Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 03, 2023

The Universe Is Abundant!

Well, if Dez isn’t concerned about Stef paying her back.. why should Tiff and Kip be?

Clearly, Dez does not have any financial worries. Is it because her family is well off or is she growing certain things and selling certain things to keep her flush with $$ ??

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So where is Bets? I’m sure she’d have something to say about all this.

What good is a bag of oregano going to do?

That was disappointing.

Hippy lettuce?

Phony money? Self-composts after 5 minutes? Or, as Mr Spock once said (paraphrasing here): “Sometimes it is better to want than to have.”

I’ll never understand how Dez gets thru her studies….

Tea? Brownies? Leftover quaaludes perhaps?

whatever it is, it sure made Dez generous!

Dez must be selling.

I was right about Dez!

What’s in the bag?

Spoken like a wealthy person. Or maybe a good deed has not have any consequences for Desdemona.

Dez must have wealthy parents…

Dez and Tiffany are roommates and Bets is Stefani Bird’s roommate.

Tiffany should introduce Oxford to Dez. Ox has wealthy parents.

Well it looks like Stef has a new BFF, and a new source of cash. (Said in Terminator voice) She’ll be back…..

G&K played the pot/not card once before with the magic brownies. So I doubt that what in the bag is pot. But even a one day implication that is pot is not a good direction for “Luann.”

Crazy. Yeah, I wouldn’t trust her herbal tea. But she’s right: it’s not their money.

You were wrong to give her money, just like that, it will only ruin her more (if that’s possible).

Is that a bag of money tree seeds?

Well if Luann is situated in CA then it is a possibility that Dez makes her coin by running a dispensary, all good and legal. Of course one has to be mega-wealthy to start one of those franchises up so this would imply that Dez has money to burn. On the other hand, if she has a bag of medicinal shrooms or peyote then she is treading into a gray area (and we are not talking about Al Grey’s area of expertise, at least I hope not).

Okay I didn’t know I needed an arc about these three toking up but here we are.

“Roooooooooooooooooooooooooll another one,”

“Just like the other one,”

“Dez has done her money bit,”

“And Tiff and Kip are-in-a-SNIT!”

“Don’t give Stef no cash, My friend,”

“Pass it over to Me!”

“Don’t-Give-Stef-no-cash, My friend,”

“Pass it O-VER, to ME!!!” – Little Feat

I think that is monkey dung tea in that bag.

Dez? I know you’re all about good vibes and the good in humanity, but you really need to come back TO planet Earth, not just love it.

Strip remains well drawn but goofy and unrealistic-I dunno

Maybe Dez is Muslim, it’s Ramadan, an extra great time to give to poor(more blessings).

Yup, no doubt that’s some sort of harmless, relaxing tea. Greg and Karen must be having a grand old time watching you guys constantly assume the worst about their characters.

Oh no! Now Dez has become the one called “Shoog” by Stef! It’s the symbol of total ruin! I like how shocked Tiffany and Kip are. Seeing them talk they seem to get along really well, maybe as a couple they would make more sense than Stef and Kip. However, questionable as it is, in the end it’s Dez’s money and she does what she wants with it. maybe that tea she’s offering could cost the same amount she gave Stef.

She sells, illlegal on the side.

for all you do, this bud’s for you ;-)

Bad move, Dez. Stef will quickly take full advantage of your generosity.

Five more days. Will Dez lose two more friends? Will Dez pay Stef’s tuition?

When your family has money, of course the universe is abundant…

Confirmed Dez’s parents are upper middle class or better.

well that’s one way to hash things out.

the problem is she won’t learn anything.

Maybe it’s funny money and the Ditz will end up in jail and out of the strip. We can only hope.

I hope there’s a Twilight Zone twist ending to this where Stef is somehow disqualified from the competition.,,

UUUGH!!! I don’t like entitled people, and Stef is one of them!

Dez has people who pay to suscribe to the channel where she streams her yoga sessions.

Wow, how soon are Kip and Tiff are willing to jump on Stef. I think that is the storyline.

OG Kush?

Dez, you are such a pushover.

This just cements how much I dislike Dez.

I want Earth Mother Dez to loan the money, never see it again, and then need it for something really important like copayments on doctor’s bills. Of course, unlike Stef, she has people who love her, so she wouldn’t go without in that situation either. Which I guess is her point, it’s no skin off her nose if Stef doesn’t repay. But I don’t see her doing anybody a kindness by enabling the monster in their midst.

It has been said don’t loan friends or families money. If you decide they need the money, just give it to them.

Dez is a drug dealer it looks like

“The universe is abundant.” What, Dez just gave Steph some ‘funny money’?Had a guy come into our church thrift store several years back and tried to pay with Stage Money which was printed right on it.

All that time she spent gardening must be paying off.

Dez has the right idea, be generous when you can, the universe will provide.

What is in the bag? WEED. Now smoke it and chill.

An oz of quality weed (legal) in California is $260. According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/589688/medical-marijuana-prices-by-state/ California has the cheapest weed in the country. However sales without a license is a misdemeanor -6 months in jail.

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Dez is going to heaven.

I’m reminded what I told my husband’s (entitled) nephew when he was in his late teens/early twenties: “People aren’t doing you any favors by giving you what you want.”

Mushrooms I’m geussing

Well, I definitely did not see this coming.

Looks like Dez might be dealer.

Herbal tea?

What’s in the bag Dez?

Matt 25:35-40 …

Dez is my friend for life

Stef already has the money. She is not going to sign anything now. And Kips can’t make her do anything. If he could he would have his money back from 2 years ago.

I like that Tiff is in business mode and Kip is supporting her. Steph’s reaction seems to celebrate that she got her way, again. As for Dez’s donation to the cause, I’m surprised she has $600 in cash available immediately and stashed in the dorm. Thinking the bag has that ultra expensive dung tea. Ugh!

They’re pretty much begging the reader to go “Oh… weed.” But yeah, this being Luann, watch it be “trail mix” or something with plausible deniability like obviously edibles. If GnK trying to see how far they can go with pushing the envelope, I hope they know by now the editors are completely asleep. They didn’t ask you to modify Shannon using a term like “boy-juices,” I’m pretty sure that you could get away with being more blatant than you could in the 1990s when they still paid attention and gave pushback.

Stef will not pay the money back and Dez may just forget she even gave her the money. Stef will surely want more money and if Dez says No, Stef will call her selfish.

What does Stef mean by “shoog”? Definitions are all over the place from being very witty to being a great leader to a great lover.

People rarely appreciate what they are given for free. They abuse it and expect more free things.

Gun-ja! Yea, mon!

Notice the budding relationship between the boyfriend and the spoiled blonde chick. Such relationships based in a mutual sharing of hate may be more stable than those based in ephemeral love.

None of Greg’s people look the same in profile as they do straight-on. Ever.

A nice cup of tea will always fix everything! Dez probably brought back enough poop tea to earn a small fortune.

looks like herbal tea to me. what herbs …. that’s the question.

Ah. So Dez is a drug dealer. That explains a lot.

Note that DEZ has never offered to room with Stef. Now THAT would have truly been an act of generosity!

I once went on a call to an elderly woman who had several checks signed by her, but obviously made out in someone else’s handwriting. One was $250, one was $750, and one was $10,000! After some investigation, we tracked down the guy who had paperwork showing he had done work for her. He had a simple contract stating that the $10K was an interest free loan, repayable one year from the date of issue. When we brought him to her house, she remembered him. He knew she would forget all about it. The work he had done was shoddy, but nothing actionable. We told him to save his pennies, because we were giving a copy of the loan paper to her attorney, so he could collect it for her.

Such an enabler.

Dez will put her out on the street to turn tricks if she doesn’t pay her back.

Boy, let the misdirection plays fly. I didn’t look at the last panel last night so I just assumed it was money, but I can see that is not the case (unless it’s money you can pour water on and voila!). Now I see it’s more likely tea (my projection, or pot, also mine); it’s probably something supposed to relax one she has. Either way it enhances the mystery of Dez, while doing nothing for the obvious shallowness of Steph. Tiffany and Kip make an interesting couple, but no I think it’s a total non-starter.

Dez is the kind of person who would mess up a service dog’s training by giving it a treat while the trainer is looking the other way.

It’s chocolate covered grasshoppers

Aargh! I do not like this story!

Wow the readers here are (to me) obviously very conservative, or at the very least, old fashioned, for the most part. “Must be weed,” “Must be mushrooms,” “Ooooh! ( CLUTCHING PEARLS) must be illicit drug normalizing and sexual debauchery,” “She must be dealing.”

Always ready to assume the worst of everything.

Really rather sad. And I bet a lot of you have nice homes, money in the bank, and reasonable health, but still spend a lot of your time being miserable.

Dez must have money.

Surveys show only about 2% of teenagers read the newspaper and I doubt very many more read Luann online so I doubt a little weed will corrupt American youth. On my street of 40 houses about 3 get the local Austin paper and 3 get the NYT (no comics) and all of them are 50+ no children.

Ahhhh! “All You Need is a Bag of Weed,” eh?

A neighbor used to fly marijuana in from Belize. Since his illegal source of income would’ve been obvious, he generously gave much to others but he buried most of his income in PVC pipes. Hurricane Ivan came through while he was in prison and removed many of the landmarks he needed to find his treasure. Now he’s dead from cancer and most of his earnings are waiting to be discovered. Metal detectors can’t see plastic. Ground penetrating radar might help his widow if Freddy Wayne left any general ideas.

For that matter, old Google satellite photos might do the trick.

I need to mention it to her.

Looks like a bag of mushrooms!

I’m going to say that she has some kind of tea blend in the bag to calm the anger.

……but it’s probably just weed.

GnK have cracked open a door to deep philosophical territory here – wisdom (of the world) vs. sacred* foolishness.

What’s wise and what’s foolish here? A legalistic attempt to recover some money, or generosity freely bestowed? Depends on your point of view. I’d just point to all the families that are destroyed by fights over wills and inheritances.

Will GnK pursue any of this to any depth? HAHAHAHA

*for want of a better word; wisdom “not of this world”

CBD Gummies?

Are you sure you want to take advantage of Earth Mother Supreme? She’s not right.

Can’t be some OG, it’s a family cartoon. Probably tea of some sort.

Maybe the money is fake and Steff will get arrested for distributing counterfeit currency.

Do you want honey in your tea?

Chill and quit harshing my mellow.

Why would you do that Dez?

A lot of great characters in today’s strip.

When I was 9 years old, The Small Faces’ “Itchycoo Park” was on the radio, and we had the single.

I can smell the fruity or minty tea from here.

Kip is going to make her sign it? Who does he think he is?

Dez’s “unusual brownies” must be doing a land office business

Dez’s supplier is Zonker Harris of Colorado

Sure, go ahead and enable the cheerleading dingbat.

This has taken an unexpected turn. I wonder where we go from here?

good plan, Tiffany & Kip… hope it works

Stef will be coming back, asking for and expecting more…. count on it.

Is Dez a dealer?

ok what kind of “tea” is in the bag?

And how much money did Dez really give to Stef? The only clue we have so far are the last two drawings in this arc. In Saturday’ strip, we saw two (2) bills in Dez’s hand. Today, in Stef’s greedy little paw we see three (3) bills. The US doesn’t issue paper currency in either $300 or $200 denominations, and even though a comic strip is fiction, I kind of think that’ll be the same in Luann-land.

her brains

Gee… I can’t wait to see how Kip is going to make Stef sign Tiffany’s contract. But it’s nice to know Tiffany is learning something about business. Perhaps her grades have improved now that she is no longer stressed out by a certain gold-digger who was pretending to be pregnant?

Tell you what, I really am getting a kick out of how much this dude clearly hates his own girlfriend. He tells other people not to loan her money right in front of her.

So, that where the money came from…

I hope Dez grabbed that odd looking vase.

Figured Dez was stoned out of her mind. Wonder what happens when she wakes up?

I really hate for her to get that money.

Ah, shades of San Francisco in 1968. A guy on every street corner: “Weed, hash, acid, speed?”

tomorrow: Dez tries to teach Zen to these two. :-/

Dez is remarkably casual about giving away $600. Maybe she has been smoking that weed in her bag a little too often. Or, just maybe she is independently wealthy….

Come on, folks. As several people have noted (in whole or in part), back when Dez was new to the strip she was offering panda dung tea to Bernice. This probably isn’t quite as expensive as it was, but I’m sure it’s still outrageous. But it’s real, and it’s just the kind of thing Dez would go for. Pretty clearly, that’s what this is supposed to be.

If you’ve never heard of it, look around a little. One small bit of information is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_tea

What’s in the bag? Looks like Greg Evans & Co. are bagging us another Anne Eiffel type!

Sh**, we need people like Dez for money! At least most of us in real life!!!!