Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 09, 2024

So Luann hated books but now wants to be a writer?

It’s nice to see how they met but it kind of makes you scratch your head as to why they became best friends. They don’t have much in common.

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How can Bernice be a bookworm, when you’re still learning to read at 6 yrs old? It’s like G+K forgot what age they’re supposed to be.

Friends ❤️ forever!!!

Luann is an average kid? And opposites attraction?

End of round one!

Smell ya later.

Luann likes everything simple, so with aged and wisdom, she wants to become a writer. Why would you become friends, when you have zero in common.

I’ve been asking for about two years if Luann and Bernice actually like each other. The answer now appears clear – they do not.

Aww, the start of a beautiful friendship,.

I used to work at our local PBS when I was a teenager for a couple of years. A fun experience to say the least.

Should have stayed away from Bernice, Luann! Could have saved yourself some major irritation.

Uh….

I like books, but agree with Luann on the rest.

Okay. Nice artwork, cute, inoffensive humor for young kids. Better hold on showing Tiffany for awhile.

I like PBS. Read it every day. My favorites are Zebra and the crocs.

Bye (for now)

Okay.

Now THAT’S more like it.

And Bernice is wearing the “dead bear trophy head” again. ;-)

From th sound of it Bernice an Delta should be relly relly good friends

In German we also use the term bookworm/Bücherwurm which is male in German. The female version is ‘Leseratte’ i.e. reading rat. Why any term for someone who reads a lot should be so degoratory is beyond me.

Yet somehow, Bernice parks her butt into Luann’s hellscape bedroom and never leaves.

Opposites attract

If ONLY it had ended there! (heavy sigh).

Maybe this explains why their friendship seems so awful to most of us— They are really ill-suited to each other.

I like the moment of awkward silence in the second panel. Luann and Bernice liked each other, but then realize they have nothing in common. This was probably an important moment of growth for both of them. Let’s see how the tragedy will continue. Will they meet again at the park or see each other at school? Will Bernice become friends with Luann’s friend Delta, so to start the trio of inseparable friends, or will the two team up to go against Tiffany? I sincerely hope that a 6 year old Delta appears in this story.

And the friendship ended before it began.

Luann’s response is full of ‘I don’t like’; negative. She doesn’t have to like the same things; she could have just listed some things she did like (back then).

Aren’t they sitting in the same place where Luann definitely didn’t pee?

They should have left their relationship right there. Maybe Luann would have grown up to be more assertive without Bernice’s constant negativity slowly wearing her down.

Hey, opposites attract. The proof is in their long lasting friendship.

So how did they become friends of their first meeting ended badly?

…and they never spoke again! j/k

That is an AI version of Luann.

I think I would have moved farther away from where she was so recently taking a whiz.

If only that had been the end of it.

Let’s see…this is when they’re six (budding reader Bernice proudly declareds herself a ‘bookworm’)…that’s seven years BLC (Before Luann’s Comic), which sets this 1978/9.

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Not every student who’s top of the class loves school. I know one in our family who hated school, but got straight A’s and was on the honor role. She was driven by a fear of failure, a need to succeed. But she never loved it one little bit.

SIGH If only they would have left it at “Bye”. No more Bernice. Ahhh, wouldn’t it be nice?

They did forget. Bernice and Luann are totally out of character.

Yeah, Bernice, take your weeaboo hat and go find your character and personality, which are lost, just like Luann’s.

Yeah, Bernice, take your weeaboo hat and go find your personality, which is lost, along with Luann’s.

I’m all for certain reruns. Star Trek, JAG, Seaquest DSV, Dr.Quinn Medicine Woman even, but this Luann, the little girl years, is leaving me cold.

Is Luann sitting in the same spot she just peed on?

Today is what people can point to when they say that Luann is a boring character with no interests or passions, who doesn’t really do much of anything. Just look at her describe herself: she defined herself by not liking things and then sat in awkward silence until Bernice left. No wonder they gave her Puddles just to have her interact with something.

When you see how Luann just drifts through life with no defining attributes (other than Sundays when she’s a collection of negative stereotypes about teenagers) it’s surprising the strip has lasted as long as it has.

What do you like Luann? Just tell us that.

Well they certainly have a lot in common.

So…how did they become friends if they have totally opposite interests, and have nothing in common?

the Bernices of this world begin to read early.

Why are they sitting so close to the wet spot?

Too bad Bernice didn’t stay gone.

They’re still in the same school class. Who will get caught passing notes first?

I wonder is LuAnn creative writing and this isn’t how her and Bernice actually met?

It is no surprise to me that Bernice was a bookworm at six (not eight :) ). When I was that age it was the biggest event of the month to me when one of my parents would take me to the “big” city library and I could check out a “zillion” books (they usually limited me to a maximum of 15) in the Children’s Library section.

I think this arc is meant to show us that friends do not have to be “identical twins” to be friends. Bernice and Luann’s many differences complement each other.

They’re in the same class, so…

Looks like a few dates I’ve been on

Opposites attract?

Opposites attract and are a major theme of this strip. Unless this is an alternative reality, we know these two opposites are fated to be life long friends; it might lead to that.

Hopefully “bye” is also indicative of this story arc. Kid flashbacks have VERY limited appeal.

Luann stops writing and looks up.

“Yeah – why AM I friends with Bernice?”