Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 01, 2021

Oh, the suspense!

Banana Pie is good !

When the Fuse opens up for the day’s operations, who’s going to notice a missing pie?

A pie? What, pray tell in this situation, would make Luann think of a pie? I mean Tara is bailing. She’s going to take off her backpack and have some banana _pie!

That’s Bananas!

So Luann is going to steal a slice or three of pie? Calling Jean Valjean! Also they left the back door open and the mysterious figure outside is (probably) still outside. (With GnK you never can tell because they don’t believe in continuity).

Still waiting to see who the shadow is…

Nose! Thats the punchline to pick!

So where’s the mysterious robber/mugger/guard?

I have heard of pies with four and twenty blackbirds in them, but I do wonder if they have any pies there with crow in them?

Wow, those pies look yucky! Who’s ever heard of banana cream pie without meringue?

Apparently banana pie isn’t all that popular at Kafe Kablooie!

If they are already in the main room of The Fuse, and the shadowy figure did not follow them, it has to be a burglar taking advantage of the open door and is robbing the storage room while they are discussing pies and Tara’s cousin.

The pies must be old if The Fuse/Kablooie Kafe is giving them for free.

So who wants to predict on which day the mysterious other intruder with a knife(?) shows up again? I’m guessing not this week at all…

“And your cousin is right behind me” The best thing about a Fuse Pie is that it can be “light”

Pie, meet face.

So many possible directions this could go. Will their snacking be interrupted by the arrival of the dangerous cousin wielding a length of pipe? or a security guard wielding a flashlight? or an all-night plumer with a toilet plunger? Or when they finish their pie and leave, will they walk past the closed storage room door, each imagining that one of the others closed it? Or will they go into the storage room to retrieve Tara’s bedroll and find someone using it? Or …?

”Oh, Banana… oh, don’t you cry for me. For I’ve come to raid The Fuze tonight, and eat some pie for free!”

None for me, thanks.

Now I’m pretty sure it’s Tara’s cousin creeping in. This conversation is unfortunate.

Scenario 1: The intruder will surprise them and attack one of them, probably Tara. Luann will save the day by smashing the intruder in the face with a pie, giving the girls time to run like hell, jump in Luann’ car, and call the cops.

Scenario 2: Same action except intruder turns out to be a friendly.

There is no way a pie is NOT thrown after all this setup.

Shouldn’t those pies be refrigerated, or at least covered? I’ll bet the mice and roaches really appreciate the exposed eats…

It suddenly hit me that the shadowy figure might be FRANK. Someone might have called him and said they saw activity and lights on at the fuse, so he went over to check and has some kind of “weapon” (a stick?) in his hand….

Bernice has spent two weeks of our time trashing Luann to everyone. Now this is it? The person outside will most likely be police officer with a flashlight. Or her cousin who they will hit with a pie and catch thus saving Tara from leaving town. Either way this could have taken 3 days not over two weeks.

Dun Dun Dah!

Luann has provided me with a new catchphrase whenever something unexpected happens. From now on, I’ll be saying “Oh, banana”.

Well, there’s always… banana!

Panel #2: The sign says ‘Kafe…’ what?!? ‘kabpoe’?!?

I suspect the writers put “Mother Degroot” on Saturday’s comic.

… and just like that, they’re supposed to reconcile and be buddies? …. I don’t believe it for a second.

Nice story arc swing to the positive. 3 friends and a lot of fun. Fun times can remedy and heal many.

Why so glum? Banana pie is great!

For the Bernie haters this must be confusing, for the Tara stereotypers this must be hard to understand, for the Luann doubters, she is not selfish, but caring: the punch line for this arc will very likely involve pie in the face for whomever the stranger is, hilarity ensuing and all.

Here comes the cousin. Here comes the cousin. Look out folks, cuz here comes the cousin. (With apologies to SNL.) Or is this going to be like the pie fight in The Great Race?

At the end of the day if you have two (or more) banana pies left you’re making too damn many banana pies.

So just like that, Tara and Bernice are buddies, because Tara’s cousin is a psychopath?

Is anyone aware that B. just called Tara’s cousin a lowlife?

I am assuming they locked the back door, and no one was there?

March 2nd is National Banana Cream Pie Day.

What happened with the mystery person?

Love to see how grateful Tara is to Luann♡. The Dear friend Luann who sincerely wishes her all the best♡♡. It’s nice to see Bernice apologize for her past opinion of Tara and see how Tara believes her sincerity and forgives Bernice ♡. Hopefully this means that Bernice’s prejudices about people will disappear and she will be able to become a true psychologist♡♡.

The shadowy figure is T.J., coming in to make the coconut cream and chocolate pies to fill the case. He’s going to meet Tara, hear the situation, and offer her a room in his new abode – the one he found because Brad and Toni have been hinted he should go so they can start a family. TJ and Tara will hit it off as they’re cut from the same cloth.

Not sure diabetes will help your upcoming fight with Tara’s cousin

Well of course. Now we’re all best friends and can just hang out in this business after hours. No worries! We can have lots of fun and eat some pie. Go ahead and turn on all the lights while you’re at it. I love the way Luann can’t get enough of being the “popular” girl. Offer your parents business as a hide-out and then give away their inventory (it was Bernice who offered to pay). Luann has absolutely no common sense or concept of right and wrong. Her attention span is short and she can be distracted by any random thought. All she does is swing through life without a clue as to what’s going on around her. Definitely nothing at all between those ears.

You can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends. That’s so deep and poetic.

Um, whatever happened with the dark human figure who seemed to be lurking outside the Fuse in Saturday’s cartoon? There was a lot of discussion about it, and today, it’s like it never appeared.

I think the possibility of a pie in the face has been…(puts on sunglasses)…de-Fused.

Someone is s-pie-ing on them!

Did I miss something? What happened to the mysterious figure? Maybe she will show up for some pie! Glad to see Bernice and Tara reconciling. Maybe the pieman cometh with a delivery? Seems they have all the lights on? This segue is strange. Maybe some clarity tomorrow?

Anybody else sense a pie fight coming?

half expecting comic characters to wear masks, you know, as the new normal?

So, we wait all weekend to find out who the dangerous stranger is, and we get pie? (I love pie, but my least favorite is banana creme!) Is the mysterious man a stranger or related to Tara? Hopefully we won’t have to wait until the end of the week to find out! And, what does he expect to accomplish at that time of night? The money will be locked in the safe and there’s very little worth stealing at the Fuse.

What happened to the shadow-lurker figure?

Girls and their bananas

Oh, like, wow! Who could ever predict the uses of, like, the famed banana cream pie? Right?

The shadowy figure is Ben, who as a former army sergeant is showing them why you never leave a building unsecured. Expect everything to be rearranged if not missing.

(Seriously, watch Full Metal Jacket if you want to know what I mean. That part about the unlocked footlocker is definitely true to life.)

let’s hope that Luann pushed the door shut before they walked into the interior of the Fuse. but i think Tara’s cousin is carrying a crow bar or something to use to pry open a door.

The intruder only has the one weapon, a club or knife. Maybe she is waiting to get Tara alone to harm her. It would be harder to attack 3 people with a club.

What happened to the skulker?

Tara just stab Bernice right though her cold and unfeeling heart.

These songs might be appropriate today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKD_PfCQx9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeF7jqf0GU4

(Just don’t try that with “Rich” or “Chuck”!)

O<|];o)

Maybe the dark figure is just a contracted security guard. The girls would have a lot of explaining to do. If the dark figure is as sinister as he looks – who is going to come to the rescue?

tomorrow: pie ala-mode? or ala-Bernice? STAY TOONED!

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Hmm… well… at least it looks like Bernice and Tara have come to better terms….. and they may all have a belly filled with pie……. before the evil “SLASH-inator” cousin comes in to wipe out all three of them like in a horror movie.

So, obviously that will not be how Greg moves this story along….. but how will it proceed?

A) Pie is consumed, cousin confronts Tara, but it gets resolved.

B) Pie is consumed, cousin causes some sort of ruckus, and police are involved and she is hauled off to the hoosegow.

C) Pie is consumed, the trio exit out the front door and go on their merry way, never noticing the evil cousin.

D) Pie is consumed, as they leave, they see Ben waiting. He was trying to make sure Bernice was safe….. but now he is disgruntled that he didn’t get any pie.

E) None of the above.

Kwazy Kousin Name And Kwimes Yet to Be Determined is my favorite character! I feel like I know her!

Better get a pie, just so everyone who works here will know someone was here after hours. Don’t worry, it’s Berenice’s treat. She’ll leave some cash around so everyone who works here will definknow someone was here after hours.

Tara’s leaving for Utah, and Luann is thinking about pie? To top that pie off, Tara is paying for the pie. How long can they stretch Tara’s departure?

What about the shadow at the back door from Friday?

Bernie did say that she was paying for it.

The name origin of Kafe Kablooie is TJ’s Food Truck. ( the Truck`s propane tank that explored)

Do you remeber Soupy Sales?

The situation, as it stands, almost blatantly calls for SOMEONE, to get banana-creampied…

Luann reminds me of the dog in up who was always going “squirrel!” Her attention span is about two seconds.

No key lime?…..

Si es una mujer policía quien acecha afuera de The Fuse y decide entrar en el momento en que Luann toma un pay, podría acusarla de robo siendo sorprendida en el acto.

Someone is about to get a pie to the face

Fe-Fi-Fo Banana-Fanna! (Somewhat from ‘The Name Game’ song)

The original Name Game song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeF7jqf0GU4

♫ yes, we have no bananas !! ♫

If this is the last we see of Tara, I’m going to miss her. She has an energy about her that the other characters lack.

So Bernice, is Luann going to get an apology from you at some point, or do you figure you’ll do what you usually do and just forget all your wrongdoing ever happened?

Though maybe Bernice is going to be like Luann and give the apology as a Christmas gift. Maybe put it in a nice box too, since Luann is fond of giving empty boxes as gifts.

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2002/12/27

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2011/12/25

Nothing inherently wrong with a banana pie, Luann. But I sense something in the offing here, what with that shady character we saw lurking outside The Fuse last week, and the (allegedly) comedic use of banana cream pies so often in film or TV….

One possible outcome:

Tara’s cousin slips in unnoticed (nobody’s watching the door that Luann left wide open) and hides until everyone is gone.

Once she’s alone, she robs the cash register and destroys the place.

The cops tell the insurance company that there were no signs of forced entry and conclude that the vandal got in due to negligence on the part of whoever locked up, so the claim is denied. Frank and Nancy lose everything.

Of course the real fun begins when the security tapes are reviewed and they find out what Luann’s been up to.

“Tarnice” sounds really, really, really good right now.

The skulking ne’er-do-well is an allegory for COVID.

Wait. They skipped right over Bernice hearing the explanation of what happened.

Greg has been waiting for the 365 (366 in leap year) ideas to come in, at which point he’ll throw them all down the stairs to decide which the mysterious stranger will be and what Luann/Tara/?Bernice will do about it. You all really get into this hip deep. Guys, it’s only a comic strip!

Who cares about pie when a mysterious intruder is approaching??