Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 03, 2015

I see Hair adores Ziggy.

See what I mean? The minds around there only hear the word “par-tay” whenever Bernice shows up. And also, no matter what she says. If only she hadn’t been so eager to “let loose” that day that spontaneous gathering happened… and now, Bernice=Bash Babe !!!! – Also ironic that he’s in room 222…. – Well, he can’t be half bad if Ziggy hangs around here… not to mention Godzilla.. – More of Greg’s Beatles… and a special guest appearnce by Alfred. Probably there to hide the wall, after it got Cracked …Boy will Bernice be Mad after this….

New poll up: What was your RA like?

What’s the most exotic country you’ve been to?1) 9 votes – Other2) 6 votes – Some Asian country3) 5 votes – Some other European country4) 1 vote – Nowhere. Never left mom’s house5) 1 vote – Nowhere. Never left my home country6) 1 vote – EnglandOther: The Marshall Islands &/or Wake Island; Antarctica; Alaska!; Ollieandstan; Montreal; Nepal; Brazil; places that I’ve dreamed about….; All that I’ve lived in or visited: AUT, CAN, GBR, FRA, GER, JPN, KOR

Bern has her work cut out for her.

“Don’t Let Your Hair Down”“Roses Are Red, Violations Are Nothing New”“Infractions And Decibels Are Multiplying”“Never A Candle Moment’“All For Fun, And A Fun Four Walls”“Cymbal Of His Affection”“Nailed It”“Take His Punisher Like A Fan”“A Dez-play Of Double Standards”“It’s A Double Lit Candle, Bern”“Those In Glass Dorms Should Not Throw Stones”“Hypo-critical Thinking”or“Advice Grip”

Interesting that Bernice is telling Hair he can’t do all the things that Dez does, like nailing things to the wall and burning candles. Selective enforcement?

So does this mean the next two strips are going to be her visiting Viper and Sun?

I guess these characters weren’t as “written out of the comic” as we thought they were.

I’m sorry, but this doesn’t make sense. RA’s are normally more advanced students who advise younger students. So far it looks like Bernice is only serving as an RA for students who are her classmates.

LOL!!!

Of course, it’s been a looonnnggg time since college for me, but I can’t remember any of the RAs walking ‘rounds’ with a book of rules. They mostly invited us to their room for little get togethers and talks about stuff like how it felt to be away from home on our own for the first time, and what happened when we ruined our laundry by putting everything in at once to save money…

The first lesson in being an RA: NOBODY listens to the RA. They only work to avoid getting caught.

What doe RA stand for? I never went to a 4-year college.

Moony Uni must be quite the upscale joint. No way could I have fit a drum set into my dorm room. I did have room for the same Abbey Road poster, though.

i’ll still bring the chips…and by golly i just might not be the dip at the par tay….

RA is resident assistant

Like stepping on a bug. Squish.

Poor RA Bernice! Strike 2! Tiff wanted a party, and now Hair wants a party. This is not going well for the new RA. How long will she be able to, or want to, hold on to this job?

Seems to me this job was foisted on her because no one else wanted it!

What me worry?

I know Bernice doesn’t want to be an ogre to her friends, which is a good thing, cause she’s just cute trying to enforce the rules, which isn’t exactly getting the job done. This story line could go a lot of ways, lots of potential. I wanna see Tiff side with Bernice at the big party when she sees Bernice reduced to tears of frustration.

JPuzzleWhiz:Yesterday you posted this to me:My statement: “…sort of like “Erik the Red” is the name for themidevil Viking explorer, Erik Thorvaldsson.”Your Reply: “The word is medieval.”Yes, you are correct. I also knew and meant to type “medieval”. It was simply a typographical error which was due to me typing a comment out very quickly and not checking it prior to posting.

Like that guy is really in college…

Ugh, the “Neo-Hippie-Knute Subsitute” is back. BAH!Wotta bunch of SAPS!Hey, Bern? You Know what THIS Campus NEEDS?Some Good Old Fashsion “Student Unrest.”…., Followed by LIBERAL Use of Tear Gas….,

I hope this ends with Bern throwing in the towel. Otherwise she is going to be miserable.

I don’t think Bernice is up to this.

@JPuzzleWhiz from yesterday:

“Have you ever posted a comment on the comic strip “Funky Winkerbean” over at Comics Kingdom? I really need to know, seriously.”

Nope. Why – is there a new sheriff in town?

@Pipe from yesterday: you’ll get your answer tomorrow (Friday)

Meanwhile, let’s solve the Quill and Pru Problem.

> And he’s a fan of The Phantom, as his shirt seems to indicate…>Surely that’s a Punisher emblem, not a Phantom one.

The last time we saw Hair, Piro, Viper, and Sun was mid-October 2014. Maybe some of them are no longer living in the dorm, so we’ll never see them again. Maybe we can meet a different crew of characters this year, and some of them will make a more favorable impression on the readers that the previous bunch seems to have done.

Has any college student, ever, had a poster of Ziggy? Surely this must be some sort of parody / irony gag poster, right?

Why was Bernice picked to be RA? She apparently doesn’t know the other students in the dorm, if she has to introduce herself and ask if they remember her.

Isn’t Hair a little anachronistic? I mean Ziggy? Alfred E Newman?? Abby Road??? I mean those posters were out of fashion when I went to college and I’m older than dirt.

Heck with the posters. A poorly painted “Go-zirrah” model makes the ultimate statement.

The only thing in that room from this century is the phone. And the kid.

Dave, I do hope that Sun and the rest of Dez’s crew show back up. They were interesting. And I am ok with however Sun looks.

when Bern gets back to her room and finds all the masks nailed to the wall how is she going to tell her own room-mate to take them all down? Maybe Dez will give Bern a lesson on how to lighten up a bit.

there’s one ‘rule’ in life that Bern probably hasn’t yet learned. It’s called ‘pick your battles’. A lot of these little ones in her RA guide book are just not going to be worth it, unless she wants to become an armed guard and with no friends.

Bernie is about to lose her “Awesome” status when she Shuts the Partay Down..

re Comics Kingdom: I never even knew that site existed. What day did that happen?

re Comics Kingdom: check that – I didn’t recognize it at first as King Features’ site. Still, haven’t been there in a looong time.

Wow! I’ll have to check out Funky (haven’t followed it in a long time) if the trolls are calling themselves by the names of posters here. Come to think of it, we had someone doing that before on Comics Kingdom, I think…

Appearances by Ziggy and Alfred E. Newman.

Maybe it’s because it’s been a hard day— physically, emotionally, professionally. But today’s strip with Hair having his tongue hanging out is just too much. If I were 20 and in Bern shoes, it’d be an adventure. But looking at it as I sit her slowly sagging into the floor, this is full of foreboding. Help. I need to see a squirrel.

Reminds me of my first semester— in an all woman’s dorm. First two weeks my floor mates and I would go out for a beer, checking out the guys, etc. A month later, knee deep in studying, one of my floor mates looked at me with concern, “What happened to you? You’re not any fun any more.” Sorry, but I’m here to study. And we never all went out again— most of my floor mates dropped out at the semester.

I’m too generation gapped to even venture an opinion on that freak house. I assume serious study must be done in some place other than a dorm.

Even though they currently don’t have an auditorium in which to perform, and they are so inept at set design that they have to scrap dance numbers from their musical productions unless an inexperienced local high school girl who has never taken a class there can show them how to do it.

I don’t mean that Bernice and Hair are enrolled in the same courses (I suspect that Hair might not show up in the classroom that often). I just mean that they are in the same class year, because they both started at Moony U. in the fall of last year. (Unless Hair has been at the university even longer than Bernice has, which is also a possibility. I’m not going to speculate about his academic standing.)-Maybe the RA position at Moony is indeed focused on enforcing the dorm rules, as opposed to counseling the freshmen. But I would think Bernice would be more interested in the counseling aspect, given that her career goal is to be a guidance counselor. And based on what we have seen so far, it’s going to be difficult for her if she has to focus on the rule-enforcing side of the job.

let’s see…’what will be behind door number 3? Piro, Sun, Viper?

Bern is bent out of shape by someone’s burning candles and having things nailed to the wall. And a drum set? Just how do you suppose she react if she went into a room where a student had something truly bad, like a meth lab?

Somehow, I can’t imagine that someone like Hair, who nails things to the wall and has a Gozilla-shaped candle holder is a big enough Ziggy fan to hang a poster on the wall.

SPOILER ALERT

Bernice turns to her roomie for enforcement reinforcement, but finds no such thing…

(Ziggy With It:) Mostly, I missed it, cos I didn’t think of it… Lol!

“wait till she gets to Pyro’s room !!”^Pyro’s room is whomever draws the short straw, and happens to have a gathering in their room. That’s probably how he got his “dorm assignment”…. – Either that, or he is the “unlisted ‘real world advisor’”… or, in other words, probably just sneaked his way onto campus, and never registered for a class…

LOL!! Good one!!!