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

He’s not the only fun les!

geek and sleek… really nice

Well “Gee,” Le$. “Gun-Thar” is only living with some Angry, Two-bit, Thug that once pushed him around in High School. So that sorta tends to get in the way of the “fun.”

Gunther? You should take note. THIS is what Your annoying “Passivity” gets You when to try to Accommodate and Co-exist with a Hoodlum.

Son, You REALLY need to move on Campus and later get a part time job so you can afford an apartment, and DARNED QUICK!

OK Les, tell us what makes you happy. Tell us whom you like and why. Read any thing good lately? You can read, can’t you? This hear boy is a downer (to be read with a deep Southern accent, y’hear).

I don’t recall too many people having fun with Les. However it did look like Tiffany was ready to have fun at one moment.

less fun to fun les

geek and sleek

I don’t get the joke with Gun-THAR

How about:

Dork and torque

T-Bird and nerd

primp and wimp

buck and schmuck

On the menu in the first panel, you can order some Greg. It’s only $9.25.

Les need to have his ego shattered

Good on Prudence for being honest enough to confront the irony of Les declaring himself “fun.” If Les will listen to anyone, it would probably be Pru. I guess he listened to Uncle Al when it came to dealing with Ann, but he probably trust Prudence more.

Les you forgot to take your fun pill.

Pru, if you’d be so kind as to point to to Les that hanging around with drab, boring Gunther makes him look all the more cool and exciting by way of contrast. That, and he gets compassion points for helping out the style-challenged.

The greatest new comedy team since Laurel and Hardy, Lewis and Martin or Abbott and Costello!

Pru is so supportive. An elder sister, like with Luann!

I guess “Geek and Sheik” doesn’t play well these days…

When Pru said ‘fun Les’, was that one word or two?

Left kind of mixed up response to Tea Fanny above. Considering who I believe her to be I hope it makes some sense. I wouldn’t put too much credence or stake in Les’s description of him and Gunther. In a way its like Brad and TJ, except they are best buddies since grammar school. Even Toni has accepted TJ who has some rough edges, but has become a real caring friend, if a bit aggravating, Les is aggravating, and I fully understand he is quite a jerk, but he has become humanized over the last few Luannverse years, being a close friend of Tiffany (both the geek and sleek are real friends in spite of what you think MD) and if you had a mom like Ann that would screw you up too. I still think there might be further humanization coming, involving Tiffany, Les, Ann, and Tom; this whole plot line with less than nurturing parents, and damaged kids (not Gunther, he is just an only child, over mothered, a phenomena I am personally familiar with, but he had a very nurturing parent) begs for some kind of humanization. I hate to sound like my fellow Baby Boomer, Benito, but we’ll see.

Sarcasm, Les… she’s using sarcasm.

Y’know, Les….. Fun Les is only one “s” away from ‘Funless’….

….And "Geek and Sneak " is more like it…

“A Conflict Of Interesting”

“Clash Is In Session”

“My Dear Old Anti-”

" ’Tis Stalemate, No Matter How You Slice It"

“Spazz-Get-ty And Two Meatballs”

or

“Flat Man And Robbing: The Dynamic Duel”

To live the perfect life it will cost you, Less. It will not happen by mooching of your uncle. I forget you still a kid so I hope you learn it someday.

I hadn’t thought of Pru as sarcastic, but this is professional-level sarcasm.

Fun Les-I don’t think he got it!

Ink department can’t seen to decide if Les is clean shaven or has his attempt at a beard today

And you’re fun Les ??? There is no punctuation with that. Is that a satirical question or a satirical statement?

I had a dream last night that Jack took his python to the truck show and the snake escaped. My dreams come true quite a lot. Wonder if that is in the stars for this cartoon strip.

Poor Leslie. Nice that Prudence is good to him. Not as easy as some might think.

Sensible and reprehensible.

Intellectual and ineffectual.

Graduate and inmate.

Brain and ball and chain.

5

Les is full of complaints this week it appears.

While I am not fond of the “Odd Couple” story arcs with Les and Gunther, I do think the pairing, if continued will benefit both (of course financially, but) in terms of growth. Gunther may relax a little in areas of his life where he needs to and perhaps Les will become a bit more “motivated” to have a goal or ambition that is not just “revenge” or “scam” or “party”.

With the notion that we are seeing Les WITHOUT Gunther at the moment, I am hoping perhaps we will have in the next arc Gunther WITHOUT Les (and truthfully, without Tiffany as well). It feels like this “Les” arc is going to be helping us better see him as a character today as opposed to his former self. I would like a similar arc for Gunther… without all the “trappings” to which we see the angry/moody Gunther (when he is with his Mother, or at the “bachelor pad”, or often when Tiffany is being discussed) and see more about him as an individual.

Can her character be any more bland? You could replace her with a talking wall.

So Leslie really believes that between him and Gunther, Gunth is the geek? It just goes to show, nobody sees themselves as others see them.

It appears this K2 episode is to remind us of where we stand since the last “Gunther and Les in Jail” arc. Is this a lead in to the next episode in that soap? Will Pru be involved, or will she remain as a linking character, popping in and out where needed?

An interesting twist would be if it turns out Les is still carrying the torch for Pru. He was much more romantically behaved toward Pru than his blatantly prurient display with Tiff at the dinner.Les could declare that he “self-identifies” as a female AND a lesbian. Yeah! That’s the ticket. :o)

Wow Les, your beard grows really fast.

As a reminder, THIS is “Poor Le$lie’s” initial “reaction” when he found out he’d be living with Gunther:

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2018/02/10

Thus saith the guy who would rather sleep on the floor than have a house full of old furniture. Nothing Les says should ever be taken seriously because he’s got the attitude of a 6 year-old.

I guess that makes Les a fun guy?

And Gun-Thar never leaves his wallet out where it’s available for a quick “loan”.

Note last panel where she says “and you are funless.” and Les, not listening agrees.

Vive la difference.

Time to invite Tiffany over for a “house Warming”…that should heat things up a bit.

Tiffany doesn’t need either one of these guys. Maybe Gunther if he ever grows up!

How about nerd and turd!

Someday Gunther may keep you out of jail, stud!

I can’t believe that Gunther and Les agreed to that arrangement in the first place. Yes, their relatives got married to one another. But that doesn’t mean that those relatives can or should dictate their living arrangements.

I like Pru’s subtle probing, especially the last panel.. "…you think you are fun?… " she’s forcing him to self-assess.

The Joke went so far over his head it didn’t even muss up his hairdo.

Luann, in a nut shell: Toni and Brad got married. Gunther, the nerd, had a lot of opportunities with hot girls, but Greg left him hanging. Check back in 5 years for the next update.

Right over his head it goes.

he says wearing an apron

Sleek from slime.

Yeah, right. Mr. Slick Sleek is such fun! Not!

Anyway, we see that there is simmering discontent in the Happy Gulag….