Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 12, 2022

Yikes!! So how many examples will Luann give until she figures out what Vale is doing??

Vale, you sneak. It’s like you’ve no brains at all.

S U C K E R !!! The boy’s a lot brighter than some of us thought!

“Easily Led.” ✨

My one hope is that Luann’s “treacherous torment” and other phrases spell out to the teacher Vale’s plagiarism.

What a crappy arc!

The obtuse side of Luann is shown very often…but she has a good heart!

Luann is more dense than anyone in Mary Worth, Funkyverse, or Judge Parker…

What is the point of this diary writing assignment?

Still clueless Luann.

the other joel Told ya so. Vale IS copying Luann’s “examples.” Luann is oblivious as always.

Schooled

You know?

Luann had a fulfilling job teaching appreciative little kids.

But “thanks” to Tara, she lost it.

Now, she’s stuck teaching obnoxious, knuckle-dragging users.

Makes Me wish for two things:

1) That Cousin Stella would have backed up that night and finished the job on her cousin Tara.

And

2) That Old “Lock Jaw” here, finds out firsthand what “percussion protocol” is all about EVERY time he hits the gridiron this coming football season.

He’s creatively making her do his homework. He hustled her by using her desire to help other against her. When and IF she figures this out, it’ll make her afraid to trust others again.

@lvlax: Why do you read this comic? You obviously HATE it. ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz……

Oh Luann, you’ve really dropped the ball this time. Are you so starved for compliment and attention that you stop doing the job you’re hired to do?

Can we please see Luann show a normal level of intelligence sometime? Why is she even a tutor if she’s such a dumb bunny as shown in this and the previous tutoring arc?

You just know he’s going to misspell most of the transcription…even with spell check.

This guy IS the biggest POS ever to make an appearance in this comic.

The tutoring gig is a wide open opportunity for Greg to get creative, to showcase Luann with a variety of characters with a wide variety of problems. It could be an academic revolving door.

Luann is totally naive. Too many Sundays with Puddles.

GAH that first panel. And yes i’ve commented on Vale’s look all but one day this week but when the art keeps making me recoil more than some horror films have, you might have made a mistake in character design.

Luann needs to ask to see his work before he turns it in.

So what will the consequences be if Vale’s teacher suspects plagiarism? Does Luann lose this job or is Vale allowed to pull a gentleman’s C as he might be a crucial component for Pitt to win their district? Even then the tutoring center might chastise Luann for letting Tank Jr flagrantly cheat on his assignment.

If the literature professor is a close friend of Zebo, he’ll recognize LuAnn’s voice right off, since I doubt Vale understands how to paraphrase.

Vale’s not as dumb as he looks. Which really isn’t saying much though…

He puts me in mind of Butthead!! Same look.

OK, that’s it! Vale is a terrible guy with seems to have no positive qualities. A snake that takes advantage of those who want to help him. I hope Luann finds out and asks not to have to help him anymore and I hope those recordings don’t end up causing her troubles.

Ha, I did mention when he first showed up that I thought he might not be a good character. The cheat…

Self-absorbed Luann.

Go for it Luann . Your a tutor. You do not have to grade this assignment and it’s not your responsibility to help Veil grow emotionally via intrinsic motivation. Tell Veil you will do this assignment for him, and give him the questions he needs to ask his teacher next time to break the assignment down factually – past successful examples? Any artists off limits or preferred? What is the teacher looking for and evaluating on in this assignment? Can it be a visual diary or what format do you want? What percentage of the overall grade is this assignment? Luann sees homework assignments as “fun” regardless of grades/outcome. Not everyone will agree with her on that, so might as well learn to accommodate different objectives now rather then when some parent starts questioning the value of the assignment.

This guy is a real piece of crap.

This is going to be a h3lluva lot more work for Lunkhead to TRANSCRIBE than it would be to just write out his own idea.

Luann hasn’t figured out what he’s doing yet??

I would have thought that being a tutor meant being able to tell the difference between helping a student and doing their homework for them.

On the other hand it took her forever to realize Axel was hitting on her, despite the numerous obvious hints.

Once again, clueless Luann is being used.

It’s bad enough when she’s being played by the intelligent Bernice, bu by that stupid ape…

This arc is the worst ever.

Since evil is never allowed to prosper (in the comcs) Vsle will be exposed but I wonder how. How he show his grade A report to Luaunn causing her to realize that he plagiarized her? He’s du,b but not that done. More likely, I think, is that the art instructor will visit Luann to praise her tutoring skills, shows her Lockjaw’s paper at which Luann is recognize her own works. And another victory for the Teach-a ss.

Wow, it’s not as stupid as it seems (in theory, because if you let someone else do your homework, you don’t learn anything and that makes you the loser in the end).

How can Luann be so naive, and this ‘Vale’ character is not likeable at all!

When Vint made his appearance earlier this week, some speculated whom he was akin to. I think a possible connection could be to the character “Strong Man” from the old Mighty Heroes cartoon of the 60’s. Grandfather/grandson connection even though it’s two different universes. Just a guess.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=strong+man+mighty+heroes&qpvt=strong+man+mighty+heroes&tsc=ImageHoverTitle&form=IGRE&first=1

isn’t that cheating… not that he cares.

What this arc (and Luann) needs is for Jack to come in to visit. And recognize Vale as a member of the sports team. Then remember him as a manipulative meathead, always getting others to do his work for him. Luann would still be embarrassed at being tricked. But now she has a ‘white Knight’ to rescue her.

I hate that smile. Phony. Vale will make a great used car salesman someday. “Yeah a little old lady owned it, She just drove it to church on Sunday’s”.

Still time for a misdirection play. I know it’s drawn fhis way, for Luann to be brilliant cruelly being played for doofus, but I’m hoping for a future educator kind of save this time.

Pseudo-archaic, pretentious blather – but totally wasted on an ineducable oaf. Hope this thread ends Saturday.

I usually stick up for Luann, but not today. Does she really not see what Vale is doing?? She is the dumbest person in the room.

So sad, Luann is so needy for someone to listen to her, she’s giving away the homestead! … But I can relate - it’s so much easier to get people to look at my nature photos (or a quick comic strip!) than to actually read a paragraph! The latter takes, gosh I don’t know…? 10 seconds! The horror!

yawn

Any teacher who is awake should be able to pick up on the fact that that prose (or whatever you want to call the pretentious blather that Luann is spewing) didn’t come from THAT guy. To go back to the beginning of the arc: Does he look like someone who can write that stuff?

Vale has a smile like a crocodile.

@ Robin Harwood— have you ever been a teacher? Actor? Or been in the helping professions (eg, counselor, psychotherapist)….? Or a Dad? There is something called Empathy — aka, walking a mile in another person’s shoes. This is what makes a good writer… Worth a Google search.

Luann IS creative, just not necessarily very bright

I can’t see this ending well for either of them. Luann may be accused of helping him cheat, especially if that recording is discovered with only her voice on it. =:-o

Oil is sticky

Winning by cheating is losing.

Some get to be old men and never learn this fact.

I love how at no point does she suggest he look up any biographical information about the artist whose diary he’s supposed to be writing.

– Beer Baron, the CSC

Something tells me Vale is not a good speller and that he is a candidate for auto-correcting his way to disaster!

Typical of this strip – Empty, repetitive, meaningless, content.

He’s tricked Luann into writing a diary for him.

Shut up Luann! Tell him to give it a try

Toss the bum out!

I hope he plagiarizes her and gets a D. She’s not telling him anything he can really use, just how to fake his way through this one assignment.

If this guy had a cleft in his chin, it would look like a baby’s butt.

Teachers are going to take one look at Tank McNamara there and know he didn’t write those.

At least this won’t lead into a romantic storyline for Luann. I don’t like this jerk at all!

Luann, stop doing his work for him.

Not so good at the smart thing,Lu.

Clueless and lazy.

If this guy is really using Luann like this, he’s more clever than we think.

Have some pity for Luann. She’s only as smart as the author wants her to be, and right now he wants her to be stupid and oblivious to what Vale is doing. If she had caught on to his plan on the first day there wouldn’t be any more story. Which we would cheer but would be a dilemma to Greg. Luann’s first tutoree was a smart Asian girl who was taking high level math. Despite Luann’s lack of knowledge about that level of math the situation was played with humor and kindness. Since then Greg has given us Axel who was hitting on Luann and this jerk who expects her to do his homework. To make Luann’s tutoring stories work Greg needs to focus on situations where Luann is helpful to people who honestly need help and leave the scumbuckets alone.

So … is he a creep … or just a common cheater. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

I actually rather like Veil. He’s come to Luann with an assignment that is a real problem for him, and he is doing his best to find a way to get a good grade on the assignment despite having no interest in the subject. He has been upfront about all of that. I doubt he is going to major in art history, let alone work in it, so given it is kind of a throw away assignment that he doesn’t find fun in a class he doesn’t find useful, I am totally OK with his finding a workaround in Luann to get the grades he needs.

After this Luann will quickly become the most popular tutor at the high school and it won’t take long for them to figure out why. She is so self absorbed and egotistical that she welcomes any opportunity to show off, and stupid enough not to know when she’s being used. She never did figure out what Axel was all about. Bernice better start searching jobs for her again.

I’m not convinced that Vale will have any problem getting Luann’s quotes transcribed. He no doubt has friends or acquaintances who would successfully do the work for him, perhaps for a little cash, a favor, etc. We may never know, but I don’t think that getting the work onto paper is going to be an issue.

there’s a problem with Luann’s demeanor in the 2nd panel. She appears excited to be telling Vale about herself instead of working with him to improve his writing skills. It’s like she’s saying “…wow I’m so excited to be showing you my theater skills and this is me…etc.”. Luann the teacher is not there anymore.

I’m wondering if she is purposely feeding nonsense to this piece of crap. Since VanGogh was a prolific letter-writer, his manner of speech is well known. The art teacher should see Vale’s diary for the s#*t it is.

For one thing she is cribbing from ol W. Shakespear herself.

Vale isn’t completely dumb! He’s playing Luann like a finely-tuned violin! She is, of course, oblivious….

Luann is still a student. She is not an experienced teacher with 20 years of teaching and dealing with cheating kids under her belt. She still believes people are good, and I’m glad she does.