Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 21, 2015

A nice memory….

Pero te divertiste, ¿verdad? (But you had fun, right?)

I like how Mrs. B is like…wait, he came back to smite Mr. Grey? Leaving his love in Peru? Not cool.

Meanwhile, Quill is smirking.

“Take A Picture, It’ll Last Longer!”“Lorenzo’s Llamas”“Stepping On Memen-toes”“Diversionary Tactics”“A Week’s Link”“Stowaway To Go!”“The New Opening Act”“He’s Got A Ticket To Ride?”“The Mamas And The Pop-Up”or“Hey!!! Where’d That Llama Come From?”

I guess this is the end of the story :(

Apparently the llama did make an appearance at last… and I was hoping Gunther would climb the Huayna Picchu (the taller mountain you see in the classic Machu Picchu picture). You can reach its summit following a steep trail not suited for the fainthearted… but definitely an adventure.

Next week, Gunther will ask Luann out on a date!

That’s awesome!! :)

“Gunther! My son! How did you ever find me?!? Come to daddy!” ^That must explain where the coffee comes in. He either can’t (won’t) sleep at night anymore after that , or he said “Forget the flight!” and decided at that point to run back home (a la Forrest)….

Or she could write him “love poems”. She makes particular use of saying how they now both have “habits”. She makes particular use of the rhymes “caffeine” (his) with hers “nicotine”…

“No wonder he’s so tired. He’s been sweatin’ with the oldies…” ^ LOL!!!!

Is that four-footed friend a llama, an alpaca, or a vicuna?

Well, this appears to be breakfast the morning after Gunther’s arrival home, and he is no longer wearing the Peru shirt, but has another plain t-shirt (not a plaid shirt), and is still sporting the stubble. And he seems still not to have broached the subject of Mr Grey (is Greg toying with us by using that name?). This might be a turning point for Gunther!

Gunther was lost in Peru, but has learned allot from Princess Rosa.

Enough of Gunther. How about Luann and Quill or Bernice and her room mate! What about Delta?

I was JUST looking for that picture when I saw you’d posted it.

Cuidado!There are llamas!

There are worse ways to spend a week! :)

The comments have improved allot!! :)

I don’t know that they are stabilizing Gunther so much as they can’t keep their hands off him!

Will those nice ladies on the bus give Gunther some training on the facts of life and love?

That’s just about Gunther’s speed.

“and loving it”

So TELL Gunther. What Did You Have MORE Fun Doing in Peru? Working with Computers in a Cubicle, Picking Up Sticks with Rosa, or Hanging Out with the “Seasoned Citizens?”

……,Or NONE of The Above?

This is dragging seriously.

That’s funny

All in all, things could have been much worse.

I had hoped he’d get lost and have a real adventure or something. A bit Auntie climactic ;)

Note today’s shirt— apparently he has a least two pieces of apparal (sp?) — did the Senioritas supply both?

Basically he’s doing the stuff he wanted to do in the first place, but couldn’t, because Rosa is a self absorbed prat who is incapable of making any adjustments, while expecting Gunther to change who he is for her. He is so much better off without the skank.

Gunther was with them for a week? Whose room did he sleep in every night? Or was that part of the “deal”. Really?

So, who . . . er where did Gunter spend those nights during the weeks tour?

Are we sure that the Sun City Senior(ita)s are in fact female? That’s some freaky looking group photo. (Can “Lola” be added to the playlist?)

Or he might meet some one on his travels that pops up later.

“I see that they are still stabilizing Gunther.”

More like claiming him, don’t you think?

If this is the end of the arc, then the turn of Gunther going on the senior bus trip…. is very disappointing to me. I hope there is something more to the story.

Graduates high school, doesn’t go to college so he can follow his “girlfriend” to another country and the only thing he’s hung up on is mom maybe having a boyfriend. Yep, he’s got his priorities straight.

I did too not so long ago (and still making up for it) but I guess my issue is the hyper focus on him being obsessed with his mom having a boyfriend. Even splitting with Rosa didn’t seem to have an effect.

Awww…. Even the Llama is smiling for the camera.

BS – Yesterday I left you a message about the flying saucer photo, observing that ETs must be alien to the art of “Spinal Tap” if they still seek G-man.*But comment went missing. Did someone flag it?

About yesterday’s color mistake: there was color spillover into the white of the lower word balloon of the last panel. I was going to send a replacement, but the coloring boss at GoComics fixed it for me late yesterday. Anybody notice the resemblance between Peg (see Jan 19) and Greg?

A week with Peg and Sal and the rest of the Sun City Senior(ita)s is doing wonders for Gunther. Maybe the thin air at high altitudes is helping, too…. What an adventure!

That’s fine but he was responding to someone with two abusive words in the comment.

The word ‘skank’ is not an opinion. It is meant as an insult.-You may find entities that post insults to be endearing, beloved people. My opinion (which you say a person is entitled to have) is that an entity that emits insults is not an endearing, beloved person.-it is an entity.

By the way, why don’t your rules apply to you? You constantly insult Mr. Evans, who is a real person and not a cartoon character. Why is that allowable for you?

NG- I just googled “llamas are related to” and found indeed camels & llamas are cousins. “Camelidae – camels, llamas, alpacas, vicugnas”

That lady to the left of Gunther looks like she could be Knute’s grandmother.

I found this to be most helpful in identification:

Llamas, Alpacas…. All here have missed the most fascinating of the species –

Guanaco

These things can spit! :-) So much so, that protestors during the Pinochet era of Chile referred to the water cannons used to quell them as “Guanacos…” ;-PPP

Since the poster calling himself Leviticus got a shout out during the time that Luann was reading college catalogues, I have concluded that someone in the Evans family must be reading some of these comments.-Your comments regarding the cartoonist often state outright that he is a bad writer. That’s not about his personal life. That’s your opinion of his work, and his work ethic. To me, those kinds of comments are meant as insults, not compliments.

Torad, I think this is the pic that did not show:

Yeah, I shouldn’t have distorted it so much, but the original size was prohibitive.

Will he pay for the tour?Did he make that much money from his brief stint in that cubicle in the first place?Do the ladies pay his way?….Uh….…..Well, ya see….…..Oh—-I have the answer! The EVANSES don’t care!

“IF however, I say that he writes like a scum-sucking under-bridge dwelling twerp, that is literary criticism ! ".Or writes like someone who was the product of two strangers?

I missed the complaint about being sorry about someone’s bridge. Trolls live under bridges, homeless folks like to do so quite often. A bridge actually did fall recently, so anyone who depended on it for transportation or lost a loved one when it fell would be mourning and wishing for comforting.

" you should aim that speech at those who continuously cry “insult! I’m going to report you!” all the time.".What sort of a jerk would do a thing like that?

I am thinking that you might be right. In addition to the case you posted, MikeyJ got a shut out for his comic versions he posted here – he got numerous mentions on their Fakebook page.

I believe someone is watching on behalf of Greg and Karen and, perhaps, reporting certain things to them. Recall also, the controversy surrounding the new character “Sun” and her appearance… which resulted in a personal apology from Greg on the Luann FB page.

That said, I don’t think it’s Greg or Karen themselves. And I think it’s for similar reasons as to why people involved in TV show productions (writers, actors, producers, directors, etc.) don’t participate in the on-line fan groups, etc. for a given show, unless/until they’re no longer involved with the show or the show is done. The problem is “Fanfic…” Fan fiction. Should a fan offer their own ideas about a show (or in this case, the strip) and they end up being used in the show/strip, the fanfic author could sue the show/strip owner for copyright infringement. The only way for the show/strip owner/author to maintain “plausible denyability” is to never have access to the place where the fanfic is being written or displayed. Hence, i seriously doubt Greg or Karen are here, themselves, but I’m sure they have people watch for them.

“Thermodynamics…”-Very cool!

“Why would Luis pay for the meal?”.People have all kinds of reasons to do things for others.Some are whims.Some are beliefs in karma.Some are obedience to the Golden Rule.Some are for companionship.Some are pity..Not everybody is petty and filled with grudges.There is no reason whatsoever to assume Luis is petty, even if he only drives a van .

“…I rarely read beyond the first page.”-————————————-Translation:Get Your Snarks In Early!

Will Gunther tell us about what REALLY made him a new man?The four days he spent in the custody of the Peruvian Policia when they caught him travelling without documents just before he was deported? (He saw Rosa there, but they sent her to Mexico.)Too bad Evans seems to have Googled only one place of interest in Peru.It was too much work to depict Gunther flying over the Nazca plains, sandsurfing at the Huacachina oasis, or exploring the markets in the City of Ica.Naturally, he’s too chemically imbalanced to partake of any local Peruvian wines or pisco.

all those ladies and Gunther couldn’t find a girlfriend! i’m sure he missed Rosa a lot.

Wait a second. Back up to where TORAD suggests that the fan writer could sue for copywrite infringement. How, exactly? -First of all, for that violation to occur, a copywrite has to be registered. Just typing some words onto an internet site doesn’t register anything.-Secondly, if the fan writer made use of the characters created by the original writer, and the original writer has copywrited his or her work, isn’t it the fan who has more to worry about in the area of copywrite infraction?-I don’t know the answer, since I’m not a lawyer. But as an unpublished writer of short stories, it’s never occurred to me that if I posted an idea here, I had some claim on it…

Well, as an unpublished writer of short stories who has received many a criticism (literary and not-so-much), the answer for me would be ‘not-so-much’…

SPOILER ALERT -Whose voice is Gunther hearing at the end of his bus tour?

Actually, in the video from (now last year’s) Q&A session, and also according to what used to be the blog at “the Studio”, Greg Evans stated that it’s Karen who does the scanning amongst the comments here. He says he prefers to keep the “curtain” up, to keep Pitts as “real” as possible, in the sense of enjoying his work, and letting others enjoy it, as well….

A la Jimmy Durante!!! (8^D)

Okay… today is one of the days I was determined to get first comment. I’ve been on the server for 25 minutes already and i’ve been refreshing every minute and the comic still isn’t out. Where is it or is it just me. The odds are just not in my favor today…

The whole of the site is actually down, for some reason…

FYI, it’s up, now..

Sorry! Didn’t mean “down” down (as in a more specific and proper definition), more like “Jane stop this crazy thing!!!” down…

They died out from global warming…

ideas are just that, ideas. They are not copyrightable. For copyright infringement, it would have to be large plot elements and dialog that is copied, not just an idea.