Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 02, 2024

Is she still cute?

Lets hope we can move to a new arc new week.

Bernice just stop her before she starts, good for you Bernice, you kept your promise.

Bernice doesn’t have to tell Luann exactly why…but she can say Piro’s problems are more serious than anything that can be dispelled by a puppet show and that it could even be irritating…“just treat him normally.”

Clueless thy name is Luann!!

This is like an Easter Egg hunt where the egg is sitting on the table and nobody finds it.

Luann, grow up already!

He’s not a toddler!

Puppet show? Dear lord.

Where to start, indeed. How about telling her the truth, that Piro finds her attempts to cheer him up overwhelming. I know Piro swore her to silence but since he won’t tell Luann to knock it off, she’ll just keep annoying him. Bernice telling Luann might be breaking her promise but it the best thing she can do for him. Getting Tara and Luann to leave him alone will help his emotional state.

I’m just tired of all the characters being so stupid. Luann was so much smarter as a 13 year old then she is at 19.

Don’t start!!! Let her make the freaking puppet show.

Just put a match to Luann’s “project”, Bernice.

I like to think that silent movie was an eye-opener for Bernice—that she’ll FINALLY grow up!

Hopefully Bernice finds a way to explain to Luann why a puppet show isn’t helpful to Piro without revealing what they talked about. I believe Bernice values her friendship with Piro.

Get Dez over, a couple boxes of stick pins and make some voodoo dolls

A puppet show? Is Luann 8 years old?

A puppet show? REALLY?? Why must G&K continually make Luann so stupid?

That trope is really old and haggard, and it was never really all that funny.

Luann stop with the stupid puppets

Uh.

It’s Piro NOT Shannon with the “problem,” Luann.

And I’d suspect that even Shannon would balk at a “Cheer Me Up Puppet Show.”

Is Luann is making finger puppets?

Luann, no more cheering him up. It won’t help him at all.

Let’s have a cheer-up readers arc Monday.

YES please.

Wake up Luann!

Get a freakin’ clue, Luann! Piro doesn’t want or need any help! MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!

Bernice may not share his concerns, but she can tell Luann that the jokes don’t help

Just give him a three-way, most men have that fantasy.

Cue “The Lonely Goatherd” marionette scene from The Sound Of Music.

Bernice is now between a rock and a hard place. Do she go along with Luann and annoy Piro? Or do she lose Piro’s trust and tell Luann how annoying she is to Piro?

But can Bernice stop LuAnn without spilling the beans?

Oh Lord we’re going to have another week of this.

I love Luann’s well-intentioned naivety. Dunno if Piro will be annoyed by this or not, but it’s always nice to see her creative side at work and Piro’s six little siblings could really enjoy a puppet show. Also, as naive as it is, the idea is said after both Bernice and Luann talk about Piro showing respect for his secret and sincere concern for his health. I know it’s unlikely to happen, but I hope that a future arc will show Piro during a session with his therapist, it would be very interesting.

Piro needs to grow a pair and tell Tara and Luann that he appreciated their efforts and concerns. But, please STOP!

just tell her that her jokes and whosit’s adventures are a part of whets dragging Piro down. That is true and not really violating Piro’s request not to tell anyone what his problem is

Well, Luann didn’t disappoint, right away firing questions and trying for another solution. She didn’t catch on that there is a reason for Piro’s pulling away. Bernice did well so far, but how will she tell a puppet show won’t help, (unless he brings his siblings along)! I’ve heard it takes a village, but is this the right one?

Maybe Bernice can ask Piro if they would like to see a puppet show. I have no doubt Luann could provide a good one. However, his “secret” would be exposed.

Puppets? No ! Get serious, girl! Nude dancing would be far more effective.

Sunday: TJ cooks up a storm!

She kept her promise…so far. No guarantees. Her comment in the last panel leaves things wide open to interpretation.

And, now were back to clueless Luann. Bernice CAN you explain to Luann that while Piro DOES need help, a puppet show isn’t going to do it, without blabbing all of Piro’s secrets?

Yet another, Karen soap.

Man are there a lot of noses being pulled around based on the comments I’ve read so far! Still focusing on Bernice’s inability to be a helping person she wants to be, particularly in this situation with Walt/Piro. Personally, I am hoping this will be a complicated, but ultimately a worthwhile relationship/“romance” ensues between Mr. troubled Mysterious, and Miss clueless, but vulnerable to love, and all it portends, Bernice. Of course the pressure of Tara and Luann, not telling. but dealing with her feelings (Bern) and her prepossesive friends. I ain’t predicting, but I hope this arc continues for at least one more week. This not a gag a day strip. There usually is a gag, wrapped up in, and part of a contonually evolving story.

One thing Bernice could do is tell Luann that she should ask Piro if there’s anything she can do to help him and that she should listen to what he has to say. That doesn’t cross any lines she shouldn’t.

It’s hard being Luann’s best friend, isn’t it, Bernice? Just let her make the puppets, it will prove to Piro that you didn’t blab his story.

Just because Luann’s ambition is to work with kids, it doesn’t mean she expects everyone to respond like kids do. Why must she continually be written so dense and immature?

This is getting tired.

Kept her promise? the day ain’t over yet! Why doesn’t someone recommend that Luann babysit Piro’s charges….she already has experience with young kids. She can put on a puppet show for them!

I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Bernice.

A Piro puppet show?

OMG! Does anyone know where Lu could get a clue?

Actually might give him a chuckle

I think I know the one here who needs help!

Where to start? … How about with a “No.” … “It’s not a great idea.”

… and “It’s not even a good idea.”

G & K are regressing Luann each arc. Will she wind up in diapers by the end of the year?

Well, as a puppeteer myself, I can at least give you an A for effort, Luann.

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Puppet show??? What is she? Six years old now?

Luann – don’t just do something, sit there!

It’s going to take a restraining order and/or a “helpfulness” intervention.

Yeah, this is Bern stepping up, for once, but I still have the classic method-actor’s question in-mind: What’s her motivation?

I have to admit, Bernice is being very smart with Piro (and hopefully stops Luanne in time)

Not that kind of help Luann.

Um, yeah. You don’t “cheer up” depressed people. It just makes it worse. The thing to do is just be there for them, sit quietly with them if they wish, and just listen without offering advice.

He needs space, Luann. No one needs a puppet show.

Advise against it and move on.

Piro needs money. A professional, of any sort, by definition, costs money. Babysitter or therapist, but this is a problem money can solve.

Wow. Karen has Bernice actually saying “Oh Lord,” instead of “Oh, Gaw”? O<[|;o)

What happened to volunteering at the nursery school? You clearly need something productive to do when you’re not in class.

I love that the puppet looks like Luann

These two will be around for a while longer, but they will always be maddeningly immature and resistant to any attempt to look “attractive”.