Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 08, 2021

Nice strip today. ♡

Will the plan work?

Dez may as well change her name to Hank Snow, because like his most famous song, she’s been everywhere man….

Hasn’t everyone lived with a Nomadic Tribe? lol

A nomadic tribe with a privacy hut? I’m going to need a citation on that. Nomadic tribes generally don’t haul around superfluous tents.

Top 10. And yes nice strip

Now I have to look this up to see whether Evans’ thought up this tidbit. Also Stef should but them all noise canceling headphones. And I think this solution is fair.

The question was raised yesterday what current newspaper strip do you like better than “Luann.” For me that would be “Heart of the City.” I loved it a long time ago when there were still print newspaper. And I found it here on GoComics but now done by a different writer/artist. I kind of miss the old strips but the new Heart has a lot — ahem — heart, and understand but kids and parents (well mostly the moms) very well. Heart is a lot like early Luann. There is also good story control and flow between characters and arcs.

Tiffany will end up sleeping alone in the privacy hut nearly every night I bet.

Will the privacy hut be sound proof?

Wow, a Privacy Hut in the common Area! Desdemona is a genius?

Dez is a person of world. Traveling with Nomadic tribes.

2cnd

Bets is just so #$€%* HAPPY about everything.

Dez has lost her mind. It’s more like retreat that could last up to a year.

Getting kinking with Kippie in the corner. What could go wrong, will

I prefer a hut for pizza.

So, does Dez go in the privacy hut when when wants to be nude, or does everybody else go there while Dez is nude? And then Stef and Kip join them?They’re gonna need a bigger hut. Better yet, two huts.

Tiff is close-minded, Bernice is amazed and Stef doesn’t give a damn.

AKA The Entertainment Center!?!? PUH-LEEZ! 8^ \

Nothing Freudian about that upright pinkie.

Nothing at all.

Can someone explain why the males in this strip are so nice and decent (or become that way), while the females are weird, bitchy, or just plain disgusting (two exceptions: Nancy and her DIL Toni)??

Is Greg a misogynist?

I really love this comic but this plot line kind of makes my stomach turn. The idea that female roommates will be fine with their roommate doing the deed while they are right near by being all too aware of it seems off to me. I’m not trying to be naïve about this but Yuk. Privacy. Find alternatives. Anyone have a car on campus? A key to the science lab after hours? Something?

Bets is realizing how much Dez has changed since summer camp.

Les has had his moments, as well as the Eye of Zye guy awhile back. Hair and some of the dormies are goofy or weird!

Did Dez grow up in some kind of commune?

Privacy huts are off in the distance for good reason… SONIC privacy. Doesn’t work if in the same room. Try a motel.

I wonder how old Dez is in comparison to Bets and Tiff? We know that Tiff, Gunnie , Luann, Bernice and the rest of their high school class are probably starting their third year of college now making them 20 on average. Dez reminds me of that certain underclassman that most college students have/had encountered in their scholastic journey: the 24 to 26 year old who may have started school at an older age after travelling or experiencing life in some non-academic fashion (in my case I had a guy on my Freshman hall at FSU who was a 24 year old freshman straight out of the Navy; having saved up coin via a stint serving his country; top notch dude who would give you the shirt off of his back and now is a pharmacist in the Pensacola area from what I have heard). Other older students may have changed majors numerous times and are now a 5th or 6th year sophomore so to speak. Dez seems like she may have travelled extensively (I think her family has coin but perhaps not, maybe she just picked up employment during her travels) and then arrived at Mooney as a 20 something freshman with a bit more life experience, savvy and street smarts than Tiff, Bern and the rest of the gang and it shows, like right now! The fact that she is enrolled at Mooney but is from NYC indicates the ability to pay out of state tuition which equals having a good financial backing if Mooney is a California State university.

Anyhow, I love her idea about the privacy shack to get Stef to abandon the idea of making it every waking moment in the room while Tiff is either above them or below them. A stroke of genius for sure!

Tif is right: sounds weird.

Looks like the privacy corner just got booked for the season

Ugh. Short of a sound proof booth, no way. Kippie’s girl needs to go, tout suite

What’s the common area supposed to be? Where is it? Are any other dormmates liable to see it, or hear what goes on? Why not get a little tent instead of using quilts? It sounds like Dez wants to make a blanket fort, like a kid at a sleepover.

It’s not a bad idea to use the common area in this way. Tiffany will likely be the one to use it the most, even if Stef and Kip don’t get back together, it doesn’t seem like she and Tiffany can live in the same room without arguing.

One person grasping at straws; two skeptics; …. and an airhead. Perhaps this one will be brickwalled tomorrow and a new arc picked up on Monday?

Three unique responses in the final panel. Ah, diversity…..

So they’re OK with Kip and Stef making out in their common area where everyone can hear everything?

First piece of Furniture in the Common area! Privacy Hut?

Soooo…. When sitting in the common room, all you’re going to hear is Stef and Kip going at it…. At least that “privacy hut” was some distance away (it seems).

(sigh) the best in-tent-ions…

I still think they should just choke each other out.

May as well just put a bed in the dorm lobby. Isn’t there an RA any more? Are there no rules for dorms any more? Does Steph have a clue about pregnancy?

This is getting weird

I have a tent they could borrow. Less likely to collapse.

Nomadic tribes are still in the modern world.

Just like the toddlers who build couch tents in the living room!

She will still hear their canoodling.

Alone time is one thing. A corner where you can fool around with your boyfriend and everyone will hear it is something else entirely. Judging from the earlier part of the story, there won’t be just kissing going on in there. Ew. Ew. Ew.

Who’s is paying for the mattress for that “privacy corner,” since at least I suspect that will be where Steph, and, Kip will be “hanging out” in a lot.

Hiiiiiii Kippie-Wippie! (Makes me wanta Barfie-Warfie!)

I think we need some more back story on Dez. She seems to be a most interesting character.

Interesting set of panels today, each one containing it’s own story. from Dez’s New Age ideas, based on her singular adventures, to Bets amazement, Tiff’s curiosity, but the most significant is the phone call Stef is answering. Back for another round? Problem solved? These four will be food for tons of young college adult’s storylines, hilarity ensuing, that is for sure.

Clearly, the intent is to show Tiff moving away from airheadedness by having an even bigger airhead room with her.

Total Sesame Street situation: “One of these things doesn’t belong.”

Can it, shoog.

Another stupid idea from the stoned out self appointed neighborhood guru!

what if Bets and Gunther are in there, and Stef shows up with Kip wanting the space?

Interesting from all four. Dez gives an unrealistic solution, Tiff doesn’t see it as a solution, Bets is surprised about Dez’s experience (wait till you try the brownies, you’ll have experiences then), and Stef is busy trying to arrange the next hook up. Augh!

So, uh, Stef and kip are gonna bang behind quilts in the common area? Stay classy, Luann!!!

shoog has attention deficit.

Are we going to get to see Dez nude????

I have a feeling that many that post comment here don’t even read Luann.

They are acting like a group of working adult women sharing a private residence. Shouldn’t books, homework and classes be part of this story? Meeting new students? Going to college events? I have a few college degrees and this childish behavior and selfishness is unrelatable.

OR she could just go to “Kippie’s” place and shag there!

Any port in a storm will do…..

Oh Goodie, a Kippee-yurt!

Awful idea. Let Steff and Kip find their own place to copulate.

Dez lived with a Nomadic tribe? How old is she anyway? Or a previous life maybe. Unless she started her travels at the age of 3.

The next fight is who gets banished to the privacy hut? Tiff or Stef?

I BELIEVE Dez lived with a nomadic tribe,because her hair looks like an Indian Chief’s war bonnet.

How much plastic surgery has Steffi already had?Her face is half botox and half concrete.

eewww

why doesnt she go to Kippies to get it on!

I wouldn’t mind being a nomad if I didn’t have to move so often…

Privacy hut for one or two? Again, I’m with Tiffany; corner quilt is weird.Is Stef sweet talking Kip into the corner or talking her way into his shared room? This strip is getting weird, but then I’m far from a college student. Maybe they like it. ?;-o

I really like Dez. She has a wise and kind soul.

Usually the women went to the privacy hut for one week out of the month until the cycle had passed.

Does this comic have a purpose?

That quilt hut ain’t gonna cut it but at least Tiffany can get back into her room.

The Four Musketeers. Talk about a mixed batch!

Okay . . . I AGAIN like where this is going . . .

This is like a really bad sitcom premise.

Might hide visually, but that blanket hut wouldn’t do much for sound.

Dez likes to make things up as she goes along, and it’s just to make herself look spiritual and all-knowing – like the privacy hut concept among nomad tribes. There’s not a single ounce of truth to that statement, and even if it were true (for nomad tribes), here in western civilizations the privacy hut is called a “motel”. Making a third bedroom out of the common area of that quad is going to be a big no no with the college. If she was really smart she would know that, instead of making ridiculous suggestions that are really only designed to be an opportunity to brag about her supposed “travels”. I don’t believe any of her stories. I think she’s just a big liar.

Yeah, Steph think she gets the bedroom with Kip while Tiff takes the quilted private space. Tiff thinks the reverse. Another tiff ensues with Kippe ticked.

Find a room for that not the shared apartment. Or I just might film and sell to Porn Hub…

The kiddie teepee is no solution. Tiff will be in there most of the time. And will it be Bets escaping from naked Dez, or Dez using the tent? The hut can’t be for getting it on because it is in the common room and is not sound proof.

Solution: get rid of Stef. Addition by subtraction as we say in the math biz.

Dez is the Vanessa Jenkins of this strip. She’s done everything and been everywhere. BTW when I lived with a nomadic tribe, we put our most experienced and knowledgeable people (the elders) on bits of ice and pushed them out to sea at the birth of a baby.

I must state my admiration for how elegantly Stef speaks airhead-ese to her “Kippie”!

But who goes in the “privacy hut”/isolation booth? [As a matter of record some tribes used to have isolated huts for menstruating women—just an anthropological trivium.]

I remember seeing something on National Geographic about a group where parents build “love shacks” for their teenaged daughters to bring home boys to spend the night. Teenagers usually congregate in the town square after dark and the girls will choose whether or not to invite a boy to come home with them.

Wow, Steph’s hormones are over riding her brain. So egotistical, she doesn’t care about anyone else’s rights or feelings. More stereotypical cheerleader than Tiffany. Just imagine if she’s had a few drinks.