Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 29, 2021

  1. B986e866 14d0 4607 bdb4 5d76d7b56ddb
    Templo S.U.D.  almost 3 years ago

    Touché, Bernice.

     •  Reply
  2. Komi 0001
    AnyFace  almost 3 years ago

    Truer words … ✨

     •  Reply
  3. Little lulu
    sallymargret  almost 3 years ago

    I hope she decides to do something else.

     •  Reply
  4. A667b8b3 9778 432a bad0 67bcfb554af3
    jea9hrkr  almost 3 years ago

    Isn’t that the truth!

     •  Reply
  5. 45ef5099 2b1f 4468 b79f 220fa77c8dae
    Z-bert  almost 3 years ago

    Hey! We just got some facts! Luann has a plan to teach and she is 19 years old.

     •  Reply
  6. Zooey girl
    ronaldspence  almost 3 years ago

    You do you Luann, even if it means a course correction…

     •  Reply
  7. Missing large
    capricorn9th  almost 3 years ago
    Ow we know they’re 19 years old!
     •  Reply
  8. Missing large
    Dreamdeer  almost 3 years ago

    Bernie’s going back into friend mode! Maybe Nil has been good for her with his gentle questioning of her assumptions.

     •  Reply
  9. Mbsils
    marilynnbyerly  almost 3 years ago

    Wishy washy is Luann’s personality through the whole cartoon. No surprises there.

     •  Reply
  10. Missing large
    Dreamdeer  almost 3 years ago

    With the recent cartoons about Luann’s parents feeling old and a bit burnt out on running the fuse, I predict that Luann will wind up inheriting it, after they decide to retire, live the dream, and travel, maybe even become ex-pats (since living on retirement money might not be feasible in the States.) Belize might make a good choice—on the caribbean coast with warm ocean water year-round, dramatically lower cost of living, the official language is English, they use the American Dollar, and they don’t even require passports of Americans.

     •  Reply
  11. Trollspry
    Enter.Name.Here  almost 3 years ago

    Still 19? A heck of a lot has happened in her first college year(s).

     •  Reply
  12. 178984004 1938191756340282 7578671333456854042 n
    TheThingIs  almost 3 years ago

    Another poll‽

     •  Reply
  13. Ann margaret
    Caldonia  almost 3 years ago

    Woah! There are more young people in the world—especially females—who don’t have such a choice than little Bernice could ever dream of. Everyone knows that. Can we please skip to the part to when Luann meets whoever it is she’s going to tutor.

     •  Reply
  14. Missing large
    kenhense  almost 3 years ago

    So now we have it – Luann is 19.

     •  Reply
  15. Download  6
    Joe1962  almost 3 years ago

    More like 35

     •  Reply
  16. Cadyacht1
    lvlax  almost 3 years ago

    Just 19??? I think time has slowed down even more, in the Luann Universe, since she left High School.

     •  Reply
  17. Download  6
    Joe1962  almost 3 years ago

    Bernice you are not helping.

     •  Reply
  18. Ti
    Rhetorical_Question   almost 3 years ago

    Luann Universe has turn back the clock.

     •  Reply
  19. Blunebottle
    blunebottle  almost 3 years ago

    Being 19 has nothing to do with it…

     •  Reply
  20. Ti
    Rhetorical_Question   almost 3 years ago

    The 3rd panel has Luann Degroot’s eyes crossing together?

     •  Reply
  21. Missing large
    BlitzMcD  almost 3 years ago

    I must admit, Bern the Hussy has a pretty air tight argument there.

     •  Reply
  22. Ecvgny wsaa0661
    J. Scarbrough  almost 3 years ago

    I’m 32, I grew up during a time when going to college was considered a guarantee that you would be able to get work in your chosen career field . . . however, extenuating circumstances prevented me from going to college – at least right after I graduated high school in 2007. Still, looking back on it now, I’m glad I never went . . . almost everybody I know who’s my age or even younger who have attended college, university, trade school, tech school, or anything of the sort, and have gotten their degrees, diplomas, Masters, Bachelors, whatever, are still unable to get into their chosen career; now, here they are, drowning in student debt, unable to get a decent job, and regretting wasting four or more years of their life on something that did nothing for them in the long run. A lot of blame is the job market itself: there’s been a tremendous shift in the mindset of many employers who want people to already possess X-amount of years’ worth of experience to potentially be hired – even for the lowest, most menial jobs you can imagine like a janitor (honestly, how many years experience do people need cleaning toilets?) . . . but, how can people have experience if they can’t get jobs to gain experience?

    But even so, as I said, I have no regrets about going to college. I’m not at all unhappy being a struggling and unsuccessful puppeteer/cartoonist/content creator who’s also a full-time home healthcare provider – it gives me quite an edge.

     •  Reply
  23. Joe the bugatti mulhouse clipped
    Call me Ishmael  almost 3 years ago

    Nineteen was my first wife’s age. First.

     •  Reply
  24. Ava2
    C  almost 3 years ago

    Four times a day

     •  Reply
  25. Big hug
    Brdshtt Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    After all this time in college (I know Luanniverse time does not run concurrent with ours), she is just 19. In a few years, she will be 17…

     •  Reply
  26. 318346 10150515659374989 119105629988 11258985 63388929 n
    Airman  almost 3 years ago

    You also have a good writing style. Kind of fun to read, so add that to your emerging talents. Never know when that “door” will open, and you never know what’s on the other side. Good luck.

     •  Reply
  27. 5b1fe21f 9d78 4f26 83b0 5959b4af632b
    Lightpainter  almost 3 years ago

    Yep, Luann, your life course is already set in stone ( cough cough). Yet Bern upends that whole idea. Wait, WHAT?

     •  Reply
  28. Img 20241102 155448733
    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  almost 3 years ago

    Bernice has a point.

     •  Reply
  29. 20141112 192913
    Aladar30 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    HOORAY! Is happening! Luann is questioning her choices thanks to Bernice, who has finally decided to act like a best friend and not like an enemy. This is incredible! I never liked the idea of Luann becoming a teacher. Thanks to Bernice, she can now face the possibility that she was wrong and start thinking about other study and career options. This could finally be the beginning of her return to the theater, as an actress or a set designer, or the beginning of something totally new. It’s great that is Bernice the one helping her understanding♡.

     •  Reply
  30. 0438aab5 b754 4b25 b41d bb310caeac1d
    GirlGeek Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    She can definitely change friends

     •  Reply
  31. 1d688314 6dae 4f59 9de1 8d7ec2824944
    Mordock999 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    “Tell you what, Bernice. I’ll change My mind about becoming a school teacher if You’ll change Your mind about becoming a “Psychologist” or something. Because Lord knows, YOU would make a LOUSY one. Deal?” – Luann

     •  Reply
  32. Missing large
    scott.rouse  almost 3 years ago

    Since when did Luann make plans to teach, she doesn’t have a work ethic. What could she possibly teach anyone for that matter? How to half ass your way through life? How to not use your brain?

     •  Reply
  33. Missing large
    sueb1863  almost 3 years ago

    Listen to your instincts, Luann. You don’t really want to be a teacher.

     •  Reply
  34. Fb img 1444236693284
    OldsVistaCruiser  almost 3 years ago

    I learned that to be a good teacher, one must be a good entertainer as well. I learned that by watching the career of my neighbor a half mile down the street, Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr. Ed.D. Too bad that he really screwed up.

     •  Reply
  35. Boston
    MS72  almost 3 years ago

    I had a new English teacher in high school. She was so nervous, she would fiddle with the top button on her blouse until it came off. Every day. It was hilarious!

     •  Reply
  36. Mr haney
    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Flunked out after 3 1/2 years. Repeated one semester and flunked it again. Joined the service. Out of the service after 9 years got a job. Went to Community College at night for programming. Got another job as programmer and retired. Worked out well as far as I’m concerned.

     •  Reply
  37. Missing large
    Susan00100  almost 3 years ago

    This strip is a bigger soap-opera than any one on TV!!

     •  Reply
  38. Tommy lee jones look
    Johnnyrico  almost 3 years ago

    I think Wilma Flintstone said some thing similar once..

     •  Reply
  39. Missing large
    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/billyjoel/shesalwaysawoman.html

    Oh, and she never gives out

    And she never gives in

    She just changes her mind

     •  Reply
  40. Avatar 51
    Frank Farkel  almost 3 years ago

    Use the Force, LuAnn…

     •  Reply
  41. Race bannon
    scottbruce  almost 3 years ago

    Luann 19! That means poor Puddles is nearly 130 in dog years. Time to stop the Luanniverse time machine.

     •  Reply
  42. Missing large
    comic reader 22  almost 3 years ago

    WOW. Luann just had an epiphany. Her brain actually clicked. Her synapsis synapsed. It’s amazing. I suppose they will discuss this all week, maybe two weeks. We’ll see. It is super refreshing to see Bernice not being a snarky hag, though.

     •  Reply
  43. Missing large
    dwindy54  almost 3 years ago

    Playboy playmate seems fitting.

     •  Reply
  44. Ellis archer profile
    Ellis97  almost 3 years ago

    Luann, if you want to be a teacher, you need to have this tutoring thing.

     •  Reply
  45. Img 1157
    brick10  almost 3 years ago

    And without a second thought…

     •  Reply
  46. Missing large
    Anon4242  almost 3 years ago

    If she’s 19, she’s about freshman / sophomore age. And people do change their majors – some several times. She really liked staging and working on sets for theater. She might go into show business – not in front of a camera but one of the people who make movie magic happen behind the scenes.

     •  Reply
  47. Hearteater s lion
    Lord Hearteater  almost 3 years ago

    The mother of all punch lines

     •  Reply
  48. Missing large
    mfought  almost 3 years ago

    I think I’ve been reading this strip for about 30 years when they were about 5 yrs old

     •  Reply
  49. Sixshotprofile
    Decepticomic  almost 3 years ago

    Uh huh, yeah, that’s nice. What is that face Luann’s making in panel 3?

     •  Reply
  50. Photo
    WilliamVollmer  almost 3 years ago

    You should know Bernice. Your career goals might not have changed, but other “things” in your life seem to be keep evolving. (As your dreams keep telling you.)

     •  Reply
  51. Missing large
    preacherman Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Bernice has a good point. If Luann has a problem teaching one, will she be able to teach 20? I think all potential teachers should have to spend at least a month teaching as a substitute. Then they can find out if teaching is really their cup of tea.

     •  Reply
  52. Tyge
    Tyge  almost 3 years ago

    First surprise: Luann had a PLAN??? This is the first we’ve heard of it.

     •  Reply
  53. Tyge
    Tyge  almost 3 years ago

    Second surprise: Third panel. Has Bernice awakened something in our eponymous lass? Are we about to see a “new” direction for Luann? (Probably not.)

     •  Reply
  54. Tyge
    Tyge  almost 3 years ago

    First confirmation: Luann is 19-years-old. Ergo, so are Bernice and the gang that all graduated together. OK! Eighteen to twenty! Picky, picky, picky!8^

     •  Reply
  55. Missing large
    Arghhgarrr Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Who can? Ah, maybe a 19 year old male! There is nothing genetically sex determinative about indecision.

     •  Reply
  56. Missing large
    Jeannine Brown  almost 3 years ago

    Get out now while you are young! Teachers are leaving the profession in record numbers.

     •  Reply
  57. Missing large
    Uncle Bob  almost 3 years ago

    WOW! A quote worthy of M*A*S*H’s MAJ Sydney Freedman! Maybe Bernice is in the right gig after all!

     •  Reply
  58. 689 6897683 blue rebel alliance logo png transparent png
    KEA  almost 3 years ago

    No kidding… I had mates who changed their majors 5 times before graduating… ’course it took them a bit longer to graduate

     •  Reply
  59. Missing large
    ctolson  almost 3 years ago

    But they are college Sophomores unless they have really late birthdays.

     •  Reply
  60. 1004021 10151616819787978 1047915355 n
    ajh2i  almost 3 years ago

    I went to school as a music major to eventually become a band director. By my second semester, I knew it was a mistake. I’m currently finishing my master’s degree in library science. Find what makes you happy!

     •  Reply
  61. Beach background
    Cincoflex  almost 3 years ago

    So if not teaching, what? We’ve been shown Luann’s goal for years—is it all for nothing?

     •  Reply
  62. Ann margaret
    Caldonia  almost 3 years ago

    If Luann ends up being assigned a kid who restores her faith in teaching, please don’t let it be Faye. I don’t want to see more foolish mentoring and chaperoning.

     •  Reply
  63. Greg backlit
    mindjob  almost 3 years ago

    Luann needs more experiences to discovery what she truly “loves”. It doesn’t sound like it’s kids

     •  Reply
  64. Noble 10
    BJShipley1  almost 3 years ago

    Oh goody, some misogyny to start the day. “Haha, wimmen be fickle!”

     •  Reply
  65. Imagesca66di1a
    Thehag  almost 3 years ago

    Come on really?! Any 19 year old. Drop the “female” from this and I will like it.

     •  Reply
  66. Missing large
    raybarb44  almost 3 years ago

    Worst thing you can do is be in a job or career that you hate doing, even if you are good at it…..

     •  Reply
  67. D3109feb b108 4281 84b0 b9c384bc7f45
    CynthiaLeigh  almost 3 years ago

    Bernice should change her major. She would be an awful shrink.

     •  Reply
  68. Missing large
    Bruce1253  almost 3 years ago

    Wait until your 50, change your career and move across country to get a MBA.

     •  Reply
  69. Catinma
    BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Exactly kids right out of high school have no business going into college, they are way too immature. What this nation needs is a required minimum of two years paid public service whether it be military or social work. And have a bill to provide something like the GI bill to finance education, either college or skilled trades apprentice. Colleges at this time in history are basically preying on naïve kids.

     •  Reply
  70. Ximage
    Jogger2  almost 3 years ago

    Just before his last semester in law school, a law student told his parents he didn’t want to be a lawyer.

     •  Reply
  71. Missing large
    MJ Weber Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Luann needs to realize she wants to be an elementary school teacher, not a teacher of teenagers. Nothing at all wrong with that.

     •  Reply
  72. 5f3a242a feac 42cc b507 b6590d3039f7
    Plods with ...™  almost 3 years ago

    Any time is right

     •  Reply
  73. Missing large
    w16521  almost 3 years ago

    Bernice is being a little bit less snobby then usual. Guess she’s feeling under the weather.

     •  Reply
  74. 7e716c76b1407a18559b0bd9c1b49d87
    Lescoe Brandon  almost 3 years ago

    19 years for the last 10… works for me.

     •  Reply
  75. Tulips
    locake  almost 3 years ago

    We may never see any tutoring students. Not this week anyway.

     •  Reply
  76. Rcaf1
    wvrr  almost 3 years ago

    You can’t possibly find a teaching certificate with a couple of years in a community collage.

     •  Reply
  77. Ted4th
    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Remember when Bernice organized all of Nancy’s business papers for the Fuse, and Luann was boasting about just how impressive a job she had done of scrubbing the toilets? She may have found her calling. Luann and Knute can work together as washroom attendants.

     •  Reply
  78. Fb img 1565635905418
    ViscountNik  almost 3 years ago

    My friend’s daughter wanted to be a chef since she was a child – she had both the talent and the drive. Some of the meals she made as a teenager were some of the best food I have ever eaten. So, when the time came her Mom got her into Le Cordon Bleu college here in Minnesota. Two quarters and roughly $78k later she wanted to be a game designer…

     •  Reply
  79. Missing large
    destry1970  almost 3 years ago

    Hmm, what could a 19 yr. old girl tutor some one that they might find interesting enough to want to learn?

     •  Reply
  80. Joe the bugatti mulhouse clipped
    Call me Ishmael  almost 3 years ago

    She could become a chiropractor…

     •  Reply
  81. Ligand1
    RSH  almost 3 years ago

    Bern should next ask Luann what she’s passionate about. Maybe we can get back to art. I hope Bern brings that up; she has seen Luann doing sketches for Zebo’s class.

     •  Reply
  82. Triscele
    txmystic  almost 3 years ago

    so…6:1 ratio in aging from our world to Luann’s?

     •  Reply
  83. Ligand1
    RSH  almost 3 years ago

    Better to realize you are in the wrong program (for you) before graduating, not after.

     •  Reply
  84. Missing large
    Susan123  almost 3 years ago

    I am very impressed with 19 year olds that know what they want to do with their lives.

     •  Reply
  85. Missing large
    Jayneknox  almost 3 years ago

    I changed plans 3x, and ended up working in a different field anyway.

     •  Reply
  86. 6b6a17aa 4633 4ce3 959e 2cd6e82fbf91
    alexius23  almost 3 years ago

    I mentored Student teachers for years. I recall one student teacher who did the educational class work. She finally did student teaching & then decided it was not for her. She left the program & every now & again I wondered what her next step would have been…

     •  Reply
  87. Beb avatar
    beb01  almost 3 years ago

    When did Luann have a plan to become a teacher? I’m old enough to remember that the reason she was going to community college instead of Muni U. was because she could not make up her mind what she wanted her career to be, so she was taking classes to make up her mind without having to declare a major. Now it sounds like she has always planned to be a teacher in which case why didn’t she just enroll in Muni to begin with? (Answer is that Luann enrolling in Muni would have distracted from the big "Bernice Goes to College story that kind of fizzled out anyway Also, when did Muni (for Municiple) become “Mooney”?)

     •  Reply
  88. Missing large
    Fuzzy Kombu  almost 3 years ago

    Bernice is a classicist: See (actually, hear) the great Mildred Bailey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G9BEdXAb2w

     •  Reply
  89. Photo
    ChrisTrey  almost 3 years ago

    From what I’ve seen of her education and her work with little kids, I think being a kindergarten teacher would be more her thing? She loved working with them at her old job, though that was a preschool I assume. Being a college grad at 24 with a teaching degree may sound okay, but teaching kids in high school would be tricky. That requires a lot of experience and discipline.

    Tutoring a most likely high school kid when you are just out of high school yourself probably isn’t a good idea – the “kid” could be 17 or 18 and either impossible to teach, or too tempting if their hormones align.

     •  Reply
  90. Missing large
    Ukko wilko  almost 3 years ago

    My wife married me when she was eighteen years old. I can’t tell you how glad I am that she’s never changed her mind.

     •  Reply
  91. Thinker
    Sisyphos  almost 3 years ago

    Luann has a plan for her life? Don’t make me laugh. She is in a downward spiral of self-delusion and self-doubt. At this point it seems questionable whether she will ever attain a profession….

     •  Reply
  92. Ray helvy
    Ray Helvy Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    No! She’s turning into Cathy!

     •  Reply
  93. Nollanav
    DaBump Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Oh, tutoring and teaching are VERY different. Plus, you might think you won’t like something, but by trying it you find out you DO like it, because it’s not like what you’d thought it would be.

     •  Reply
  94. 318346 10150515659374989 119105629988 11258985 63388929 n
    Airman  almost 3 years ago

    Are we building up for another disappointing “thud”? Like Gunther’s trip to Peru, or Al and Irma’s unseen wedding, the girls’ camping trip, Bernice and Luann’s trip to New York, Luann’s computer date that lasted all of 5 minutes before she got dumped? It’s going to be 2022, and my wish is to see more of Tiffany emerging from the shower and looking for a towel. Make comics fun again.

     •  Reply
  95. Missing large
    whelan_jj  almost 3 years ago

    Isn’t changing their minds women’s prerogative regardless of age?

     •  Reply
  96. Missing large
    calliarcale  almost 3 years ago

    Freshman/sophomore year is a great time to change your mind; you still have enough time to earn enough credits for a different major, after having tried one and found out it’s not great. Sophomore year was when I switched from chem to comp sci. ;-)

     •  Reply
  97. Eeee
    RosiePhoenix  over 2 years ago

    I wonder if Luann’s gonna tutor Fay.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Luann