be safe out there, kids.

Childhood friendships sometimes come to an end.

Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) was also a pervert, exposing himself to others.

I can only wish that Sgt. Phil Fish from Barney Miller would go up to Bernice and yell her name at her like he did to his wife and cause her to shut up forever. LOL

I’m with LeAnn here. Bernice griping about being 12 minutes late, then demanding an extra stop that will likely end up taking at least 20 minutes (because somehow these errands always do), is wildly annoying. But it’s convenient for HER, so it’s okay in her book.

Bernice’s transformation into a cantankerous elder has been quite a rapid process for someone only 20 years old! Being both aggressively impatient and contradictorily demanding when it’s her sidetracking whims/flights-of-fancy is something you’d usually mainly see in depictions of someone 4x her age whose lost the need to filter niceties.

Here, Bernice reminds me of grumpy old Eustace from Courage the Cowardly Dog with treating Luann like she’s stupid, useless, and dragging her down while still feeling entitled to Luann to be her personal chauffeur. (Like how Eustace is rotten to Courage and while Courage does all the work)

I am afraid that this will continue to be just be Luann and Bernice and their constant arguing. It could be funny (but annoying) if they have one mishap after another and never make it to the pool party. Just think of all the things that could happen – Luann just absolutely having to get something to drink at the convenience store, going back to the convenience store because she forgot to get gas, after that maybe a flat tire, or maybe even a family of ducks in the road….plenty of possibilities for the whole week! Since Luann never finishes anything she starts, there’s no reason to think she will ever actually arrive at the party, and since it’s so much fun to witness constant bickering, I think I’ll go visit my ex.

If you have already established what kind of fish food you feed old Gizmo (read in the voice of Matt Berry on What we do in the Shadows) then you pop in the store, go right o the shelf, pick it up, pay for it, skedaddle back to the car, 10 minutes bam!

Bernice must have fish food for one more day. She is not the type to run out of something before she buys more.

Aren’t the voice balloons mixed up in today’s strip? Doesn’t make sense to me.

Since it’s now been mentioned two days in a row, I just thought I’d say that I got a chuckle of how with the recent change in British rulers, “dinner with the king” has replaced “tea with the queen” as THE important social event :)

Her hair is cute like that!

The authors sure do spend an inordinate amount of time writing about two people who clearly despise one another.

She’s also uncomplimenting for a fish.

Bernice is a drip. Plus quite unbeliveable as a character. I don’t know anyone that annoying IRL. Or maybe I just walk away from ppl like her.

’Betty’s Pets’

I didnt know Gregs wife ran a pet store. His wifes name is Betty in real life

It would’ve been more reasonable to discuss stopping for fish food before leaving and not making a big deal about her friend’s hair but we’re talking about young people who are still figuring out life and testing boundaries. If B was as bad as people say, she would be much more unreasonable and L would have sent her packing long ago.

Monstro wanted to swim in a large body of water for a change.

So he hopped a cab and got to Tiff’s ahead of them.

You can’t have it both ways Bernice.

Alternate dialogue for Luann in last panel. “I’ve got some good news and some bad news, Bernice. The bad news is you’re fish died. The good news is that we’re going to have a fish fry. Do you like it tartar sauce?”

dumpabern happ in future, mebbe?

Leaving something as important as fish food till the last minute is likely very uncharacteristic for someone like Bernice.

I’m beginning to agree that G&K are really stretching for material. Maybe it’s time to let Luann and friends grow up a bit – PLEASE! – or to let them go.

I’m a long-time and loyal Luann fan, but this is getting so annoying that I may have to let.

I think these two need some time apart.

What is that hairdo anyway? Is it part ponytail, part down? Did she cut some of it short? It looks weird.

I wonder if we’d get lucky enough for this arc to show Bernice, jumping out of the car, while it’s still moving, and she gets stuck on the front end of an 18-wheeler, heading for the far reaches of Canada.

Luann’s Little Red Car is looking rather like a Fiat 500, though not all details match (shape of headlights, etc.). Unfortunately, it is big enough to accommodate Bernie. More fortunately, selfish Bernie insists on a stop at the pet store to buy fish food! Let her out, Lulu. Then, drive off as fast as your urban-mobile can accelerate….

Hey Bernice — there are no fish in Tiff’s swimming pool. Duh