Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 20, 2012

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    Cinquefoil  about 12 years ago

    What’s with Luann’s head?

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    Skababa  about 12 years ago

    How many girls actually reacted that way to the idea of bodily changes? Most of my friends just seemed uncomfortable and afraid that their periods would ruin their lives.

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    Harryfan  about 12 years ago

    At that age, if the periods stop, then you life is ruined.

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    jwkhutto  about 12 years ago

    Is Greg adams on vacation? What’s with the re-runs?

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    seyleigh  about 12 years ago

    At age thirteen? I already looked like this by thirteen. Except now I have less acne. Where did she get that ridiculous fact? Most of the girls I know where already at least somewhat developed by thirteen.

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    wiselad  about 12 years ago

    Greg talks about the play at his blog, at the image where it says “around the web” click at the blog symbol

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    Packer12  about 12 years ago

    Think I’ll check back in a month or so and see if this Bull is done with. Not in the least bit funny (but when is it ever). Still going to lay off of it for awhile.

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    screi49  about 12 years ago

    good grief what a bunch of Clint Eastwoods here..eat some prunes or something..

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    Gerry Lee  about 12 years ago

    The strip was really different back then… though I often criticize the characters (not so much the strip itself, just the sometime infuriating people that populate it:) ) I am realizing now there are a lot of things I really like about the current strip. Though, before this trip down memory lane ends, I would like to see Tiffany as a kid…

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    Sisyphos  about 12 years ago

    Poor Luann. Bernice’s science text, however, seems outdated, as girls on average reach puberty a good deal earlier than 13 nowadays (around 10 to 11 is said to be average for the beginning of puberty in girls).

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    danedsmith55  about 12 years ago

    What is that round thing laying on the floor there?the one with the square cover.

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    kc2idv  about 12 years ago

    Enough of vintage already. This just reminds us the Luann is really over 37 years old (must be related to Dick Clark)

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    Mordock999  about 12 years ago

    So, Luann was what, about 13 THEN?

    And she’s 16 MAYBE 17 NOW?

    And She’s STILL not learned how to CLEAN-UP Her Friggin’ Room?!!?

    Heck, She DOESN’T need a “Pretty-Boy” but someone with a LOT Patience and Tolerance.

    …….like that Gunther Guy…..,

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    gobblingup Premium Member about 12 years ago

    As much as I didn’t want to, I had the “period” talk with my 9 year old daughter this past week. One of her classmates got her period last year in third grade and I knew I had to have the talk before she found out other ways.Kids are developing earlier these days. 13 is no longer relevant.

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    uncledad_99  about 12 years ago

    He has lost me as a reader, I was hoping to get back to weenie world.

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    RayThomas101  about 12 years ago

    I’ll be glad when the artist gets back. I hate this art. Maybe they could rerun some more recent strips.

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    Train 1911  about 12 years ago

    me too

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    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member about 12 years ago

    It’ll be back to the present on Monday, peoples.

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    LeoAutodidact  about 12 years ago

    Don’t worry Luann, you turned out FINE!

    (Bernice still needs to figure out what to do with her hair, though.)

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    axsiter  about 12 years ago

    Still Suxx

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    angusdad  about 12 years ago

    Is it just me, or does Bernice in these older strips looks a lot alike to Knute today?

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    jonnijones  about 12 years ago

    Greg has always ignored the continuity of his strip. Sometimes he intentionally changes posters and signs in a box to match the idea of the frame. It’s great. Like playing “Where are the Differences?” or “Where’s Waldo?” :)

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    jaksiemash  about 12 years ago

    where is teri daytona & brad. is she spending the night yet ? who cares about the past

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    yangeldf  about 12 years ago

    the process takes nearly 10 years, hurts, and will drive you literally insane for short spans of time (longer for others)

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    evergrey  about 12 years ago

    I think I started puberty at age 9 or 10. Maybe he’s thinking about males?I don’t remember being excited about it either, heh!

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    evergrey  about 12 years ago

    Oh, and I was born in 1979. :p

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    BlitzMcD  about 12 years ago

    Those hormones must be moving a bit slow, given that was 1988 and she’s still in high school….

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    reedkomicks Premium Member about 12 years ago

    You may not ever read this, but I love you today for your 2 funny responses to Kenneth and Jim.

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    mik1of3  about 12 years ago

    I don’t believe that. Not every female takes birth control…but almost every female eats / consumes bovine dairy.

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    drewpamon  about 12 years ago

    first period occurs at 12.5 years old in the united states on average. A lot of you people don’t seem to understand the concept of average. This means that many girls will have periods after 12.5 years and many will have it before. In a perfect bell curve you would expect half happening before and half after but life rarely matches a perfect curve and it could be that many are having it before and a few are having it way after. Just because you read stories about girls having periods at 9 or younger doesn’t make that the new normal in fact that you are reading the story at all makes it evident that it is abnormal. (no one writes a story about all the buildings that don’t burn down in a day). In every decade from 1840 to 1950 there was a drop of four months in the average age of menarche among Western European females. I find it hard to believe that that is explained by artificial hormones in the milk they drink I think it is much more likely due to an increase in nutrition during that time. I know we like to act like to is an outrage that girls are getting their periods and entering puberty at younger ages but from a purely biological/evolutionary ideal the younger a girl can give birth to a healthy baby the better her genes have of being passed on to the next generation (otherwise known as biological success) a girl who is able to get pregnant but does not have access to sufficient fat stores will be more likely to lose the baby/ die in child birth, otherwise known as biological failure.

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