Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 05, 2024

Really?

Look out Tiff, Bets’s enthusiasms are, well, enthusiastic.

Bet’s you can’t brand a person, Bets your whole reasoning for branding a person makes zero sense, you can’t change a person, they have to do it on their own.

This idea is going to have disastrous consequences if implemented.

This is reminding me of the South Park episode with Harry and Meghan…

When I was in college, I remember having just loads and loads of disposable income I could have spent on things like branding.

What a perfectly Goofy idea.

What college student would actually PAY to be “rebranded?”

I guess We’ll SOON find out.

And I’ll STILL bet that IT will be a Guy. ;-)

They could certainly use this for a class project. No, not likely they will be successful, but they will learn a lot on the way. Especially about themselves. Isn’t that what college is for?

There is,a precedent, I guess. I mean, I got a nickname in grade 7, more a,play on words based on my last name but it stuck for many years.

But I would never pay for a,rebranding. It has to change on its own. Plus you need to grow a thick skin.

Life Coaches?

Bets is grasping at straws as she is talking. She doesn’t know what she is talking about and Tiff knows it. Both are already two confused college coeds who want to start a branding business for other confused college coeds? Oh boy.

Don’t fall for it, Tiff—unless you want to be slapped with hundreds of lawsuits for defamation!!

Grabs popcorn and watches the Luann comic strip Jump the Shark. Are they serious??

Did Karen watch The Breakfast Club, and think it was cool how the students were branded Princesses, Athletes, Brains, Basket Cases, and Criminals?

The next arc can’t come here fast enough…

Third panel Tiff looks pretty good. Keep working on her, Greg, she’s a winner.

Some one better look into what was in Bet’s tea..

I was no lost soul. I had a goal and wanted to meet it. I wanted to graduate with honors as the first in my entire family history on both sides (going back to the original immigrants in 1787 and 1819 respectively) to graduate from university. I completed my Masters in 1990, daring anyone to get a university degree better (which would be PhD) or the same level.

So far no one has yet to do do.

Any available college guys around? Still awaiting for that grad school guy for L to get her into his bed?

“Overly ambitious, controlling, impatient”. Seems like Bets really is living up to the brand she created for herself two strips ago.

I guess some 12 second intervals of time are more impactful than others. What’s our sample size here?

An agency for guidance counseling, job placement (marketing a student’s skills to employers; internships). Colleges already have those departments. Athletes now have NIL. B n T would need to, first, re-brand themselves into a recognizable, accepted business before re-branding college students. A clever moniker would be a good start.

Question is, Do college kids have any disposable income to spend on “branding”? Maybe if you spice it up, make it about getting a date, or something…

“Self-improvement” appears to be a huge business, judging from the number of ads I see.

Bets is on to something.

On something, but also on to something.

Actually this might work for both of them. They are both strongly opinionated, both strong personalities and (since Tiff has grown), decent people. I wonder if they can help me rebrand from geek to slightly geeky bad boy.

This cannot end well.

This sounds crazy enough to become a hit, Bets and Tiffany could do it! In the past, Tiffany has completely changed people. But it didn’t work because she tried to make them become something they weren’t. Now she’s grown up and has Bets that would understand others. They would would together to find what would be best for their costumers. I hope that Bernice goes to them, annoyed because they’re doing that job without having psychological preparation, and ends up being helped by them. She seriously needs to change.

It’s not a bad idea!

STUDENT: Professor, what do you think of this idea of branding college students?

if they are going to brand college students maybe they should start with themselves first. Set an example.

Warning-Beware: lost confused questioning searching souls are ripe for indoctrination.

Just so the brand isn’t their initials connected back to back.

I doubt that we’ll escape this arc in only a week.

Betts has a great turnaround time.

Do I smell potential disaster here? Remember the Betts and Gun branding?

“And that how Bets and I started our cult, your honor”,

- Tiffany, testifying at Bets criminal tax fraud trail

I can see it now! “Trying to ‘find yourself’? Stop! Let us do it for you!”

“Yes! With your Ca$h and my smarts, We’ll… well… I will go places!”

“♫… Don’t try to understand them. Just rope, throw and brand ’em…♫

I kind of love the idea of the two of them going in to business—both of them need a friend at this point!

We finally have an equation to figure out LuAnn time

Man, the quality of horsefeathers and mud slinging really suffers when LoveLaxitive is on vacation – or community service – or on the lamb from jilted girlfriends – whatever he’s doing.

Looks like we’re getting a graduate class on marketing!

They are still losers!

They have a lot of catching up to do

There use to be a TV show where a group of gay men would rebrand an uncool straight guy.

Well, I called that one.

You go, ladies! Start with Luann and Tif. Dez is good to go already.

kinda like Facebook started as a college project.

It feels like they’re just redoing the same setup multiple days in a row, with no actual forward progress. And eventually the arc will end with everyone back where they started.

Oh lord, it’s Tiffany’s Epic Pool Party™ all over again.

when this conversation started, i thought they had a class to get to in ‘fifteen minutes’ if i recall…

I think Alison Mack got in trouble for branding people.

It’s easy to walk a mile in somebody’s shoes when they’re your own shoes.

(Or maybe it’s hard depending on the shoes.)

Not sure what’s more fun, seeing the mischief they are about to get in, or reading the comment section and seeing how many different ways folks have to be snarky about Bets in particular! Happy Friday Folks !

They begin by rebranding Kip as “Twinkletoes”

Actually, this could turn into MEAN GIRLS in an awful hurry; thinking up new names for somebody

I just had another one of my brilliant ideas! (Blair Warner The Fact of Life)

You mean this whole arc has only been 12 seconds long?? Holy time warp, Batman

When Tiffany walked in it was 1:30 am (according to clock tower.

They can’t even figure out their own lives, now they want to help others?

It’s sad that Bets gave up her website. She was happy, animated and making good money. Now she’s all excited to start something again but she fails to realize that with Tiffany involved it will end in disaster. I guess they had to kill Bets N Gun so this partnership could begin.

HMM.

i can see how $ could be made out of this effort; college students are a great population of consumers that businesses want to target, for whatever product they are selling. If someone comes along and organizes a population (on some campus) into “brands”, that could be useful information to CEOs of businesses who are looking to tailor products for different groups, and which could be sold to them.

Let’s see how that works out for you.

Branding college students? I’ve heard of some pretty crazy fraternity hazing stunts, but even cattle have to caged in to pull that one off!

T-shirts: “I’m so self-aware I can’t stand myself.” :)

This whole story line has me cringing. Both from the idea that it requires someone else to tell you how to be yourself and the whole “branding” label. I’m a country girl. Branding is what you do to cattle. With a very hot iron. And it ain’t changeable. Rebranding a cow generally gets you a felony charge.

I think one of you is still confused. I’ll get back to you on which one later.

Tiff knows about “rebranding” people. Remember how she gave Gunther a bad boy hipster look makeover in high school?

Why is LuAnn missing?