Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 17, 2019

back when I had a physical newspaper, I always looked forward to the comics, this day in history, and “voice of the people” (reporter asking random people a random question and they publish it).

And the good thing about a newspaper is that you don’t have to worry about recharging it!

Sunday’s looking for a car.

Most states have laws limiting “Going out of business” sales to 6 months or less.

I don’t think the paper is going to do it for Luann – plug in your phone girl!!!

I used to buy the newspaper when I used to have cockatiels. Made it so much easier to keep the bottom of the cages clean.

I read the paper and actually have a Sunday Tribune subscription. But I usually buy it at the store, and when I ask the young Gen Z or younger millennials about either where it is in the store, or how much it costs they are totally, and completely clueless. I actually had one ask me what that was, and she thought it was free. So absolutely true.

What a way to cap two weeks of “how stupid can Luann be”!

Disclaimer: I like Luann, but I am starting to grate under all these arcs that portray her as, at best, less intelligent than almost any other character in the Luann-verse.

Maybe it’s time for Fay to return. Luann really seemed to shine when she was around.

Other thoughts: I know Dog is looking for a Brad and Toni arc sans Shannon. I doubt that would happen because “opposition in all things,” you know, and Shannon is their “opposition.”

How about if Brad and Toni dropped Shannon off with Luann for a while?

We are under the impression that Luann is pretty good with little kids.

Kids her own age, not so much…

It’s a sad moment when the parents consider the advertisements to be the funny thing in a newspaper. Watch out comics page! Who needs you? We have advertisements.

I have a hard time getting up in the morning, but I think of the newspaper on my porch and that’s an incentive. It’s something to focus on – getting me ready to deal with the world.

I’m afraid that newspaper delivery days are numbered – maybe three more years. Already it’s hard to find a store that carries a newspaper. Everything is on line. I don’t like to read my newspaper on the computer screen.

The last panel by itself is basically every “boomer vs. technology” comic ever.

G & K have Luann ranting, “How will I be entertained? How will I have any fun?” Luann seems about to dial 911. I think Lu is supposed to be around 20 now – not 14.

If there was a fourth panel in this Sunday strip, Luann would ask her parents that now age-old running gag question all children of the 21st century are asking: “What’s a newspaper?”

“No thanks, Mom and Dad, just give me something I can use, like a charge cord.”

Another title for this is how to be a dork with a newspaper

“If it’s in stock, we’ve got it!”

Hey Luann!!!

You had better stop and READ that newspaper!!!!

Did YOU know that “folks” have been using the newspaper to PRY into your personal life for over 30 Years?!!?

And “We,” uh, I mean “They” know EVERYTHING you’ve ever spoken into your “diary!!!”

The best thing about newspapers is fish and chips!

OK Boomer…

C’mon, you knew SOMEONE was going to say it.

I’m sorry for Luann’s smartphone. Now she has to buy a new one and it will be expensive. Always too much expensive.

Geezer humor.

I don’t think that Luann will get it.

The city of Venus Beach passed a law limiting stores to one “going out of business” sale a year.

I kind of like this Andy Rooney theme each Sunday.

It’s getting so, the newspapers are more expensive than the phone! :o(

My favorite newspaper ad was a full page from a furniture store, that ran a banner shouting WE’RE FEELING THE ECONOMICAL PINCH!!! There was more, but that “economical pinch” just killed me.

Luann? You ever hear of something called “reading?” You “read” things like newspapers, magazines, books, or, even just stories, physically, or, on your phone, tablet. Entertainment is more than messaging, calling your friends, watching videos.

Yes – show her “Luann” in the Sunday Comics! That should be fun…

“Up to 70% or more” always gets me too.

“Call now! It’s FREE!” Yeah? Then what?

You drew a great crossword puzzle!

The Christmas TV “gadget” commercials are gearing up. If no one noticed their aimed at men and sold as the most time and money saving device your wife will ever use!

Salad Shooter®. What woman needs a device that shoots shredded lettuce like a machine gun?

And who can forget Veg-O-Matic®? The progenitor of it all. “It slices! It dices! You can even make Julienne Fries!”

The problem here in Cincinnati is that our one remaining local paper is ALL advertising.

That would be funny if it weren’t pathetic.

And don’t forget the classic “Final sale! Everything must go!” As if that wasn’t always the case with the stuff in a store. (Maybe the owner figures that people didn’t realize it and that’s why business was bad, and he or she thought it was best to make it clear!)

My beloved Luann is right though. You can stuff a lot more stupidity in a cellphone than in the biggest newspaper ever printed.

I thought Luann was going to be hurriedly rushing to leave the house before a “once of a lifetime sale ends!”

I once had a collection of comic sections, but my teacher threw them away.

What’s going to happen when all these electronic devices suddenly go out? Is there going to be a great cry heard across the United States? We already know our kids in school can’t do simple adding or subtracting without it.

Sorry, Luann…not fun, what you meant to say was dopamine.

Luann, there’s this cord called a phone charger. And guess what, you can still use your phone while it charges.

It’s kind of a weird continuity thing with ‘toon aging versus real time, but original Luann would have been familiar with newspapers, if for nothing else, the toons.I doubt even then she would have gotten the “hilarity” of the ads. That’s more a perspective of age.

I’m so glad I grew up before the internet and cell phones so I know how to entertain myself without having a screen in front of my face 24/7.

“Up to __% and more” is one of my pet peeves

Every time I see a crossword puzzle diagram in a comic strip, the black squares are never symmetrical — until today. (The grid above shows what’s known as “lateral,” or “side-to-side” symmetry. Symmetry usually runs diagonally, from upper left to lower right.)

“Hold The Phone”

“The Price Is Cut Right”

“Once Upon A Mattress Place”

“The Newspaper Chase”

“Someday My Print Media Will Come”

“LOCAL Flavor”

“It’ll Be A Daily Blast!”

“That’s Where It’s Ad”

“But Wait — There’s Up To 70% And More!”

Since they’re reading the Sunday Paper (I’m assuming), how much do you wanna bet that that sofa is a “sectional”? d;o)

Luann, get a hobby

I didn’t know Luann’s parents were so easily entertained.

Our local paper has been going downhill for some time. They are part of a chain that owns four papers in our region. Not to long ago they laid off a whole lot of staff and all four papers are identical except for the mastheads with one editor for all four. Yesterday they eliminated the editors position. I think in two years, at the outside, there won’t be a local paper.

It’s a funny strip today but those dumb ads pay for that paper. Take away the display advertising and the newsroom goes away too! (No, digital subscriptions at $3.99 a month aren’t going to make up the shortfall)

I only read the last frame..it saved time

I used to work as a layout planner. I was required to squeeze in full-page ads for the next day’s issue. Never mind something we used to call deadlines…

We can bridge the gap between countries, (Canada and the U.S.) but the generation gap is a whole ’nother thing.

I guess phone chargers don’t exist in the Luanniverse.

Next week a couple starts making plans for a baby shower: Gunther and Bets; Gunther and Tiffany; Gunther and Luann; Gunther and Bernice? Maybe Toni and Brad….naw, too far fetched.

The Generation Gap.

I feel sorry for young ones never having the ritual of the Sunday Paper. We all had our routines for reading it.

I look forward (every morning) to retrieving my copy of the Times (NYT) from the front of our bldg and when it is not there I am sad. The Times doesn’t have a comics section. I come here for that. But having that paper in hand is a special part of my day (even if I don’t have time to read it immediately). It is important to subscribe to your local paper and to give to your public radio station or else these vital things will disappear.

Well, with a 8 page newspaper going for $2., why bother unless you’re lining the birdcage…

I remember newspapers! They used to be big, fat, full broadsheets, worth the dime they charged. Now they barely exist as thin, anorexic, midget tabloids that cost a couple of bucks. Is it any wonder they are dying at a time when more timely news sources abound?! Sad but true….

Preach it!!!

Monday: Do Brad and Toni have a plan for TJ?

man it’s sad that they don’t know this, there’s a video on you tube where it has kids not knowing what a VHS is, now if they are 10 years old that’s one thing but it just made me feel so damn old. but that’s a bit more understable since they stopped making them in i think 2006. but newspapers? those have been around for what 200 years or more?

we still get one, next they are gonna ask what a TV is. ya know it’s funny when i lose my celly & i had to get it replaced earlier this year i did go through withdrawl a bit but here’s whyit’s not the texting as i don’t do much, i’m a huge Film geek & so i’m always on IMDB as i never use rotten tomatoes. or you tube when i’m not home on my PC. but if i am not texting someone i talk to them on the phone i never use that stupid video chat

We have and Andy’s furniture! I’m pretty sure it’s local, not a chain.

A bit ironic that we’re reading this on GoComics…

I was paying for coffee with a debit card recently and was asked if I wanted a receipt. When I said yes, I record debit transactions in my checkbook for when I balance my account. The barista said “Oh, that’s cute! My grandma does that too.” She the went on to say, she just checks her balance with the bank app on her cell phone.

After recovering from an “I must be getting old moment.” I told her banks and merchants often make mistakes, usually at the customer’s expense. Balancing your checkbook monthly can make sure those “mistakes” don’t compound and cost you money over time. The barista looked like I had just told her Santa Claus didn’t exist. She couldn’t wrap her head around the idea that banks and merchants make mistakes and don’t do anything about it.