Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 30, 2013

Should’ve left the phone behind! I know, asking too much of a teenage girl.

“No DRAMA”, Huh?

Wait’ll You two “Magellans” realize that You’re driving on the WRONG side of the Road.

Serves YOU Right.

Mini Donuts with NO COFFEE???

PLEASE!!

Today’s Luann brought to you, by: Dime/Strife music… bringing you $1,000 worth of compilation cds that you have to buy cuz they told you to, even though you already have pretty good copies already of each song….but you don’t have their compilations which make your collection now obsolete… and don’t try to go searching in stores and garage/flea market/yard sales for cheaper copies…. we’ll know…-—————and by: Gas….

Just don’t drive distracted. No tagedies today please.

I agree with them about Luann, hopefully they have their AAA cards with them.

and by: Justin Case Sr. Industries… a subsidiary of: Whatever Else Can Go Wrong In A Car, Inc… “When you don’t want it to go wrong, just forgot or took it for granted, we’ll be there to remind you that you needed to invest in our parts to make us money and your car to work so you can buy more parts…. Justin Case……”

Honda? Timing belt or the No. 2 rod just went through the side of the block!

(I used to work on those things…)

Maybe the girls forgot one little detail….to put gas in the tank. That’s probably the warning signal that the tank is just about empty.

You hit the nail allright.

uh oh…the car’s “cloister bell”…

For whom the bell tolls…or dongs, in this case…

Dong?!?

hey, at least they have the phone and charger! Oh wait, the car broke down, no way to charge it…..

Mini-donuts! I hope you’re happy, girl-who-wears-glasses! Just one taste of your “Oh-My-Dog”, and soon Delta will end up shaped like a triangle. Good job!

No drama? Famous last words!

That sounds like the “Add Fuel” dong to me…

What’s the deal here? Some friends, bashing on Luann and she’s not even ther to defend herself…..and drama? Bernice should talk!

…there….

“Luanne’s brother Brad knows about cars, doesn’t he?”

“I don’t have his number, we’ll have to call Luanne to get it!”

“Then she’ll know we went without her!

“Oh, noooooooo!”

Since they’re “On the Road Again”, does everyone know today is Willie Nelsons 80th birthday???? Hippy Birthday, Willie…..

Wait…. I think someone may assume that Berniece is texting… (though they should know that that’s CLEARLY A steering wheel)….

Car trouble?

“Hello? This is Luann, would you please stop and let me out of the trunk?”

Maybe they will meet up with Zonker and his nephew.

They are happy Luann isn’t with them? Some “best friends” they are. With friends like that who needs a Tiffany.

“Does Luann have any REAL friends or just the kind that trash talk her behind her back?”^^I don’t think that they are trash talking, as much as just realizing the group dynamic is different without her there… to keep bringing up her boyfriend issues while they may prefer to talk about other pursuits…. they just recognize her good and bad qualities, just like we all may recognize about our friends and family (and hopefully about ourselves, if we’re honest enough)… they’ve been best friends for years, long enough and close enough to know the good and bad about each other….

If they were busy putting her down and gossiping with negative things about her by name to total strangers and people outside the intimate circle of the three of them, talking about her to people she doesn’t know, now THAT would be trash talking and back biting and being bad friends….

Lu really needs to hang out with classier people. She’d be better off with Tiffany. At least she’d know what to expect. At least she’d know she has no friends.

Um…can you really say you’re friends with a person if you’re thrilled to be away from her? IDK if Evans was going for “No [currently obsessed] Luann [gushing all the time]! [She sure was fun before she started acting like that.]” but it came out more like, “Ugh, Luann sucks and we only put up with her because our creator forces us to.” That’s pretty messed up.

Delta DID say “You know what’s great?” but some words can be taken different ways… it could be implied between them intimately that what’s great isn’t “not being her friend”… it’s getting a break from hearing certain things… who DOESNT want a break or some space from being around a brother, sister, other family member, teacher, friend, SOMEBODY…. just for a change of pace…. I maintain that THIS is what they meant (but as with all things time will tell) the line is drawn (no pun intended) when you call somebody OUT OF THEIR NAME or say I hate her guts or something like that….

Plus, there are plenty of movies and tv shows out there, where a group of friends or family members are always driving each other crazy, but in the end you can see that they really do care….Writers know that’s what people may identify with, and will involve us in the character’s struggles or feelings or the like…they know that that’s what gets people to watch…..

Cue handsome rescue guy.

Luann has some lousy friends.

“I’m glad that they have reduced the roundness of Bernice’s face somewhat. Of course they are glad Luann is not with them for the simple reason that if she was, Luann would be on the phone to Quill, forcing Bernice and Delta to be part of the conversation. The “dong” is some type of car trouble. The repair guys when they show up will be two young men in their late teens that drive dad’s tow truck to haul the car into the service station. Another reason it is good that Luann is not there. She would be all over the two guys, stuffing Bernice and Delta in the trunk so they would not get in her way.”^^Thank you!

I agree with Ratbrat – that was a lousy thing for them to say.

Better to hear a “dong” from the dashboard than a rattling noise from inside the engine. Such as with a 1996 Audi when the bearings on its water pump decide to go. And the compressor bearing, and the serpentine belt. Cheapest repair price comes near $1,500. At least in my neighborhood.

ummmm, forgot to gas up, tank only has less than 10 miles left.

Geez, with friends like that ……..

“DONG!” (don’t like the sound of that.lol.)

I can think of four reasons why it seems they may be driving on the wrong side:• (1) The white line you see is the solid white line on the side of the road. You cannot see the other side of the road because of the camber. • (2) Bernice is passing another car.• (3) They are still on a dual carriageway and the shrubbery in back of them is the median strip.• (4) They’ve swerved there thanks to Bernice having her eyes off the road and hands off the steering wheel in the first panel.

Let’s hope it’s one of the first three.

Sheesh some friends they are, excited that Luann’s not there. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Wouldn’t it be ironic (and out of character) if Luann showed up and saved the day?

No drama until Luann finds out you are on a road trip without her. Oops, that dong means she’s found out, hold onto your seats girls!

How sad that her two “best friends” are so happy to be without her.

Save them Dirk! Swoop in like a creepy Superman and rescue the damsels in distress!

MEOW! Good grief. Way to cut your friend to shreds behind her back. As if you girls don’t carry your own drama.

Ding, Dong, the car is dead!

Check engine

I’m inclined to agree with PMark about the possible reasons for the left lane depiction, but also it just dawned on me, too, that since they had spent some time in Australia, the Evanses could have let the left hand traffic thing surface in the artwork unconsciously, which of course would be conspicuous to us right lane Yanks….

Low on gas light just went on. The car can go 26 miles on what’s left. The nearest gas station is 35 miles away.

Wow, glad these two are such good friends they can diss the one that’s not there. Personally I’d rather hang out with Luann than “perfect” and “critical.”

The dong of doom usually comes after statements such as that.

It’s not a road trip without the mini donuts, preferably the chocolate waxy kind.

Spoke too soon!

So ummmm is it just me or am I the only one who knows this is a cartoon?? A comic to be more exact?? LOL!!

I hope the next strip or future strips will have a panel that will have Bernice’s foot step on a pedal.

dong-those ding bats forgot to check the gas!

Wait for it…

I’m glad that Murphy (Law) caught up with them! Way to kick in your best friend’s back, girls. You get what you deserve. Have either of you ever thought to tell Luann that she’s annoying as opposed to purposely leaving her out of your field trip? Besides, it wasn’t so long ago that the two of you had a little disagreement about the drama (read: lack of men) in your lives. I hope that the next few panels show smoke from the hood and an awkward call to Luann for roadside rescue!

What terrible friends…

LMAO, I knew Luann was an annoying ditz.

dong?

with friends like this, who needs enemies? It’s not so bad if, when two out of three friends are doing something without the third, they don’t hide it. Otherwise it’s hurtful.

“You know what’s great? No Luann!” Geez, Luann, nice friends. With them around, who needs enemies. You’re better off chumming around with Tiffany.

I like Team Evans apparent M.O.: Delta & Bernice introduce substantive issues, and Luann adds the drama (color commentator)

Oh yeah, and life provides its own dramas! (Hope you started out early for your interview, Bern.)

With no Luann there would be no comic strip! She’s the main character! : )

With friends like these, why should she bother?

Not that it matters to Mr. Evans, but he just lost a constant reader of this strip. I actually found Luann to be a fun character, someone who was beginning to grow up by taking on responsibilities like taking care of a child who is her brother’s girlfriend’s charge, not hers; keeping old friends like Delta, who constantly guilts others into ‘good works’ and then doesn’t do any of the actual work herself while taking credit for it – but still immature enough to keep falling in love with less than realistic guys.

To see that Evans actually has the so-called best friends putting Luann down leaves me with nothing but a bad taste in my mouth. Evans is probably the person who keeps posting that the comic’s name should be changed to Brad and Toni.

The facebook page mentions the wrong lane thing. It shows the middle panel and says, “Can you spot the mistake?”

Even if Luann is a drama queen, that’s still a pretty cold blooded thing for her “friends” to say. They can send her a post card, “Having a great time, glad you’re not here.” If they do have car trouble and get stuck on the side of the road I wonder how long before Delta talks Bernice into picking up trash from the side of the road while they wait for help.

As suspected … Luann needs better friends.

Agreed!

Sorry, I hardly ever get beyond 3 lines. That’s why I read comics. lol

Actually, Bernice and Delta have ragged on Luann many, many times to her face about her being a drama queen. It hasn’t changed her one iota. She STILL is a drama queen. It’s what she does.

So I cannot see why them mentioning that she is a drama queen when she isn’t there is such a bad thing. They mention it all the time when she IS there. So what’s the problem?

And for those saying B&D are mean and left Luann out, keep in mind that this week’s strips could be happening around the same time as last week’s, to the point that Luann is busy with her new soon to be SIL and maybe already has a routine that she has with her now, and could have been going to babysit Shannon at the time, so that she couldn’t go. She could have been invited already, but declined….

Was reading all that annoying? Then just imagine being confined 3 hours in a car with Luann, and all those ten minutes skips are filled with her yapping about all the men in her life.Bernice and Delta wanted a break from the constant Luann and her boyfriend problems.

^^LOL, you nailed that one Lev… however, I still think her friends are being pretty nasty here

Sounds like Luann needs new friends. These two are backbiters.

That’s not nice……

two of the most uninteresting characters in the whole strip and we have to endure a 3 hour road trip with them ?….wait that makes it SIX hours round trip !!!!

Have they not heard the phrase speak of the devil?

geez I thought Delta, Bernice and Luann were all friends what’s with this no drama thing without Luann there????!!!!

ChihuahuaMama: Really hits to realize I am older than Willy (by four days) or Wilfred Brimley (about a year and a half), or Carol Burnet (by a few hours).

What is that supposed to mean?

I dunno, but I think maybe some people are over-reacting to what may be rather trite comments by two people in an unfamiliar situation. Men, women, and couples all say things like “You know what’s great? No [wives/husbands/kids]!” It doesn’t mean much, if anything. It certainly doesn’t mean the speakers hates the named party. If anything, it seems like an expression of nerves, and maybe hope that this novel experience will turn out to be a good one.

There are a number of things I wish for in the world that are unlikely.

Well, that reminds me of that button in the Staples commercials.. They sell actual replicas that you can push… I guess it makes a good office knick knack… and when you push it, it said the tagline: “That was easy”. I bought one and put it on my desk, but there are days that in an amusing way, just for fun, I think: "Hmmm… maybe this time…. but it didn’t really change anything…. lol

That’s not nice

Ha Ha Ha!!!!

Do they not realize they wouldn’t exist without Luann?

What crappy friends.

(I said in a singsongy voice): Drama!