Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 06, 2018

I think Bernice is having quite some laughs at Luann’s expense.

It’s good to see that Bernice and Luann have finally gotten around to talking about the events of last semester or is that this semester? I can’t tell anymore what the timeline is.

Now this really made me have a good old fashioned belly laugh. Just the kind of snarky, ironic, and knowing humor a best friend would have at the expense of her friend. Timed and staged perfectly. Now the issue next is what more about Jack will be covered and will Bern suss out perhaps some sensual, and romantic interest on Luann’s part? The girl is going on 20, so sensual seems about right. We do seem to go backward from the most recent to further in the past. I fully expect, or at least hope for more good smiles, and maybe a couple more belly laughs over I think the next two weeks.

Luann is having a bit of (very) selective memory in the second panel. The artist was hiding behind her easel and could barely look up from her lap. Got to save face in front of Bernice, but she (Lu) is missing the chance to talk about the experience.

Is Jack on her mind?

Luann hi-jacked Jack’s portrait

Well when I was Luann’s age, seeing a naked guy would make me feel awkward too. I took art in college but never had a naked model in class. Later on when I became a professor, I learned that the practice is now prohibited. Wonder if Greg and company are aware. After all Luanniverse don’t always parallel the reality.

Tell us again how Bernice is so much more mature than Luann…

“Vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous.” -Marion Wormer

If you go back to the April 19th strip in that last panel Luann is bury her head.

Bernice is having a few laughs!!!

WOW! – Lookit Luann’s expression in the first frame when she blurts out “Jack!” Then she gets her panties in a knot when she thinks Bernice is going to make fun of her. However I think Tara could get Luann to look at herself. I could see Luann and Tara running into Jack – Tara flirts with Jack momentarily which he responds to – then when they leave, Tara says to Luann, “See, you gotta get your hooks into him or somebody else will.”

Although a lot of the posters here complain when the arcs seem to go back to high school themes (fights between the girls over the boys), many of the posters are still high school snarkers with all this insistence that Luann is only about getting with Jack. She couldn’t possibly be thinking about a career as an artist. Or a career at all. Just ‘getting her hooks into Jack’.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Now, if Tiffany would have been in art class then having this discussion, she would have handled it in a more classy manner.

yes, luann like putting up picture of naked boys like you

Stereotypical Trope 115: Girls/boys like to tape thing on the ceiling

Yap, Yap, YAP. WHERE is that Food? Is Ox personally Plucking that chicken or something?

Oh by the way BERNICE. Did You ever get around to giving Luann “Her” share of the Scammed Lingerie Money. that TIFFANY so SELFLESSLY and FEARLESSLY recovered for ALL of You earlier this Year? You remember Tiffany, right? The Gal Ya’ll LOVE to Bad MOUTH?

So I guess Luann is a liar now too, in addition to a prude.

I can’t wait until we get to hear how lying’s not really lying when it’s the protagonist doing it (disgusted eyeroll).

No, the kids at the day care have that picture of Jack now.

Luann isn’t comfortable in admitting to Bernice that it was so weird she couldn’t even look at Jack. Something tells me this friendship is on the wane.

“…sealed in plastic so it doesn’t get stained?” ;D

I really hope that Luann will continue to follow the human figure drawing class. She’s skilled and would be a waste if she didn’t keep going study.

Luann puts up a good front in the second panel. But these two are well aware of how the game goes. They’ve been playing it since grade school.

Let the GAMES continue! :o)

Bernice don’t know jack.

Gee, Berniece seems a tad skeptical

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I am really enjoying Bernice’s comments today. Very much in keeping with the teasing and verbal jousting that is common with good, long-term friends.

I am also glad that the conversation has moved from discussing Tiffany.

While I am happier with the conversation today, and it leads me to think this will be another week all about Jack, I would like to say that it would be wonderful if the conversation were to “reverse” tomorrow, and Bernice tells us something more about her interactions with Piro. I am hoping that perhaps we may be able to segue into an arc where there is more interaction between Bernie and Piro.

This is ‘catching up’?! This is leaning more towards the old ‘Curse Exchange’ bit from the B.C. comic.

I realize that Luann had never seen Jack nude, and that clearly she and her friends, unlike many other Californians, have never been to a nude beach or a hot springs, or a music festival, or even been in a housing coop where people were casual about clothing while going in and out of the shower, but I really can’t relate to this sheer discomfort with the concept of a life drawing class. Why do I get the feeling that Luann and Bernice would dissolve into fits of uncomfortable giggles if they saw a picture of Michelangelo’s statue of David?

Oh, the practice of drawing live nudes is alive and well. And not all art classes are at college.

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This sensual vs. sexual discussion reminds me of nauseous vs. nauseate. Tiffany’s nauseous behavior sickens me. When I think of her I feel nauseated. Furthermore, I would like to pelt Tiffany with po-TAY-tos AND po-TAH-tos. I’d even throw in a 1992 “Potatoe” if I could find one.

Do people often talk to each other while sitting on their hands?

Seems like that would have at least warranted a text to Bernice when it happened.

I don’t know Shakespeare, although I might have met him once in a tavern in my youth. But, didn’t one of his dudes say something like, “Me thinks she protests too much”? And, Bernice has her libido-scan fine tuned today.

Who is she kidding?

The Bandit has passed …..

RIP Burt R.

Smokey and The Bandit are back on the road together again. Burt Reynolds joined Jackie Gleason today. He was 82.

You protest too intensely, Luann. (me with eyebrow raised)

So is this the comic equivalent to a clip show?

Luann doth Protest so much that Bernice will Never believe her.

I took figure drawing two semesters in college and we had nude models at least one class a week. All of the sensuality goes out of it when you’re working on a project that defines your grade for the semester. This was in Texas, but in the swingin’ Seventies!

I love Luann’s lighthearted face in the first panel! ♥

interesting tie-in with real life: Burt Reynolds posed au-naturale for Cosmo

What’s missing from this pleasant little chat? Those stupid, intrusive cell phones, that’s what’s missing. These girls actually see each other, and talk. Whoa, spooky.

Bernie remains Queen of Sarcasm. Or course, Luann is pretty much leaving herself wide-open for put-downs….