Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 08, 2018

Keeping it simple. Excellent, Leslie.

Aw NUTS.

I was afraid of that.

The “Red Head” was one time only.

Darn it Greg! You always do that!

#BRINGBACKTHEREDHEAD!!!

#ANDFREEGBWHILEYOU’REAT-IT!!!

Harder and harder to read. There’s GOT to be a plot twist coming up to make this arc have a point,and be a piece of the greater plot mosaic.

Gunther’s treasure is Leslie’s junk!

Poor Leslie is more ignorant than I realized.

eBay Gunther?

Les is ready to move on.

I don’t think Les has a future as a sign spinner…

Do I hear a garbage truck approaching?

Actually Gunther’s sign would get more response that Les’s sign. Les is shooting himself in the foot – because he doesn’t really want to live with Irma’s furniture – but they may have to if they can’t sell it.

It appears that Les has experience in spinning signs. I wasn’t aware he had such valuable talents.

Look at Les out there with his go-go boots! He even has a smile on his face. I assume that’s a Rotten Ronnies across the street. Definitely cheap junk, frozen burger patties, ugh… give me In-n-Out any day!

@Mission: I heard a rumor that an In-n-Out might be coming soon to a Florida town. It would be nice to find out whether these burgers are as great as all the Californians say…

Gunther really doesn’t have a clue, does he?

Les is truly stupid if he thinks “Junk” sells. He only thinks “cheap” sells but if “junk” is added, nobody wants them. He is not a thinker. He should have let Gunther write the sign.

Les cannot see beyond the end of his nose. Turn some quick cash right now right now, instead of taking the steps to make possibly big bucks. (Easy enough, I guess, when it’s someone else’s stuff you are selling.) I just can’t hear Les saying in the end, “Here’s all YOUR cash, Gunther.” At least the two are interacting civilly and the tension is gone.

Aw, lil’ jailbait flew the coop. Pity, she could’ve spiced things up for the bachelors.

Bait&switch; les is leading potential customers in with the prospect of getting something really cheap only to find it’s not cheap…or junk.

I took out one of those “missing person” notices on the side of a milk carton for that young lady that was in the strip yesterday. In a few years, she and someone else in the strip could have some cute reddish curly – haired little ones.

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#BRINGHERBACKFORGUNTHER

Two years later one of the pieces shows up on Antiques Road Show and is revealed to be fabulously valuable, but Les and Gunther let it go fo r$10.

Les was born to twirl a sign.

The idiot might try holding the sign right side up.

As I feared yesterday. GnK fumbled the ball with the redhead, door-to-door Con-ette. The most interesting female character to come along since Tara.

Prescott_Philosopher and Tim in Sacramento both voiced a concern over the general malaise with the arcs lately. It’s as if GnK (Greg and/or Karen) were trying to make a gag-a-day strip out of this “moving in” arc. But it’s falling flat.

Commenters here were gearing up for a month of Las Vegas wedding and sundry Vegas adventures and honeymoon strips all during August and we get this??

Is this some sort of “transition” arc leading into what is to come with Gunther and Les in the “Gray Ghetto” (as Mordoc so cleverly puts it)? If so I don’t think anyone sees it.

While Gunther is painfully consistent, Les alternates between the apprentice conman and a sidewalk going-out-of-business, dollar an hour sidewalk sign twirler … in August … dressed in black. Sunstroke city!

PLEASE! Someone help me make sense of all this! :o(

Hairpin turns are pretty common on Luann Avenue.

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It is a bit disappointing that the girl from yesterday (Megan was one of the popular choices for names) appears destined to be only a single day, walk-on role. She was drawn in such a way that she gave the appearance of being interestingly different from the other main characters and could have added a lot of interest in various arc.

As for the “Rummage Sale” arc…. for me it is feeling somewhat disappointing that such a significant portion of this arc is focused on simply getting customers to see the “junk” (or the “vintage Victorian antiques” as some feel it may be).

Greg must really have something interesting in store for us, but I cannot really fathom what it is at the moment. For me, the several days of preparing for and trying to drum up customers for a garage sale does not seem as effective story arc as would have been spending the same several days associated with Vegas and the wedding. But, again, Greg has the master plan, and even though sometimes I do scratch my head wonderingly on some days, in the long run Greg does get us to interesting and exciting places…. so I will just wait and see, I guess.

Hey everybody, fell asleep last night so I did not get my before going to bed comment in. Actually I sat there for a moment and said, hmmmm, let’s look at this in the morning. I do think they are turning into a Luannverse version of the odd couple, reflective of their personalities and backgrounds. Ms REdtop was gone, so she was just a short plot device. Unneccessary comment was made and I apologize for getting so serious, but I can’t stand trolls trying to hide behind honest motives. Annnyway, lets see how this little caper will turn out.

NOT HELPING!

Two extremes … reality will settle somewhere in the middle I expect.

Less that 80 comments so far this a.m. GnK seem to have put the strip into the dog days of summer already! :o)

I miss Coupon Lady…

Considering Les’s approach I wonder whether he cares less about making any money and more about getting rid of the furniture. Could it be that he actually didn’t think he would get any of the sales money as the furniture isn’t his?

Some antique dealer will buy up the whole lot for pennies, and resell it for three times the value.

Just a thought … which of these two boys being upfront and frank here, and which is trying to con the public?

@TYGE and Anyone Else

You wanted someone to make sense of this? Good Luck. ;)

But I’ll tell what I THINK is going on here.

I think what We’re seeing here, is the “Humanization of Le$ Knox,” where he goes from Thug to a less threatening, semi-harmless Buffoon. So that’s “Good,” Right? Evidently NOT, according to “Poor Le$lie’s” most devoted supporters, whom I respect, by the way. Yesterday when he was taken in by the Lovely Red-Head, he taken to task for being so easily “conned.” “Dufus” was the one description of him that stuck in My mind. I mean would people Seriously want Le$ to remain a “Thug??”

Not that any of that matters when it comes to the real victim, Gunther. Whether Le$ a Thug or Buffoon, Gunther is going to end up “carrying poor Le$lie’s water,” at the Gulag for the foreseeable future. And that’s shame and disappointing. Because if a new relative had hit me with that “We’re Roommates Not Soulmates,” speech then turned right around and expected Me to sell My old furniture and buy new furniture so He could look good for the babes, I would have told him to go to the Infernal Regions, and not to bother to sit on My old furniture if it cramps his style. And if he didn’t like it, he knew where the door was. But Nope. Old Gunther will have to Appease, and Placate “poor Le$lie.”

Which brings Us to “What happens now?” Many have been asking about Tiffany. I’m wondering what “Tiff” We’ll see? The Current heavier Tiffany or the Old Slim Tiffany? G&K have gone to great lengths to make things “easy” for Le$. And a Slim Tiffany would make RIDICULOUSLY easy for Le$, who has all but ignored the heavier Tiff. And before anyone cheers that relationship on,remember: “Folks” gave Gunth Hell for not contacting Tiff last Summer. Le$, on the other hand, apparently hasn’t contacted Tiff THIS Summer either, after He got that list. He doesn’t care about “heavy” Tiff. If he starts slobbering over a newly “slender” Tiff, then He’s shallow, in My book. We’ll see.

Best yard sale sign I ever saw was in large black letters and said “GOOD STUFF… CHEAP”

@LUANN 1212: You don’t owe any of us an apology for your reaction to a certain poster’s typical effort to just rile everybody up by throwing comments out. The most interesting thing to me, about that particular poster’s supposed ‘outrage’ at the lack of minority characters in this ‘toon, is that said poster does not exhibit any similar concern about the lack of real world minority participation in the current real world administration in Washington DC. There is exactly one African American serving in a significant advisory cabinet role, no Hispanics (despite an obvious need for guidance, given the administration’s concerns about border insecurity), and about 9 percent of people who come from Asiatic heritage backgrounds….

State of the Luann Union: On one side, Greg has introduced Tara, Rhonda and Lori (from the lingerie sale), Fay, and the coupon book sales girl. All cute as a bug’s ear. Then we have the male entries: Jack and Nil, Piro, Les, Mr. Gray, and of course, Prof. Zebo. Conclusion: Greg does a better job with the females in this strip.

You have to have at least a little planning to have a successful garage sale.

Classified ads are chock full of that kind of stuff-

Ads that are either very vague, and maybe make you regret you inquired about them (Seller: "Yeah….about that ad we put up….yeah, we were looking for people to buy used raisins . Yeah, I know our ad said ‘Good fruit, cheap prices’. Somebody must’ve thought they were good, at one point!’)……….

…..or are overstating their actual value (Buyer: “I thought you said ‘Car, one owner, the hit of the neighborhood, everybody’s been wanting it…they’ve been pouring in, and at this price, it’s a steal!’?” Seller; “Well, I wasn’t lying…so it had one accident, and one person trying to break into it…and yeah, one flood event…”)

“Not A Classy Fidelis”

“The Out-House Sale, Near A Garage”

“Caveat On Empty”

“Just Me And My Arrow….” (♩)

“You’ve Got Too Much Trunk, In Your Junk”

“The Jail-Bird Goes: ‘Cheap! Cheap!’’’

or

“What Has Four Legs, But Ain’t Walkin’ Nowhere?”

If you take out a Garage Sale Ad in the right places, the “Professional Garage Salers” will show up and start ringing your doorbell at 6:00 AM.

Some of them will show up with a Truck and offer to load up everything of any value so you can save yourself the bother of setting it all out on tables.

“I’ll give you 50 Bucks for everything except those damned Books.

I recall, months ago, Irma saying that Al told her she could shop for new furniture for their place. So then what became of Al’s old furniture? I think these kids (Les and Gunther) need to work with what they have. At least they have some furniture; it may not be to their liking but it is furniture, and they don’t have $ to buy any other. If you don’t like the design or look of a couch, you can cover it with a bunch of throws to hide the armrests. If you don’t like the lamp shade, well take it off and just use the bare light bulb. That’s about as “manly” as it gets.

I had to sell my piano, as I was moving to smaller quarters. On Craig’s list I saw a bunch listed around $300. So I tried $75. Only got two calls (but one of them took the piano).

How many items will they end up selling, and how many will they have to donate to charity?

Gunther’s suggested signage was too wordy and high-faluting. Les has cut to the chase, though I don’t know that his approach will bring any better results….

This arc is about life’s lessons. These two can’t handle living alone for just one week. Les will get swindled again. Someone will come along and offer to haul their “junk” off for nothing. Les will applaud that. Al and Irma will return and find these two sitting on the floor of their house with no furniture.

This comic name LUANN! Well were is Luann?? Enough of Gunther and Less!! This comic needs Luann – Bernice – and what about Delta ?