Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 01, 2022

This entire arc is like a bad April Fool’s Day joke.

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So is she going to slap him? Is Mrs. Fogarty going to walk in? Does Faye walk in?

Too close into Luann’s personal bubble.

Time to shut down Horndog Jr. right now.

Slow motion train wreck

Tomorrow… “The Slap.”

Creepsville. ✨

I’ll be back when we get to the next plotline

Go ahead and break his heart now, Luann. Get it out of the way.

Well if nothing else, Axel has now put himself in easy “slapping range.” ;-)

Luann: “Axel, NO!” She moves over. “Now let’s see what Axel has done with his essay.”

This is the closest Luann has been to any action in a long time. Just sayin…

Sadly, I don’t see a good possibility that this arc will end tomorrow. And like other recent arcs, I don’t see a point for the arc’s existence. In other words it’s a non sequitur within the Luannaverse. It’s just marking time.

♬He’s precocious / and he knows just what to do to make a pro blush.♬ — with apologies to Kim Carnes

Wbat kind of tutoring session does not have books, papers or laptops?

It’s amazing how much control you can have over another by grabbing their earlobe and giving it a sharp twist,

Today: “Want to share it?” “Sure!”

Tomorrow: “He took it out.” “He took what out?” “It.”

Luann to Axel: “I never date guys whose testicles have not yet descended.”

Lightbulb finally lit.

If Faye shows up tomorrow and interrupts Axel pass I will be very disappointed because this is Luann’s problelm to handle.

Ah. Not passing the Turing test, are we.

She either has to figure out how to deal with it like a real teacher, or she sends Axel to some guy. Which doesn’t say much about her as a teacher.

Hildegard Hamhocker could take this pantywaist in the first round.

Ivlax has the best solution for this uncomfortable arc. A bad April Fools’ Day dream/joke.

Hey!!! Luann has done Axel some real good – his lips look almost completely normal in the last panel!

Tomorrow, the secret!

It seems that Axel saw the Oscars and wants to give Luann the COVID test done by Regina Hall.

Luann, wake up and tell Axel you are only his tutor. He came back to just try to flirt with you. Wanna scare him? Tell him you’re gonna report him for sexual harassment. That ought do the job. It will suddenly become unsexy to him.

Axel, just give her a big, wet, sloppy one and then yell, “APRIL FOOL!!”

So this is Luann being tested – not Axel.

Could we be seeing someone’s first kiss? I mean Luann’s, of course.

Happy April Fools Day!!!!!!!!!!!

No wait, Evans is the master of misdirection, hilarity must ensue!!! Or porn. That would be quite a misdirection.

This is fun and creepy at the same time. Sad also, because Luann was so happy to have made Axel fall in love with history and with a subject that she, rightly, loves and feels important. Maybe it will get better in the future, or maybe this will push her to stop doing this job. But now let’s stop him and talk.

Hilarity ensues. Let’s see how though.

I think Luann might be about to figure something out.

Weak, lame arc this is. Come on, now…

And I bet tomorrow he’s going to kiss her. He read all of her signals as an invitation. Too bad Dad didn’t have a longer talk with Luann the other day and warn her that this was probably going to happen.

If Axel tells the school that Luann led him on, she is going to be in BIG trouble.

Axel gettin’ stupider!

Aaaannnnddd, there it is.

I’m hoping the next thing Luann says to him begins with “LISTEN you little puke ……”

The alarm bells are finally going off in Luann’s head..

How self-delusional do you have to be to think a college student would be interested in you as a teenager? (Remembers all the adult YouTube “stars” whose DMs to teens were leaked at some point) NEVER MIND.

You think his lips are weird now? Just wait until Luann shuts him down. The pout will be incredible

Ok, so this is getting creepy and uncomfortable. How could Luanne be so vacuous?

Yup ! April Fools day ! ( watch out ! )

Axel, you sly dog.

Looks like we have a bent Axel!

Looks like he wants to studying European history, he wants to be Russian into frenching Luann

Luann walks into Mrs. Fogarty’s office. “Mrs. Fogarty, I have a student who has fallen in love with me” “Oh don’t worry about that honey, that happens to me all the time!”

Who among us can say we didn’t do the same thing when we were 13?

cue the dark ambient music with discordant overtones which, although broadly tonal, is inflected with chromatic and polytonal passages to utter sound in tremulous tones.

reminded me of Farmer Ted, I mean Ted from 16 candles. only Luann was never prom queen, and there is no rolls, or a party with lots of drinking. but yeah. Just like Ted.

I think Luann has caught on now. Maybe there’s even hope for a nice, clean end to the arc tomorrow. Won’t hold my breath, though.

Waaait…I seeee….yes. I see a roundhouse boot to the hoden coming…

The only sensible next action is that LuAnn gets up, leaves the room, reports exactly what was happening, and refuses to go back. Snot gets in trouble for misbehavior and gets a very large older man as a tutor. If he actually touches LuAnn, he should be removed to an alternative school. He knows what he is doing – he looked to make sure no one was watching.

He also walked in without any papers or books.

Alex is an oversexed little horn dog; an Harvey Weinstein in the making, or perhaps a Bret Kavanaugh ?

Did Alex leave Faye because she ’s pregnant? Inquiring minds want to know.

Faye come and gather your boyfriend who thinks he broke up with you. He needs you SO BAD! Come on Karen, in the rich Luannverse tradition of misdirection plays bring in Faye by Friday. Axel needs to realize who plans to put up with him until he is an old horn dog, hers. That is my take.

Oh, he wants to share it, all right!

Next episode: HARD CORE NUDITY

Perhaps it’s finally dawning on our hapless heroine.

This will not turn out well. Saturday will be the last time we see Axel!

Luann is finally getting a clue.

Ugh his lips are so annoying.

Will she finally wake up and realize his intentions? Maybe she will learn a lesson?!

She really has no clue what’s happening here.

Installment number 5403 of Luann as clueless nincompoop.

Gettin closer is about to take on a whole new meaning.

I realize there have been exceptions but I don’t really think Axel is dumb enough to think that, as a 13 year old, something is actually going to happen here. The plot stretches credibility.

Yell for Mrs.Fogarty.With a bullhorn if necessary.

Has Luann EvER thought of herself as “hot”?No wonder she’s blindsided.

How blind is Luann? She has had guys interested in her before. I find her being blind to the fact that Axel digs her unbelievable.

Clue incoming……

Axel’s reenactment of Pickett’s Charge is about to have the same success as the original.

Will Luann be able to create distance with her student without turning him off to learning? I’ve tutored a number of isolated male adults who were motivated to learn in part because of receiving encouragement from an attentive woman.

Key is to address it up front and maintain s social distance.

I am a 65 years old and I can still remember being 14 and having total crushes on my 20 year old sister’s friends. I was smitten with three or four of them. It did not seem creepy to me. It was just my dreams exceeding my grasp…or what’s a heaven for?

An episode of clueless characters!

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

“The Graduate”,Axle ain’t.

Come on Luann, don’t wait to find out what this kid is doing.

This is humor, enjoy it.

Luann, someone from a mile away is calling you.

Kid has got a Doonesbury nose

tomorrow: who interupts?

Surprised, Luann? It’s only taken you all freakin’ week to glom onto something that was obvious to the non-oblivious from Day One.

Well, this is April Fool’s Day. Maybe that explains it….