Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 16, 2019

sounds like Luann still needs to read the dictionary

I don’t think any man who wears both an ascot and a beret can ever call anybody else out on being “full of hot air.”

I’m liking Zebo more and more.

Total deflation for Luann.

Total lack of clarification of (his) grading standards.

Total lack of backing up his TA.

With a side order of Luann “caving” on her impressions – which Zebo now confirms were right in the first place.

Zebo is a zero.

And with that, if G&K come back to this arc on Monday, I will be UDDERLY disappointed that they decided to MILK this even one more day!

i can’t say that blame her for being just as confused as i am. but than i don’t know jack when it comes to art anyways. and i agree it was a pointless arc for what 2 weeks was it?

Takes one to know one…

Luann, dear, “This above all: to thine own self be true”. What are you doing? Yesterday, you were rightly pissed at Tara’s BS and attitude. Today, you’re wide-eyed, and going, “Wow!” and cooing over how Zebo was right about the A+. What happened to your brain? Shriveled up and fell out? Are you now trying to kiss up, praising Tara’s word salad because you thought that would please Zebo?

Girl, grow a spine, stand up for yourself and be honest. It’ll get you farther in life than insincere flattery.

Color me wrong. Zebo’s not the flighty screwball I originally thought he was. Bravo Professor!

On the left side of the first panel, it looks like “Sally” left a long hair on a canvas.

But now Tara will think the “teachass” got her the F.

So, I’m duly impressed – Prof. Zebo sees through Tara’s B.S. and junk submission, and awards the appropriate grade. Lesson learned: you have to put in the time and effort to be properly rewarded…

Mr. Zebo realized Tara was mocking HIM!

I don’t think Community College art classes are this pretentious. Can someone remind me where they are again? Is it Moony? If it is, my opinion stands and these classes are a bigger waste of time.

Are the Evans trying to show us the plight of the humanities major? Can we see some STEM students please?

Tomorrow’s strip:

Tara: "Hey girlfriend! I got an “F”, but oh well… say there’s a cliff-diving expo tomorrow, with lessons for beginners! Wanna go? Oh yeah, that “teachass” thing… jk. Don’t be mad, k? I was just havin’ some fun. Nothing against you, really! Zebo’s a piece of work, and it was soooooo fun BS’ing him with my artwork and my (hah hah hah) explanation. Just use a jumble of fancy words and people will eat it up, cuz they don’t wanna look stupid and admit that they don’t understand a word I’m sayin’. We’re good, right? No hard feelings? Let’s have a soda!!!!"

Luann displays a distressing inability to one, know horse dropping when they are expressed, two, a disappointing tendency to not be able to stand behind her first instinct, before Tara made her class presentation, and, three, apparent loyalty or thrall to the dodgy Tara not to realize that Tara was insulting her in front of everyone, making fun of the assignment, and her proud achievement of being a TA. She is so naive essentially. I am also one who is not dismissing Prof. Zebo for any number of reasons, I think he is trying to get Luann to get to the next level past her naivete, and lack of ability to make a factual decision and stand behind it. Finally, some people actually believed that what Tara said was impressive. I would have graded her an F for that. It was total and complete nonsense. It reminds me of when I was in high school and the detention teacher made us write 500 words on the emotional tension inside of a red ping pong ball, gammatically correct. I knew Catholic high schools had some good points!! (lol)

Luann, Zebo knows you’re brownnosing him. It doesn’t work. He was testing you and you failed when you brownnosed him. You should’ve stuck with your original assessment.

Luann, you just got played by Zebo.

Thumbs up for Zebo. He taught Luann a lesson. Now, the next smart thing to do is escape this arc and leave Tara in the dust.

Okay, I claim partial credit. I nailed Zebo’s recognizing Tara for the blabla artist she truly is. But I did not see it coming that Luann would think her explanation was brilliant.

Luann is so very human. Love her.

So I think we are done in the classroom. Either a brand new arc Monday – or we see Luann and Tara with their friendship on the line. I’m hoping Tara can surprise us by fessing up that she was the ass. We’ve had characters like TJ and Tiffany that showed us their good side eventually.

Way to confuse your TA, Zebo.

It’s not a class to earn a grade in anyway. Not yet.

Luann, she called you a “Teachass” don’t defend her grade.

Don’t think Zebo will ever gave anyone an A a-nyway

Zebo’s doing what he should, making Luann think outside the box she knows. Won’t say his lesson is easily learned. What I’d be curious about (and we have no knowledge of) was Zebo watching as they did their art and did he listen to what Tara said.

Luann gets baffled by BS.

Tara is an interesting character, almost as interesting as Les. She’s intelligent and more than a little head strong and with good focus will go far. What I’m afraid is her path is to self destruction and she’s going to crash and burn (train wreck). I’d love to see a little more in depth description of Tara and many of the newer characters. The characters and the flow is different than it was when Luann was in high school which is a good thing (she’s older and the world changes). Knowing them better would help feeling what the future holds for Luann (though I suspect it’ll map close to K).

Zebo completely called it when he said he saw an expose of ironic duality. He was completely aware of Tara’s attitude about the assignment. He is also one of those rare infuriating educators who will never pass up an opportunity to impart knowledge. Testing anyone who looks like they need to learn something with an ambiguity that almost ruins the lesson given. Then confound the student with a directness at odds with the teaching method. Every thing is done with a purpose to educate the pupil. If Luann hadn’t of fallen for Tara’s sophistry that directness wouldn’t have been needed.

Tara’s explanation wasn’t complete B.S. either. Exploiting dichotomies expressed her disregard about the assignment and her frustration with Luann calling her on it. Seeking oneness says she missed the point of the assignment. Whether she realizes it or not she is admitting she didn’t get it. She failed because she expressed her feeling about what was going on around the subject not the subject itself.

Luann needs to hop off the fence before she gets splinters in her bum. So much vacillation, especially since she already knew “Tara’s intent”.

The reason to avoid art classes and such like the plague. No objective measurement.

And now Luann will feel guilty forever about this F. This arc is fantastic. Luann was pressed between her feelings as a friend and her obligations as a TA. Even if she did not like Tara’s explanation, she has tried to make get her an A+, but Zebo understood the truth about Tara’s work … I hope that the friendship between Luann and Tara can survive this fact and be stronger. I hope Tara will have more respect for Luann.

The whole notion of grading artwork strikes me as wholly illegitimate. But then, I failed 8th grade art class.

I know good music, writing, TV, ( and comics) on my own….but art, clueless, I would be in Luann’s position

Awww….. She blew it! I was really rooting for Luann to learn this lesson. (And maybe she did—— after the fact.)

Tara’s explanation was obvious mocking of Zebo. If Zebo really grades on the artist’s intent to convey something to the viewer, it is still an A. Of course it was hot air, what does he think she thinks about his lectures. Make that a A+ and 25 points of Extra Credit.

I’m just glad Tara is finally getting the F she deserves, which I think was Zebo”s intent all along. He just needed for Luann to come to the same conclusion which she did not do! As for Luann, better luck next time. But it will be interesting to see how their “friendship” plays out.

It’s easy to be honest, but it’s hard to be honest without hurting people’s feelings.

Okay. Let’s get this out of the way. FIRST:

1) Zebo backed up his T.A. So, he gets a point.

2) Luann flip-flopped, and changed HER opinion, which was right the first time. So she loses a point. Luann should NEVER back down.

Now. I’ll be surprised if this arc continues into next week. I’ll be even MORE surprised if Tara cares one whit that she got an “F.” This little “incident” will probably be all but forgotten, Tara will act like she did nothing “wrong.” But the bottom line IS, Tara got away with insulting her “friend” Luann in front of God and everybody.

Which is an unfortunate, reoccurring theme within the VAST Luanniverse. The bad Guys like Ann Eiffel, Dirk, Les, and now Tara, can get away with insulting the good guys.

The good guys on the other hand, are expected to turn the other cheek, and just TAKE the insults.

I’d love to see the day that good guys fight back for a change in this Strip. HARD. I don’t mean to the point where helmets are ripped off and the baddies are pounded across the head with them.

But it sure would be NICE, to see the baddies get an “indefinite suspension.” ;)

Tomorrow: Shannon and Puddles share a secret!

Now he’s just messing with her head for the giggles

“Full of hot air?” That sounds too plebeian coming from Zébo!

I made six (6) guesses at todays strip and still missed it! :o\

This is her first gig as a TA. He gives her zero direction, plays a mental shell game with her. Whether anyone thinks she’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, that’s not fair on any level. Anyone would feel like a frog in a blender at that point. Way to encourage a young woman who thinks she wants to be a teacher, dotard.

I always have felt Zebo was too snooty but I think he wants to teach Luann to be a good teacher. She needs to be confident in her opinions so the students and her “friend” respect her.

There’s a bit of discussion about Luann and Tara’s friendship, post still life project. If next week continues with this class sequence, friend or not-friend will play into the story. If GnK gives the art class a rest, the sting of Tara’s snark will have abated and L and T will continue their relationship as in the past. Third option, Luann can be discussing her friendship with Tara with another character; perhaps Jack or Bernice.

The strip needs Tara. She brings dynamism and tension to the strip. She is almost the Anti-Luann. Brash, self-confident, independent, thrill seeking…

If you are an airhead, the wind of different personalities will blow you everywhere.

I normally don’t quote the late John Lennon or his colleagues (after all, the subject pretty much has been lavished and fawned over to the point of redundancy for the past 55 years or so). However, in an interview conducted shortly before his untimely passing, he mentioned something about being interrupted by a fan during an interview. The fan asked him about one of his lyrics on the Rubber Soul album. Lennon then responded not unlike Tara’s “exploit dichotomies/savor oneness” babble, and the fan went away mesmerized. As soon as the fan was out of earshot, Lennon laughed and said to the interviewer, “Such a load of B.S.! They’ll believe anything just because I said it”. 39 years after the fact, he was apparently still right about that one.

Slightly reminds me of something that happened in class back in the 70’s. Our teacher told us a story and then asked “…how many of you think the person was guilty?…” About half the class, including me, raised their hand. Then he spoke more and made it sound as if those of us who thought the person was guilty were foolish. Again asked “…do you think he was guilty?…” A lot fewer hands were raised. This went on until only me and one other person insisted the person WAS guilty. The teacher really put pressure on us to change our minds. I held fast and said HE’S GUILTY! The teacher laughed and said “you’re right – he is”. When you know you’re right don’t let anyone bully you into changing your mind. (Loved that teacher).

The arrogant professor was right! He could see right through Tara’s BS! Now Luann is between a rock and a hard place!

I’ve always thought this Zebo character was an art-fart snob but you know what? He’s nailed Tara as a fraud and he’s given Luann some insight into just how intellectual-sounding and intimidating BS can get tossed around and we don’t question it. Tara will make an excellent urban designer some day.

Ok…..now he’s just being annoying…

So, hopefully this is the end of the Tara/Art Class arc. There are 3 takeaways:

1) Being true to oneself, and sticking with it. You’ll know, deep down, if it feels right.

2) The value of “friendship”, and recognizing a fake one, and not being used and abused by one. You are not here for someone else’s abusement.

3) Don’t be fooled by lies wrapped up in a blanket of unnecessarily complicated words. It’s a lesson that ALL of us can use no matter what our age is, or our educational level… when we go to the ballot box, when we see commercials on TV, when we read the editorial section in the paper, when we go out to buy a house or a car… we need to engage our own brains and not be impressed by people who know how to manipulate the use of language to somehow turn a lie into a truth. Be aware.

Mr Zebo taught LuAnn a valuable lesson, go with your instincts and ignore the BS…

How many people will give Luann a dictionary and thesaurus for the holidays?

Luann is too impressed by a long string of large words instead of thinking about what they mean.

Tara is smart enough to know what they mean so can use them to flummox.

Zebo I am not sure about. He may be using specialized vocabulary for his field at least some of the time, but it feels like he might alternatively at times just be spewing to hear himself, or perhaps to see if any of his students have the smarts to call him on something he says or even just ask what he means. I have certainly known profs who lead on students to find out if any have been actually thinking or if all were just parroting. That is especially used on college freshmen by good profs, and sometimes used on early grad students.

It’s not fair for loons to suddenly be rational. It throws everybody off balance.

Zebo is the most interesting character to appear in this strip. The MIC

Always go with your first gut instinct, Luann. This advice will take you far in life.

called it.

Only room in this here strip for one air bag.

And now, color me confused.

He Hates it when someone Out Pretentiouses him.

Get rid of Chrome Dome the "perfessor{——bring baci Brad nd his bride Toni…..much better than what ’s going on now.

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Zebo gives the deserved grade. Luann gets a lot to think about in terms of her own growth if she chooses to listen and think about what transpired.0

The pot calling the kettle black.

Luann has her limits and is reminded again. She isn’t that intellectual though she is a natural at dressing sets.

Tara was still just goofing off and crumpled some crap in less than 30 seconds! …

Luann DID call it, and Zebo recognized! If Tara honestly ‘struggled’ with the assignment (she did NOT), then leniency might have been an option. She didn’t, plain and simple!

Luann was trying to look good, and she ‘failed’ as well …

Zebo (or Luann) could have asked Tara to, “Define ‘dichotomies’ for the class, please.” …

That would have cleared up a lot!

Mr. Z is messin’ with her head, but it’s also a lesson for Luann on critical thinking.

That is a sculpture of a Baby Spice Worm from Dune, leaning back as far as it can to hurl that pencil as far as it can.

Now, will Luann learn the lesson she just got handed by Zebo?

I think it’s good that Luann and Zebo are listening to each other and taking notice of what the other is saying. I’m especially impressed that Zebo asserted that Luann’s first impression of Tara’s “art” was, indeed, correct. Luann is only 19 or 20 years old, so it’s understandable why she backed down, but after Zebo’s reinforcement of her initial impression, Luann will be less likely to reverse her opinion again. I like the relationship that is developing between Zebo and Luann. He is helping her become a more confident and sophisticated person.

I’m beginning to like Zebo

Luann wants badly to please Zebo who may have been looking to see if she would stick with her convictions. It’s a relief that he saw through Tara and gave her what she essentially deserved, and to Luann some food for thought.

Saw that coming. If Tara had been honest that the intent was to mock she’d get an A+.

Zebo’s sophistic chop-logic swerves back and forth from A+ to F are confusing his T.A. It is all intentional….

Hahaha! Prof. Z really knows how to spot BS from a student. Tara is a natural to be a philosophy or government major.

LOL… Zebo, building character one F at a time.