Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 08, 2015

AND we have stonage.

Um… could there be some “Mary Jane” in them brownies?

Uh…. more drums? He and Viper just brought in a complete kit in there! One more picece will require an official license, signed by Neil Peart, himself …. – It’s probably going to end badly , since they’re bringing in a karaoke machine. Isn’t it illegal to operate one, without the proper vocal training? – Er…I actually can’t see anything wrong with bringing fire, though. And I’m sure they could have enough to share with the kids in the other rooms, not going, so that they can enjoy some, too …

By the way, Dez…

Butt control is EVERYTHING. Think of what a mess the streets would be.

Fupped duck, eh?

Bernice has come a long way since “The Trouble with Derek.” So have we.

Dez looks nonplussed by Bernice’s transformation. I think I guessed right. The brownies don’t have anything in them that Betty Crocker wouldn’t use, but if Bernice thinks she’s stoned, that works just as well.

I don’t remember acting like that when I ate brownies back in college.

poor poor Bern

FIRE?!

I am not sure I like the way this arc is going. Dez got her high, now is directing the other protaganists in the party which Bernice was trying to control or prevent. Whether we think Berb is being a prude or not, or is the right academic year to be an RA, getting someone high without their knowledge or consent is decidedly not a good thing. Maybe I am jumping to too many conclusions. We will see.

“Comfortably Dumb” (♫)“This Ain’t No Party, This Ain’t No Disco…This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around…” (♪)“Joker Is The Only Fool, Who’ll Do Anything For You” (♪)“Malice In Blunderland” “Silly Putty In Their Hands”“Dez-aster In The Making”“Ziegfield’s Follies…Without The Ziegfield”“Funny Girl”or“Laughter In The Rain…And Sun…And …” (♫)

These brownies are purely Betty Crocker. Probably store-bought, at that. Bernice is having a placebo effect, because she thinks the brownies contained cannabis. It gives her a convenient excuse for being unable to exert control over the situation.

Remember that Bernice commented that the brownies were likely against the rules, before she started eating them. She thinks they can make her stoned, so now she doesn’t have to act like an authority figure.

Bern finds her excuse for failing to control the situation:-

Drums, Karaoke, Fire, Brownies which may or may not be laced, and a new RA who is already in over her head.

I think Bernice is probably wondering why she agreed to live on campus (Moony is within the local Luanniverse, right?).

This is the first time I see Bernice without her glasses.

As a long-time stoner, it really offends me that people used to perpetuate the myth that hippies, or counter-culture people in general, thought it was cute to dose someone without their knowledge or consent. I have no doubt that some of you know someone, or think you know someone it happened to, but it was not common, and it was considered monstrously uncool everywhere I knew of (mainly LA and Berkeley).

I sincerely hope Greg is going to let us see that there was really nothing in those brownies, but that Bernice hit on them as an excuse not to be responsible.

I really don’t want to think Dez would be so cruel, evil and insensitive. It would be horribly out of character for the Dez we’ve been shown so far.

Of course there’s nothing in these brownies. This is the Luannverse. Get real, people.

Bernice might be like “Rev. Jim” on the old Taxi T.V. show. One bite and his brain was fried, and he was hooked. Naw, its that vagabond, VooDoo mama, majoring in mystic arts, “feel good”parties, and ultra-weird friends that’s going to be a curse on Bernice. And what is it with Viper, she looks like a robot?

I would presume that Dez had been eating the brownies too, but she’s completely sober. Nothing in ’em.

Good one!

Serious overdose problem.

I think Greg and his editors are making a major mistake with the strip

This is just like the “Luann and Quill in the dark” strip. Soon it will all be made clear that absolutely nothing happened, and we are all supposed to get a big laugh out of it. Ha ha ha.

Drum roll please!

I am liking the theory that Bernice only THINKS the brownies are medicinal. slaps self in head in 1970s V-8 commercial style Of COURSE they’re not laced.

God Bless! The family comic went there. Progress. Now for some more spice in the relationships… BTW – However brownies don’t work that fast.

They will all blame Bern when they have to find new places to live.

Fire?

The party hasn’t started yet and you would call the cops? Have a brownie!

Stoned!

looked on web, there is a chance “fire” means good weed according to slang

Of course they will not burn down the dormitory. Of course the brownies are not laced with marijuana. Of course all will turn out well for the new RA.Or, is this Bernice’s Moment of Truth?

Send over that cop from The Smother Brothers. He’ll know what to do.

Yeah, this could turn out bad for Bernie. She could get dethroned as RA. Or worse. Why can I see Tiff coming to the rescue, stopping the party and saving Bern’s butt.

FIRE?!!!

To get a placebo effect you have to think what you are taking is the real deal. If Bernice thought the brownies were spiked, why did she eat them?

This will NOT end well for Bernice I betcha.

This can’t end well . . . .

Gee. I’m WONDERING Two Things: ONE, Who the New “R.A.” is Gonna Be and TWO, Who’s Gonna be Dez’s NEW Roommate, and Whether SHE Will PUT Up With “Earth Mama’s” Pushy New-Age Nonsense?

Either the brownies have something in them or the stress of the party is getting to Bernice.

yeah. drugging someone without their knowledge is hilarious.

Yup. I had a feeling those were “special” brownies.

What do you know, the hippie drugs her problems away.

Dez has proved that she is NOT Bernice’s friend. Getting someone high without their consent is abusive.

Not amusing.

I’m a bit disturbed by this, Dez just drugged Bernice without any qualms. Yes, just like Gunther, it was an unintentional ingestion of it but the bottom line is Dez never explicitly told her what was in it. To me this isn’t funny.

Thank you Alice B. Tokalas! Have a great day – eat brownies!

Will she lose her RA position?

Wouldn’t you just hate to wake up during the night and see Viper staring at you?

Step back Bernice while we put all of these other paper puppets through the shredder.

I assume Sun is missing because Evans has finally realised he’s incapable of drawing an East Asian person in any way that doesn’t resemble a racist caricature?

I’m all for edibles. But not warning a person what they’re getting is just plain wrong. And letting them overdose is even worse. Of course this is just a fantasy comic strip, so who cares.

Edibles can be a lot more nutritional than brownies. The pot is OK but the brownies are not healthy.

And I was told mj would open my mind, make me smarter. Looking back at those who imbided and we who didn’t…. Let’s just hope Bern wises up before her brain burns out too.

Now they can make some ‘table candles’…

I suspect Sun will return, looking less stereotypical than she did in her debut. Maybe she will be just a background character at the party, until Greg Evans feels he has her look better defined now.

I thought Bernice was the smart one. She’s as mindbogglingly stupid as the rest of them. If I thought College students were all like those idiots portrayed here, I’d go live in a cave for the rest of my life.

With Bernice passing out laced brownies (we think), a party getting way out of control and the new RA/Bernice being disrespected by the other students, I just don’t find reading Luann fun any more. I know Greg wanted to bring them all into the next phase of their lives by showing them in adult situations but that’s not why I read the comics. I read them for a giggle and I’m not getting many any more from Luann.

How long will we have to wait to learn that the brownies are just plain chocolate? Probably we have today and tomorrow for Bernice to act stoned, and then Thursday will have the big “reveal” that she only thinks she is. Friday and Saturday she will try to make the best out of a bad situation, and then on Sunday Frank and Nancy are still middle-aged!

Let’s see. Putting an illegal substance in food and distributing it to others. I’m seeing jail time for dez or at least alot less munchies in her room.

In addition to the other items Dez ordered she had best get some munchies…NOW!!

Trouble ahead.

Dez, ya shouldna given her the brownie.

Dez, what did you put in those brownies exactly?

Oh yeah, she got the good brownies!

I’m going to come out on Bernice’s side on this one. While I’m not condemning the pot brownies themselves I do have to question Dez’ ethics in giving them to her unaware. What if Bernice had a job that had random drug testing, she could lose her job (and maybe being a RA at college does have drug testing involved)

everyone’s heard of Alice B. Tolklas brownies (pot brownies for those of you to young to get classic drug references) but this must be a first for psychedelic mushroom brownies.

oh, if Dez was half the responsible liberal counter culture humanitarian trip master she was originally set up to be, she would have cautioned Bernice to “only try half a brownie, dear”, and not “have another one”;

let’s see, DEZ is ZED spelled backwards, and for that reference, go watch “Pulp Fiction”

Dez will be in jail after Bernice realizes that she was drugged without her knowledge. Dez doesn’t really seem like that type of person, so maybe the brownies do not have drugs in them.

Sooooo…. let’s see. Food industry putting pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in the food supply is wrong, but slipping someone marijuana without warning is funny. I know marijuana is 100% natural, but so is hemlock…or rat feces for that matter. On the other hand, Dez, for all her “craetive” lifestyle is ethical and caring. I do not believe she would drug someone. Perhaps Bernice is just cracking under the pressure of being RA.

Dump Dez. Send her to Alaska..We need Derek back — to rescue Bernice from all this. After he got back from Alaska, he became a “reformed druggie.”

No pot in the brownies. Just an overactive imagination from Bernice.

If there were any THC in the brownies, then Dez would be stoned too. She isn’t, because there’s not.

Dez is probably used to it. Bernice was blindsided and obviously it’s her first time. She doesn’t even realize she’s loaded yet.

Mordock999 said@Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist“I assume Sun is missing because Evans has finally realised he’s incapable of drawing an East Asian person in any way that doesn’t resemble racist caricature?”_____________________________________Hm. Perhaps.Or Maybe Mr. Evans Has Realised He Can’t Depict an East Asian Person in Any Way, Without Some NON East Asian Person Being Deeply Offended…..,-————————————————Hey !Obviously almond-eyes are OUT. No No No !! Can’t have them..They would offend the self-proclaimed “politically correct.”.Gotta make sure the Chinese officials re-do those all those thousands of statues before some sensitive person in the USA sees them ! !

Chekhov’s Brownie Mix

I don’t think this is placebo. Bern has never been stoned before; she doesn’t know what to look for. Her brain does not have the memory of the experience( of being stoned) to be able to act on it..

Bern — Dez is not your friend. Friends don’t let friends destroy their own jobs.

It actually works better if you smoke it instead of eating it.

Implausible said,LDover :Hey !Obviously almond-eyes are OUT. No No No !! Can’t have them. . . . .………………………

Almond eyes would be eyes. It’s “slanted eyes as lines” that piss people off. . . . . . . -——————————————————-Some characters in comic strips have simple dots as eyes. Or just lines of various sorts. .Note the Greg comics with Derek above. Is a slant on the line inherently repulsive? .Do some eyes seem actually to slant? Are such eyes morecommon in East Asia? Is it perceived there as ugly, or as an insult? .In comics, could it be no more offensive than showing an African-American like Delta with a darker skin than Luann?Or T.J. as a southern Italian with a tanner complexion?.No No No, say the politically correct. !! Can’t have eyes that have any slant, hurtful, not politically correct...Then we must get the Chinese historians and artists to burn most of their archives, including pictures of Confucius.

Why did Bernice take the job of RA anyway? She’s on a full scholarship, we’re told, so her costs are covered already. She obviously is uncomfortable in the authority role. She is studying to be a guidance counselor, not a cop.

I believe that there is probably mj in the brownies.

Being politically correct means (for some) that all human characteristics would best be folded into a bland whitey stereotype , since anything else must be by definition anomalous — and therefore might be seen by sensitive souls as weird, insulting, hurtful, or even repulsive.

Evans has handled racial issues deftly before. .I consider the following to be pure genius.

Now, however, he is burdened by Miss Evans as a writer, and she has produced choppy and confusing story-lines from time to time. This R.A. / drug tale could be one. We may never find out how it ends, may never see any party. May never see any classmates but those in today’s strip.

And Confucius’s mouth is the size that mouths really are. Sun could cram a watermelon into her giant maw.

This is your Bernice on drugs. Any questions?

Ramones – Somebody put something in my drinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBFdvcF7auY

Meanwhile, back at this ’toon: I am still convinced that the brownies were laced, and also convinced that Dez and Bernice had never even talked about drugs before. So Dez probably assumed that Bernice had already eaten brownies plus before, since she grabbed one and started to eat it without asking any questions.

I remain worried about what will happen to Bernice in this context. Not whether she will end up without the RA job, but whether her unknowing encounter with THC will send her over some kind of edge…

No one else wants a brownie? If none of these edgy rad off da hook young people eats one, it’s probably even more harmless to her than it seems.

Lonnie Cavenee @LDoverYou really are spoiling for a fight aren’t you? The drawing of Confucius shows eyes not slits. . . . . . -—————————————I am only against a creeping form of thought control.Some East Asian eyes do have a distinctive shape. There is nothing wrong with it at all.We do not need to enforce conformity.Moreover, the comics often exaggerate features, so thatis to be expected — to a degree. Gregg has shown skill in depicting various types of persons and I think he could handle a Chinese girl just fine.

Drugging people without their informed consent is wrong.

argy.bargy2 said, Neoconservatives who left the Communist party behind brought the term ‘politically correct’ along with them, though, because they could use it to smear and attack the thinking of liberals. They’ve done a real good job of it… . . . -—————————————-Well put. !! .Liberals are by definition in favor of liberty / personal freedom. By definition they cannot favor repressive attitudes or measures. .Odd thing is that many liberals have taken up the nonsense of much of repressive ‘politically correct’ thinking. .Also many freedom-loving conservatives think of “liberals” as dangerous because of this kind of association. .I hate to see this tangled into what is proper in a comic strip.

Note the recent discussion of ‘microagressions’ in Zack Hill.

I am an Asian American Luann Fan. Sun’s design doesn’t offend me in the least. I don’t know a lot about comic art, but it seems to me that Mr. Evans uses several different styles for his characters. Toni and Bernice and Tiffany seem to have very different styles and I confess I found that a bit jarring initially, as a comparison in them can lead to comments like one I read here about dear Tiff having ‘Frog Eyes and a Duck Mouth’. I feel Sun is drawn in the Bernice style. Dots and dashes provide variation in character looks, it’s a short hand, a caricature, not a photographic rendering. I have never sensed any racism in Mr. Evans, and so believe that Sun’s design is a cartoonist’s thing, not a bigoted statement at all.

As a reader, I must say it looks like Bernice is stoned to me. It’s the way it reads for me.

“Other than myself and seismic-2, how many people honestly believe that there are drugs in the brownies?”

Well, there’s me. Since yesterday, I was saying how underhanded it would be for Dez to give Bern an edible without her knowledge. If it were to be true, Dez would have to face the consequences and be kicked out of the dorm and be on probation or something.

Dez’s dialog in Panel 1 is totally ridiculous. Is Bernice having a nightmare?

I’m offended by your outrage! Rawr!

yes

I’m not sure what book you’re referring to :/ Could you please clarify? Would it be Stuff White People Like"? Those are a couple of very funny books.

“Whether the brownies are “laced” or not, to me they are providing an outlet for Bernice to “let go” a little. Even if she’s just convinced in her own mind. And kudos for Greg to bring up the subject , whether real or imagined. Some cartoonists wouldn’t have even done that.”

That is an excellent comment :) I actually think today’s strip is pretty funny.

-OUTRAGE

LOL!!!!!

Soooo when are you cooking us dinner?

So, if Bernice gets in trouble for all this is Dez going to step up and take responsability for what happened, or is she going to let Bernice take the long hard fall?

Super lolololol, that is hilarious :DI’m going to have to get those and the Ranch Dressing one too!

Boy at last count 183 comments, now 184 and my second. Everything from unethical stoning, or stonage(ing) (the practice of making someone else stoned with or without their knowledge), depiction of East Asians (personally I think the Asian girl is cute, and I am a light-complexioned African-American who is proudly Black, but would probably have more Caucasian genes in his background, so there) the parameters of being a RA, whether Bern is hallucinating, or having a placebo affect, and any number of other threads of thought. Greg I don’t think you could top this unless Toni and Brad get married, AND adopt Shannon, or Luann runs away with Quill, which she won’t. Such an example of how damn addictive your strip can become. -:)

Feel free to try out the brownie recipe I posted earlier…

Where’s the little duck with the $100 in its bill?

Sounds good. Recipe?

> It currently has 615 comments, but at one time, had 726 ( I wonder where the other 111 went?)>Comments by folks who subsequently have been banned & their posts removed?

I don’t remember acting like that when I ate brownies back in college."

we didn’t have “brownies” when I was in college. Made up for that later. When you think there’s no effect and have another brownie, they all kick in like gangbusters. And they did.

Everything was funny. And hungry. And horny.-I was in dental school in SF back in the 60s, and the suger-munchied-out hippies would come to the clinic with teeth in the most miserable condition, if they were there at all.

A note on the REAL hippies (pre-1967): It was the worst form of unethicalness to slip a drug to someone unbeknownst. Later on, with the introduction of the harder drugs (and more sinister people) into the Haight, that all changed. Now, a woman in a bar has to take her drink with her when she uses the loo, for fear some dude will slip her a ‘roofie’ while she’s gone. Yes, times have changed, haven’t they.

Bernice discovers the joy of edibles.

That was pretty messed up of Dez to do to Bernice.Just not right.

I had brownies last night and acted like that, snert………

Don’t squeeze your eyes into slits and then tilt them upwards at a steep angle, and make sure that your open-mouthed grin doesn’t fill up the bottom 40% of your face.

This will not end well.

In 1954 Toklas published The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, a book that mixes reminiscences and recipes. The most famous recipe, contributed by her friend Brion Gysin, is for Haschich Fudge, a mixture of fruit, nuts, spices, and “canibus sativa” [sic] or marijuana. Her name was later lent to the range of cannabis concoctions called Alice B. Toklas brownies. The cookbook has been translated into numerous languages.

I hope this ends up with Dez arrested.

That’s the whole point. the drawing of Confucius does not have slits for eyes, but Greg Evans’ depiction of Sun does.

I don’t think this is headed to a good place.

Where the hell is this going??

Dez fed her those Brownies on Purpose..

Maybe Toni will wake up, realize that her “engagement” to Brad was just a nightmare, and pour herself a stiff drink about how scary it was.

As i have mentioned before, a quote attributed to Winston Churchill: “If you are not a liberal by age 20, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by age 30, you have no brain.”

-“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx

LOL!!!!

-ever heard

As the Great Man himself might have said (at the risk of offending somebody who might think this was a stereotype):

“Now that’s the most ridiculous answer to a post I’ve ever HOID.”

This is comment #243. Who knew brownies were such a hot item in the funnies?

SPOILER ALERT

I don’t think this is anyone’s idea of a dream. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, they do…

And it looks like Bernice might be left all by herself…

Hash brownies, obviously.

The best way I can think of to have a party and not get into any trouble is to have a drum circle in the quad. Nice and quiet and out of the public’s eye…

“I can. Remember that nightclub where the band Great White played? And there’s also the Cocoanut Grove fire of the 1940s.”^Yeah, I know… I was being sarcastic. I agree, too- that “Great White” one, for one, was crazy, with the low ceiling, the mismanaged pyro, and the thought that nothing bad could happen from jumping up and down, like that (at time) ! – Plus there have been some other disasters started over the smallest fire (from cigarettes burning a little bit too long [though, if you ask me, a cigarette burning, at all , is wrong], to falling asleep with burning things and the occasional “I thought it was all under control!” unattended fire, and the “walking out” on something left burning, unnoticed" [sort of like what happened to Chiachi leaving ’Arnold’s’, on “Happy Days”])..

I was going to add “Butt…Of Course!!”, too, but I was thinking Bernice was suffering enough, as it is, ha ha!!

defiantly not cool to stone someone unaware

BERNICE IS DRUNK!!! Who would’ve thought this day would come