Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 27, 2022

Yikes! No new arc?? Well, it now makes sense why they dressed Bernice like Gunther.

I wonder what a Muse Makeover looks like… contacts? new sexy dress and The Rachel hairstyle??

Can hardly wait to know what the makeover will look like.

If you can pull it off

Synchronizing the Inner & Outer Bern. ✨

Well said O eponymous one! Bernice is talking the talk but not walking the walk!

Maybe Luann can make something happen in this arc!!

A Muse Makeover? Doesw this involved a burka like robe with strategic cut-outs? Like exposing part of an ear, half of an elbow, a bit of chin…. just like Nil’s “art.”

Muse-take, big muse-take. Change and Nil will lose his vibe from Bern.

we will have to be a-muse-d by the story line for another week i guess…

What happened to all the fun plots we used to get?

Don’t do it. If they try a makeover, Bernice may lose that special something that inspires Nil.

The Muse makeover arc continues.

Well, I guess the Tiffany, mansion, Hawaii trip arc is completely gone. Kind of weird.

No, Luann. Leave Bernice be. She is Nil’s muse just the way she is. Don’t mess around with that.

Ask Nil?

Luann is talking like she herself has undergone big change, while Bernice has stayed the same. The only physical change Luann has gone through is her hair, but Bernice’s hair has changed too, so Luann can’t really talk tbh.

Haa!! Look who’s talking!!!

Can’t be done. Bernice looks too much like a boy, and Luann looks too much like a cardboard display figure

A “make-over” is actually not a bad idea!

Start with divesting Bernice of that awful “hairdo” she’s been inflected with since high school graduation, Luann.

She hasn’t been right since she got it.

And BURN Gunther’s shirt before Bets sees it and wonders what Bernice is doing in it.

uh oh

Muse Makeover?

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Well, they killed off two of them for Disney’s Hercules just because they didn’t fit on screen. In comparison, a Bernice makeover is no big deal.

Bernice, Luann has a valid point. It’s kinda hard to be a creative muse when you yourself have lil to no creativity. But to defend bernice, she doesn’t dress for style but for comfort and neither does luann. Luann, how are YOU going to perform a makeover when you need one just as bad? lol

Kinda seems like the blind leading the blind.

Next week – will Nil recognize Bernice?

A muse is a muse to one, not to all. Everyone is different, and so everyone has their own muse.

Seriously? It’s just so stale now. No more muuuuuuse

the plot of the story is pretentious

I’m pretty sure Nil wants the “Same old Bernice” as his muse. But Luann has a point, Bernice needs a makeover! Seeing someone, especially someone young, going for a walk in long black pants, closed shoes and striped T-shirts during the summer is really weird! Isn’t she suffocating from the heat? The way Luann is dressed makes a lot more sense with the season. It makes me happy to see that Luann is the one suggesting it.

In the first panel, I am wildly amazed that Nancy and Frank were able to find an end table and a lamp that match perfectly in that peach color. Maybe it is all one piece. :)

If we were going to stay on the muse theme I was hoping Nil would come back in the picture so we could see how this muse arrangement was actually going to work. Then I would like to see how things are going at the mansion with Tiff and Bets. I’m ready for a trip to Maui.

Hey, Luann—how about calling Shannon to help with this “muse makeover”??

Might liven this strip up, no??

Luann is the last person who should be giving fashion advice. She’s had the same hairstyle since high school. She’s not a good role model for romantic advice, either.

This is getting boring.

I’m beginning to wonder if Greg and Karen have lost THEIR muse!

Starring Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

……*** slowly roll-tapping fingers on desk ***…….

Nooooo! Nil likes her the way she is! Don’t go messin’ with the muse!

This might be setting up a longer arc…like when Tiffany got chubby. But for Bernice, her life will change because she’ll get some glam for guys to take notice. I’m betting, ultimately, it’ll wreck her muse status, but attract someone else.

It seems that Bernice has a superiority complex about herself.

Muse makeover by Luann? This will be interest

Princess Leia Bernice!

I’ve been reading here for so long, I can remember Bernice’s LAST make-over!

Run Bernice, run!

sigh, I was really hoping this stupid arc was over.

Rosaline told Will Shakespeare he’d find inspiration in her bed before Viola showed up. I think Bern is missing the point in a muse’s part in creative inspiration.

Well, Berneis, how do you feel about long, flowing, and easily removable?

Same ’ol Bernice. What a great line. Pretty much sums it up.

I was hoping this arc would move on after day 2 of it, and here we are again in a new week.

Not more of this boring stuff. Yuk.

Maybe something mystical and flowing…

Greek goddess? She’s dressed like a GEEK goddess.

What does Luann know about a muse’s attire?

This story line is so incredibly STUPD! In what world does Bernice think that being a third rate artists’ so-called “muse” gives her new social standing, and that other people are supposed to recognize and respect that she is one person’s muse? SO WHAT if someone told her she is their muse – why would anyone care? That would be a private, fictional relationship between two people and it wouldn’t include anyone else she knows. The more she talks about it the less special she makes it. If it’s true, she shouldn’t be discussing it with other people at all. Maybe she thinks she is now “muse” to the world – so BY ALL MEANS – get her nails done! That will fix everything. Oh, and maybe a Grecian goddess costume to wear when she’s “musing”. Can this generation be portrayed as any more vapid and stupid? Someone needs to give Karen Evans an (obviously) much-needed vacation!

My favorite was the Muse of the Brewing Arts, Burpsichore.

We get it, shes in denial since Nil beat her in ending the romantic aspect of the relationship

Okay, this should be interesting.

A-muse-ing.

Some people think the romance is over, but it should be obvious it is nowhere near over, this is just a step. Now this arc will hilariously (means to be funny, mildly or uproarious, what difference does it make?) explore trying to make Bern more attractive a muse, which leads to Nil reevaluating his muse definition. Boy has gonads even in carrtoon, and as I noted last week Lu is being portrayed more curvy and cute, whither Bern?

I hope she doesn’t start wearing fatigues

“Muses dress as muses dress. What you wear is what greek goddesses are wearing. It’s the latest thing.”

I can’t wait to see what a “muse makeover” looks like!

Dressed as a Greek muse? As John Belushi would say, “To-ga! To-ga!”

No one knows you’re a muse. If Nil becomes a famous artist, then STILL no one will know who you are.

Enough with the muse thing already?

This week she sees Nil and boyfriend together and realizes the whole muse thing was just a ruse to hide his weirdo preferences. Gunther then catches her on the rebound and dumps Bets. Les catches Bets on the rebound and Tiffany begins a new full-frontal attack on the Chinese buffet.

Good lord. This muse crap is continuing? As if she wasn’t enough of a smug, insufferable, piece of work as is, now she’s feeling “special” and “unique” and no one is going to tell her to get over herself. Instead, Our Hero wants to give her a makeover, which may go on all week. The strip can be so insipid sometimes. I know, many of you are probably thinking “then why continue to read it?” and you are quite correct. If there are no redeeming qualities to it at all this week, I’m done.

I want her to go back to the curly hair. I loved that look.

Well, if Luann makes Bern over, maybe Gunther will FINALLY get his shirt back! Boy shirts and Mom jeans will only get her so far. So Far, she hasn’t gotten anywhere! Sorry if my grammar is bad. That was one of those twisty things that didn’t sound right – no matter HOW I tried to do it!

Bernice always thinks she is unique and special. Now is not any different.

You’re wrong, Luann….it’s not the “same old Bernice.”

Bernice used to dress somewhat better than she is now. Now she looks like a female version of Gunther.

Maybe Irma had a yard sale, and Bernice bought up a bunch of Gunther’s old clothes…..:D :D :P

Oh, Lord, how I was hoping we left this sad scenario in the rearview today….

I know the horse is long dead, but continuing to beat it like this still feels like animal cruelty.

Sadly today the Luann strip was discontinued in the Los Angeles Times comic section. Luann only recently came on board at the Times, when it replaced 9 Chickweed Lane. “Luann” requires its readers to know the characters to follow the theater in each episode. This takes time, which unfortunately “Luann” didn’t get. Also unfortunately the current arc with Bernice as Muse is not one of the better stories. Too bad – I was hoping “Luann” would catch on.

Bernice has been rocking the same hair since the crew graduated high school, so maybe it is time. I get the feeling this may lead to a potentially romantic escapade for ’ol Stick-in-the-Mud.

Uh-oh. We remember what happened the last time Bernice was treated to a makeover …

Never mind “Greek Goddess”.

I’ll settle for Wilma Flintstone.

Same boring scene….see you all next week!

Okay. Today all the whiners whine but no more after today. This is the arc. It was written weeks ago. You can’t change it. Go away if it offends that much and check back next week for more of the same or a new arc for you to complain about. Then you can go away for another week. Rinse and repeat.

Yikes!

Staph was the one trying to give Tiff a makeover. But she would probably try to put Bern in a cheerleader outfit.

Bad advice, Luann. For one thing, Bern is now wearing a bigger smile than we’d seen. For a second, if she takes your advice and wears make up and chic clothing, she will no longer inspire Nil’s art.

Where the rubber ball?

uh oh

No that is going for an outmoded look. It’s what you say to Nil not looks.

Uh oh

Poor Puddles, finally released!

Poor us, not released from this unamusing “muse” arc!

Oh Bern, she has no clue that she was dumped