Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 13, 2016

God be with the Orlando shooting victims and their families tonight.

Uh… not so much for the goth lad. Why did he join that class in the first place if he’s his own works’ critic?

That’s an oddly shaped museum that EmoGoth is storing his works in…

Panel 3 is a LOL. The art “professor” belongs in the dumpster.

I think Emo dude had the right idea.

I wonder if anybody actually learned anything in Zebo’s class? I suspect goth/whatever dude may have the right idea…

“The Oops In Opus”“Hard To Port-folio”“Ref-fewze de Gar -bahge”“Exhibits And Pieces O Junk”“Its Bin, A While….”“One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Episode Of ‘Hoarders’ "“Stu-dio Tomatoes”“Memento Jam”“For Unsentimental Reasons”“Gonna Need A Bigger Regrigerator”or “Three Below Zebo”

Are the silhouettes in the background of panels one and three indications that there really were more than three students in that class?

And is Luann about to “go for coffee” with Jock or Cyclops?

Does this mean no more boring Zebo art classes for Luann? Thank heavens.

So hopefully Zebo, Goth and Jock are being retired from this strip..The Evansi might as well simply do a reboot putting them back in school. Things aren’t any different.

“The last thing we need is more God.”Why? Are you overflowing?

Try showing some respect for other folks’ opinions.

Right on !

So what is next for Luann?

Please keep your opinions on God to yourself. SOME people need that reliance, especially now, so show some respect. OK?

The dumpster is there for those who have REALLY learned something.

Although I agree with Emo’s sentiment, I would counsel that he retain his portfolio, even if only as a standard against which to judge his later works done under the tutelage of real professors!

I dislike the Zebo strips.

mmm, dumpster seems out of place right in front of classroom…………………….. might be actually a sculpture of Zebo, and maybe any work put there is seen as abandonment of those into “public property”, thus now Emo’s works end as property of Zebo, and Zebo might end up making lots of money selling them LOL

Veni, vidi, vici, Zebozo.

Trash indeed.

great! just when Bernice’s story line gets good. at least Luann is finished with that “tourist trap” art class. I hope Bernice stops Piro on his tracks. It seems like he’s constantly running away from the inevitable.

Whose g-d?

Hey, who’s the blond girl?

on the contrary.

I’d suggest that we all could and especially you.

Hey “One-Eye.” I WOULDN’T be so QUICK to Dump Your “Art” if I were YOU. Original Don Van Vliet’s are bringing In a King’s Ransom these Days.

And Kudos to YOU Luann on the amount Growth You sustained during the Year! You might wanna Bottle some of that “Growth” up and Hand it to Your “friend” Bernice as She is acting GOOFIER than You Did when You were Inexplicably “in love” with The “Manikin.”

To the Big Guy. NOW’S Your Chance! Luann is between Boyfriends and Could USE a Summer Distraction. I Hear She LOVES the “Caveman Type.” So USE some of Your “Arting Skills,” and fashion a Paper Mache Club, and “ask” Her out to Your Cave. (Void where Prohibited by Law)

Finally, Professor Ze-Bats, a question before You, HOPEFULLY, Disappear from THIS Strip, FOREVER. Does That Bowtie of Yours SPIN like a Propeller attached to an Evinrude when You are in AWKWARD Social Settings??

DONE. Oh WAITPERSON? COFFEE! A GREAT Thirst Is Upon Me!!

Often high school teacher(s) or professor(s) in college (community or 4 year school) who are a bit left of center are the one(s) you learn the most from and remember fondly.

Does this mean that school is now out for the summer (at Pitt CC and at Moony Uni)? And so soon after spring break! Well, thank goodness none of these people had to do any studying or take finals.

Yes James,the last thing you will need is God,but you would be far better off to need him now,rather than then.

“The last thing we need is more God.”*JC – You find your purpose and strength wherever you do. Please do not criticize my faith in God or that of other believers. Not at least while we all are in mourning.*And if you think the shooter was driven by religion, think again.

The whole premise is wrong… you get your art back during the course of the semester right after you receive your grade for the piece.. the teacher doesn’t collect and hold on to them all. Especially at the college level.

Wrong – we need more God in everyones life!

Yeah, you’re right. It actually looks like it’s inside the building!

Late yesterday in a spoiler Argythree had me laughing with this comment:“you know what they say about one man’s trash…”

You talk about respect but use that kind of language?

Oh, for goodness sake! James, it does not take religion to be destructive. You appear to be intelligent enough to express an opinion in a way that is not destructive, so why didn’t you, and the ugliness of using the “c” word is out of place here, just as the ugliness of one recently repeatedly using the “d” word was.You have a point that religion is often used – more accurately ABused – to promote violence. Just, please, try to say that better. If you expressed yourself with verbal violence due to a loss or losses or fears of loss in the horrible attack then you have my sympathy and hugs.Religion can be constructive. There are people fed by food banks. There are poor who are clothed. There are children watched while parents work. There are people who find comfort. There are people who find direction. Others find community. Of course, it does not take religion to do these things; kindness, altruism, support, and the other many wonderfully constructive aspects of humanity are as present in athiests as in the religious.But, it also does not take religion to have violence. I submit that while it is and has been used as an excuse for violence, that violence exists without it, too, and it often really is nothing more than an excuse, in this case an individual’s way of trying to excuse his homophobia in killing those at the nightclub. A perfect example of religion used as an excuse for violence was the fourth crusade in which the Doge of Venice and his allies sought to regain trade control from Constantinopol (now Istanbul) and there being a difference in primary religions was merely the excuse to line pockets.So, James, your concern that some might use their beliefs to counter or augment violence with violence, is a valid one, though you might want to consider better wording that is more indicative of the thought you are capable of putting into it. But, there are constructive ways that religion can be used as a tool.As to one poster’s question of “whose religion?”, honestly, who cares? Any one of them, or lack of them can be used positively, or abused for negative results depending mostly on the individual. I have never seen a religion actually make a person good or bad, but i have seen a very large number of religions abused to excuse evil, or used constructively to promote altruism.

Luann states “a whole year of art”. Unless times have changed, the normal college year is Sept – Dec, and late Jan – early May – two semesters a year (with special compressed courses offered during brakes). That comment indicated she took two semesters of art???? So they will be sophomores in a couple of months. Time to grow up everyone!

Let’s take this for what it is. This is the end of the second year of college for them and all we get is Luann is a super special snow flake on art, and Bernice is desperate to get laid. All the work up for them going to college for nothing.

“Wow, I’ll forever Keep these Treasures of my own Creation! Well, for all of about two seconds, anyway!”

I knew an artist who couldn’t sell a thing. But after 20 years, he finally sold something – his art supplies.

Why would Zebo assume that their artistic journey is concluding? Just because they are done with his class? What a huge ego he has. The students may very well enter an artistic field and their journey is not ended at all.

Loved Zebo! Not him, exactly, but I loved the way he taught by demonstration rather than just, lazily, by words. I think they all learned something— even Goth.

Your opinion, Saying others who do depend on a God in faith is saying too much really. You are stepping on their ability to believe. I know its opinion, and I know those who think the whole idea of God is a mythical fantasy for the sheeplike masses, but what makes it any less valid that a sympathetic view based on humanism for example? The important thing is that 50 lives were taken, based on hate,

The 2015-2016 academic year has been over for some time now. Greg needs to get with the program.

I have no idea where this arc might be going but I do wonder if “evaluation” means grading? Given my experience with college students Eno the goth might just have gotten the highest grade, but cares about what he did to get it the least. Anyway, I await developments. After all the tension of the last week to 10 days this is kind of a breather I think.

7While I am not surprised that “Emory” (Emo) has dumped his own art (he never seemed to like anything he did all during this class), the idea of throwing art away makes me cringe…. even if it is not very good. And yes, I do know it is unrealistic to try to keep everything. But…. none-the-less, it does make me cringe to see it being dumped. I have really enjoyed Professor Zebo, “Jacque” (Jock), and “Emory” (Emo) as characters, and I do hope that all three continue on as characters in the comic even if they are away for the Summer. To me, the classroom experiences here that Luann has had have been amongst the freshest additions to the comic since the cadre started college. Do not get me wrong, I have liked the various “Dez” story arcs too…. but to me, I have enjoyed Zebo et. al., even more.

what is it about this comic and comment section that makes people use the “c” word?

Destruction of one’s art can also be a statement. :- )

As a former art teacher, I can relate…some students never kept their work and it all ended up in the trash…I was always so thrilled when someone actually took their projects home!

He knows where 90% of ‘art’ belongs. In the trash.

Except for seeing Mr. Reign (?) call the roll in his “Our Digital World” (?) class, the only thing we have seen at all of Luann’s Community College experience is Prof. Zebu’s art class. (Maybe art is the only subject Greg Evans remembers from his own college days, so that’s what he writes about?) I suppose that means that Prof. Zebu is the new Fogarty, and he is the only teacher we shall see next year, and the year after that, etc., until Greg Evans retires? I hope Luann enjoys his class, but I’m not sure just how much value this experience will be once she gets her A.A. degree and ventures out into the “real world”.

Exactly. If there is a god (NOT!) why would it let this happen and then why ask it for solace after it did?

Don’t blame this on God. This is a twisted, ugly, perversion of God in a demented mans mind. We need more God. We need to remember His teachings. God is love.

I wish this “comic” strip would return to following the life of it’s “name” character… Luann! The resident cast of characters should be banished to the dust bin! Sneaking in a one-box look at Luann isn’t enough!

I did a “painting” at a local Paint Nite and it went straight into the trash bin the next day. It was pretty awful, lol.

It’s tragic that that Florida nightclub was a gun-free zone — AKA a “free-fire” zone. The body count would have been MUCH lower. Gun-free zones should be banned.

I too like Zebo, but mostly I want Luann to do some art on her own as well as taking more classes. I’m hoping she’ll heed the instructions of the ‘destiny deck’ and see art as a direction that she should take. I don’t think this is the last of Zebo. Remember he had a part in designing a wall in the Fuse.

You are right. However what we need is the right God. People need to stop serving Satan….1John 5:19 and recognize and serve the True God…the one who promised to rid the earth of him and his influence. Ps. 37:10, 11. Ps. 83:18

Kind of reminds me Sophomore year Art in HS went to pick up my art work after class and half of it was gone someone stole it! My art teacher told me it was a high compliment LOL

How about also skipping the “p” word? There are kids who at times read here.

The very concept of a satan has always bothered me personally, not only because it just does not make sense to me intellectually, but also because i think it is way too often used as a label for anyone different, and also as an excuse for making no progress (or worse) instead of people finding constructive solutions.Of course, not all belief systems have one. Some have evil being the individual’s deliberate turning away from goodness instead of nurturing goodness. That puts responsibility where it belongs, i think.

Just remembered— an old housemate was getting his MFA. At the end, he tossed all his charcoal drawings. I protested, pulled out one to keep, and he grinned and had me exchange it for a charcoal sketch of a worried woman. Only later did someone say he had sketched me.

I hope Luann’s ‘artistic journey’ is not ‘concluding’……. the message on the board says ‘be your art’.. hopefully that relates to what is to come in this arc.

When do we get back to The Fuse and Mr. Gray and his nephew?

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wow …. her complexion problem is astronomically bad!

I think Prof. Zebu’s farewell means we’ve seen the last of him until September. The rest of the week will therefore probably be devoted to Luann and Mr. Jock, as they engage in a spirited game of “You show me yours, and I’ll show you mine!” (Art portfolios, people. Honestly…)

I’ll bet she thought that was a stellar idea!

My take on it is that Greg has some issues to work out with art teachers he knew during his own formative years, before it was clear he’d be supporting his family for a lifetime with his art.

And @Lamberger: Surely you can see that allowing everyone to have guns in a place with dim lighting and alcohol being served is not a way to reduce the body count. Think it through, please. Yours was a spectacularly silly application of a particularly silly argument against gun control.

I just read all of the comments that are not about the strip but are instead about the terrible incident on Saturday. I paid particular attention to how that side discussion turned to spiritual beliefs, and I would like to share my feelings..I was raised Roman Catholic but have not been an active member of that church for more than 35 years now. My own beliefs are closer to them than any other “organized” religion except that I have an agnostic view of some of the teachings they hold dear..I believe in a Supreme being but my definition of “God” is closer to the one given by Night-Gaunt. Therefore I am not as reliant on prayer as a plea to God as would many who identify as Christian..That said, I find theological discussions interesting, until someone starts quoting Bible passages by specific chapter and verse. (Hi, Contessa!) When that happens I start to feel like I am being lectured to, and the tediousness and predictability of sermons were a significant factor in my leaving the Catholic church as an active participant..I would personally feel more comfortable if the line were drawn right ahead of that point..And I also find it sad that the shooter in Orlando apparently had ties to Islamic State, because this will just give the “all Muslims are bad” faction more reason to spew their own hate.

Oh, and I forgot babysitting … first Lindy, and more recently Shannon …

Please my fellow commenters, click “flag” under james cameron’s obscene post. Thank you very much.

Van Gogh started painting when he was 27 and died when he was 37, and the paintings for which he would eventually become famous were done in the last 2 years of his life. This makes it a bit easier to understand why he sold only one painting in his lifetime (that we know of, by name – some people believe that he may have sold some other paintings early on that are not known to us).

Yep, and we still can’t, which is why I do question my faith yet I still have it, and will die with it, but I don’t question, nor mock the faith of others of whatever religion.

I agree with NIght. Can you imagine having a bunch of guns in that overcrowded venue. My side question is where the hell is the fire marshal? That seemed to be way too many people in that club. But anyway there would be far more dead, and it would be difficult to figure out who was the bad guy. No that is stupid, and those who support their 2nd amendment arguments by saying we should all have guns all the time would only magnify the carnage we are now living with exponentially.

> Satan means adversary. Like a counterpart of the prosecutor in a trial.>The adversarial relationship is certainly at the forefront of the book of Job, where God and Satan are both sitting around in heaven, basically playing a game with each other (using Job as their toy).

SPOILER TOOOOO

Hey, I was right the other day. “One man’s trash…”

I agree with you on that point.

-As it turns out, the killer had repeatedly visited sites in Central Florida to decide which one to hit. He had visited DisneyWorld a number of times, and had been to the Pulse. He decided on the gay club.

Although the killer called ‘911’ during the time he was shooting and declared himself a follower of so-called ISIS (Daesh), coworkers who had reported the killer before had indicated that he constantly slurred gays, blacks, women and Jews while carrying out his guard duties.

This killer was a sick puppy who was further influenced in his own home to favor extremist views, because his father has his own YouTube show and radio show that both praise the Taliban. The killer was a ticking time bomb…

When is this “college” going to seem less like a kindergarten?

Au contraire, the first thing we need is God.

Zébo is really a great prof.

The year referencehttp://www.gocomics.com/luann/2016/06/13