Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 16, 2025

Possible career, English Nanny?

Well, Bernice is scoring some major points with Piro.

So is Bernice hoping to start a romance with him?

I remember the last time when she kissed him.. she felt absolutely nothing. So what changed?

Huh, comic’s a minute early again, cool. Anyway, it would seem those sparks between Bernice and Piro are starting to fizzle up again. I’m being pulled back to a couple of years ago when Piro gave that speech and alluded to one person who helped get through all of the hardships he faced without mentioning Bernice by name, but Bernice knew he was talking about her.

It seems that Bernice is still Piro’s focal point as a rescuer, despite how little she has done to earn it. I suppose we can compare her role in this to her previous one as a ’muse".

“But you’re taking care of me. Much harder.” That’s what she said.

Weird start to a romance, but whatever,…..

Piro get a clue. Luann is making it easy on you by alleviating your worries about who is going to take care of the kids. Bernice couldn’t do it and she would run out at the drop of a hat leaving Luann holding the bag.

Wayching 6 kids, who you have never seen before and at home is not the same as being with a group of kids around the same age in a facility that was made for this purpose.

And someone on another site said he would be thanking Bernice not Luann. Since we still have Friday and Saturday, it would not surprise me if Bernice ran down to the hospital to hold Piro’s hand.

I assume pa DeGroot is at work and ma DeGroot is at the Fuse. I wonder what will happen when they return home and find “they are running an uninsured daycare” gratis Bernice (who may not be there). Especially if one or two of them could teach Shannon a thing or two!

Gotta admire Bernice here; she’s rightfully giving Luann the credit for taking care of the kids—especially Alan! It looks to me that both girls are finally growing up.

Piro is buttering up Bernice like he’s some kind of con artist, totally ignoring that Luann is doing the hard work of keeping his sibs out of trouble.

Gawd (eyeroll)

I think an opposites attract thing is happening here. Take it from a hippie and her Viet Nam vet who fell in love with each other, Luann will not have anything to do with this budding relationship other than to watch and hopefully be happy for Bernice and Piro.

Luann does the HARD work, Bernice gets all the Credit.

Sheesh.

trauma bond alert!!!

Okay, we have a great romance here. Hospital E.R. waiting rooms at night, snacking on potato chips and nasty coffee from vending machines, maybe even grabbing a hot dog at some gas station on the way home. A bleak future if these two stay together.

So, talking to a guy on the phone is MUCH HARDER than entertaining feral children for hours?

Who wrote this crap??

Meanwhile, Frank checks in on th home camera system an finds the house more packed than The Fuse

What changed was that Luann came dangerously close to having a romance arc, which would have made her the center of attention for a while. Karen simply would never stand for that.

I thought I’d make a list of the characters I don’t hate in this strip.First of all, I love Luann, it’s why I keep coming back to this strip even when for the last decade she hasn’t been treated well.

I don’t hate Knute, Crystal or Delta who are no longer part of the strip. I liked Knute for his irreverence to all things excepting Crystal. I liked Crystal because she was very centered and very chic.

I liked Delta before she became a one-note character. I’d still like to see her back, just a bit less of the SJW thing.

I like Gunther, Dez and Jack, who are never used enough. Dez is a centering earthmother, Gunther is, or can be a sensible hard working character, Jack, too, is a sensible, thoughtful character, He would make a good sounding board for Luann.

Bets is OK as long as she’s not doing something stupid. Tiffany I remember as the villain during Luann’s high school days so I don’t have a lot of sympathy for.

TJ and Tara were both created to get Brad and Luann in trouble so I have little love for either. You have to go back to the early days of TJ to see what I mean about them.

There are a lot of characters that can be used in these stories but too often stories devolve to Luann and Bernice or Tiffany v Stef,

Stories need a goal, something the main character is working towards, overcoming obstacles in their way. Too often I find these stories to be about obstacles but no clear sense of any goals.

Piro is not a character to pin any hopes on. He takes on too much, is always burdened with problems.

Luann should give Piro Jonah’s address and tell him that Jonah is willing to babysit other people’s kids at any time for any reason…. Don’t bother calling ahead…. The best way is to just show up and drop them on his doorstep, then leave…

I wouldn’t say that, Luann is doing an amazing job with the kids and they can be exhausting.