Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 25, 2018

where had the time gone afore electronics?

No plugs. No customers.

Wait a minute! They roasted marshmallows on a stick over a fire many millennia ago?

Piro must have been around many millennia ago. Gunther is wearing one of his scarves.

Looks like the progress of civilization in reverse. “Hey, let’s all meet up at the mall food court so we can stare at our phones and ignore each other!”…………Speaking of which, anyone notice the cave-painting character who’s holding a phone?

In the second panel, they are all watching “Ishtar”. That way, they will also have nothing to talk about later.

A generation or so ago we’d sit in a coffee shop or restaurant reading our newspapers, periodically commenting to each other about a story or comic strip or asking about a crossword clue. While it’s true that some people get lost in their cell phones, for others it’s a more compact newspaper/dictionary/encyclopedia that also provides fodder for conversation.

I hope today’s stand alone comic isn’t intended to bring Hair into an arc. Hair has been one of the less interesting characters.

Tragic: The Gathering.

Looks like we back in Woodstock era.

Dez, Bernice, Gunther, and Hair are all students at Moony Uni. Apparently they sometimes hang out together at a coffee shop on or near campus. It’s nice to see that they do indeed have a life and interactions outside of the Luann story arcs!

Heh. The way things are going, Greg could have easily reversed the panels…….,

A scarf in the stone age?

Am I supposed to recognize the guy on the end?

Am I supposed to recognize the guy on the end?

A similar topic was in the comic strip Baldo yesterday and I’ll mention it again today: Ah, yes, my era. Rotary telephones, analog radio and TV, and going outside to play games. That was before computers. These days now, you try talking to anyone who does not have their face looking at a small electronic advice instead of looking at you!

The Zombie apocalypses is already here, just with charging leads…

You can’t get coffee any better than they serve at Uck’s.

And of course, if we baby boomers had actually had a device that was a combination record player, camera, library, TV and radio, fit into our pockets, and could instantly contact all of our friends, we wouldn’t have used it much at all – right?

Yesterday, campfire – today, Kindle Fire.

Nice artwork.

There are now restaurants with no cell phones allowed. I find it fascinating to see people come into a restaurant, sit down and pull out their phones.

By some definitions, people that are Luann’s age are no longer considered “millenials” – but then that would ruin the pun, right?

Nice big-canvas perspective. Thanks Greg & Co! Even though the prehistoric people are certainly going to have shorter life spans, I’d rather be there - feels warmer and more community~full. But yea – refreshing parallel universe / gentle social commentary take!

Wow, first time we’ve seen Hair in a while. I was starting to wonder what the heck happened to all the new characters that got introduced a few years ago.

The Millineals, alone together.

“Together” looks different today than it did even 20 years ago, much less 10 millennia ago. It still is together, but communication has changed a bit. Nice to see Hair, and a Bernice without glasses.

They’re not millennials. If they’re in college — which all these characters are — they’re under 22 and thus born after 1996, which is the official demographical cut-off date for the so-called “Millennial Generation.” Today this statistical cohort makes up more than half of the American workforce. (See U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on this.) These kids don’t do anything approaching “work” and so aren’t included there either. Evans and Evans are as usual, sloppy with their facts and with the plot conceits they use in this strip. Again, it’s not about real young people at all. It’s about confirming the biases of old people who still read newspapers concerning “what young people are like.”

Man is slowly becoming an island

If there’s a caveman that could make a scarf, it would be Gunther.

If there’s a caveman that could make a scarf, it would be Gunther.

There were never any ‘good old days’ — Jack Beauregard

A Sunday strip without Luann?

Interesting choice of a foursome. Nice to see Hair included.

I read about a group of millenials who made a pact when they went out to dinner together. They put their phones in a pile in the middle of the table and agreed that the first one to retrieve their phone during the meal paid for everyone’s meal. It worked, too.

Waiting for Godot.

Oh wow, man, this is so much deeper. Straight out of the early 60’s. It’s the dawning of the Age of Aquarius eclipsed by the Age of obsessive, brain drain. Together, yet isolated.

Sometimes you don’t need dialogue for an interesting, well drawn cartoon. Plenty of other characters to explore this idea with.

In unity there is strength, unless in unison you gallop off in all directions oblivious of one another [apologies to the late Stephen Leacock for stealing his line]….

tomorrow: Gunther Who?

Yeah, let’s bash on millennials using their devices while we hypocritically use those same devices.

This comic bothers me. First of all, like it’s already been stated, they’re not millennials. They are about 5 years too young. Secondly, if you were to be truthful about the time period on the left, you need to take 2 of them out of the picture because 95%+ of people lived to 18 in that time period (and most of human history). Thanks to technology and communication, we are living longer than ever. The same technology and communication that this panel is bashing. I don’t mean to imply cell phones are the reasons people are living longer, rather that technology and communicating caused both the destruction of diseases as well as cell phones. Third, they would all be considered full grown adults at that time (adolescents didn’t exist as a concept until much later) and probably have responsibilities that would keep them away from leisure like just sitting around a fire. The ladies would have babies to be putting to sleep, the men may be out for a 2 day trek to find a wild animal. Fourth, I’m not even sure there is conversation going on in the left column. It seems like they are all just living in those moments next to each other but not together, just like the ones on the right. Yet, somehow, the ones on the right are terrible for being on their phones and not be engaged, but it’s fine if someone is just sitting, not being engaged.