Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 03, 2022

Ouch. ✨

Dreadful in one way or another.

Mrs. Phelps is back

The snarky Bernice is back.

Whoooaaaaaaaaa old school! And Bern, thinking you have your whole life planned at 19 is just as silly as thinking it’s ruined.

Luann needs a new friend because Bernice is no friend.

Now, where’s Mr. Fogarty? Maybe Crystal and Knute could use some career advice.

Also, that " Today" poster is… off.

Oh no! I never thought Miss Phelps was that helpful…

I thought Miss Phelps was now Mrs. Fogerty. I believe that was in private practice and she was visited by Tiffany.

Prediction: Bernice will find new career path.

Are there only 14 people in the whole town?

That’s funny! Good to Mrs Phelps.

dkahane – and Luann go on unchanged? Most likely outcome.

Bernie, don’t be a witch with a capital “B”. Luann should dump you as a friend, because all you do is belittle her and put her down, while you think that you are above reproach. Well, guess what, honey? Your poop stinks too. Bernice, you are nothing more than a common bully. Why anyone puts up with your kwap, I’m sure I have no idea.

Whoa. Been a while, when we last saw her.

With the intro of Mrs. Fogerty/Phelps, this arc seems to be flattening out. After seeing her nothing much changes.

Mrs. Phelps.. That’s unfortunate. Luann needs some new blood – and so do we.

Miss Phelps? Doesn’t know it all Bernice know that she married Mr. Fogety, so she’s now Mrs. Fogety (per Tiffany) or has that all been forgotten. Considering Mrs. Fogerty’s skill as a Guidance Counselor I think Luann should turn around and leave. The only person worse for given advice than Bernice is the former Miss Phelps.

Next thing you know Pam is going to wake up and find Bobby in the shower.

Bernice a little judgmental!!!

Yes, Mrs Fogarty, not Miss Phelps

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/1993/09/13

If Phelps is back from the land of the lost, hope Crystal and Knute will be next

“Poor woman. She’s about to see what a huge waste of time that was …”

I suspect that at least at some dim level of awareness Miss Phelps already knows. And not just with Luann … the HS was named “Pitts” for a reason.

If Phelps is running this thing, they may as well turn around and leave now. After all, they more than anyone believed the woman to be incompetent at her job, so why would they want to waste any more time with her? “Definition of insanity” and all that. All the previous session with her failed to accomplish anything, but this time will be different? Oh please.

Miss Phelps is now a married woman, how will Bernice react?

What a minute, girls. Back then, you were distracted teenagers. Teenagers are not great listeners. They hear what they want to hear and ignore everything else. Now you’re young adults. Maybe you’ll listen to what Mrs Phelps has to say.

Margo Phelps-Fogarty. Either Luann and Bernice actually learn something or this week will be just another round of “Let’s bash Margo.”

Speaking of dragging something up from the past – 2022 is the year “Soylent Green” was set in…

Considering that Ms. Phelps is the reason Bernice decided to become a counselor, Bernice’s snark might very well be directed at herself as well as Luann—and gives further proof that she’s not cut out to be a counselor.

More like it was a waste of time for the students. A counselor who tells a girl it’s her fault she got harassed, because of the clothes she wears? I’d rather spend the week with Fogarty. Please, kids, leeeeave. (They probably won’t.)

Luann’s problem: https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2003/09/08

Didja ever notice that if you erase the ‘P’ from Phelps, you get ‘helps’?

And Bernice is still a “little ray of sunshine,” ain’t she?

I mean, she’s right, and she just uttered the funniest line this year so far, but still! ;-)

Luann should be careful saying those questions out loud. Otherwise, the missionaries from my church will appear! That’s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. :D

Good one Bernice!

Wouldn’t that tell them right away that the workshop is going to be useless, since the person running it clearly has no idea what she’s doing? She was their guidance counselor before and wasn’t able to help Luann at all, apparently.

Dunno… Miss. Phelps wasn’t exactly the best at her job. Seeing that she’s the one doing the workshop might make a former student turn around and walk away. But who knows? Tiffany was happy to have her as a private consuelor. Maybe marrying Mr. Fogarty helped her improve? Maybe she’s more inclined helping finding careers? I hope so, because Luann needs help and Bernice too and even more than Luann. Also, Bernice might be shocked to see that her old benchmark for incompetence is really good at her job and i kinda want to see that AND their reaction knowing she and Mr. Fogarty are married now♡.

Ugh

I’ve ended friendships over less offensive remarks than Bernice makes in panel #3.

Excellent! Berb behind to see counseling is not the career got her. Instead, she goes into accounting.

yea , Wait WHAT OH NO . . . yah i got nothing

What does she want? World peace, and her own apartment !

Bernice, are you saying that Luann is better now or are you just joking?

Speak for yourself Bernice, you psychotic basket case…

A huge waste of time indeed. Kind of like Luann’s friendship with Bernice.

For Luann, with a friend like Bernice, who needs enemies.

Argh! Back in the day, My highschool counselor was absolutely worthless! The only time she ever talked to me about my plans for college was AFTER I received a scholarship, no thanks to her… My kids highschool couselors were, IMO, even worse! I’m convinced they get kickbacks from the institutions and trade schools they steer kids toward. If your typing now to tell me about you or your kids excellent experience with a counselor, STOP NOW! Good for you and your kids! I get it. BUt this has been my experience with 4 different councelors.

Wow, Bern, you might try being a little more supportive of your friend! You are really stuck up sometimes!

Phelps, Phelps, hum, why does the name ring a bell ? Humm.

To borrow a line from Sam Wilson: “She’s out of line, but she’s right.”

Gee, thanks for all of your uplifting support, Bern!

A trip to the desert and some mushrooms would do Luann a world of discovery

Bernice doesn’t practice what she preaches. It’s easy to transfer all her ‘stuff’ onto Luann. And they are still young. 19 is still young enough to explore career options. I changed majors 1/2 way through college myself. And through a set of interesting twists ended up in IT (no Compsci degree here).

That was a cruel statement from Bern!

Go talk to her Bernice. The world doesn’t need snarky psychotherapists, especially ones that can’t see their own faults.

Shouldn’t that be “finding work that works”? Finding work what works sounds like some sort of hillbilly crap.

For BOTH of you! Obviously she didn’t help the first time!

Hmmmm…I could see this as the beginning of an arc where Bernice ends up supplanting Ms. Phelps.

Didn’t she become Mrs. Fogarty? We’ll probably get the story, this week.

I wish Luann would go to a real career counselor. It’s quite interesting to match skills, interests to a job that can make a living wage.

Who is in the office with her now?

Good Morning Miss Phelps,This is Luann DeGroot. Your mission, should you decide to accept it…

I’m LOLing!!

Ain’t necessarily so……

Ms. Phelps was always a caricature of a counselor to me, but I hope that things look up in this arc. For both young women. Hilarity will ensue along the way though.

Bernice’s parting zinger is the meanest thing I’ve ever seen her say to her best “friend.” I hope the Mighty and Terrible Gaw, whom Luann apparently has always worshipped, will exact a bloodthirsty revenge. I wait with bated breath.

Well, that was mean!

I’m amazed at how good so many of the elderly male commenters are at remember the exact name of the High School counselor. I wonder how many of you can recall your wife’s middle name, or the names of all her siblings or cousins.

“Ohmygaw!”? I just ADORE Luann!XD

The only thing that can save this storyline is sudden, unexpected streaking. Maybe from Bernice this time.

I agree with those who say it is BERNIECE who will come away with a new career path.

I wonder if Ms. Phelps still has those signs that switch from panel to panel. That would be a funny throwback.

Maybe Bernice should rethink her career as a psychologist. Her patients would need therapy just to recover from her methods.

I miss Knute, Crystal and Delta.

Let’s see, is her name Bern or Burn?

Who are you and what do you want?

Well, if who you are what you want is to work in a call center with people screaming at you all the time, you’ll do fine.

So many things to love in this comic.Again, we are reminded that Luann is “a bear of very little brain,” emphasized by her heavy-lidded, dull eyes.

Much love for Bernice’s embrace of drag, and extra love for her decision to dress like Patrick McGoohan from “The Prisoner.” A bold choice!

And I also enjoy how Bernice negs on her best friend, basically telling Luann to her face—TWICE—that she’s stupid.

A waste of WHOSE time? Idiot Cat Lady Phelps, or LUANN’S!?

I CALLED IT!!!!

#YaBernt

Luann is going woke. Miss Phelps is now Mr. Phelps/They/them.

It was when Bern worked for Ms Phelps (now Mrs Fogarty ) and realized that she could help young kids that she became interested in psychology. She told Phelps she wanted to get a Ph.D in psychology. Will Mrs. Fogarty change Bern’s mind now?

You are yourself. You like and are good at set decoration. There all done.

Bern could become some kind of research psychologist like Leonard’s mom on Big Bang Theory.

Today in ‘This Won’t End Well’ news . . .

Yay, Miss Phelps! You’ll get to see what a resounding failure Luann DeGroot has been, and how ambivalent Bernie Halper is, vacillating between snarkiness and wry observation, along with a heaping unhealthy dose of self-importance….

Hmmmm, it is late so I might have to repeat this tomorrow. Is anyone else wondering if we will have a week of each of them being counseled followed by Luann being advised to become a youth counselor and Bernice being advised to become a middle school teacher?

Aw man, I was a hopeless case. You remember those career aptitude and proficiency surveys that came with the testing, where you tallied your scores and marked on a graph to see which area you were strong in or closest to? I was always somewhere out in the equivalent of left field, the wilderness. Never could figure out what I might be really good at, or even especially wanted to do. Never did. Sort of a jack of a few trades and master of none. The closer I got to something I enjoyed doing, the less it paid and the shorter it lasted. Had a couple opportunities with things that I liked, but the people running the shows didn’t want me to do those things, they wanted me to do supporting things I wasn’t any good at. Closest thing I had to a career was about 10 years at a humdrum entry-level office job. Just saying, if you’re still at Luann’s stage, make it a priority to find something with potential for making a living and/or that you love so much you could die trying, and stick with it.

Lordy, Bern is tiresome.

It will be great to see Ms. Phelps again. It has been ages!

I am curious to see if Ms s Phelps Fogerty’s name block on her desk keeps changing words between panels like it did for years.

Wait, doesn’t Bernice already know that she got married?