Ughhh, as jack said, she’s either sweating school or trying to help others out by analyzing THEIR problems. Bernice doesn’t take time for herself. Bern, it’s OK to take some “me” time. You don’t have to over-achieve all the time.
Interesting that she only heard what she wanted to hear from that. I doubt that Jack would have told her to read a book, but that’s what she got out of it.
So far this has been a long arc to nowhere. Tiffany has stalled on her quest for maturity, Gunther and Bets have hung a “Do Not Disturb” sign on their hide-a-way, and Luann is still treading water in her pool of life.
Sort of rare to see a World History (or even Western History) book. More common when I started teaching. Now they tend to be World Civilization or Western Civilization. ‘History’ has become associated with an emphasis on wars and rulers (and in the case of Western History read ‘dead white men’). There came a revolution in thinking – literature, music, architecture, philosophy and other forms of culture are part of the human story… Oh, yeah, and not every important person is white and half the world isn’t male. So, change from history courses to civilization courses. Of course, some publishers just retitled the same book as Western Civilization rather than Western History. (And don’t get me started on fact all historians have a narrow field of expertise. Out of our niche we can be dumb. Western Civ. text gets three authors (so you don’t have to split royalties too far) and each does great in his/her niche – but can be huge errors when you get them writing outside their field of expertise. Kept a list for a while of errors I found in college textbooks.)
Maybe a novel would be better. Like, citing the greatest example among the strips, “War and Peace”… I really hope Luann comes to Bernice’s room and drags her on some weird/hilarious adventure with Tara and Dez. But the fact that Bernice seems unable to find a positive hobby on her own, one that cheers her up and is unrelated to studying, is sad.
This has been so INCREDIBLY BORING. The Ben character is boring. He needs to be just abandoned altogether. Maybe him and the kid could get hit by a bus? Jack is REALLY boring. I am convinced he doesn’t have any attraction to girls at all. He’s like a big muscle bound girlfriend to all these characters. I liked the idea of Bernice being more outgoing but now she’s boring again. It’s like the last two weeks have been an exercise in being mediocre. Not interesting at all. The only reason I keep looking at it is I keep thinking they have to go SOMEWHERE with SOMETHING, but noooo they just keep up with the same bland storylines. Storylines that never finish by the way. I need to google G&K and see if they look as boring as their comic strip.
It’s really so sad they’ve made her so……I don’t know….I don’t have a word for it. Strange? Too strong. Odd? Troubling? In need of a therapist? The older she gets on the time line, the more she’s going off the rails in slow motion.
Actually the idea of reading a college history book with all its illustrations and ideas seems a great way to get one’s mind off of an existing stress, at least to this nerd. However it still will not help Bernice get rid of the source of her anxiety over meeting her brother. I am waiting to see how the story is brought to that point, who is involved, and will it happen this week, if at all.
Ahh, nothing so …engaging… as a first-year history text (typically, world history or Western history). I should know. I was a history major in college. And, yes, I still have the book all these many years later….
So, all of last week was more treading water. Bernice has a serious problem… something that makes her hide behind garbage bins, grimacing, when she sees a random male person walking by. She’s got issues (7 of them), and reading a history book ain’t gonna fix a thing.
And, as much as we wished that Jack could be someone to confide with, that was a bust. His only advice was “exercise” and she’s not even doing that. And now she gets to read all about Nero, or Cromwell, or Napoleon, all while her 7 issues continue to fester. Disappointed in her, and the meandering direction of this “arc”.
Incredibly dense. And Hey Bern. read a &&$&(#(%#)%*(8—= ROMANCE NOVEL, OR A SCI-FI, EPIC FANTASY, OR AND OLD WESTERN. Binge watch a sit-com. Explore the things about yourself that frighten you instead of running away. Take a freaking bubble bath.Get a massage. Get drunk at least once. LIVE, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
And here I was thinking that I was the only one who liked reading their old history textbooks. Only difference being is that I like reading the one I had in my senior year of high school instead. I tell ya, that stuff definitely gets more and more interesting as you get older…
I’m kind of disappointed that this is being played for a joke—but reading non-fiction so often is. (See: Progressive commercial; “Who reads books about submarines?”)
She opens it up to realize the pages have been glued shut and the interior was hollowed out containing a stash of cash. Either that or every page has a picture reminding her of her brother or Jack.
It seems this whole strip has become formulaic. It’s lost that something, something I can’t put my finger on, but the mojo I remember just ain’t there no mo’.
For a supposedly temporary stint at the DeGroots, she is pretty settled in. After all, who would unpack books and set them up in a bookcase? I think most people would leave them in the box until they find a more permanent residence.
Why would Bernice pack up her library and bring it to Luann’s? She CAN go home and pick up stuff. Doesn’t make sense. This arc is as flat as Jack’s head.
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
yeah… history should clear her mind
Brdshtt Premium Member about 4 years ago
Bernice’s history book: Derek, Piro…
AnyFace about 4 years ago
JD'Huntsville'AL about 4 years ago
What a nerd.
pseudomao about 4 years ago
sigh…. the Jack and Bernice saga is just a cloud in her coffee so far……
jr1234 about 4 years ago
Gotta get up early to see little comments on here
gnmnrbl about 4 years ago
Ughhh, as jack said, she’s either sweating school or trying to help others out by analyzing THEIR problems. Bernice doesn’t take time for herself. Bern, it’s OK to take some “me” time. You don’t have to over-achieve all the time.
atomicdog about 4 years ago
Wikipedia works for me…
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
Zuerst, Ben verschwindet, und jetzt Jack. First, Ben disappears, and now Jack.
Was gibt? What gives?
Wilde Bill about 4 years ago
Interesting that she only heard what she wanted to hear from that. I doubt that Jack would have told her to read a book, but that’s what she got out of it.
Joe1962 about 4 years ago
Bern learning about History is always a great read.
kenhense about 4 years ago
Bern is retreating into her own world again. Hopefully G & K have a surprise for us in the next day or two – we shouldn’t leave Bern like this.
ACTIVIST1234 about 4 years ago
Actually, world history or biology would be great. Lots of battles, struggles, lust, reproduction, betrayal, plot twists in both.
Airman about 4 years ago
So far this has been a long arc to nowhere. Tiffany has stalled on her quest for maturity, Gunther and Bets have hung a “Do Not Disturb” sign on their hide-a-way, and Luann is still treading water in her pool of life.
Caldonia about 4 years ago
She could go shopping instead. At the pet store. That’s the saddest, emptiest aquarium I have ever seen.
SJhapamama about 4 years ago
Bern needs a dose of Dez!
Don Draper about 4 years ago
I think it’s safe to say Bernice is living deep in her Private Idaho.
pekelopan Premium Member about 4 years ago
I read that book. Spoiler alert, Bernice, the dinosaurs don’t make it.
dadoctah about 4 years ago
I peeked at the ending. The lawyers did it.
hammytech about 4 years ago
As a kid, our neighbors across the road had a set of encyclopedias. I’d get lost reading those. Nice pictures too.
ExLax about 4 years ago
She’s going to find a note or photo in the book that leads us on another three weeks of unfunny strips.
Acworthless about 4 years ago
I wish I still had my freshman history book. It was the best cure for insomnia ever!
WilliamVollmer about 4 years ago
Of course Bernice would reach for a text book. What were you expecting,a “bodice ripper”?
Lawrence.S about 4 years ago
Sort of rare to see a World History (or even Western History) book. More common when I started teaching. Now they tend to be World Civilization or Western Civilization. ‘History’ has become associated with an emphasis on wars and rulers (and in the case of Western History read ‘dead white men’). There came a revolution in thinking – literature, music, architecture, philosophy and other forms of culture are part of the human story… Oh, yeah, and not every important person is white and half the world isn’t male. So, change from history courses to civilization courses. Of course, some publishers just retitled the same book as Western Civilization rather than Western History. (And don’t get me started on fact all historians have a narrow field of expertise. Out of our niche we can be dumb. Western Civ. text gets three authors (so you don’t have to split royalties too far) and each does great in his/her niche – but can be huge errors when you get them writing outside their field of expertise. Kept a list for a while of errors I found in college textbooks.)
ForrestOverin about 4 years ago
“Okay, I know what I’ll do to relax! I’ll read social media for reactions to the election!”
JohnWThompsonIII about 4 years ago
I think she should read 50 Shades lol
Tyge about 4 years ago
And once again, GnK have Bernice escaping into her headspace. Exhibiting avoidance behavior after avoidance behavior.
Tyge about 4 years ago
So she picks up a history book. Is that meaningful to the story? Will we see some period piece daydream involving Bernice and… pick one… or two?
Tyge about 4 years ago
…
♬ 96 bottles of beer on the wall. 96 bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around 95 bottles of beer on the wall. ♬
♬ 95 bottles of beer on the wall. 95 bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around 94 bottles of beer on the wall. ♬
♬ 94 bottles of beer on the wall. 94 bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around 93 bottles of beer on the wall. ♬
Are we there yet?
The Pro from Dover about 4 years ago
That book keeps getting revised.
drewpamon about 4 years ago
Ha ha nerdy girl likes books.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Maybe a novel would be better. Like, citing the greatest example among the strips, “War and Peace”… I really hope Luann comes to Bernice’s room and drags her on some weird/hilarious adventure with Tara and Dez. But the fact that Bernice seems unable to find a positive hobby on her own, one that cheers her up and is unrelated to studying, is sad.
janellee about 4 years ago
Anyone else thinking what I am thinking? That poor fish needs some plants and a castle or something!
Ellis97 about 4 years ago
Face it, Bernice. You are in love.
comic reader 22 about 4 years ago
This has been so INCREDIBLY BORING. The Ben character is boring. He needs to be just abandoned altogether. Maybe him and the kid could get hit by a bus? Jack is REALLY boring. I am convinced he doesn’t have any attraction to girls at all. He’s like a big muscle bound girlfriend to all these characters. I liked the idea of Bernice being more outgoing but now she’s boring again. It’s like the last two weeks have been an exercise in being mediocre. Not interesting at all. The only reason I keep looking at it is I keep thinking they have to go SOMEWHERE with SOMETHING, but noooo they just keep up with the same bland storylines. Storylines that never finish by the way. I need to google G&K and see if they look as boring as their comic strip.
JPuzzleWhiz about 4 years ago
BERN! GO! SEE! BEN! NOW!!!
jrankin1959 about 4 years ago
You wild and crazy kid, you…
srmalone about 4 years ago
Another boring week of Bernice
eladee AKA Wally about 4 years ago
I don’t think reading a history book is what Jack had in mind Berniece! You need to get up and get moving to clear your head.
Schrodinger's Dog about 4 years ago
tomorrow: Bernice dreams herself as Madam Curie ….
percheronhitch6 about 4 years ago
It’s really so sad they’ve made her so……I don’t know….I don’t have a word for it. Strange? Too strong. Odd? Troubling? In need of a therapist? The older she gets on the time line, the more she’s going off the rails in slow motion.
raybarb44 about 4 years ago
I teach college History. It’s great but she needs to have someone hit her upside her head with that book…..
luann1212 about 4 years ago
Actually the idea of reading a college history book with all its illustrations and ideas seems a great way to get one’s mind off of an existing stress, at least to this nerd. However it still will not help Bernice get rid of the source of her anxiety over meeting her brother. I am waiting to see how the story is brought to that point, who is involved, and will it happen this week, if at all.
Loki McMuffin about 4 years ago
Are we still on this Arc? Its making me wish Ann Awful was back.
Sisyphos about 4 years ago
Ahh, nothing so …engaging… as a first-year history text (typically, world history or Western history). I should know. I was a history major in college. And, yes, I still have the book all these many years later….
BrendaMinnis about 4 years ago
not sure that is what lover boy was referring to
Johnnyrico about 4 years ago
Panel 2: Bernice has no butt..
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 4 years ago
History? She needs 50 shades of Gray!
ZeMastor about 4 years ago
So, all of last week was more treading water. Bernice has a serious problem… something that makes her hide behind garbage bins, grimacing, when she sees a random male person walking by. She’s got issues (7 of them), and reading a history book ain’t gonna fix a thing.
And, as much as we wished that Jack could be someone to confide with, that was a bust. His only advice was “exercise” and she’s not even doing that. And now she gets to read all about Nero, or Cromwell, or Napoleon, all while her 7 issues continue to fester. Disappointed in her, and the meandering direction of this “arc”.
smsrt about 4 years ago
What do we never learn from? Oh yeah, history.
DG about 4 years ago
I know you can get lost in a good book … but that is not one I would have chosen.
alexius23 about 4 years ago
And the beat goes on…
Vorticia about 4 years ago
Insert face into palm
Terminal Frost Premium Member about 4 years ago
Incredibly dense. And Hey Bern. read a &&$&(#(%#)%*(8—= ROMANCE NOVEL, OR A SCI-FI, EPIC FANTASY, OR AND OLD WESTERN. Binge watch a sit-com. Explore the things about yourself that frighten you instead of running away. Take a freaking bubble bath.Get a massage. Get drunk at least once. LIVE, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
howtheduck about 4 years ago
So Brad’s old room had a bookcase in it? I would have figured old tool chests.
BlueKnight1966 about 4 years ago
It’s a hollow-out where she keeps her batteryboyfriend. Completely safe: who would go looking through a freshman history book?
ct0760 about 4 years ago
Where is a good facepalm emoji when you need one?
oakie817 about 4 years ago
cue the ominous music
rklynch about 4 years ago
And here I was thinking that I was the only one who liked reading their old history textbooks. Only difference being is that I like reading the one I had in my senior year of high school instead. I tell ya, that stuff definitely gets more and more interesting as you get older…
Roy G Biv about 4 years ago
Well this is going nowhere slowly. All that innuendo and exercise talk from last week just gone. Ben’s practically gone. Back to books.
But if Bern sees something in that World History book about Ben, I’m quitting this strip forever. (Won’t happen, tho.)
Kate M. about 4 years ago
I’m kind of disappointed that this is being played for a joke—but reading non-fiction so often is. (See: Progressive commercial; “Who reads books about submarines?”)
JohnSheldon about 4 years ago
She opens it up to realize the pages have been glued shut and the interior was hollowed out containing a stash of cash. Either that or every page has a picture reminding her of her brother or Jack.
momofalex7 about 4 years ago
Why didn’t she finish her history test?
YorkGirl Premium Member about 4 years ago
Hmmm, did she bring all her books to Luann’s?Ho, boy, I can see the daydreams now, or nightmares. Antony and Cleopatra? This could be a fun week!
spaced man spliff about 4 years ago
It seems this whole strip has become formulaic. It’s lost that something, something I can’t put my finger on, but the mojo I remember just ain’t there no mo’.
bakana about 4 years ago
It’s got a very strange “ending”.
The author never bothers to tie up all the loose threads.
It just Stops.
CreativeChef about 4 years ago
This is just dumb
capricorn9th about 4 years ago
For a supposedly temporary stint at the DeGroots, she is pretty settled in. After all, who would unpack books and set them up in a bookcase? I think most people would leave them in the box until they find a more permanent residence.
w16521 about 4 years ago
Bernice needs to get laid. THAT will clear her head.
kittysquared Premium Member about 4 years ago
Why would Bernice pack up her library and bring it to Luann’s? She CAN go home and pick up stuff. Doesn’t make sense. This arc is as flat as Jack’s head.
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member about 4 years ago
Bern is just escaping from one jail cell to another.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 4 years ago
Interesting reading. Much of it reads like neighborhood disputes but often less killing.
falcon_370f about 4 years ago
Weirdo
Homeboy1865 about 4 years ago
Ooo, that sounds interesting!!! I’m currently reading a history text book from 1936.