Yeah, I know. But apparently, Greg Evans has always wanted to make Luann relatable. For him, that means making her a loser because he probably thinks that we wouldn’t relate well to Luann if she was a “winner.” He is also an admirer of Charles M. Schulz, famous for creating a kid who was a “loser”: Charlie Brown. Charles’s creative fingerprints are all over Greg’s strip.
I’m hoping this isn’t a dream, but if it is, then we really won’t be surprised. The near-constant reliance on the dream trope is one Greg Evans seems to employ to show us a sad fact: Luann and some of the other characters lead dull, boring lives that they will never attempt to improve.
I know. Greg tends to pull that. That second story arc would have been nice if it’d actually happened. Instead, Greg had Gunther remain an adventureless geek.
Have you made this one of your Luann tropes? If you haven’t yet, you should.
Greg Evans has retired and written out a number of supporting characters over the years for basically two reasons: either they no longer served a purpose in the strip or he just didn’t know what to do with them.
If I remember correctly, he did say something to Bernice about dropping the course just to get away from Luann and Tara.