Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 04, 2016

Anybody else’s neighborhood sounding like a war zone from fireworks right now? Hoping you all have a happy (and safe) Independence Day!

uh-oh, seems like Bernice is going to become Luann’s canvass

Bern, escape while you can. I see trouble ahead.

“And for our Next act Ladies and Gentlemen, we have one Luann DeGroot who will be performing a much welcomed Autopsy on that Dummy over there, that goes by the name of Bernice or something. Take it away, Ms DeGroot!!!”

uh oh

Y’know, Macgyver used to say the same thing…..-Especially when the faucet leaks….-Or he locked his door… after remembering that he left his keys in the ignition…

Ok, all you artists out there. What kind of art project is done using the things Luann listed? If she had said papier mache, I would have guessed she was going to do one of those ‘life masks’…

Yes, and I’m sort of torn about how to receive this reboot, based on the current reports…-And the track record for most of them, lately….

“Party Of Wondering”“Grab The Stumble By The Horns”“Next Of Mannequin”“Ideas For Dummies”“A Stroke, From The Blue”“Odds And Friends”“Strike, While The Irony Is Hot”“Spontanei-tease”“Curiouser And Curiouser”“Is There A Craft, In Here?”“Supplies, Like Us”“Tool, Calm And Collecting”“Purser Of Interest”or “Tired Pressure”

I think it’s a chin puppet act, but if it is, shouldn’t they write jokes for it? They couldn’t do it for a ventriloquist act, which we just saw, so they shouldn’t be able to pull this off

Interesting comic strip but not last week and it doesn’t look good for this week. What we have here is two airheads.

The one reboot I could get behind!…..or around….or through, especially after that abandoned hospital basement incident of 1987. Or was that incident number 87?

“I think it’s a chin puppet act”. That’s what I though, but we’ll see tomorrow.

So is she going for making Bernice a marionette? It would be somewhat ironic to see Bernice as a puppet after all the strings she has been trying to pull lately.

Sounds like Luann is getting the materials for a “Groucho Marx”. Oh, and I think Luann’s top has a crossword puzzle on it…

Didn’t Leonardo say that to Mona?

I think I know what Luann’s gonna do.

Luann’s gonna stuff Bernie’s bra?

She’s going to make Berniece’s Chin into her eyes and hair and she will be an upside down dummy

Yea, it’s one of those upside down papa oom mow mow things.

Is this talent show preparation how they want to spent their summer? Is reading about it how you want to spend your summer? Maybe something more interesting is happening in the Gunther, Mom B., and “Uncle Al” household, or wherever Tiffany is working this summer, or wherever Piro has found a place to crash. Still, it’s better than spending the summer on Brad and Toni’s wedding planning!

Bernice’s world is about to turn topsy-turvy!

I wish he’d go back to Bernice and Gunther. THAT was just getting interesting!

I say Groucho Marx. They are going to do a Groucho & Harpo Marx comedy routine.

Happy 4th of July!

Groucho Bern?

I’m interested in looking at it for myself, yes, but at this point, this is my initial take on it. Again, I was hopeful about “The Dukes”, “A Team”, and “JJ Trek”. Also, the remakes for “Bionic Woman” and “Knight Rider”. So far, none to my liking (to others, it may have, but again, not to me, JMO). That’s why I mentioned the prelim ‘scuttlebutt’, etc.

See? That’s another thing…today’s networks, to me, don’t have the people in place with the correct “sensibility” (program wise, that is) to put it together in a way that seemed to make it work, in the past. It’s more about profits, than programs for these current suits, even when successful and popular (the demise of the Disney Infinity vid game series is a recent example). If it brings in a nice profit, it still gets cancelled or “retooled”, if the profit’s not “big enough”, thereby messing up the quality. And CBS’ treatment of the Star Trek fanfiction, and the licensing for syndication packages of all the Trek shows (i.e., hoarding them in the ‘vault’, not making the reruns available) and also their insistence of not putting the ‘new Trek series’ on “regular (free) tv”, to me, smacks of this….

Happy 4th of July! Enjoy Independence Day but be careful driving or lighting fireworks! Wonder why Pitts doesn’t have a fireworks display.

sounds scary

@Namrepus“The current premature ejaculation of fire works is in progress tonight.”.Interesting mental imagery involved there.(Although, I have had bottle rockets blow up in my hand, leaving all fingers intact but stained yellow. And not just once as sane people would expect, but repeatedly.)

Oh! She’s going for the “chinface” gag.

Pretty sure it’s a chin puppet. She wouldn’t have to have jokes. She could just lipsynch a song.

I’d never heard of a chin puppet before but yes – that makes sense.

I’m glad to be spending the 4th in an area where even “safe and sane” fireworks are illegal (due to the high fire danger here in this Gold Rush town). I a sorry I missed the town’s fireworks display however – it was last Friday, over the reservoir.

Luann: “Loosely translated, Bernice, You are counted In! Now, there will be no further argument on the subject; I have already made my decision. It is final, and I stand by it!”

I had been thinking that Pru would walk in and make some suggestion since she is probably managing this talent show.

For worn-out Bernice, this could be a transformative experience! Go, Luann!

Luann and Bernice are working too hard for “inspiration”. That’s what happens when the un-creative try to do something creative. You either got it or you don’t.

Smart move.

@maverick1usa

Happy 4th of July! Enjoy Independence Day but be careful driving or lighting fireworks! Wonder why Pitts doesn’t have a fireworks display.

I think they wait until the 4th falls on a Sunday…more room for a single-panel display…

Not necessarily …

The last time the Pitts community fireworks were depicted in the strip was 2013:

The fireworks were referred to on July 5 last year, but not shown, even though that was a Sunday panel. Ditto July 4, 2010, which did fall on Sunday that year.

Most years, whatever story arc was in progress simply continued without any reference to Independence Day at all. The last time fireworks were depicted before 2013 was a Sunday strip, but in context I don’t know if you all will count it … July 4, 2004:

I went as far back as 1999, the last date before that where July 4 was on a Sunday, and no fireworks either displayed or referenced.

I think I just shot your theory all to hell, Puzz. Sorry.

SPOILER

Correct guess from some, but not really a great move by Luann…

“Cotton The Act”“Hail, Scissor”“Get A Glue”“Calling In Markers”^Ha, Ha, Ha!!

Yes, in the case of 5-0, it seems it’s the action that saved that show. Ha, ha, that, and a couple less crime shows to have to compete with. And remarkable, too, since the ratings weren’t that great, to start out…