I’ve been casually following Luann for years after being given an appreciation for newspaper comics by TCC but this strip finally pushed me to make an account here. I’m young enough that newspapers became entirely irrelevant long before I hit my teens but old enough that I still occasionally had access to one to read the comics as a young child so my perspective as someone who started reading while I was of similar age to the cast and haven’t yet aged out of being part of the same generation…. this is super creepy and Bernice needs a massive reality check that what she’s doing is shady and high skeez for everyone involved.
What makes it worse is her supposed career path really hinges on having a degree of intellectual and emotional maturity that I’ve honestly never seen from her. Yes, before it was Luann who was so silly and impulsive that Bern BY COMPARISON was reasonably responsible but the key words being ‘by comparison’. I remember a lot of the plotlines involving her throughout the years generally have her as behaving pretty irrationally and with a petty intent. (Thinking specifically of the brother she found out she had and how that storyline developed.)
So yeah, this is not okay in any sense of the word and I’m kind of glad that it is thoroughly unlikely that there’s that many kids left that still read comic strips because if this doesn’t end up rightfully blowing up in her face or being contextually acknowledged as being terrible, well… Fail.
I’ve been casually following Luann for years after being given an appreciation for newspaper comics by TCC but this strip finally pushed me to make an account here. I’m young enough that newspapers became entirely irrelevant long before I hit my teens but old enough that I still occasionally had access to one to read the comics as a young child so my perspective as someone who started reading while I was of similar age to the cast and haven’t yet aged out of being part of the same generation…. this is super creepy and Bernice needs a massive reality check that what she’s doing is shady and high skeez for everyone involved.
What makes it worse is her supposed career path really hinges on having a degree of intellectual and emotional maturity that I’ve honestly never seen from her. Yes, before it was Luann who was so silly and impulsive that Bern BY COMPARISON was reasonably responsible but the key words being ‘by comparison’. I remember a lot of the plotlines involving her throughout the years generally have her as behaving pretty irrationally and with a petty intent. (Thinking specifically of the brother she found out she had and how that storyline developed.)
So yeah, this is not okay in any sense of the word and I’m kind of glad that it is thoroughly unlikely that there’s that many kids left that still read comic strips because if this doesn’t end up rightfully blowing up in her face or being contextually acknowledged as being terrible, well… Fail.