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

Maybe you should use this time to learn that trick where you twirl a pen between all the fingers of your hand.

How do you, Luann readers, cope when wifi is out?

Go outside and enjoy life, Luann!

Go to the zoo. Meet some animals with a higher IQ than you.

What? No WiFi?

A list of things that apparently don’t exist in the Degroot house: books, television, wi-fi. Or maybe they do, and Luann is just really dumb for not realizing that she has options besides literally staring off into the distance.

This is the cleanest I’ve seen Luann’s room.

I like the way Puddles is awake or asleep in every alternate panel.

Luann put the cell phone down you want lose anything. Go outside and play with puddles.

Shannon and Luann week 2 I would should be over by Thursday.

Definitely a little social commentary on how dependent people can get when it comes to their Wifi and internet services. Particularly people Luann’s age. Then again, I often feel a little lost whenever the internet in my neck of the woods goes offline. And I didn’t grow up around computers or anything like that. So I can’t really say all that much either…

Read a book. It’s habit forming.

People actually read books, ya know.

Take Puddles to the dog park. You may meet someone new.

It did seem that way, in the old movies I watched. But women were forbidden to smoke, so they had to crochet stupid things, and live longer.

Yes.

I remember going “cold turkey” when my 2400 BAUD modem went down and I couldn’t get on Prodigy. It was ROUGH.

Quick! it’s time for Luann to have a hot boyfriend.

I love my foreign phone with dual SIM card tray. I have two different phone numbers from two different carriers. Never have an interruption in service. Finger print reader allows me to use one finger to bring it up as one phone with certain apps and number, and another finger allows the phone to come up set up completely differently on another number.

After reading today’s strip, I’ll offer one good thing about Shannon….

She not internet-dependant. If she were, she’d find a way to break that too.

If my cellular service went down, I wouldn’t notice for a while because I am seldom on my phone. And GPS doesn’t need cellular service.

When internet goes down, that’s different. The whole household relies on it for work and school, especially since we’re all still working remotely due to coronavirus. But if it goes down, we have so many books in the house that I haven’t read yet.

This is reality a beautiful Sunday ♡. So many panel about Luann and every one with a different action, all for descrive how bored she is. Her question is funny and there’s some truth in it. Be bored is terrible, bettere go out with Puddles for a walk.

Is Frank chiseling on a stone tablet? Has the family gone paperless and this is the only way for him to take notes?

I must admit that her question is a reasonable one.

They read. Watched television. Played card. Played sports. Weighed 30 pounds less.

Nah.

“Folks” used to “smoke too much” because the tobacco companies once convinced them it was “cool.”

Of course, there’s always drinking. Unfortunately, far too many drinkers insist on driving.

Might I suggest COFFEE?

Oh by the way. When is the memorial service being held for your loss of hair, Lu? ;)

That happens when you get a cell family plan..

Actually, the landline years weren’t all that bad. And people smoked more because they didn’t know any better. I know plenty of cellphone users that smoke like crazy even now.

Very Nicely, Thank You Very Much

i listen to music on a STEREO SYSTEM, read a REAL book, go for a long walk, watch TV, visit friends, go to a park, call friend on a land line phone. WI-FI should not rule your life.

Yep!

That looks like cell service around my house.

Read a book or play offline games, Switch, tablet, etc.

It’s dangerous time. Frank looks like he’s going to try to fix something. I seem to recall a maxim from all family comic strips. “When the lead father figure tries to fix anything, it means disaster.”

Ain’t nobody fixing modern gear with a flat blade screwdriver. Phillips, Torx, or GTFO.

Not necessarily… some used to read.

It is an addiction.

As a librarian I have 18 bookcases around my home, so I’m set for entertainment!

Maybe, but it’s definitely the reason why I smoke weed so much. Just kidding. I use cannabis oil.

Or TV 6-8 hours a day…

Doesn’t a college student have any homework or studying to do? Maybe GeeKay has forgotten Luann’s still enrolled at What’s-Its-Name Junior College.

Read a book!

I could list a lot of productive and non- technological activities but if I were trying to do something online and my wifi went out I’d use my cell phone data plan.

No, this is why people used to read so much.

You mean the wireless is down. You usually don’t use cell service to look up stuff on your phone. You use it to call people.

I’m so glad I grew up before the internet so I know how to entertain myself without it. Too many people, especially kids, don’t know what to do with themselves if they don’t have a screen in front of their faces.

The bigger problem would be having no way to communicate in case of an emergency since nobody has land lines any more.

Yup, and only three channels on the TV, four if you got PBS.

No. That’s why more babies were being born…..

Yeah. They changed one addiction for another.

Well, at least Luann still has all her hair.

Or why they played cards and checkers and read and talked with friends and went to movies …

Pick up a book and start reading. That will help pass the time. I know it works for me.

Evans loves to portray Luann as an ignorant flake. Yeah Luann before cell phones existed people smoked , just like people had relations, people had lives unlike your generation of ignorant internet drones.

I have lost track if the number of people I see on my bike commutes that are out walking their dogs or pushing strollers that were mindlessly scrolling through their phones. Some have been in conversations (for all to hear) while on these “walks”, but the majority of them are devoid of attention to surroundings or the charges (i.e. pets and children) they are responsible for. One hilarious time, I saw a “zombie” out walking their dog and they had stopped. The dog began creeping ever so slowly toward a squirrel that was at the edge of the bushes. When the squirrel darted away, the dog lunged forward, taking the “zombie” by surprise and nearly off their feet. I began laughing out loud as I passed by, later hoping that the poor dog didn’t get scolded for that.

Now here’s something that hasn’t happened in an age… A gathering of the Ents in the Fangorn Forest…. No, actually it’s a Sunday Luann comic more than three panels long..

Read a book!

Today’s strip is almost identical to one Greg draw a couple months back, except that was acknowledging the sequestering from COVID. Now it’s the loss of cell phone service, but it’s the same joke — Luann doesn’t know how to entertain herself.

Where does she live, where the cell phone service “goes down?” I thought she lived in a modern city.

Does that sort of thing happen in America?

BTW, for those who aren’t aware, if you have a recent phone ( the past couple years), there’s a thing called “WiFI calling” where the phone will route your calls through your WiFi system rather than relying on the cell towers. This can be very handy at times. Your carrier has to support it, and you phone should list it as an option in the SETTINGS area.

Actually I’ve often thought of how my Mom constantly carried around her little leather case. She was a chain smoker from about age twelve. It held her ever present pack of cigarettes and her butane lighter. It was about the size of my cell phone, which I am never without! I do see a parallel. : )

In the fifth panel, is Puddles looking at an un-color-differentiated snail at the bottom of the window?

It is a snail?

The comic has been posted for over twelve hours?

I DID IT!!

I DID IT!!!!!

I actually found something worthwhile to comment about in today’s mindless space-filler strip.

Families used to be bigger, too.

Monday: The Recalcitrant Barber.

I enjoy my meltdown

No, it is why our ancestors were able to build the greatest nation on earth.

So we’ve just substituted one addiction for another.

Try a power outage along with no cell service. Now how do you survive?

Why doesn’t she just bust out an old copy of those teenybopper magazines she was always devouring back in the day? They may be a little out of date, but it’s not like she’s matured much since then anyway. Look at her face in the fifth panel: you just know she’s considering it.

I have a hobby and books!

Actually, this is how it is after you quit smoking.

crochet

I was watching something about the WTC on 9-11. The cell service went down in the area, so all these survivors were lining up at pay phones 20 people deep just to call home and tell their family they got out alive. And I thought, "If something like this happened now, there wouldn’t even be any pay phones to use.

she needs a troupe of Oompah-loompah’s singing the mike TV song at her.

Luann is being a 21st century girl here. The e-addiction. How sad….

And now back to Sweeney Todd…..

Amazing how dependent on our phones we’ve become, isn’t it? (As rklynch said above.)

I also just couldn’t let the comments here stay at 299. Mine should be an even 300 …

People DIDN’T stop smoking! I WISH they WOULD!!