Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 01, 2023

Are we really to believe that Luann wouldn’t have been talking to Tara and Piro, this past week, about going skydiving with them??

The Jumpin’ Jacks instructor has it right. Get new friends, Luann!!

I hope she goes through with it. At the least, she could rib them both as ‘chickens’ and she was the truly brave one. ;)

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So is it possible that Frank will show up at the last minute to go skydiving with her?

Tandem jump with Jumpin Jill! 8^ )

Tara joins Stef as someone who deserves a real beat-down for screwing over someone. But Stef never got much of an criticism and I bet Tara won’t get much criticism and Luann will not cut her off as a friend.

Tara’s failure to tell Luann about bailing on the flight is all the more unaccountable because she and Luann are by all accounts still in Mrs. Horner Creative Writing class, see each other 2 or 3, maybe even 5 times a week.

This puts me in the mind of that line from Fresh Prince’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand”: “If they were laughing you don’t need ‘em, cuz they’re not good friends.”

Who will she give up! Well, Tara and cuz Piro for starters. But who else can she afford to lose?

Cut, not rip, the cord with those two.

Transfer credits allowed! Frank will jump. Chekhov’s dad joke…

This will take another week

Please do, Luann. Lose Tara. I doubt Piro was involved. Tara probably told him to forget it and he was agreeable. It was her idea so Piro let it go and probably assumed Tara’d tell Luann. After all her idea and her friend.

Excellent advice, Buh bye!

Now, if only she could do the same with Bernice. . .

OK, so the question is, will G&K take their own incidental character’s advice and let Luann get new friends? Or will they continue to seemingly enjoy giving her the short end of the stick and watching her suffer?

Yes. Please do that, Luann. The cast of this strip needs some serious pruning on awful “friends.” The ironic part is a week ago I said I thought Tara was entertaining, but now she just seems like a malignant bully picking on Luann cause Luann’s an easy target. You’re telling me you wanted to set up a GROUP skydiving adventure and “forgot” to inform Luann? This is some hazing nonsense.

I feel like it’s tiring how most Luann characters just let the other characters behave like the worst people and still let them hang around them and invite them to things. I wish the Evanses would stop with the “Karma Houdini” stuff cause the lack of consequences are getting harder to ignore.

Also I hope Frank comes to do skydiving with Luann. Maybe Bernice too for good measure since it’s been insanely long since Bernice has behaved like an actual friend to Luann and it would be nice to see her do something other than point out how much Luann fails at everything.

Also, this woman looks like Judy Funnie from Doug all grown up.

Transfer Credits Allowed. She gives it to her Dad Frank for Christmas to fight his middle age crises.

Someone will show up and jump with her.

This.

Frank, Jack or Les need to show up.

Has it been determined yet if “Shades” here, the Pro, is male or female? Shades has Bernadette Peters’ hair, but typical of Greg, no lips.

I really hope Luann jumps and doesn’t transfer the credits to anyone else. That would be such a let down. She should not trust Tara to follow through with plans again, so I doubt they will ever be close friends.

Call Frank Degroot?

Good advice from the pilot, what kind of friends change their plans and don’t inform one of them? Answer bad friends!

Hopefully this is not a plot device to phase Tara out of the strip. I think Delta, Rosa and Crystal were phased out because there didn’t seem to be any interesting path forward for them in the Luann saga. On the other hand, Tara represents someone who might help nudge Luann out of the DeGroot nest to do some real world stuff. At this point, I find myself wishing that Tara and Piro decided not to jump and didn’t think Luann would go ahead pretty much on her own. On the other hand, Tara and Piro might have jumped early without telling Luann because they kind of pressurred her into it and they didn’t want to be responsible for any potential accident to Luann. It would have been hard to jump early and let Luann know afterward when Luann clearly had said she decided to jump with them. I think they kind of hoped that Luann wouldn’t proceed if she hadn’t been in touch and the whole issue would fade away. It’s a common human failure to avoid an uncomfortable situation, with the final result being something worse.

Goodbye, $200!!

Transfer credits allowed to another skydiver? That skydiver might reimburse Luann Degroot for booking the jump?

The skydiver instructor resemble Bernice Halper?

Go for it girl. Do the class, practice landing, go on up, you’ll have a story to tell for the rest of your life.

Make friends with the other skydivers?

Luann can get a pilot license?

Definitely dump Tara. I’ll bet it was her idea to keep Luann out of the loop. ☜⁠ ⁠(⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠). Weirdo

Shades, is a woman and probably the pilot. Luann can’t jump by herself so there has to be a hunky sky jumper that will jump tandem with her. I saw this on this weeks Amazing Race.

Waiting to see who th one is that’ll jump with Luann. Mebbe that person bailed too. other wise if JJ there jumps with Luann th plane’ll just keep going by itself

The important thing here is where it says, “transfer credits allowed.”

Luann is rightfully angry that Tara and Piro forgot to tell her they bailed, but luckily that doesn’t seem to have made her decide not to jump. She will do it alone and for herself, Go Luann! I like the JJ employee (pilot?) more and more. She listens impassively to Luann’s drama telling her what she thinks with great honesty. I wonder how many times she have found herself in similar situations with customers. I would love if she became one of Luann’s new friends.

Hopefully, for your first jump you won’t be jumping alone. If you do, more importantly than finding better friends (if you survive) you should find a better jump instructor.

And here I thought riding a New York City subway at night was the most exciting thing Luann has ever done.

Well, transfers are allowed – there should be a reason this is written in the background. Who will take Tara’s/Piro’s place then? This could be the only reasonable way to bring Frank in (because frankly, him just inviting himself and tagging along with the 19-year olds would be weird). But on the other hand, it’s Tara/Piro who should be doing the transfer – and most likely, Tara (since she was the one that made the booking). And since there’s a good chunk of money involved, she may have already done the transfer and someone unexpected pops up next strip!

The one good thing is that Luann seems determined to go through with it (“if I survive” implies she is still doing it).

Second that. Neither one of them are truly her friends. However, part of this is on Luann for not confirming plans with them. If I was doing something this major I would be checking in at least a few times during the week leading up to the jump.

By the way, the jump in nonrefundable, so where did Piro and Tara each get $200 to burn?

I’ve always said Tara was bad news. She drags people down with her. Much of your success in life directly depends on the type of people you hang out with. As the old saying goes… “If you run with dogs, you’re going to get fleas”.

If Lu is to find new friends, then G&K will need to introduce new characters.

Everybody has had a"friend" or two that have proven to be not a friend at all. Its up to Luann what she does next.

A strip about Luann?

He’s right about the ‘new friends’ thing.

This jumpmaster looks like Bernice in disguise.

I think they bailed, so she could have an authentic moment. They are like that.Either she does it or she doesn’t. All on her now. A teachable moment.

Getting new friends is half of it. Dumping the old ones is the other half. Both quite difficult.

So, can we finally agree that “bailed” means “cancelled” and not “jumped without Luann”?

Transfer credits allowed…. Dad’s Christmas present!!

Good idea.

Uh, I’d like to remind you and everyone else, Lu.

That You once _ FOUND_ “new friends” in Tara, Piro, Jack and uh, Nil. And Look how THEY turned out.

Rather than find “new friends” perhaps you should stick with DEPENDABLE “old friends.”

And I ‘m not talking about (Shudder) Bernice or long lost Delta. ;-)

Free life Tara is becoming a helicopter cousin to Piro if her moving up the skydiving outing by a week and not telling LuAnn was to protect him from her. Tara needs to back off and let Piro decide if he wants a relationship with LuAnn and visa-versa.

I’m just happy to see Luann is back to being drawn normally. Those big Nancy lips she had for Halloween were really creepy – they looked like those red wax candy lips we used to get.

She has got to be tandem jumping since it’s her first jump. Just do it, Luann and then you can brag and rub their noses in it and then write them off.

Maybe she will meet a new romance interest

I just see the convenient “out” of the transfer credits sign (where was that yesterday?).

Well Luann, looks like you’re on your own.

Maybe it’s the sunglasses, maybe it’s knowing what her job is, but that instructor looks both hot and cool, knowhatI’msayin?

If they bailed a week ago did they lose their deposit?

I hope Frank shows up and takes her place (or jumps with her).

Good advice

Too hard to draw that many new people, so I think they’ll be staying with the same crew!

I like the prominent “no refunds” sign. let’s do this.

Perfect advice.

does anyone else think this instructor is a female? This character seems to be drawn, anatomically, in that gender.

Now that is good advice. Luann was trying way too hard to be close to Piro and Tara, and it wasn’t reciprocated; she’s a casual acquaintance to them, but she thinks of herself as part of their group. She’s just had a hard lesson that she’s not.

Isn’t the first one a tandum jump?

Jump, Jump, Jump…

This is the most danger packed strip in the comics page. Every jump, every aerial maneuver is real. Drawn just as it happened, without tricks or illusion. All that stands between the jumper and death is his ripcord. (With apologies to the Ripcord television series, 1961-63, United Artists Television and ZIV Television Productions)

Piro, the thieving red head, Jack, and the weird artist are the new second string friends. They seem shallow, not very fun, and the thief is an anti-friend. Luann is an attractive young woman. She would have not problem getting new friends. G&K, please fix your strip

In the little universe that she lives in, and that we have been exposed to, there aren’t many choices for her to make ‘new friends’ with. BUT, do dump Bernice! And DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT bring back the p***k who she tutored, only to have him use all her suggestions as his own.

With only a day left in the week (and the updated sign on the wall) it’s looking less and less likely that Luann will actually do this jump.

Finally a story line about Luann! Does this mean they’re going to introduce some new characters to the strip?

A thing about signs for those who mentioned yesterday’s and today’s.Yesterday it was a desk sign, today you are seeing a wall sign.It is actually ‘possible* 2 signs can live in the same universe.

Sir Issaic Einsteeen McFurgin III postulated that very thing in 1897 in Saskatchewan, right after winning the “Skin your own live rabbit” CONTEST (banned today). He got drunk, fell on his a s s and was carried out on a tabletop to the local constabulary, who transferred him to the morgue, during which time he protested loudly, “I’m not dead you idiots!” But since he was correct that they were indeed idiots, they took him anyway, and he had to spend the next 45 minutes explaining the coroner, that it was NOT his idea to be brought in to the morgue for a bruised rump.

There was a sign that said ‘no one not dead allowed beyond this point’, which was strange, as how could a dead person comply knowingly, since after all they are , well, dead? Upon looking around and seeing another sign that said "all dead people will immediately lay still, so as to not confuse the staff’.

Sir Issaic, not currently meet either criteria, and looking around, saw there were 2 signs in the same room, however absurd they were (it turns out the coroner had a very dark sense of humor), was astounded!Even under such drunken, dire constraints, Sir Issaic’s brilliant mind deduced that a 3rd sign needed to be created, to allow living staff to go beyond that same point in order to do their work. Although that should have been obvious. people argued that if was not explicitly written down it didn’t happen. (Sound familiar?)

Sir Issaic came to his momentous conclusion about signs, and after much arguing, mostly with the idiots who brought him, he was free to go and publish his findings, and it became more and more commonplace to see multiple signs in the same rooms in all kinds of establishments.

Nowadays we see all manner of signs everywhere. It truly is amazing!

The friends she’s referring to AREN’T her friends. SHE’S trying to impress Piro, and Tara is trying to keep them apart.

The sign says “No Refunds”. I wonder if Tara and Piro even paid? It can’t be a cheap thing to do.

Jump alone, or maybe jump with “Curly Red” JJ, but JUMP, Luann! (Besides, if you’re prepped correctly, it’s safe enough and even exhilarating….)

It looks like Luann can reschedule and use the credit for a later jump. She should find a real friend to jump with and do it with them. Jack would be a great choice.

Luann can wright about her jump, her idea, her fun, her pie in the sky. Tara can’t steal that fun or Luann’s writing. And if Luann finds a guy to steal her heart that’s more than those Goff balls on the ground playing with her head. And if the jump is filmed that can go along with her writing the kids back at the school will think she is the greatest. When I was in High school I was a Naval Cadet I traveled all over the world I had a lot of fun on my adventures met a lot of great people. My Mother had pasted away in September of this year and my Brothers and I are getting the house ready for sale and yesterday we found the old letters when I wrote to her. When I got back to school the kids all needed to hear what I did for the summer with my travels. The girls found out from one of my buddies that I had a French girl friend that summer very nice woman. That put me on the back burner for some time with them. My Mom saved my letters I read some of my letters what a nut I was. I only hope that she didn’t worry about me.

Geez! No kidding! Come on Lou…JUMP! then find some new friends.

Is the jump master female?

You’ll survive and brag about the experience

Cut your losses, Luann. Leave right now and leave Tara and Piro just like Kip needs to leave Stef!

Holy crap…………

I’ll be “Frank” with you, you shouldn’t jump.

The plane takes up more than one jumper at a time. There were 4 people in my group. Luann should see if the other jumpers might make better friends than Tara and Piro.

Just what we were saying yesterday!

This whole arc is stupid. It is making it sound like doing a jump with an experienced jumper is totally dangerous. That’s not true. Thousands of people have done it and done it safely.

A lot of people here (myself included) comment/complain about how G&K portray Luann as immature. They say she should grow up a little, and act more like a 19 -20 year old, instead of a 10 – 12 year old.

But now you people want her to go skydiving with mommy and daddy????

NO, NO, NO!!!!

She’s NOT a 10 year old who needs looking after. Better she should call Bets and Gunther and ask if they’d like to go, if she doesn’t want to go alone, and wants friends along. Or Bets and Tiff if Gunther is too busy cleaning and oiling his sewing machine. They might just jump at it (no pun intended :D) since it’s already paid for.

And if you don’t survive, the question is moot.

She will make new ones in this class, of course.

There is no 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment in the French Army. That battalion was part of the 1958 Army mutiny that Charles de Gaulle put down, which led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic.

Now that’s the best advice I’ve heard in awhile.

They found Luann a jump partner—-Super Dave Osborne

Good advice from the instructor. CallBrad&Toni. They’re already Daredevils. Shannon will probably want to jump—-carry her like a papoose.

Luann seems to be filled with a lot of unlikable characters these days. Bernice, Tiffany, Bets, Steph, and now Tara? Leslie is only redeemed because of his cat. ;-)

If you survive, I would take her up on that. Tara is a real wierdo, being so obsessed over Piro. Most places don’t let first cousins get married.

“AM I SUPPOSED TO JUMP ALONE!?”

Why not? What would Tara and Prio add to the experience, other than Luann getting credit with them for doing something daring?

Is Luann one of those girls who always needs someone to go with her to do anything?

Here in the 21st century, there are plenty of young women who travel and do other things by themselves.

If you want to do it, do it. If you’re just doing it to impress your friends, forget it.

“Get New Friends” 100% Correct! Luann needs to understand the difference between friends and acquaintances. Tara and Piro are acquaintances, nothing more.

“Transfer credits allowed.” Luann’s Dad is going to take the jump!

I never liked jumping out of a perfectly good airplane

When you survive, it will be one of the greatest experiences of your life…..

Two things that occurred to me as I read this strip (and the comments that followed):

1) I think the definitely female representative (note the tilt to the blouse and the transition from waist to hips) is not the instructor, but the pilot. Note aviator sunglasses, particularly worn indoors, a la Tom Cruise.

2) Has anyone not noted the sly correlation of the name of the facility? Jumpin’ JACK’S? No, not the obvious entendre about the exercise, but the GUY. We haven’t seen Jack in a bit, and while I don’t think he’s the titular owner of the business, it would be a clever pivot to reintroduce him to the strip and give him and Luann yet another adventure to draw them together, literally and figuratively.

SWAG. Draw your own conclusions.

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=6dYWe1c3OyU

My first (and only) jump was at the age of 19 in 1971. There was a three hour ground school and a static line jump the next Saturday. No tandem. Weather delayed us another week, so when I called home my Mom asked me if I was doing anything dangerous. She went on to say that a fortune teller had told her someone close to her would die in a horrible accident. I said no, I’m not doing anything like that. I didn’t really think about until a week later as I was preparing to jump. I made it.

How did a story line suppoedly about skydiving turn into endless conversations about friends?

Oh … yeah …

She won’t drop her friends, there will be surprises, she will sky dive. That’s’ as far as I will predict.

I’ve been hoping she would kick Tara and Piro to the curb forever. Why does she degrade herself to have to try so hard to be friends with people who couldn’t care less about her and only get her into trouble, cost her a job she loved and constantly treats her like an outsider? She’s better off without them and they are the losers. I hope the guy she ends up sky diving tied to ends up being a gorgeous hunk who falls in love with her and that he helps her get revenge on Tara and Piro, the selfish narcissists.

It really makes no difference. I notice the sign offers transfer credit. Maybe she could trade for a flying lesson.

Words or wisdom! Geronimo!!!!!!!!!

Given how flaky Tara is, how is this a surprise?

I’m still rooting for Piro to ditch Tara.

Yeah…easier said than done. Make new friends who are in there late teens and have enough money and time to take up skydiving. Preferably female. Preferably with no significant other commitment. As a outdoorsy adventuresome gal myself, I found it was easier and more fun to get comfortable with my own company than to be waiting on other people’s schedules. Especially as I get older and more of my friends have kids and family’s. But Luann could use any chainge at this point.

I’m thinking one or both of the Evans must have gone jumping lately. I’ve made over 1400 jumps myself and have never seen a better treatment of the subject. Especially this morning (Tues 12/5) with Luann gazing out the open door at altitude. I can feel the love.