I think square one is reality. Square 2 is Gunther dreaming as they were in the cab of the tow truck being driven back home. Al/Irma’s/Les/Gunther’s home.
That’s what I think, it was all a dream….but this plot is like, what, 3 weeks long. That equals to 10 hours sleep or more. People don’t dream more than a few minutes at a time. So, yeah this is weird.
So has Gunther’s entire post-Peru life been a DREAM???
In reality, he’s still in Peru, being driven to the village by Luis, and he’s dreaming of what his life would be like if he dumped Rosa, went home, moved to the Gulag with Les and found a new GF?
The panels today are not implying that present-day Gunther is dreaming about Peru and Luis and a super-friendly Mr. Gray! It’s more the opposite!
OH NO!!! Not “It was all a DREAM!” strip! How far back are we gonna go!?!?!? Back to the Peru break up and return? The driver looks a lot like Luis!! See GoComics 16 JAN 2015
This would be a switcheroo (as Luan1212 calls them) of ALL TIME!! And I don’t think our old friend will be pleased if this was a way to eliminate the last couple of years of Bets strips.
However commenters like Mordy (Mordock999), myself and some others would revel at the thought that a Gunther/Tiffany hookup could be back in the mix. This would be the time when Tiff was still svelte, Ann Eiffel had not happened, and Tiff & Gunther went on the Biology salamander field trip and things got steamy. But that all would have to be a do-over! It’s mind boggling!
That’s why it is probably something else. Maybe there was a wreck on the trip and Gunther is in a dream filled coma!
I think that the ONLY part that is a dream is the happy homecoming. He and Bets really DID leave on the van trip. That part was real. But while on the trip, they discovered that they’re actually incompatible with each other. He got tired of her putting their relationship on social media and they broke up, and he’s dreaming of how he wish it could’ve worked out. As for the driver? Red herring. Greg will sometimes draw the same “person”, but it’s actually a different character, with no connection to the previous incarnation.
Looks like wishy washy dream Gunther is having while riding in some car – probably a taxi since the van was kaboom. Bets is probably sitting next to him, hidden out of view. This is what he is hoping for. Irma and Al not getting upset – Irma over their misshapen appearances and kaboom van and a scowly Al paying the bill and telling Bets to never return. He is dreaming of the flip scenario which likely won’t happen.
So far we’ve seen no selfies re: “I’M back from MY big trip in MY van and having lots of adventures for MY thousands of MY fans to see MEEEEEE …..”! So Gunther’s dreaming it all makes sense.
Looks like something really sad happened. The journey has been fatal for a couple and a young man is returning alone without the signs of a great adventure on him, maybe after having left at the first difficulty. This hurts and is sad… It was really too happy, too suspiciously happy. For the second time in his life, Gunther returns alone from a trip in which he had left with the person he loved. Why? Now I want to know what happened a hundred times more than before. Fantastic strip!
This is the problem with dream sequences. Did they actually return home and now he is in a car going somewhere — or has he been asleep the whole time and still hasn’t arrived home? Maybe he’s been only gone a week and the trip has only started…
Some here, as I read the comments, seem to take this comic very very seriously. Little community here of Luann fanbois and gurls. It’s an old comic.. I remember when Luann started in a paper in San Mateo, California in the mid 80s. It took off right away apparently. Good to see it going strong at Go Comics.
I was trying to understand why Gunther & Al would need to be in a taxi after that meeting, at first thinking Gun was only dreaming up the part about Al being a good guy. But when I noticed his shirt no longer ripped and no boo-boo on his face, no other conclusion can be drawn other than that Gunther dreamed up the whole trip. Hate when stories end like that!
Nope – it’s Gun in the backseat, going for the ‘long ride’ thinking about how he wanted it to end. If the driver stops the car and sez ‘I gotta take a leak’ (remember the godfather?) then…
The more I read the comments and this week’s strips, the more I think that the dream started with Monday’s strip. There has been a parting of ways while on the road; deja vu, since that also happened with Rosa. Perhaps Gunther was the one doing the dumping, this time. There were signs of that foreshadowed. The cabbie could just be a coincidence.
IF (a rather big if) Tiff, Lu and Gun are now all single again, as this summer’s arcs have shown, whom among the three are on a collision course?
Yeah, he’s dreaming. But — did NONE of that happen? Is he being driven home, with the van broken down in the middle of nowhere and Bets having broken up with him?
If the couch comment was reality, then we know how the two lovers are going to be handled, back to dorm foor Bets, who by the way has not har her phone out since the arc started. The second panel is a dream flashback for Gunther, maybe being driven back in another vehicle. Still room for another misdirection play.
Child please… Betts the Bae will pack up her new string thong bikini and micro mini little black cocktail dress and join Gorgeous Ann❤️Eiffel and the ❤️Eiffeletts stalking the Wild Shoog Daddy wherever they may be. Like, Duh! As for Dumpster, he’s off for some frolic with Skinny Dip Kip and Pedro. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And all is Right with the World in the Glorious Ann❤️Eiffel Universe, Boy Howdy. No wonder we ALL ❤️ Ann❤️Eiffel. ’Nuff for today, kids. Big Weekend coming up for The Count. As for you lowly unworthies… Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day Pining Away and Eating Your ❤️s Out over Gorgeous Ann❤️Eiffel. TTFN, lowly unworthies… Be Kind to One Another just like Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel. Count… OUT!
Soap opera Dallas, sometime in the 80’s I believe. Victoria Principal was killed. They brought her back with by saying her getting shot was all a dream. Pretty lame but people went with it. The same here? The whole van thing was Gunther’s dream and not a reality?
I’m unclear on what’s going on. First, I thought was Al saying this while imagining sending Gunther off asleep in a car with a random mustached-guy… which makes no sense (but is kind of hilariously dark if the “Mr. Grey is a mafioso theory” held water). But then I noticed that people are saying this is all a dream GUNTHER is having about how he wishes he was returning home… Okay, that’s actually a pretty decent subversion of expectations. Well played, Evanses, I took everything at face value.
If Gunther is coming home in a cab alone, without the van, without Bets, and WISHING that he was with her being welcomed home with even Al offering love and support…. Yeah, that as a dream compared to some bitter harsh reality! Kinda interesting! Did he and Bets have such a bad time with the van falling apart and their personalities clashes so much that it did the opposite of bringing them closer together (like he imagined in his dream) or did she fall in love with travel vlogging and he hated it and ran home while she bought the van off him and kept on riding? (I kinda hope so from a dramatic standpoint cause that would serve as a new direction to explore)
Hmmm. Sounds familiar…young couple goes cross country in her van…guy comes back alone with girl’s van saying she dumped him… girl’s body found…guy disappears into swampy area with parent’s assistance, and…
ahhh it all makes sense why it’s only been 5 days in the luannivers. Gunther couldn’t make it 5 days and is taking a ride back home. makes a ton more sense than the Junk we’ve been seeing.
Huh? Did Gunther dream about Irma and Al being welcoming towards Bets, and them being happy about the way the road trip turned out? Did they actually break up?
I am deeply puzzled as to why Bets and Gunther have not thrown in the towel yet. They are deeply mismatched on a number of levels, and the fact that this is his family should send her heading for the hills.
This makes no sense to me, as do many of the comments, many hoping Bets is gone or dead or both. One thing I’ve wondered about all week is how one sleeve is torn and the other torn off of Gunther’s shirt. How did that happen?
Al is married to Gunther’s mom…..he should be saying “Our House” and “Our Driveway” , it doesn’t just belong to him. Gunther’s mom needs to put on her big girl panties and give stand up for Gunther and Bets, as they clearly love each other
Maybe over-reacting, but I didn’t care for the Al’s wording in the second panel: “Bets, you’ll move into the guest house . . .” as opposed to “you can move into the guest house . . .”
That driver looks familiar; was he in Peru?I’m confused. Was this entire week a dream? Was the trip awful? Is Gunther heading home without Bets? Someone has some “‘splaining” to do. =:-o
I wouldn’t want them sitting on my couch that dirty with greasy clothes on. Gunther in the car/Uber has a clean shirt with pinstripes, the torn shirt is plain. If he was going to allow Bets to move in they would not need the van as Bets already has a car.
I don’t think the last 7 years were all a dream. That would be too confusing for all the characters. We’d never remember whether something happened in real life for them or in the dream time.
Then Gunther changed his name to Leopold Fitz, goes to the SHIELD academy and joins Jemma Simmons on the adventure of a lifetime, crossing the universe, travelling in time and saving the planet, several times, with the Agents of SHIELD, led by Charles Colson who is in fact alive.
You know Gunther is dreaming, because Irma would not have people with oil stains sitting on her furniture.(I’m much less of a fussbudget than Irma, but I wouldn’t want motor oil smudges on MY furniture!)
Well Gunther looks clean shaven in that last panel and he was still rocking the stubble when he came back from Peru so I’m HOPING that’s a sign he’s just dreaming and Bets is sitting beside him as they are in the tow truck heading for home. Maybe he’s just dreaming of the warm reception he hopes they will get.
Over 300 comments assuming that Gunther is having a long term dream. Greg could really be putting the screws to his readers if this is not true. Those hospitals can give you medications that will put you in a whole different world.
I just received a comment on this arc from the authors in my e-mail as a result of my having signed up for Luann Fan; it goes like this:
Hello Robin,Do you trust us? We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling. Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days.~Karen and Greg
p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when Gunther when to Peru after high school graduation. Read that storyline in the Featured Collection on LuannFan.com-——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- I now am very concerned.
This was posted on the Luann Fan site this afternoon, by the Evans
Do you trust us?
We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling.
Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days.
~Karen and Greg
p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when Gunther when to Peru after high school graduation. Read that storyline in the Featured Collection on LuannFan.com
We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling.
Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days.
~Karen and Greg
p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when Gunther when to Peru after high school graduation. Read that storyline in the Featured Collection on LuannFan.com
Featured CollectionGunther is not known for being a risk-taking, adventurous sort. Maybe that’s why he’s drawn to women who get him out of his comfort zone? Check out the Featured Collection: Gunther Goes (to Peru!) to see what happened after high school (way back in 2014!!!).
Read NowRunning Out of Ideas??People often ask us if we ever run out of ideas for the strip. Nope. The characters are real people to us and the truth is they give us more stories than we can fit into the comic! The current road trip storyline is a perfect example of a time when the story idea WE had and the story our characters wanted us to tell weren’t the same. WE thought we’d send Bets and Gunther off for a fun little adventure. They told us that adventure was much more significant.
The last time Gunther did this to us was back in 2014. The characters were all graduating high school and we thought Gunther would go off to Peru with Rosa and live happily ever after, never to be seen again.
NOPE.
As soon as Greg drew this picture, we knew we had to follow them to South America to see what happened next:
It was the same experience when we saw this strip: clearly these characters had a different story to tell than what we expected. Thanks for joining their journey—and here’s to finding out what happens next this time!
I don’t want to make predictions any more but i seem to be doing it; based on Greg & Karen’s comments and what is on the Luann Fan site, two possibilities roam around in my mind: (1) the van broke down; they ditched it and decided to hop a flight out of the country, perhaps back to Peru, (2) The first panel plus previous this week are real and Gunther is so distressed at Al’s treatment of Bets that he’s going back to Machu Picchu (a spiritual place) to mentally re-group.
It would be delightfully funny if this is the actual Luis from Peru and we find Gunther sleeping off his 1/2 beer in the back seat and all of the Gulag and Bets was a dream. But I doubt that is the case.
But, perhaps more likely is this new taxi driver (aka the new Luis) is taking Gunther back to the Gulag…. and perhaps Gunther is going back to school and Bets (being rather free-spirit-like) has decided to continue her van journey for the Fall Semester (at least) and the duo realizes they are “in love” but at least temporarily in different phases of life. Bets and Gunther can perhaps get back together (not that they broke up) when Bets returns after her Media/VanLife adventure…. perhaps in the following semester?
Or…. if Bets is going back to the dorm…. perhaps she is keeping the van at the dorm…. but Gunther came back early to get ready for school and Bets is more nonchalant about getting things ready and is just staying with family until closer to the start of the semester.
Hah! Up above there was a comment that had me recall the series finale of “St. Elsewhere”….. where a kid was imagining the whole television series as he was gazing into a snow globe.
Maybe this is the finale for Luann…. And tomorrow will be Gunther, a college kid being dropped off at his dorm after a night out drinking, and he had dreamed up the full multi-decade of “Luann” comics ?!?!
WOW, look at the volume of comments, today. There’s everything from a reset of a few years to a possible paternity and parallels to the Petito-Laundrie case. We even have the Evans telling us of something dark, as a form of preparation for what will be revealed in the coming days/weeks.
What of Bets and the van? Has someone’s social media obsession caused a traffic accident that cost their life? Way back when Bets first came along, I pointed out that she was an object lesson, and had made a prediction of disaster. Here we are. So many questions remain. Here’s perhaps one of the bigger ones: Was it a multiple-vehicle accident, and might one of the other parties involved be Jonah Daytona? It almost seems too tidy.
Perhaps Gunther will be revealed to be an anti-hero type; not necessarily a villain. Whom among the gals in the strip might squeal at such a thought? Not Tiff, IMHO.
Do you trust us? What a silly question for G&K to ask their readers! Of course we don’t trust them. We don’t trust them to remember any of the character back stories, we don’t trust them to ever resolve anything in their stories and we don’t trust them to be realistic and logical when describing everyday activities. We DO trust them to (among others) keep Luann in the kindergarden sandbox, Tiffany a spoiled neurotic, Bernice a psycho psychoanalyst, Gunther a mamas boy and Bets a social media junkie. It’s good to have something to count on day to day! But personally, I don’t know why anyone would go to the trouble of registering for special publications only to get a lame email. That was a fail.
lvlax 10 months ago
Okay.. this just got really weird! Who is the guy driving the car? What really happened with Al?
So they’re not going to show if Al paid the bill or where Bets is?
C 10 months ago
Dream on
Busrayne 10 months ago
I think I’ve seen that cabbie before….
alasko 10 months ago
Is Bobby Ewing in the shower?
Mordock999 Premium Member 10 months ago
Okay.
I’m officially getting weirded out here.
(Stand by for a WTF Moment)
Check the Strips starting January 12th 2015 for possible context to this current Strip.
Difference is back then, Gunny was sitting in the front seat.
This is getting unsettling. WHERE is this going?
Willow Mt Lyon 10 months ago
That is a flashback to when Gunther was in Peru. I don’t know where the dream came from, but I think it is there to cover up Al’s temper exploding.
Z Blair Premium Member 10 months ago
I think square one is reality. Square 2 is Gunther dreaming as they were in the cab of the tow truck being driven back home. Al/Irma’s/Les/Gunther’s home.
Enter.Name.Here 10 months ago
Well, if you decide halfway to take a story in a different direction, then that’s one way to do it. The classic “It was all a dream” plot.
ronaldspence 10 months ago
it’s like a Bob Newhart episode, or Bobby’s dream on Dallas (i know i dated myself…twice!)
Panufo 10 months ago
Well played, Evanses.
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member 10 months ago
That’s what I think, it was all a dream….but this plot is like, what, 3 weeks long. That equals to 10 hours sleep or more. People don’t dream more than a few minutes at a time. So, yeah this is weird.
NaboTheBear 10 months ago
Mind blown!!!
So has Gunther’s entire post-Peru life been a DREAM???
In reality, he’s still in Peru, being driven to the village by Luis, and he’s dreaming of what his life would be like if he dumped Rosa, went home, moved to the Gulag with Les and found a new GF?
The panels today are not implying that present-day Gunther is dreaming about Peru and Luis and a super-friendly Mr. Gray! It’s more the opposite!
Black76Manta 10 months ago
Only in a dream, appropriate!
Amina Rush 10 months ago
The driver looks like a younger version of Al!
Tyge Premium Member 10 months ago
OH NO!!! Not “It was all a DREAM!” strip! How far back are we gonna go!?!?!? Back to the Peru break up and return? The driver looks a lot like Luis!! See GoComics 16 JAN 2015
ACTIVIST1234 10 months ago
Accept a gift from Unca Al, and he’ll run your life for you. Or else.
No Gun, no Bets. Don’t accept favors from Unca Al.
LeonardChan 10 months ago
So the last 7 years has been a dream?
Joe1962 Premium Member 10 months ago
Who took over Al body.
BJShipley1 10 months ago
Wow, that cabbie really gets around.
Tyge Premium Member 10 months ago
This would be a switcheroo (as Luan1212 calls them) of ALL TIME!! And I don’t think our old friend will be pleased if this was a way to eliminate the last couple of years of Bets strips.
However commenters like Mordy (Mordock999), myself and some others would revel at the thought that a Gunther/Tiffany hookup could be back in the mix. This would be the time when Tiff was still svelte, Ann Eiffel had not happened, and Tiff & Gunther went on the Biology salamander field trip and things got steamy. But that all would have to be a do-over! It’s mind boggling!
That’s why it is probably something else. Maybe there was a wreck on the trip and Gunther is in a dream filled coma!
Yuban333 10 months ago
I think that the ONLY part that is a dream is the happy homecoming. He and Bets really DID leave on the van trip. That part was real. But while on the trip, they discovered that they’re actually incompatible with each other. He got tired of her putting their relationship on social media and they broke up, and he’s dreaming of how he wish it could’ve worked out. As for the driver? Red herring. Greg will sometimes draw the same “person”, but it’s actually a different character, with no connection to the previous incarnation.
yoda1234 10 months ago
oh, crap… are they gonna go home and find Bobby Ewing in the shower???
mnexplorer+ 10 months ago
Yeah, that’s a dream alright.
Rhetorical_Question 10 months ago
Okay, has Gunther being dreaming about Pitts since the Peruvian trip?
rklynch 10 months ago
Wait a second… Is this whole arc nothing but a dream sequence? And if so, what really happened???
9thCapricorn 10 months ago
Looks like wishy washy dream Gunther is having while riding in some car – probably a taxi since the van was kaboom. Bets is probably sitting next to him, hidden out of view. This is what he is hoping for. Irma and Al not getting upset – Irma over their misshapen appearances and kaboom van and a scowly Al paying the bill and telling Bets to never return. He is dreaming of the flip scenario which likely won’t happen.
comic reader 22 10 months ago
So it was all a dream?
Busrayne 10 months ago
Maybe it’s not Luis, but “generic taxi driver.”
JonGoss 10 months ago
ZWOW! They just “Breaking Bad”-ed this story arc! Or for you older people, “Newhart”-ed it.
Ruth Brown 10 months ago
So weird. If this is the Peruvian taxi, where is Gunther’s beard?
Does anyone believe this is possibly Al’s response? A new van, my foot.
DaveG1960 10 months ago
All but a dream……
D.E.N. 10 months ago
So far we’ve seen no selfies re: “I’M back from MY big trip in MY van and having lots of adventures for MY thousands of MY fans to see MEEEEEE …..”! So Gunther’s dreaming it all makes sense.
JonnyT 10 months ago
If it was all a dream, does this mean Bets never existed? Hope springs eternal!
Aladar30 Premium Member 10 months ago
Looks like something really sad happened. The journey has been fatal for a couple and a young man is returning alone without the signs of a great adventure on him, maybe after having left at the first difficulty. This hurts and is sad… It was really too happy, too suspiciously happy. For the second time in his life, Gunther returns alone from a trip in which he had left with the person he loved. Why? Now I want to know what happened a hundred times more than before. Fantastic strip!
Liam Astle Premium Member 10 months ago
Join us tomorrow as none of this is resolved.
Rhetorical_Question 10 months ago
The Peruvian driver of the vehicle looks older than the previous time.
sueb1863 10 months ago
So the past several YEARS have just been a dream??
eladee AKA Wally 10 months ago
Please don’t let all of this have been a dream sequence!!!! I don’t want Gunther to lose Bets.
mgl179 10 months ago
Just when we think this comic can’t get any dumber, we’re proved wrong.
KenHelmick 10 months ago
This is the problem with dream sequences. Did they actually return home and now he is in a car going somewhere — or has he been asleep the whole time and still hasn’t arrived home? Maybe he’s been only gone a week and the trip has only started…
FSMSupremecrt 10 months ago
Or like Bob Newhart in Vermont?
Bernedoodle 10 months ago
MY DRIVEWAY, MY HOUSE? I think Irma is getting ready to go full Momma Bear on Big Al.
tremaine53 10 months ago
As Steven Tyler said, ‘Dream On’.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 10 months ago
Some here, as I read the comments, seem to take this comic very very seriously. Little community here of Luann fanbois and gurls. It’s an old comic.. I remember when Luann started in a paper in San Mateo, California in the mid 80s. It took off right away apparently. Good to see it going strong at Go Comics.
cinlou4u 10 months ago
I don’t like Al. “MY driveway” “MY house”. He acts like Irma doesn’t exist. Isn’t it their driveway and house!
Squoop 10 months ago
I was trying to understand why Gunther & Al would need to be in a taxi after that meeting, at first thinking Gun was only dreaming up the part about Al being a good guy. But when I noticed his shirt no longer ripped and no boo-boo on his face, no other conclusion can be drawn other than that Gunther dreamed up the whole trip. Hate when stories end like that!
Nekosho 10 months ago
Nope – it’s Gun in the backseat, going for the ‘long ride’ thinking about how he wanted it to end. If the driver stops the car and sez ‘I gotta take a leak’ (remember the godfather?) then…
Ellis97 10 months ago
Looks like Al is slowly welcoming Bets into their family. Either that, or he’s up to something sneaky.
GaryCooper 10 months ago
Did Gunth get knocked on the head?
Lord Hearteater 10 months ago
The more I read the comments and this week’s strips, the more I think that the dream started with Monday’s strip. There has been a parting of ways while on the road; deja vu, since that also happened with Rosa. Perhaps Gunther was the one doing the dumping, this time. There were signs of that foreshadowed. The cabbie could just be a coincidence.
IF (a rather big if) Tiff, Lu and Gun are now all single again, as this summer’s arcs have shown, whom among the three are on a collision course?
miztrniceguy 10 months ago
Nobody thought it was real, even without seeing Gunther snoring
Toshmanii 10 months ago
tow truck driver, heh ameddis on their way home…
Toshmanii 10 months ago
he dreamed this…( how did those words get spell corrected to heh ameddis?
Lescoe Brandon 10 months ago
This arc is a dream.
BuckarooDave 10 months ago
Gunther = Bobby Ewing !!!!!!!
=:-O
DaBump Premium Member 10 months ago
Yeah, he’s dreaming. But — did NONE of that happen? Is he being driven home, with the van broken down in the middle of nowhere and Bets having broken up with him?
luann1212 10 months ago
If the couch comment was reality, then we know how the two lovers are going to be handled, back to dorm foor Bets, who by the way has not har her phone out since the arc started. The second panel is a dream flashback for Gunther, maybe being driven back in another vehicle. Still room for another misdirection play.
Binky Premium Member 10 months ago
Very strange… I don’t know what’s going on. Guess we’ll see. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
RSH 10 months ago
not sure how ugly Al can get any uglier. Only in Gunther’s dreams could he possibly be the person he is not.
jamescordeiro 10 months ago
I hope it’s not a dream and they broke up.
shlomosports Premium Member 10 months ago
So this has all been a dream, eh? Maybe she’s really dead! After Gunther’s last adventure with a girlfriend, I wasn’t expecting it to go well.
Count Olaf Premium Member 10 months ago
Child please… Betts the Bae will pack up her new string thong bikini and micro mini little black cocktail dress and join Gorgeous Ann❤️Eiffel and the ❤️Eiffeletts stalking the Wild Shoog Daddy wherever they may be. Like, Duh! As for Dumpster, he’s off for some frolic with Skinny Dip Kip and Pedro. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And all is Right with the World in the Glorious Ann❤️Eiffel Universe, Boy Howdy. No wonder we ALL ❤️ Ann❤️Eiffel. ’Nuff for today, kids. Big Weekend coming up for The Count. As for you lowly unworthies… Have an Ann❤️Eiffel Day Pining Away and Eating Your ❤️s Out over Gorgeous Ann❤️Eiffel. TTFN, lowly unworthies… Be Kind to One Another just like Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel. Count… OUT!
Ignatz Premium Member 10 months ago
Did you ever dream that you’re dreaming? Maybe that’s it. He’s dreaming he’s in Peru and in that dream he dreams that Al loves Bets.
comic reader 22 10 months ago
Isn’t that the same taxi driver that brought him home when Gunther came back from Peru?
Gunther looks like mommas little boy again in the last panel.
dap1004 10 months ago
Soap opera Dallas, sometime in the 80’s I believe. Victoria Principal was killed. They brought her back with by saying her getting shot was all a dream. Pretty lame but people went with it. The same here? The whole van thing was Gunther’s dream and not a reality?
Rockabore 10 months ago
I’m unclear on what’s going on. First, I thought was Al saying this while imagining sending Gunther off asleep in a car with a random mustached-guy… which makes no sense (but is kind of hilariously dark if the “Mr. Grey is a mafioso theory” held water). But then I noticed that people are saying this is all a dream GUNTHER is having about how he wishes he was returning home… Okay, that’s actually a pretty decent subversion of expectations. Well played, Evanses, I took everything at face value.
If Gunther is coming home in a cab alone, without the van, without Bets, and WISHING that he was with her being welcomed home with even Al offering love and support…. Yeah, that as a dream compared to some bitter harsh reality! Kinda interesting! Did he and Bets have such a bad time with the van falling apart and their personalities clashes so much that it did the opposite of bringing them closer together (like he imagined in his dream) or did she fall in love with travel vlogging and he hated it and ran home while she bought the van off him and kept on riding? (I kinda hope so from a dramatic standpoint cause that would serve as a new direction to explore)
rasputin's horoscope 10 months ago
Lots of good alternate storylines here.
Wubbie 10 months ago
Once, just once, I wish they would complete an arc in this storyline. If this is a dream, then it shows how empty Gunthie’s life truly is.
waerdawg 10 months ago
Twilight zoned me right out of my shoes! WHO is HE?!
StoicLion1973 10 months ago
Genuinely intrigued now….
waerdawg 10 months ago
Or is he using reverse psych on them? Testing them?
Kim Roberts 10 months ago
Hmmm. Sounds familiar…young couple goes cross country in her van…guy comes back alone with girl’s van saying she dumped him… girl’s body found…guy disappears into swampy area with parent’s assistance, and…
sfknight 10 months ago
I suspect reality will be quite a bit harsher.
6foot6 10 months ago
ahhh it all makes sense why it’s only been 5 days in the luannivers. Gunther couldn’t make it 5 days and is taking a ride back home. makes a ton more sense than the Junk we’ve been seeing.
nightflight 10 months ago
Could be the van crashed and Gunther is waking up in the hospital. Could be Gunther was killed in the crash and these are his final visions.
JustPlainBob 10 months ago
The entire 38 years of “Luann” was just Gunther’s dream.
MuddyUSA 10 months ago
Holy crap!
BuckarooDave 10 months ago
important : no Bets in the car.
MollyCat 10 months ago
Boooo
aristotle835 10 months ago
Huh? Did Gunther dream about Irma and Al being welcoming towards Bets, and them being happy about the way the road trip turned out? Did they actually break up?
tcayer 10 months ago
So that was all a dream? Is that the tow truck driver?
locake 10 months ago
It is strange that this is just a dream. But not as strange as Al smiling and being nice to Bets and Gunther. The dream is more believable.
brianreid92 10 months ago
So it was all a dream?!?
Jaymi Cee Premium Member 10 months ago
I am deeply puzzled as to why Bets and Gunther have not thrown in the towel yet. They are deeply mismatched on a number of levels, and the fact that this is his family should send her heading for the hills.
paulscon 10 months ago
This makes no sense to me, as do many of the comments, many hoping Bets is gone or dead or both. One thing I’ve wondered about all week is how one sleeve is torn and the other torn off of Gunther’s shirt. How did that happen?
John543 10 months ago
January 12, 2015: Eight year old foreshadowing?
MarieStanford 10 months ago
Al is married to Gunther’s mom…..he should be saying “Our House” and “Our Driveway” , it doesn’t just belong to him. Gunther’s mom needs to put on her big girl panties and give stand up for Gunther and Bets, as they clearly love each other
BuckarooDave 10 months ago
here’s a thought: Bets was a dream all along, and represented Gunther’s subconscious, a wilder, more carefree side yearning to get out.
David Huie Green PrepareBeforeOrRegretLater 10 months ago
“… I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine
Anytime, night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m dreamin’ my life away
… I need you so that I could die
I love you so and that is why
Whenever I want you, all I have to do is
Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream
Dream, dream, dream, dream"
Think Everly Brothers
At least Gunther is not being bothered by some pesky nightmare.
mountainclimber 10 months ago
Maybe over-reacting, but I didn’t care for the Al’s wording in the second panel: “Bets, you’ll move into the guest house . . .” as opposed to “you can move into the guest house . . .”
YorkGirl Premium Member 10 months ago
That driver looks familiar; was he in Peru?I’m confused. Was this entire week a dream? Was the trip awful? Is Gunther heading home without Bets? Someone has some “‘splaining” to do. =:-o
French Persons Premium Member 10 months ago
I’m lost.
Gen.Flashman 10 months ago
I wouldn’t want them sitting on my couch that dirty with greasy clothes on. Gunther in the car/Uber has a clean shirt with pinstripes, the torn shirt is plain. If he was going to allow Bets to move in they would not need the van as Bets already has a car.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 10 months ago
The “Which one is the dream” trope in which the main character struggles to grasp his or her own reality.. usually in SCI-FI series.
eced52 10 months ago
Was this all a dream?
locake 10 months ago
I don’t think the last 7 years were all a dream. That would be too confusing for all the characters. We’d never remember whether something happened in real life for them or in the dream time.
Uncle Bob 10 months ago
And Bobby Ewing only died in a season-long dream, jumping the shark in the process…Don’t Do It, Greg!!!
raybarb44 10 months ago
Dream on Gunther…..
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 10 months ago
Then Gunther changed his name to Leopold Fitz, goes to the SHIELD academy and joins Jemma Simmons on the adventure of a lifetime, crossing the universe, travelling in time and saving the planet, several times, with the Agents of SHIELD, led by Charles Colson who is in fact alive.
spikelovesmusic 10 months ago
You know Gunther is dreaming, because Irma would not have people with oil stains sitting on her furniture.(I’m much less of a fussbudget than Irma, but I wouldn’t want motor oil smudges on MY furniture!)
The Quiet One 10 months ago
Nice dream Gunther. To bad that’s all it is.
ViscountNik 10 months ago
Well… this is going to be a long weekend.
eladee AKA Wally 10 months ago
Well Gunther looks clean shaven in that last panel and he was still rocking the stubble when he came back from Peru so I’m HOPING that’s a sign he’s just dreaming and Bets is sitting beside him as they are in the tow truck heading for home. Maybe he’s just dreaming of the warm reception he hopes they will get.
Robert Nowall Premium Member 10 months ago
Aren’t we ever going to hear just what happened on their road trip?
jrankin1959 10 months ago
PLOT TWIST!
comic reader 22 10 months ago
Bets decided to stay in California and Irma bought Gunther a plane ticket home. Gunther always delivers his women to their ultimate destination.
nightflight 10 months ago
Over 300 comments assuming that Gunther is having a long term dream. Greg could really be putting the screws to his readers if this is not true. Those hospitals can give you medications that will put you in a whole different world.
Moon57Shine 10 months ago
Something tells me they abandoned the van, and Gunther’s taking a cab back to the house…without Bets.
RSH 10 months ago
I just received a comment on this arc from the authors in my e-mail as a result of my having signed up for Luann Fan; it goes like this:
Hello Robin,Do you trust us? We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling. Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days.~Karen and Greg
p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when Gunther when to Peru after high school graduation. Read that storyline in the Featured Collection on LuannFan.com-——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- I now am very concerned.
tutibug5 10 months ago
Gunther fainted and passed out. Somebody go get a cold washcloth…quick!
locake 10 months ago
This was posted on the Luann Fan site this afternoon, by the Evans
Do you trust us?
We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling.
Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days.
~Karen and Greg
p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when Gunther when to Peru after high school graduation. Read that storyline in the Featured Collection on LuannFan.com
eddi-TBH 10 months ago
Dream sequence. Where are we in real time?
mfought 10 months ago
looks like gunther fell asleep and is dreaming to me
SeaSnork 10 months ago
View this email in your browser
Hello Lynn,
Do you trust us?
We hope so! Bets and Gunther’s road trip story is about to take a sharp U-turn and we want you, our dearest LUANN Fans, to be assured that there is a story unfolding we believe is worth telling.
Life doesn’t take us in straight lines and neither has Bets and Gunther’s road trip. Buckle up! We will have more to share with our LUANN FANS in the next few days.
~Karen and Greg
p.s. do you recognize the driver from today’s strip? He first showed up WAY back when Gunther when to Peru after high school graduation. Read that storyline in the Featured Collection on LuannFan.com
Featured CollectionGunther is not known for being a risk-taking, adventurous sort. Maybe that’s why he’s drawn to women who get him out of his comfort zone? Check out the Featured Collection: Gunther Goes (to Peru!) to see what happened after high school (way back in 2014!!!).
Read NowRunning Out of Ideas??People often ask us if we ever run out of ideas for the strip. Nope. The characters are real people to us and the truth is they give us more stories than we can fit into the comic! The current road trip storyline is a perfect example of a time when the story idea WE had and the story our characters wanted us to tell weren’t the same. WE thought we’d send Bets and Gunther off for a fun little adventure. They told us that adventure was much more significant.
The last time Gunther did this to us was back in 2014. The characters were all graduating high school and we thought Gunther would go off to Peru with Rosa and live happily ever after, never to be seen again.
NOPE.
As soon as Greg drew this picture, we knew we had to follow them to South America to see what happened next:
It was the same experience when we saw this strip: clearly these characters had a different story to tell than what we expected. Thanks for joining their journey—and here’s to finding out what happens next this time!
RSH 10 months ago
I don’t want to make predictions any more but i seem to be doing it; based on Greg & Karen’s comments and what is on the Luann Fan site, two possibilities roam around in my mind: (1) the van broke down; they ditched it and decided to hop a flight out of the country, perhaps back to Peru, (2) The first panel plus previous this week are real and Gunther is so distressed at Al’s treatment of Bets that he’s going back to Machu Picchu (a spiritual place) to mentally re-group.
MJ Premium Member 10 months ago
Luis has aged well.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member 10 months ago
It would be delightfully funny if this is the actual Luis from Peru and we find Gunther sleeping off his 1/2 beer in the back seat and all of the Gulag and Bets was a dream. But I doubt that is the case.
But, perhaps more likely is this new taxi driver (aka the new Luis) is taking Gunther back to the Gulag…. and perhaps Gunther is going back to school and Bets (being rather free-spirit-like) has decided to continue her van journey for the Fall Semester (at least) and the duo realizes they are “in love” but at least temporarily in different phases of life. Bets and Gunther can perhaps get back together (not that they broke up) when Bets returns after her Media/VanLife adventure…. perhaps in the following semester?
Or…. if Bets is going back to the dorm…. perhaps she is keeping the van at the dorm…. but Gunther came back early to get ready for school and Bets is more nonchalant about getting things ready and is just staying with family until closer to the start of the semester.
leighabc123 10 months ago
So. This is all a dream. Tomorrow Gunther will wake up and face reality!
Sisyphos 10 months ago
Not at all sure what’s going on here. How much is dream (or nightmare), how much is reality? Has Gunther been asleep since December 2014?!
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member 10 months ago
Hah! Up above there was a comment that had me recall the series finale of “St. Elsewhere”….. where a kid was imagining the whole television series as he was gazing into a snow globe.
Maybe this is the finale for Luann…. And tomorrow will be Gunther, a college kid being dropped off at his dorm after a night out drinking, and he had dreamed up the full multi-decade of “Luann” comics ?!?!
Put that in your pipe…. yadda, yadda. :)
egadi'mnotclad 10 months ago
I am thoroughly daunted by 122 replies to read.
live2read 10 months ago
Spoiler: It was just a dream. But only the trip was. More to follow. . .
Lord Hearteater 10 months ago
WOW, look at the volume of comments, today. There’s everything from a reset of a few years to a possible paternity and parallels to the Petito-Laundrie case. We even have the Evans telling us of something dark, as a form of preparation for what will be revealed in the coming days/weeks.
What of Bets and the van? Has someone’s social media obsession caused a traffic accident that cost their life? Way back when Bets first came along, I pointed out that she was an object lesson, and had made a prediction of disaster. Here we are. So many questions remain. Here’s perhaps one of the bigger ones: Was it a multiple-vehicle accident, and might one of the other parties involved be Jonah Daytona? It almost seems too tidy.
Perhaps Gunther will be revealed to be an anti-hero type; not necessarily a villain. Whom among the gals in the strip might squeal at such a thought? Not Tiff, IMHO.
comic reader 22 10 months ago
Do you trust us? What a silly question for G&K to ask their readers! Of course we don’t trust them. We don’t trust them to remember any of the character back stories, we don’t trust them to ever resolve anything in their stories and we don’t trust them to be realistic and logical when describing everyday activities. We DO trust them to (among others) keep Luann in the kindergarden sandbox, Tiffany a spoiled neurotic, Bernice a psycho psychoanalyst, Gunther a mamas boy and Bets a social media junkie. It’s good to have something to count on day to day! But personally, I don’t know why anyone would go to the trouble of registering for special publications only to get a lame email. That was a fail.
liberalnlovinit 10 months ago
What, this is a Wizard of Oz takeoff? Or Bobby Ewing in the shower? How far back are we going to rewind this story?
calliarcale 10 months ago
Ohhhh, it was a dream sequence. Whatever happened was much worse.
nightshadea2010 10 months ago
what does his family have against bets ?
[Unnamed Reader - 96ae98] 9 months ago
So, I’m not going to read through 110 comments but basically this whole week was a dram sequence.