Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 18, 2024

Luann, I wouldn’t Trust a word that is coming out of either of their mouths. They just want to use you. Walk away!

The funny thing is.. All of those business names sound WAY better than BATUBS.

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Will Luann fall for their snake oil?

They are trying really really hard to convince themselves that it’s not a lame-o idea.

Luann, exposed this for what it really is, a bunch of hogwash!!!

Well to be honest, Tiff As Nails was working until Luann’s “Pal,” Gruppenfuhrer Bernice Halper, shut it down.

But Hey. Just tell the BATUB Crew that you’re NOT interested, Luann.

And POINT then in the direction of Bernice, ;-)

Just trust your own instincts, Luann, and tell them to find another guinea pig…

The label is all, apparently. Nothing else needs to change.

Oh for the… this strip has had some odd couples in the past. But these two top the list.

When is Bernice gonna come in to “set everything straight”?

Next week, TJ an Les start their own branding business. Afterwards everone is branded a ‘victim’

To be a success you have to come up with a product the customer really wants or else convince the customer (via advertising and more) that this is something they really want.

They failed at both points.

Betcha only person who’d be interested in their product is Stefani. She’s so superficial she’d be fascinated with the idea of having her own brand.

The meaning of BOFFO is extremely successful : sensational. I had to look it up. Luann is getting wiser and standing up to Bets and Tiffany. She knows they are full of bull. I hope she doesn’t change her mind because I want to see Luann mature.

Airheads leading an airhead.

Is this an extended April Fool’s joke?

Batubs. Both sides lead to a shallow end.

Somebody wake me when this is over ….

Heaven help us.

Amazing how the Bernice hate seeps over into this arc where she isn’t even mentioned.

This has really gotten soooooo boring!!!!

No, they’re Marketing Majors. Take something no one really wants, and convince them it’s the “thing to do”.

One of Bets’s ideas will make her rich and successful. This is not it.

Luann, you’d better walk away from them.

They’ve created several slogans but zero brands. Maybe what they need to do is slogan creations. Hey, new business name!

As idiotic as those two mouthbreather wannabe ‘entreprenours’ sound…they are a vivid illustration of current-day business philosophy: “no matter how stupid, pointless, worthless, illegal, immoral, exploitative, or just plain wrong something is – if there’s MONEY in it…I’LL-DO-IT I’LL-DO-IT I’LL-DO-IT!!!!”

Hmmm, I don’t know if their business savviness can be trusted. They didn’t say “let’s circle back” or “engagement” once…

They’ll always be “Bathtubs” to me.

I like this crazy conversation. Luann tries to understand what Tiffany and Bets want to do and sees that they don’t have a clear, marketable, idea at all. Luann answer to everything they say using logic, but the two are too eager and don’t seem to really know that Beta tests are used to find the mistakes in an idea. Let’s hope Luann can calm them down. Maybe inviting them inside her house, making them drink some water and sit-down. Then, a reasonable discussion could begin.

Boring…

I’m convinced Bets is bats**t crazy.

These young ladies are crazy, but that’s what comic strips are for! I love it!

since this is just a concept test they better not ask for any money

Well of course they know what they’re doing – they’re “business majors”. Just like Bernice is always saying she’s a “psyche major”. All of these arrogant college students seem to think they have enough knowledge to impact other people’s lives.

Just have some fun and humor them Luann. Give really strange, bizarre, off the wall answers to their questions. They aren’t smart enough to make you agree to employ their results.

tiffany looks like a dick tracy villian

Tiff and Betts sound like Trump and his failed companies. I wager Batubs will be a startup that won’t last either.

I’d say they’re still in the workshopping phase for Batubs. ;-)

I’m still not quite sure whether Tiffany is being stupid or ironic, but it’s no surprise at all to see Bets selling “snake oil.”

Betts discontinued her social media brand to concentrate on her relationship with Gunther outside of her fans glare. “T’s” Tea failed because, although Roz grows spectacular tasting teas, they couldn’t stand up to Tiffany’s hype. Wasn’t “Tiff As Nails” some sort of fashion manicuring idea? I don’t recall why that failed?

What is BOFFO Brands. Did I miss something?

Too many slogans. Please stop, Tiffany.

There business model should be to just give clients a copy of What Color Is Your Parachute and charge them $500.

OMG run Luann run for the hills.

This whole boring side trip is about losing me for good.

Bets and Tiff consider the brand to be essential to their cyber self image rather than content. Some influencers may become influenced by their followers in order to maintain their electronic ego. Luann is definitely not into all that.

More holy crap….well crap………

They need to shift their business to creating slogans. THAT seems to be their forte.

It just occurred to me that’s exactly how ridiculous some ads on TV sound. If I hear the women singing the A1C song again I’ll scream.

If Luann doesn’t want their business for free, what makes them think other people will be willing to pay $500 for it?

BATUBS aka B and Tubs?!! So Bets is the B and Tiff is Tubs!!

They have the wrong major, perhaps marketing and advertising would be better. Life coaching is beyond them.

Bets just needs to go back to social media

Oh Dear GOD! SAVE us from “Business Majors”!

Even if they do come up with a great Brand for Luann, how would she actually change to become that? If anyone could change to be a better, more successful person, they would have done it already.

A certain part of the population has been falling for snake oil sales pitches since the wild west days. It never ends ( and NO, I am NOT talking about politicians). Used care salesmen are the worst.

There’s no way this will end well, but I can’t help but love how they both aren’t giving up on pursuing their dreams and are supportive of each other on the whole branding thing. I don’t know why, it’s just cute to me!

I have a degree in business management and I have no business managing anyone’s image or brand.

This is getting beyond silly.

Bets and Tiffany certainly did NOT quit their previous ventures to focus on Luann. She is a little naive, but even Luann will know Bets is lying.

They keep saying BATUBS but how is it pronounced? Like BAY-TUBBS (a mashup of Baywatch and Miami Vice — these two could be Crocker and Tubbs)? or BATT-TUBES? Or what?

Sounds like they’d be better at ADVERTISING!

Ewwwww! MBA speak! Exactly why I never pursued an MBA.

Lame.

“Sure, we ran them into the ground, but at least we ran them. Banks will lend money to people who have failed sooner than they will lend money to people who have never yet tried.”

The blind leading the blind. Obviously you can’t ‘rebrand’ someone when you need to work on yourself first. No one has it all together in college.

I still say it sounds like Bath-tubs

1. Ahem, Luann. Tiff didn’t just up and quit her nail thing. It was quite successful. Your power-tripping bestie Bernice, pulling rank as an RA, shut it down.

2. “Tiffany and Bets are quitters” says the woman who has thrown in the towel at everything she’s tried at the first setback.

“Boffo,” now there’s a word I have not heard in some time.

The answer to your question in panel 2 Luann, is “No”.

Tiffany didn’t actually quit her nail business, it got shut down by a power tripping fun hating R.A nazi.

So far, I hear a lot of slogans and platitudes, but nothing of substance.

This is only legit if no money is exchanged. And the “batubs” name sounds horrible.

There is one possibility still very much on the board.

It was hard to miss the very pointed way it was shown that this started out with Tiffany coming home from work (late?) in the evening, with a very important branding assignment due more than ASAP.

And we’ve seen Tiff galavanting around still in her work clothes. Pursuing a less than well thought out branding idea with a wacky concocted name…

Will this all wind up with Tiff konked out at her laptop, then waking up from a dream?

You lost me at, “We’re business majors.” Thanks, I’ll take my chances with our new AI robot overlords instead.

Business Majors? How about a vaudeville show?

All they are doing is collecting cliches. And aggravating Luann.

still doesn’t answer Luann’s question.

They do have the verbal diarrhea market cornered.

Is there any character in this strip that could be thought of as the main, or leading character? I think not.