Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 15, 2019

Sigh! Again there’s no picture.

???

Bummer.

Hey! Maybe this is the new arc for this week.

Greg did a snow / whiteout strip like this a few years ago, I think on a Christmas Day.

You could always go here https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/luann/ and come back to write your comments.

Yes. The temptation was too great, so I did go to arcamax. Yup! More camping. And I can’t believe how close I came to predicting the return of the camping arc and the cold stew. I drew this on Sunday morning. Art is a bit rough, since I didn’t use a pencil sketch underneath. Call it the Luann Camping Trip Parody. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3P0L_3SIgwY/XSt0sCe4IJI/AAAAAAAABXk/64tencwIPagyyBAqupBoIaQ1j-uL9Zo2QCLcBGAs/s1600/luann%2Bcamp1.jpg

OMG they finally drew some nudity, didn’t they?

This is Evans’ funniest strip ever.

While still being played for cheap laughs (like a Shannon arc), it’s still better than last week’s installment.

(And I am a Shannon fan)

Chaos abounds!!

You can find Luann on the Arcamax website.

Perhaps tonight’s comic shows Dez and company being eaten by bears and the editors didn’t want us to see it.;D

Dez pulled the plug.

Now we have found out the real meaning of comic strip – the site was stripped of the comic. Still nothing at midnight Pacific time…

Blizzard hits the campers. Whiteout conditions. Luann builds an igloo while dressed like Colonel Sanders. Dez runs out nekkid and makes snow angels. Bernie swallows her phone and switches her report to the inner workings of her own GI tract.

“Viewing time expired. Please deposit 25 cents for the next three minutes”.

I don’t see anything, just white space.

Where can I buy this print?

Yes, it’s about being the right stuff. And having spoons – gotta have the spoons!

Seems to be problem with the site. At least one other comic – Reality Check by Whamond – suffers from the same affliction.

Blank page!

Another Blank page

They’re trying to make us buy newspapers again, aren’t they?

GoCo did us all a favor. This arc is getting long in the tooth.

This and other comics not loading.

my best estimate is that about 6% of the comics have been covered in whiteout today.

The SHERIFF must have lost his crayons today!

0700 CST and almost as many comments as when the strip actually appears!

OK. I did go to Arcamax. After Friday’s Sundown, how can we see them eating cold stew in the dark?

So, all y’all who have been predicting bears…today we apparently have a dozen polar bears in an unusual SoCal July blizzard. Congrats.

on a different site, the comic IS viewable, and it is worth a chuckle. Might have to shift to that site, we’ll see.

Hey, I see it! Bernice fell asleep in the car with the doors locked and the sun is coming up! Luann notices first and tries to break in with a twig when Bernice doesn’t respond, having slipped into unconsciousness….oooo the last panel is blacked out, I can’t see the punch line.

9:02 AM EDT and this is the 4th strip that’s blank :(

“Luann had a little lamb.”

“It’s fleece was White as Snow!”

“And everywhere that Luann went,”

“The comic, did not, SHOW!”

(Mordo Courtesies)

https://m.arcamax.com/thefunnies/luann/

Looks like we will have to wait a bit longer to find out how the camping trip is going after sunset.

The action has shifted to a raging blizzard in Antarctica.

9:24 EDT – and there it is!

Call me a fussbudget, but sitting on the bare ground like that for a long time isn’t that comfortable, and it probably isn’t a good idea either.

Ah, checked ArcaMax, per usual, before crashing after a nice, busy Sunday, so I knew the strip was staying on camping. Surprised that af first blank page. GoComics again, sign! But I am staying. poo. Anyway, as I have been saying this is hilarity ensues, and with Luann and Bernice in an arc, particularly together, that will be the case, unless there is a serious downer type issue they are dealing with. Of course this still leaves the possibility that my belief that Jack, Nil, and Tara will still show up open. Lets see.

Finger licken good.

Told ya they’d be “pop-tops” !!!

Heaven help y’all if the apocalypse comes…

why’d we just lose 20 comments??

It’s Amazon’s Prime Days and G&K took the days off.

No spoons?!?’ The horror!!!!! That’s why God made fingers. Sip off the liquid and eat the rest caveman style. It can be done. Or rig up a spoon with a clean piece of bark.

Bernice, let your friends have fun! Just when Luann was having an epiphany. What a Killjoy! At least Luann and Dez are having fun, and Luann has understood some important things. Also, finally Bernice is away from her smartphone and has stopped to doing her annoyings voice notes!

My husband whittled a makeshift spoon out of a piece of wood when he was camping at Rabbit Blanket Lake in Ontario. He carved the date and “Rabbit Blanket” on it. We still have the spoon!

No “Spoons?”

No Problem!!

SPOONMAN to the Rescue!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE&feature=youtu.be

Better can opener and no spoons than spoons and no can opener! (Which reminds me of that bit in “Three Men In a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)” . . .

Looks like Dez figured out what to do, though.

this is why God invented “chopsticks”, aka twigs and branches.

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Hah…. Schrodinger’s Dog beat me to it….. I too was going to suggest using a twig to eat with.

In regards to other aspect of today’s effort:

1. Canned stew is IMO not particularly pleasant…. and COLD canned stew is even less pleasant. :) I think I would have brought something that is more “semi-palatable” in a canned form….. hot or cold….. perhaps vegetarian chili or sphagetti-o’s, or mac-and-cheese. For me, I think stew (beef, chicken, turkey, or vegetarian) is best left for being home-made…. canned renditions are IMO too similar to dog food.

2. It seems both Luann and Bernice have continued to be a bit more accepting of the “non-gizmo” side of life. But…. both still have a ways to go. :)

3. The skyline is continuing to become darker… and to me that suggests it is perhaps getting towards nightfall for the trio. Are they actually going to stay out there at night without a tent? If so, will they make (or even be able to make) a fire? Will they sleep in the car? Will Jack and Nil suddenly show up after all?

I believe the gals are experiencing their first “reality check.”

The serenity of Dez is hopefully contagious.

Yes Luann, nobody brought eating utensils. Probably because none of you thought to designate someone to bring them, or even made a list of items to bring. Of course maybe you should tone down the incredulous attitude since nothing was stopping YOU from bringing them, so the current predicament is 33% your fault.

This strip could be used to teach a class on the importance of prior preparation for camping trips. Maybe have the car fail to start tomorrow due to a dead battery (since these three nitwits left all the doors open while they communed with nature) just to really hammer the point home.

If they let the car engine warm up for a few minutes, they could have laid the cans of stew on the engine or exhaust manifold. That way, they would have been warm.

This whole arc is heavy on the “yuck” factor.

With today’s strip, after Luann’s (Panel 3) shout, either:

1) We hear the ‘Surprise Music’ from Ren and Stimpy’s – ‘Nurse Stimpy’ where Ren gets caught getting bathed by the cat!, … OR …

2) ‘Forky’ from Toy Story 4 will come with his fork-friends to save the day!! …

… And no, neither will happen! :)

At least there was not a need for a can opener, because my guess – they didn’t have one of those either. I want to see what happens when they have to have a bio-break.

Dez has right attitude, i.e. nothing life threatening has occurred so just go with the flow. By the end of the week maybe she will have taught these two a thing or two about life. A flattened stone or piece of bark could be an eating utensil.

I hope they have the kind of Can Opener that opens cans without leaving behind sharp edges …

For those of you wanting nudity, here is Luann topless:

http://www.gocomics.com/luann/1996/01/25

We don’t need no stinkin’ do-dahs! Remember that, Luann? Finger food forever!

There was a time where everyone ate with there hands. In some counties that is the way they do it. Though not with stew.

When did guts and steely resolve come into play during this whole scenario?

Other than these three having to put up with each other?

And this “camping” trip is for how many days?

And, in drives Jack and Nil, with a 12 pack of beer and a big bag of Cheetos.