Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 19, 2015

So, I guess you could say that 1AM is technically before 10PM, if we think in calendar days only…

Sleep with me? Interesting.

Hokay, this carried over. He should move in with Quill and Gunther and Momther.

Haven’t kept up with this as of late, but a romantic storyline for Bernice sounds interesting, and something we haven’t seen in a while.

Piro has admitted that he has no room of his own, and he’s crashing in other students’ dorm rooms. That is a major infraction of the rules at any university, light years more serious than leaving the windows open, yet Bernice is not only not calling security to escort him off campus but she is actually offering up her own room as his illegal crash pad for tonight! Talk about complete hypocrisy! If she doesn’t report him to her boss first thing in the morning, she deserves to share in his punishment, because she is being guilty herself!

I am so loving this! LOL

um… is Piro even a Moony Uni student?

She is so attracted to him. She never has had a boyfriend, now this mysterious and attractive college man is right there in need. Bernice is in need, and for those of you who know this strip, it’s significant when an arc crosses over a sunday

Talk about your Freudian slips …

It’s nice to see Bernice’s world being shaken up a bit. And it’s nice to see that Bernice is enjoying the full college experience… ambiguities and all!

He’s playing her.

Bernice did have a boyfriend, Dane or Zane or something, the guy in the wheelchair. But that was ages ago.

New poll up: Do you know anyone like Piro?

Does microwave popcorn make for a delicious complete meal?1) 14 votes – Other.2) 11 votes – Yes.3) 10 votes – If you drink enough beer, anything is good.4) 3 votes – Yes, if you get the cheddar cheese one.Other: Occasionally; not frequently; It’s empty calories and poison; It was my dinner last night!; No, because popcorn is empty calories. It’s basically air with calories; NOTHING can be done to make microwave popcorn delicious!; Not without butter; Unbelievable butter popcorn from Boy Scouts is always good!; Add spices and white cheddar, yummm; Use plain kernels & sprinkled cheese on afterwards; no. it’s not real pop corn; If you eat it in good company, like with a taciturn unwashed homeless bum

And so, Piro plays the ‘please-feel-sorry-for-me’ card.I wonder if trouble is going to occur in some way or another. For one, I highly doubt the college rules allow a guy to crash on the couch of a girls’ dorm.Plus there’s the possibility of somebody coming into the dorm, finding Piro, and causing a dramatic scene. Unless it’s Des, who will probably be fine with giving someone a place to sleep for the night. I think they would have to be clutching a blood-stained knife in one hand for her to complain.

“Just sleep with me” Go for it Piro.

Bernice the question to ask in the first two panels: why? In the 3rd panel say: goodbye.

Wow…we just saw Bernice this tongue tied when Derek kissed her in “Luann Again”. Guess she’s really got it bad for Piro. It seems so sudden, this intensity of attraction, but good luck Bernice! May you not be unlucky in love forever!

Bernice has always had a soft spot for the little lost puppy. For the moment, that’s what Piro is to her; and yet, her fumbled words suggest there may be something more brewing….

Is Piro homeless?

WARNING! WILL ROBINSON, WARNING!

Oh Good GRIEF!!!!

Well Isn’t OBVIOUS, Bern??

Get OVER His “Edgy Looks” and STUPID Haircut and REALISE:

THIS-BUM-IS-NOT-A-STUDENT!!!!

What do We have to Do?

SING It for YOU???

Left ya one…

Bernice’s Freudian slip is showing.

“Situations”…

And people thought that a kiss was impossible, now she’s begging him to sleep with her….

Does he even go there? wouldn’t he have a dorm to stay in or commute there?

Which goes to show, we shouldn’t conclude so quickly that each story isn’t going to continue in the next week. It all depends on which way his “creative footsteps” go, with each arc. You never know!

You make a good point. I hope that this is not where this arc is going. 50/50 either way.

Let the slut shaming begin! Come on people, we all know what the comments would be if it were Tiffany saying it!

It’s funny that in a comic strip named ‘Luann’, you never see a character named ‘Luann’ anymore…

8The things I am finding interesting and thought provoking are a) the idea of a 10pm curfew for guests seems a bit antiquated. Hell, there was no time restriction back long ago when I was in the dorms. I can see potential 10pm curfews in single sex dorms where students choose such an arrangement. But, on campuses that I know of when we are talking about dorms with both male and female students, the curfew idea is usually not present. But, regardless, we (IMO) should not fault Bernice for being kind to Piro in this situation. The original construct was that he would be going back to his buddies room to crash…. his buddy apparently told him that he couldn’t do that tonight (at 1am). So, even though Bernice is showing signs of being smitten by Piro, regardless of her “feelings”… it would have been appropriate and kind of her to let Piro stay till morning as at 1am, other options for Piro would have been close to nil.

Bernice feels ‘needed’ & is playing the ‘protector’ now. Where & what will this lead to? What will this relationship bloom into? Will we stay with this arc thru the week or go off on another Pitt dilema? Have a good day while you digest this!

Bernice’s last name should be Stradivarius the way she’s being played.

Compassion always carries the risk of being played. Young people like Bernice are learning to balance compassion with boundaries and duty.

Uh-oh!

I am not sure what Piro’s back story will be…. but I am hoping that is IS NOT a) he is a war vet with PTSD trying to get his life back together in college, nor b) he is a former foster kid trying to cope with adulthood….. both stories, would be too melodramatic for my tastes. I am hoping that Piro’s backstory is something more commonplace… like he is a middle-class kid who got ensnared in too much debt, had to choose to use his loan for tuition and thought he could figure out how to bum around for a place to stay… but is finding it more and more challenging.

Commonplace would be, conservative Christian family kicked him out for being gay. That would be fairly lifelike anyway.

we get attached to our couches

I’m seeing ideas like “bad mistake”. I don’t get that. Life is short and it shouldn’t be wasted. This is of course a made up story but if it was real I think it makes sense for these two people to become a couple.

Well, my view of that issue would probably be regarded as being “conservative”, so I won’t delve into that particular aspect to spark a debate on that subject. But I don’t think Piro would necessarily harm Bernice (even if he proved to be attracted to her)… I do however think that there are reasons for curfews and also for not having “unauthorized people” in your room/suite past that time, including what she herself was advocating, when she went on a “compliance run”… – Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a “black and white and no grey” when it comes to most rules (many even allow “space” for “critical thinking skills”), but it’s not all the time that “rules were made to be broken (a common mantra for those who don’t wish to follow some of them)”…many times, certain rules have a benefit that people don’t readily see, and sometimes it isn’t until they go through a situation (not always a harmful one) that they then understand why the rule was in place…

But, that being said, I guess that would be a take. But given his responses previously, I doubt that Greg would choose to do it in this way. Too, if he didn’t do that with Aaron Hill, I doubt he’d do so, now…

Naivete. Bern, like me as an undergrad, thinks she can solve people problems just by being nice to them. Doesn’t work that way. Some problems are deeper, and some people are users. Looks like Bern too will have to learn the hard way.

Quite the manipulator, isn’t he? And for someone so practical, Bernice can be remarkably clueless. I hope she doesn’t end up with an STD.

Yes, true. I’ve known people that seemed “cool on the outside”, but friends and family warned had some “deep things running in their still waters”. You’re right- it would be interesting to see what Dez would say about him. – Dez has been pretty approving of most of the people around there. It would be quite telling, indeed, if she had “a word of caution” in regards to him…

Doesn’t Bernice aspire to be a high school guidance counselor?With her instincts about people, her resourcefulness, her ability to help people with problems, her sticking to what she says, her consistency about rules, she’ll probably be as successful as her hero and mentor, Miss Phelps of Pitts High.

Piro can’t be that poor. He has a smart phone. A homeless person could not afford a smart phone.

It’s before 10pm somewhere in the world.

This is the type of guy who ends up being “wanted for questioning” for one reason or another. He’s not necessarily bad, he’s just shady and opportunistic and unreliable.

The cliffhanger will be Dez coming in to ruin a possible “moment” between Bernice and Piro.

Implausible…. you stated:“It’d also be nice if she did this out of the goodness of her heart, and not because she’s attracted to him. There’s no growth if she’ll bend the rules for someone she likes, everyone does that.”I agree with you that it would be best if it is out of the goodness of her heart…. and I do think that IS a part of her reason now. Yes, some of it is because she is attracted to him, but I also think that some is form more altruistic reasons. If I were to wager how much…. I would probably suggest it is evenly divided like the shared electron between to hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen molecule…. 50-50.

Dave, he could be homosexual as you suggest. However, my take is that he is probably heterosexual and that Tiffany is just not Piro’s type. I do think Bernice does seem to be his type (IMO).

It’s a Freudian sleepover. These two ships will never meet in the night… or will they?

-Will Piro be a “Derek” or a “Zane"

Maybe he will be unique

I don’t think Dez has any right to complain about guests after the crew of people she has had pass through.

Well, I lost..But it’s all for the good!.I felt the odds were 4 to 1 that this arc would not be returned to today..I was wrong, but I sure won’t complain. NOT AT ALL.Now I can look forward to tomorrow’s strip. Transfixed with expectation.

Whether Piro is or isn’t a student, the one thing that’s clear is that he isn’t paying a room contract. That makes his staying in the dorms illegal as all get-out. When that lady from the administration who’s Bernice’s boss finds out about this (1) Piro will be forced to pay back rent for all the nights he’s stayed in the dorms without paying and (2) Bernice will be kicked off-campus for letting him get away with it. (This is exactly what happened to a guy in my dorm back in the era when woolly mammoths roamed the earth, and I suspect it’s just as likely to happen again now.)

Great storyline.

Bernice needs to let the guy take a bath.Then find out more about him.

Sorry, I didn’t mean any innuendo in the sequence there..This guy needs help, it seems. But why and what kind is not clear..He does not seem very happy..Of course, if Dez returns, it will all be settled with a big hug.

OOPS, He does have a backpack.Sorry.

Brdshtt said, @PipeTobaccoI think that Viper is probably more Piro’s type.-———————————-Viper is just across the hall. And Hair is right next door.

Hi Implausible, You seemed pleased that the arc got continued today rather than suspended for some future time. I’m happy about that too. I hope this week’s strips will be full of revelations about Piro. We’re all speculating about him, right or wrong. Guess it comes from loving the strip and being impatient for the next day. It’s easier to imagine what happens next than just wait. Honestly I don’t know how I used to read regular monthly comic books and wait that long for the next installment, ha ha! Anyways, I wanna say I appreciate your efforts today.

Will Bernice be the first in this strip to be….Deflowered??Or has that gone to Tiffany and Gunther?Also is this Guys name Pronounced PIE-ro or PEE-ro ?

Oh Bernice, Luann’s smart, correct sensible friend, who without those glasses, and a little bit of change is actually kind of hot. What has your character wrought with this arc? What will happen? This is college after all. You already have started that huge debate over Dez and the brownies, now Piro, and sex….? HmmmmmGood comic art might reveal so much about us bloggers-followers.

At the Drum Circle, Dez told Piro to “Get fire,” and be brought a cookout grill to roast weiners. I thus assume he has a reputation as something of a pyromaniac, or at least someone who is fond of flames? In that case, his name would be pronounced PEYE-roh. However it’s pronounced, he’s a freeloader, and Bernice is digging herself into a hole by allowing him to stay in the dorms.

Bernice, Dr. Freud will see you now. Story line not to my liking, but then we can’t all like everything all of the time, so I’ll just wait it out. If Piro doesn’t have PTSD, then he’s just weird enough to be one of those campus shooters.

Let’s see – Piro is kinda hunky, he’s got that sexy scruffy thing going, he’s kinda brooding and introspective, he’s not constantly talking about HIMSELF, right now he needs help (or at least a place to sleep), and there are all those unknowns… yes, I can definitely see Bernice falling for him. (and in my mind he’s Pier-oh. Pyre-oh makes sense given Dez’s comment, but in that case, why not just spell it Pyro?)

As long as our imaginations are going hog wild, I’ve wondered about that bald star on Piro’s head. I mean , wouldn’t the hair just grow back over time? If he’s homeless and on limited budget there’s no $ to maintain such fashion statement, if you can call it that. I wondered if while in the military he was taken hostage somewhere and was branded on his scalp in a way such that all the hair follicles were destroyed so it stays and the hair doesn’t grow back. Call me nuts but it crossed my mind.

that’s what I get for inserting the word ‘hog’… Oh wait.. that would be NC (hog farms there)… cattle in TX.

Bernice has known Piro for more than a year (he used to store stuff in her room). She’s an RA who aspires to be a counselor. And now Piro has been dropping hints about his (possible) lack of housing situation, but she hasn’t made any attempt to have him explain his story.-(As an aside, I’ve assumed that Piro is pronounced to rhyme with “hero,” as opposed to sounding like the beginning of the word “pyromaniac.”)

If his first name is pronounced Pie-row, I hope his last name is not Maineeyak

His buddy (who is now busy entertaining) may be the one who keeps his hair cut to show the star.

Somehow either Piro or Bernice is going to walk in on the other naked in the bedroom, bathroom, shower, kitchen, den, closet, attic, dining room, man cave, sewing room, family room, living room, sitting room, sauna, pantry, library, sun room. I think I covered all the bases, OH, basement. BOOM CHICKA WOW WOW

Very true, sex is dopamine expressed in body parts.

Oh those Freudian slips – they can be so illuminating.

This was today’s post at the FB page, in reference to today’s Luann strip: – “For those of you also following the Luann-Againn storyline from 1987, you see the duality that is Bernice and boys: infatuated/practical; emotional/logical; swooning/stoic.” – (which can be seen here, or go to: https://www.facebook.com/luanncomic )

And an interesting tidbit on the “Luann Againn” portion of the FB page: Greg says: “Derek’s looks were inspired by Patrick Swayze, who was all the rage after Dirty Dancing hit screens in ’87, and Miami Vice (check those rolled jacket sleeves!) His behaviors, however, were all his own.”, with the caption “Stay strong, Bernice!” in regards to Derek’s poor choices…. – (post can be seen at the same place listed, above)

A lot of homeless kids are also survivors of child abuse. And they end up being exploited by slavers. I don’t think the Evans team is going there.

Still think that Piro may end up being a vet who came back with undiagnosed head wounds. Explains his fondness for silence very well….

-SPOILERS…

Bernice shows a lack of fondness for silence (and no particular attraction for the target of her talk).

The response can be interpreted two ways. I know how I interpret it!

Not exactly…

Ok, I get it.

But I think he was just asking her ‘when’…