Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 10, 2017

I think horseback archery, Luann, is for the advanced archers.

Wow. A strip where the only comment I can make is:

Is that left handed equipment?

This was an unexpected development. I have tended to like Tara from her first appearance. This seems to indicate she has a strong positive side. Hooray.

Luann’s brain is stuck on theater. Hey girl, this is not a play. This is a shooting range.

When do they start stealing dorm TVs?

Luann wants a costume and awesome horse (she has watched too much TV).

This arc is going beyond the weekend.

Tara is teaching Luann to be responsible, and have fun too!

Luann has needed to loosen up. Tara is a much more positive influence than Bernice, for the current phase in Luann’s life.

Old-hat discussion I am sure, but…

Why is it only some characters actually have eyes?

Others only have little black dots. I’ve always assumed that only the “real people” have actual eyeballs, and the others are aliens. Also Greg always mostly gives bedroom black swoosh eyes to people he is trying to draw as super attractive.

Eyeballs for everyone!

Tara’s actually being responsible! As responsible as she can be, given she just skipped class….

Party pooper department (and I fully expect to get called out for this): Skipping class is a greater negative than any supposed positive to be gained from this activity. As for Tara ‘s alleged “time management,” those of us who are adults, since when do any of us get to skip a function or scheduled meeting just because we think it’s a waste of time?

That off my chest, I would now like to take the time to repent! Yes, I know that I was one of those who whined the loudest about having Greg “solve” the stolen TV mystery. All I can say is, be careful what you wish for, you might get it! Oh, yes, and shame on Luann for giving way to the Tempter!

♫ Home, home on the range,

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Where all the dinners are cooked… ♪

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Safety on the range: Never use wet kitchen towels to handle hot pot handles!

Before long, they’ll be stealing lupines from the rich and giving them to the poor!

Good thing the rangemaster’s name has an “O” in it. Otherwise, the target thing would not work.

Story idea: Luann haphazardly pulls the bowstring incorrectly and rips her ear off. But all is not lost. At the hospital, she meets a young intern who becomes her new best friend. Alas Bernie.

I hope this doesn’t turn out like the bowling incident.

um…I’m no expert, but, doesn’t the quiver of arrows go over the shoulder, with the arrows on your back, near your neck? or have I been watching too many Robin Hood movies?

Here is where her being an ancestor to Captain Jonathan Archer could really be manifest.  The minute she says:  “Arm the photon arrow, Miss DeGroot.”….then instructs: "On my mark……. Fire! ".   Yep!  That would just about seal it, for me!

“The Safe Code”

“Get Your Butt In Gear”

“Climb Every Mount, Then!” (♩)

“Archer Support”

“A Bow, To Your Partner”

“Bolt Of Enlightening”

“Better Safe Than Scar-ry!”

“Arrow, Apparent”

“The Famished Games”

“String Theory”

“A Twisted Anchor Is Painful”

“What’s Your Point?”

“The Art Of Drawing”

or

“Crash Course On Safety”

From yesterday:

@Ringo: Tara and Toni should switch hairstyles. Tara would look so much better with long scarlet locks. And short hair on Toni is sensible for her job.

Maybe you’d like Tara to look more feminine, so she’d be even more attractive to you.

On one hand, despite her rugged profession – unusual for most women – Toni is a very feminine woman. And especially while she’s young, she probably likes to keep her long hair so she can be a gorgeous Barbie doll. She’d never want to be perceived as a tomboy.

On the other hand, Tara is very tomboyish. In her haircut, personality, and general ways. It’s the way she wants to be and look, or she wouldn’t do it.

It’s also noteworthy that we’ve never, so far, seen her show any romantic interest in guys, which has already stirred up numerous comments. If she has those interests, it’s yet to surface in the strip. But we already have one female character who’s not into guys, so it’s not too far-fetched for another to show up.

How is Luann going to deal with the blisters on her fingertips from the bow string? I have a hunch Greg may not know much about archery.

OK Luann the first thing I will teach you is how to shoot a apple off some ones head

Don’t forget the pointy hat with the feather…

I give ye, “LuAnn Hood” and her best friend, “little Tara.” Now they are only missing the green tights.

Luann, why aren’t you in class that your parents are paying for? Hmm!

I think Tara may be one of these people who has no patience at all for anything she isn’t interested in, but is incredibly good at anything she IS interested in.

I’ll be curious to see how similar archery safety rules are to four basic firearm safety rules. Two of them should translate across directly. “Don’t point it at anything you aren’t willing to destroy”, and “Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it.” I guess “Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are aligned and you’re ready to fire” would change to “Don’t draw the bow until you’re ready to release.” “Always treat it as if it’s loaded” doesn’t really translate.

She will need a finger tab, too.

Whats a STARR teacher?

What does it mean to be a “starr” teacher? is that a misspelling, or was it deliberate?

And now a lesson in how dedicated the Amazons were to their archery…

What? No compound bow? Are these girls living in the stone age?

I wonder how much time we have wasted when Gunth and Tif or Les and Ann, or even to hear Toni say to Brad let’s get it on.

Did anyone get a cookies warning before they commented today? I also had to sign-in even though Luann is bookmarked on my tablet. Internal error issue. Anyway I am not any kind of expert on archery either, and find all the comments by those who know a lot more about it interesting. I already said I think cutting class is harmless. as long as it is not a constant things, and Luann and Tara contact the teacher, or at least keep up with the work in the class, and as I have said, I teach community college. The most interesting thing to me is the developing relationship between the “pals” here, and the fact that Tara is shown to have a full life where she becomes so good at something, as someone commented earlier, that she can be certified to teach it School is important to her, but she focuses on other things as well. I think this is healthy, but how it fits with Luann, and reverberates in Luannverse will be fun to see. Hiho everyone!

Now Hold ON ‘Thar,’ Instructor Starr! You Just can’t hand Luann a Dangerous Weapon WITHOUT going through the Checklist First!

Let’s See:

1) Bandages – CHECK!

2) Various Obscenities to Utter when something goes Predictably Wrong – CHECK!

3) Number to a Personal Injury Lawyer – CHECK!

4) Name and Address of the Firearms Shooting Range that You’re going to Visit AFTER You Two have Overcome Your Irrational Fear of Firearms – CHECK!

Google Lars Andersen. THAT’S archery!

getting ready for the Wight Walkers

This was me in high school. I have fond memories of being out on the range and hiking the hills on Camp Pendleton. The non-fond memory is the day I fell forward onto some cactus. Ouch! Luckily, my shooting partners’ dad was a Navy corpsman and he picked all of the pins out of my palm.

She’s also going to need a breast guard, or there will be some pain.

Next week:. We see Luann and Tara riding in her Humvee with a buffalo lashed across the hood.

Don’t skip the Roy Moore target room.

Well Lady Godiva was astride a horse, and the onlookers were all aquiver.

Isn’t this something they could have done on their off time without skipping classes? I can see Luann’s grades suffering because of her new friendship.

OK. So Tara is an archery instructor and we get to see her responsible side. She considers Luann to be her friend; she wants her friends to know about her and what she does. Hey, it beats bowling!

I remember a British comedian on the Ed Sullivan Show tlking about heroes: “We have Robin Hood: a guy who wore green tights, pointy shoes and a hat with a feather in it. And he hid in the forest; if I dressed like that, I’d hide in the forest, too!”

First things first. And Range Safety always comes firat!

Good on Tara and Don!

So next strip is where Tara brings out her much more advanced/fancy bow and makes Luann envious that her beginner bow is so simple? :-)

I took archery in college…asked for moving targets…..also took fencing…first question was ’where’s the chandelier I swing in from?’

Not liking this thread so far, hope it gets interesting soon. Is it OK to skip class to do something on a whim? Is it OK to skip my job to go do something? Hope there are some consequences at the end of this. Some kids do read this strip.