Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 23, 2016

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    Namrepus  over 8 years ago

    If only she knew more about him.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 8 years ago

    Bernice sure adores a man of mystery.

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    Flash Gordon  over 8 years ago

    …and a wife and kids that he’s not telling anybody about.

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    ILuvLu  over 8 years ago

    That’s enough to stake a lifelong commitment on.

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    Pointspread  over 8 years ago

    Wouldn’t they be more comfortable sitting on the couch?

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    ct0760  over 8 years ago

    oh god, that was WEEKS AGO! Also she is so oblivious to the fact that he’s more likely to be into guys than girls

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    SF1972  over 8 years ago

    Well, there you go.

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    luann1212  over 8 years ago

    Did I say her nose would be open? It is clear her nose is already open. Put a locomotive through nostrils going both ways. What that means, for those culturally unaware, is a Southern Delta based metaphor for someone hopelessly in love with, or in a major way, having a very visceral, physical crush on someone else. Prio is someone totally foreign to Bernice’s experience, plus he is quite attractive, or is thus attractive to her, contrary to some here who totally missed the attraction he presents. Too many got into his apparent circumstances, but that just adds to the mystery, but does not mean he is some kind of lower level bum. if he is a bum I bet it will be emotional in that he totally ignores, plays with, or stomps on Bernice’s feelings. Or she might draw him out. If it turns out he has the capacity or interest to feel the same way about her, the way she feels about him, she will fly to the moon for him. That is what I mean about nose being open. She is so new to love. I hope this does not break her heart.

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    TheDOCTOR  over 8 years ago

    Strong Hands, Soulful eyes, Sexy Voice, is there anything else Bernice?“Oh yes….I WANT TO HAVE HIS BABY!”Hey these ladies are in College now, Sooner or Later There will be a story arc involving an ….. ‘All the Way’ conversation.

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    Dreamdeer  over 8 years ago

    He could be a poverty-stricken scholar who got enough of a scholarship to cover tuition but not enough to cover living expenses. Or a druggie whose savings went into his arm. Or a struggling film student willing to sacrifice everything for his art. Or a kid who got kicked out of his home for shaving a star on the side of his head. Or an undocumented worker trying to better his life under the radar. Or a rich psych student studying sharing behavior by pretending to be homeless. Or a student in hiding from his dorm-mate. OR someone with mental health problems that won’t let him get his act together. Or a 38 year old journalist trying to see if a student could get away with attending college without having enrolled. Or…any other guesses?

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    Kymberleigh  over 8 years ago

    Dez got too much sun over the weekend and has her darker complexion today …

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    kenhense  over 8 years ago

    Interesting: “A sexy voice.” It just occurred to me that we know what everybody looks like and no idea what they sound like. As far as sexy voice: I bet Toni has a voice as sexy as her looks.

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Okay lemme see if I got this straight about this “Piro” Guy:

    NOBODY Knows what classes He takes.

    NOBODY Knows who His instructors are.

    NOBODY Knows what dorm room He stays in.

    NOBODY Knows who His so-called room mate is.

    And apparently, NOBODY, not even Dez, seems to Know what His REAL name is.

    But all of THAT is “Okay” because Bernice thinks He’s “hot” or something.

    GOT It.

    Bern, You’d Better SNAP Him up before some other babe gets Him.

    You MIGHT wanna do a “background check” on Him FIRST, though…..,,

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    DAVID RODES  over 8 years ago

    This comic strip is not even funny anymore. been like this for a few weeks. CMON…lets go to other story…..

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    38lowell  over 8 years ago

    Ditto!

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    Ruth Brown  over 8 years ago

    anybody else notice that Dez has lost weight lately? Isn’t Dez the one who first invited him into their room?

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    notbornyesterday  over 8 years ago

    news flash for Bernice, get real, unless Piro is suffering from a serious case of “opposites attract itis”, ain’t nothing gonna happen between you and Piro and if it does it won’t end well

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    kaystari Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Did Dez suddenly become black?

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    thomas93  over 8 years ago

    I could see a story arc like with andrea zuckerman on the tv show 90210. She is depicted as the nerdy character in high school but winds up in multiple relationships her freshman yesr of college.

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    wantcomicsnow  over 8 years ago

    How does Bern know Piro has “stong hands?” When did he ever put his hands on her?

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Okay, first, Dez has always been some racial mixture, and we have seen her darker in warm weather and lighter in cold weather before, since that topic has come up before. That just makes sense. People tan, albeit at different individual levels, and having more pigment does not mean that does not occur.I agree that what Bernice is having is more of a visceral reaction (lust in the three Ls of lust, love, and liking), but wonder if Piro might be a man who enjoys being seduced rather than jumped. Yes, such men do exist.

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    comicboyz  over 8 years ago

    Waiting For Dez to tell us Piro’s life storyHe is probably a Vet with a tortured past.

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    2Goldfish  over 8 years ago

    This strip is spiraling out of control. Hit the deck!

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Any ideas what volatile chemical compounds Bernice is exhaling right now? Her’s is a highly emotional state.Short plain language piece on interesting study:http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/05/cinema-audience-atmosphere-isoprene-volatiles

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    srmalone  over 8 years ago

    Another week of angst over Piro by Bernice. Can we please move on?

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    edge2edge  over 8 years ago

    what is it with women who have “the need to breed”? why are they often attracted to the bad boy type? Are they seen as “alpha” males who will protect the woman and her offspring? So often those very bad boy types beat their women and disappear when the 2 AM feedings start. Piro may be fun but guys like Brad and Gunther are for the long haul.

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    3pibgorn9  over 8 years ago

    Hey! He may be a diamond in the rough.

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    JimT8  over 8 years ago

    It’s the soulful eyes!

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    luann1212  over 8 years ago

    That is my point, this is not a gag a day strip and never has been. It is funny, but in the context of stories in the strip.

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago

    No luck so far finding Dez as a name rather than a nickname, but there is this:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dez

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    JimT8  over 8 years ago

    Here are some things Bernice knows about Piro, besides his soulful eyes and strong hands. He is not a predator. She can trust him and is safe with him. That means a lot to a woman. He is quiet—to a fault no doubt—polite, grateful, and he dresses tastefully and well (in spite of mistaken comments to the contrary.) He likes her, as evidenced by his appropriate recommendations to her as she was about to travel to New York for the first time. (And if I recall correctly, he touched her gently on that occasion, but I am too lazy to go back to check to see if this was not just a figment of my imagination.) Sukie Crandall made some of these same points above.

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    Gazzara5  over 8 years ago

    It’s always the way. The “nice” girls go for the bad boys and the “nice” guys go for the icebergs and the witches. Then when they get burned they go crying to the people they should have been with in the first place, like poor Gunther. You never truly know someone until you see how they act when something doesn’t go their way or you won’t do what they want. It takes more than a few days in Manhattan to become a mature adult. I grew up in NYC, and believe me, it has immature people too.

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    Gazzara5  over 8 years ago

    I’m a Vietnam veteran. When I went to college after my service I saw that vets who seemed the most sullen always got pretty girls. I found out it was an act because it attracted the “need to be needed” types. I tried it, and it worked. I’m not proud of it but it was the only way many of us could get girls. Most of the others were afraid of us. Of course, it never lasted. Thankfully, I grew up and finally met the right woman, to whom I have been happily married for 40 years.

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    whiteaj  over 8 years ago

    And he’s a bum who sleeps in other people’s apartments.

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    Gazzara5  over 8 years ago

    You’re talking about a relatively inexperienced college kid who thinks she’s been transformed by a week in Manhattan. All that character and integrity stuff comes later. Right now, she’s just got a case of the bad boy hots. Heaven help her if she tries to change him. That never works.

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    ddalnz  over 8 years ago

    New to (commenting on) this list, so my apologies in advance if this horse has been kicked to death already, but wasn’t Bernice ‘involved’, in a not quite wholesome way (on the male part) with some older dude like YEARS ago?

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    Luanaphile  over 8 years ago

    “How does Bern know Piro has “stong hands?” When did he ever put his hands on her?”Listing all the items that Ms. Bern believes without evidence, or, for that matter, any 19 year old, would be a fool’s errand. But I will patiently read your additions.

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 8 years ago

    She should just ask him on a date!

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Idiot is in love with a superficial image. I’m sure Piro is great, but she really knows nothing about him, and he doesn’t know she exists.

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    Now that she’s spilled her guts to her roomie, Dez, I guess it’s official. Bernie has fallen for Piro (or at least for her romantic notion of Piro)!This leaves Tiffany an opening with Gunther….

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    Luanaphile  over 8 years ago

    Desdemona and Piro among my favorite characters. If we learn too much about them, they will lose a bit of their charm for me!

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    ACTIVIST1234  over 8 years ago
    My earlier post was partial. Here it is in full." .This is a great lesson in counseling for Bernice!Now she’ll be able to understand why women fall for or stay with men they know are bad for them. The hormones as well as the intellect drive behavior. (Sometimes into a brick wall.)
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    Kymberleigh  over 8 years ago

    I think all the people who probably hadn’t read this strip for many years, then come in, discover it’s not the same strip about the hilarious adventures of a girl in high school and her classmates that it was 15 years ago, then post their “ths trip is terrible and needs to be fixed” … need their attitude fixed..Greg and Karen Evans made a decision long ago to take the strip in this direction. In my opinion, it wouldn’t still have a big following (remember, it is one of only a handful of strips on GoComics with subscribed readership of over 10,000) because that “gag-a-day” format — as NightGaunt45 rightly calls it — would have been tired and worn out by now..You don’t like it? No one is forcing you to read it. But I will point out that we get a few of these comments every day, which means 50 or more per month. If that was a significant number to the Evans, don’t you think they would have reversed course by now?.They don’t need your advice. They’re not taking your advice. So please go away.

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago

    There has been worry that Bern might eventually wind up with her heart broken. Honestly, even if that happens it is not the end of the world. Like most people i went through that several times before meeting the right man. In fact, i remained friends with most of them. There is learning which happens from such losses, too. The saying that it is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all is a wise one.

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    Terminal Frost Premium Member over 8 years ago

    never mind about the name, I just saw that the name is different.

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    Argy.Bargy2  over 8 years ago

    I’ve been very interested in this Bernice – Piro pairing since it became evident that she was interested in him. I’m hoping we get to see something other than what so many here seem to expect. I honestly feel that Piro is a troubled soul, and I doubt that he is conscious of any impact he is having on Bernice or anyone else.

    I wasn’t following this comic back when Bernice was involved with Zane, but someone provided a retrospective. Based on that, I concluded that Bernice is drawn to guys not just because of their looks (although that is part of it), but because some part of her wants to make things okay for people who have troubles….

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    skesif  over 8 years ago

    Why is Des dark with brown hair when in previous strips she has a light complexion with rusty red hair?

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago

    korakazembe903 said, less than a minute agoWhy is Des dark with brown hair when in previous strips she has a light complexion with rusty red hair?Have to redo. My bad eye caused me to touch the delete button.Anyway, the degree to which individuals tan varies, with so e individuals not tanning much, but others tanning quite a bit. That is true for medium skin tones just as it is for light ones.Dez got lighter in winter.Playing w colorful hair dyes — permanent ones and tempoarary ones is bery popular w young women. Dez may be trying a purplish dye or rinse. A young friend recently had the lowerer portion of her blond hair changed to scarlet to match a gown for a public event, and a brunette niece recently did her ends pink.Then again, Sheriff may be playing with us.

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago

    BTW, if you wonder why Sheriff might play w us w the color choices it pays to just blame lake effect snow. ;-)

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    sffilk  over 8 years ago

    What do we know about him?

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    RSH  over 8 years ago

    The expression on Dez’s face in the last panel suggests that she may not know much more (about Piro) herself. I would have thought that she might, given that she is a friend of a friend (of his) and that Piro has been hanging out in her ‘space’ from time to time. But we have a whole week for some of this to unfold.

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    Alpha-Omega  over 8 years ago

    Dez is darker than normal today…

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    Kymberleigh  over 8 years ago

    And why is it that we keep getting “Dez’ hair is different” posts after it has been potentially explained?.I know why, as do most of the regulars, but here I go for the rest ….PLEASE READ THE EXISTING COMMENTS BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS THAT ARE SO OBVIOUS SOMEONE IS BOUND TO HAVE ALREADY ASKED THEM!.There. I feel better now.

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    Chuck374  over 8 years ago

    I guess that he is a homeless vagabond doesn’t seem noticeable to her.

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    RSH  over 8 years ago

    “…PLEASE READ THE EXISTING COMMENTS BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS THAT ARE SO OBVIOUS SOMEONE IS BOUND TO HAVE ALREADY ASKED THEM!….”-———————————————————————————

    You are right to say this. No doubt I can be accused of “re-inventing the wheel” now and then.. But, often by the time I get to read and comment on the day’s strip, there are already about 100 comments (at least) and reading through them all is an arduous task, especially where people start conversing about anything and everything… but the strip. But in the future I shall endeavor to do as THIS comment bids.

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    Airman  over 8 years ago

    The strip really isn’t funny, it’s actually sad that the characters are afraid to assert themselves and go after what they want. Only Tiffany, despite her many failures, continues to try, but Greg always shoots her down. But it is addictive and the artwork is good. 9 Chickwood Lane also has very fine art work, but the characters there have no soul, they are sterile and depressing and have all the personality of a Starbucks’ wall menu.

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    Schrodinger's Dog  over 8 years ago

    And sometimes the tint changes from day-to-day. So what of it?

    exactly.

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    Argythree  over 8 years ago

    SPOILER TWO

    The sooth said by a sayer may not fit all

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