Luann, 12/1/25

Back in the '80s, when this strip first debuted and its characters were in high school but acted like they were 12, much of its energy was put into the competition between handsome hunk Aaron Hill and awful nerd Gunther Berger for Luann's love. This eventually ended with Aaron moving off to Hawaii and Gunther actually becoming too good for Luann, but that doesn't mean the strip doesn't like to return to the classics, so today, when the characters are in college but act like they're 15, there's a new awful nerd obsessed with our heroine, and I do appreciate that they've taken steps to make Alan awful in a specifically 2025 way. Like the only way "Oh, do you think there's a problematic age gap between my belovèd and myself? Well, I've done my research about historical sex affairs and come up with a little factoid that proves that's no impediment" could get more of the moment would be if Alan triumphantly showed Bernice a bunch of AI-generated erotic anime-style images of him and Luann wearing Renaissance clothing to prove his point.

Dustin, 12/1/25