Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 03, 2017

well, curiosity killed the cat

Nice One Dez! Bern needs Dr. Zhivago

Piro doesn’t need a doctor, he needs a job.

Bernice has officially become a STALKER!

Paging Dr. Howard! Dr. Fine! Dr. Howard!

Geeez, woman ! OCD much?

Piro needs the dermatologist, to treat that star-shaped fungal infection on his scalp. Bern needs the minister, to pray for the hopeless.

Bern, did if ever occur to you that “Dr. Heald,” may not have a ‘practice?’ That he may retired or something?

No, of course not. The HECK with it. Bern? Dr. Heald is a mad scientist and Pyro is His escaped experiment gone ridiculously wrong. I know because His assistant Dr Pepper TOLD Me So…..,

Ouch—I just now saw the pun! Dr. Heal’d.

Dr. Heald is a veterinarian. He is an expert in treating burns, especially from being in a cattle branding accident like Piro suffered when he was working during a summer at the Lone Star Ranch.

Bern needs…a witch doctor?

Definitely the minister – that’s the way that Luann rolls…

I think what he needs is a restraining order against her.

Pretty sure what she is doing is called stalking.

Simply researching publicly available information that may shed some light on someone you are interested in does NOT constitute stalking. Otherwise, attempting to do a background check on someone you are thinking about dating would constitute stalking, which is ridiculous. In fact, it can be good practice. And following up on curiosity questions about someone that one has a crush on is especially typical behavior for young people.

Stalking may include many variations. Examples:

- Hacking into someone’s email or computer.

- Peeping into their windows.

- Following them around to the point that it makes them nervous, or pestering them in some way.

Bernice can’t stalk someone if she has no idea where he is, or what his phone number is. She is obsessed, but she isn’t following him around or constantly calling him.

“Say, how are your classes coming along, Bernice?”

“Classes? Classes? I dropped out last week. I’ve decided to dedicate my life to stalking Piro.”

Will Bern suffer meltdown soon? Will Dez continue pumping her full of psychosis inducing tea? Will Pyro burn Bern? … Will this arc GO somewhere this week? NAH!

So the star cutout was really so his dermatologist could more easily monitor his eczema.

Once again, Dez remains the only sane woman in this series. I miss Delta

Where is the choice of college professor?

Why did this website change it’s look AGAIN? Twice in the last few months.

Imagine this … Dez writes below the choices on Bernice’s list “MYOB”.

Bernice: “It says ‘My OB’? Dez, you have an obstetrician named Dr. Heald? I didn’t know you were pregnant! But why would Piro go to an obstetrician? Do you think he has a pregnant girlfriend?”

Dez: “Uh, no. Try reading it again …”

Anybody consider the possibility that Piro is the very weird and quirky doctor of whatever? Just throwing it out there, Occam’s Razor and all.

Bernice, give it up…

The doctor could be a faculty advisor.

Maybe Piro’s “pre-Med”?

She needs The Love Doctor.

Reminds me of the fact that, at least at one time, psychoanalysts in training were required to enter into deep analysis themselves.

Bernice needs someone similar to her, maybe Gunther. And if that does not work, how about bringing back Zane?

Huh! Dez’s punchline is something I’d expect Luann to say.

That comment really made me LOVE Dez!!!!! You go, girl! Plain Jane, drab Bern is also N U T S!

Bernice could have worked that out by knowing Piro’s (pjɛʁo) appointment time, what mode of transport he used (if a bus,what direction).

But no, let’s speculate about doctors in a 25 mile radius!

What’s she going to do? Camp out in various offices in rotation, or hack their patient data bases?

Yes, Bernice needs to see a psychiatrist: Dr. Crane and Dr. Sternin come to mind. Or, if you want to go just a few years back, there’s always good ol’ Dr. Bob Hartley. ‘Hi, Bob!’ :)

I understand where Bernice is coming from. I used to obsess on a guy when I was a young college girl. There were a few times when I sat on the curb, struggled with whether I should go to his door and press on the doorbell. I thought of reasons why I stopped by, none of which were legitimate. I tried to be at the parties he went to and accidentally bump into him. Years later, I told him what I did and he said he never noticed that I seemed to be “everywhere.” He laughed and found it flattering. I asked him if he were to realized back then that I was interested in him, would he return the sentiment. “Maybe,” he said. Oh well. My loss. :-)

Maybe she should just ask Piro.

Bernice is NOT stalking anyone. She is simply nosy. I think she would stalk Piro if she knew where he lived or his class schedule. Being nosy is not stalking. Piro is not in any danger, she is not following him or spying on him.

Anyone else notice how Dez’ face changed color in Panel 3?

Ha ha… good one Dez. Maybe Dr. Heald the psychiatrist is on the faculty at Mooney and he has a practice on the side. Or maybe he runs the counseling center at Mooney. Bern should make an appointment for herself in that case.

I still think Dr. Healed should be a podiatrist, spelled Heeled. Since Both Les and Bernice suffer form Open Mouth, Insert foot disease. Or could we say :" There is a fungus among us". Les is a well known Heel and many of the characters in this strip have a definite " Achilles heel /tendon problem" ( Gunther, Bernice, Luann, Tiffany, Leslie, Brad, TJ, Jonah, Shannon -- just to name a few.) If the shoe fits, wear it and if it doesn’t— get Imelda Marcos to find you a new pair.

For those who would like Bernice to “give it up”, I doubt we curious readers will ever know Piro’s secret, unless she is persistent in her “sleuthing” into his life.

This obsession of Bernice for Piro is going too far and to make things worse, Piro is not even interested in her. Maybe it’s better that Gregg and Karen bring back a more interesting character to relate to Bernice, how about Zane?

You certainly are curious, Bernice Halper! In fact, curiouser and curiouser!

Get her to the shrink, Dez!

Unfortunately, I can’t open the replies to R.J.C. They might have been fun to read; a lot of people might like to see Zane return. Well, maybe those who replied will just post their comments separately?

I met one of the Shadow People that usually inhabit the background scenery in the strip down at the unemployment office.

It seems that many were furloughed after budgetary cuts when higher pay scale “special guests” were brought in to fill seats at the DeGroot/Daytona wedding.

This caused a cascading effect, necessitating the cancellation of scenes involving a rock concert, a dog park, and class change at a large university.

It seems Evans Management relies on the readers not noticing little things, like how Kafe Kablooie doesn’t appear to have a lot of other patrons when the main players visit. A recent restaurant scene only employed the union minimum of six in the first panel; but at least their families were able to eat for a few days off the Craft Services Table leftovers.

Even the kids at the “Kids 1st” day care have been cut back to one child who can deliver a punchline.Use of props and scenery dressage is down to bare walls and one or two pieces of furniture, like a couch.(Have you ever noticed the day care props are the same as the “theater department scenery closet”?)

The aforementioned restaurant piece reused a couple of props from the “wedding planner” arc. That story REALLY blew a hole in the budget.

There’s great hope for upcoming scenes at doctor’s offices. They’re just crossing their shadow fingers that “orthodontist”, or “dermatologist” is picked so their kids have a chance at the higher paying “face time” scenes instead of “generic background”.

I too can’t open the replies to RJC. One of them is mine and I needed to go back and make a correction but now I can’t.

Do we have a family-frendly mystery, with a tad of humor. The missing TV, the missing class rooms, no text books, the strange man with a scarf? Or, is this like the movie “A Beautiful Mind” and Bernice is just imagining her roommate, Dez and she’s actually alone and out of touch with reality? Everyone else seems to have disappeared……Viper, Sun, Hair. Did poor Bernice finally crack under the pressure? Will she wake up and its ten years later?

I remember the good ol’ days when comics had plots that had a resolution not this never ending story with no end in sight. Piro and this story arc have jumped the shark. BTW what of the stolen television? Did that story arc die from lack of interest? Good, why resolve it?

So you think life is like that with a definitive end to every bit of plot? Not true.