Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 09, 2019

getting caught in the moment, you two?

Well I guess the Les interruption will have to wait ’til next week! Or will it be the moment the Jack fans say Auuuggghhh!

Tune in next week (since tomorrow is the Sunday strip) to see if they go the next step…

The “Eskimo” kiss is a fiction made up by Hollywood filmmaker, but I guess it’s good enough for Luann and Gunther.

Is this what the friend zone looks like?

Ah, but who was initiating? Hard to tell from the expressions.

About time. How long have those two known each other?

Relax. Gunther thinks that his fly is on the Endangered Species List, and must be protected.

Are these two about to become an item? Finally?

“And be sure to tune in next week! When just as their lips are about to meet, Jack calls Luann on her phone, asking her out for a date! Jack Fans from to Coast to Coast Give a rousing CHEER, as a newly disgruntled Gunthe says, “Who’s Jack?” And coming later next week, hilarity ensues as Les announces he’s taking Tiffany to a Valentine’s Day dance, and insists that Gunther gets lost between the hours of 10pm and daybreak!”

They’re not a matched set….

Doesn’t look like it is meant to be when you miss by that much.

Bwad and the brat wrote exactly what I thought. Can someone walk in on them please? THIS CAN’T HAPPEN!

Everyone who writes comments will likely use the “he said/she said” to try to rationalize who made the first move on a possible kiss. But IMO, luann initiated it, she melts whenever any guy flatters her. I think both need to just make out and damn what anyone else thinks. Luann needs to tell gunther how she truly feels and visa versa.

I’m talking about the “nooooooooo” line. Where are you, Less?

(Singing…) “Don’t….stop…….thinking about tomorrow. Don’t…stop…… It’ll soon be hereeee…”

Boop!

Luann will pull away when she realizes she’s dating Jack and it would be wrong. It’ll be a month before we find out as the writer will start another arc on Monday.

Clearly, that dating site works!

This is the last thing I expected to happen, but I want to take a chance and see where this goes.

If they were Inuit, you wouldn’t have to wait till Monday.

If they were Inuit, you wouldn’t have to wait till Monday.

so funny.

I admit I was disappointed when Luann dumped her Aussie boyfriend for no apparent reason that I could see—although others unfathomably cheered her on when she did so—but after her and Gunter’s past heartbreaks, I hope they do get something going and it works for the both of them this time. I myself am all for the longtime friends becoming lovers bit.

Then Gunther wakes up.

I can’t be bribed, but I’d like to see some offers.

You must remember this

A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh ..

The fundamental things apply

As time goes by ….

Uh oh!

Did anyone else notice that one of his fingers is completely white in the 3rd panel? I guess the thought of kissing Luann made him lose blood circulation?? =)

In the words of the illustrious Scooby-Doo: “Ruh-rohhh…”

Estimated time of impact: 1.26 seconds. Unless Greg pulls the rug out from underneath them. Then it will be two ships passing in the night.

NO!!!!! I despise Gunther, where’s Jack?

I don’t think Gunther is right for Luann (he’s way too “beta”). I hope Jack makes an appearance soon in this arc!

Oh no. . .

NO GOD! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO

I remember when Greg last teased the two of them getting together. And since he absolutely sucks at providing any sort of follow though or storyline conclusion, it’s just going to move on to something else and this won’t be revisited again. Besides thought she was dating that jock guy?

Kiss her you FOOL!

Oh no! cliffhanger.

Okay I don’t gamble because I can’t even when at nickel machines in Vegas or the boats, and then there is the HUGE mistake I make in gambling for my beloved MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY, but I am going to jump off the bridge and say that they do kiss, and they then have to deal with what these feelings really mean. I like Luann with anyone who is good for her, but as I always say Greg is going to do hilarity ensues, and he will pull a Fran Tarkington misdirection play at the last minute, but given this is Valentine’s Day week, and given the build-up I think and Gunther-Luann romance (finally) is in the offing.

I’ve been reading this comic since….2000?? and it is incredible how this is the first time I believe it is going to happen!!! cant wait.

by the time their lips touch, Les will be back from his shift at the Fuse.

Please let the phone ring right now, or let Les walk in, or let Mrs. Berger walk in, or let a meteorite come crashing through the roof, or something. These two people would be miserable together.

TaDa! ;o)

Hey, Hey! I got It! Come Monday, Al looks out the window and once again wonders what in the world All that racket is coming from the Gulag. An Angry Al calls Gunther and demands know what the H3LL all the “Moaning” is about and does he “Need to come over there?” Panel 3 We see a disheveled Gunther (And Luann). Gunther shouts “No!” In Panel 4, It slowly dawns on Al that “Hey! Les is at Work! Who the….,”

And come Tuesday, Tiffany picks the exactly the WRONG time to drop by the Gulag “To give Gunther another Chance.”

This is forced…how are they going to have chemistry right out the back while Jack’s been building that same chemistry for the past year.

Place your bets, medames et messeuirs…

I vote no.

“Well, why don’t you kiss her?” … “You want me to kiss her?” … “Yes!” … “He thinks I should kiss you.” … “Oh, Youth is wasted on the people!”

Lets hope they remember to use birth control.

OH, Fa’ Gawd sakes, just kiss her already. You do know how to do that, don’t you Gunther?

Well, there’s a Saturday cliffhanger for you. Of course, these two have been in cliffhanger mode for, what, a decade?

WHOAH

@kenhense I predict you have introduced a descriptive phrase which will become the new fave of G&K fans. ✨"strip tease"✨ Why? Because it’s perfect !

Totally flummoxed by this. I’m not even going to try to guess what comes next. So we’ll all have to wait until Greg tells us…

I’m rather smug, right about now.

Yes, but Luann’s description of Gunther was written as a favor, not from her heart. She’ll recommend Gunther but she herself wouldn’t date him. He’s come far since high school, but inwardly, he’s still the same Mommy’s-boy, pink-shirt-wearing nerd he’s always been.

NOT HAPPY, FOLKS! I mean, I always thought about Lu & Gunther on the back burner, but only that…. the back burner. I truly hope this isn’t a harbinger of things to come… not unless Tiff finds someone else who will treat her just as well as Gunther would. Would be kinda weird if Lu and Tiff swichted Jack & Gunther… sort of like the Nastassja Kinski movie “One Night Stand…” :) Anyway, I think it’s gonna be interesting as to who gets Gunther in the end… It needs to be someone who will treat Gunther right. And, right now, the only one’s who seem to fit that bill are Lu and Tiff. Unless they introduce new “viable” characters, Then I hope those four folks hook up somehow…

In the background ABBA is singing…

♬Take a chance, take a chance-chance, take a chance-chance♬

♬If you change your mind, I’m the first in lineHoney I’m still freeTake a chance on me♬

And tomorrow the sun will shine… the birds will sing…

And Mordy will be doing his happy dance! ;o)

No! No! No! It’s time to bury this idea.

If TJ gave Gunther a makeover (better than Tiffany’s makeover) Luann might finally notice him. Outside of Gunther’s eyebrows, he somewhat resembles TJ. Fix him up a bit and his personality makes him a great catch for Luann. He needs to improve his cool factor and fashion sense. So long as he doesn’t let that go to his head, his self confidence should improve.

It;s about time !!!!

cue the ominous music

Uhoh, Luann and Gunther? I don’t know. I guess I could see it. Heck, I’d marry Luann. Well, if she were real and I was about a hundred years younger, lol.

Rub roh Raggy…

Yes, folks, they’re going there.

For the love of God, just it over with and… get married.

no…NONONONONONO. No.

So kiss the girl!

USE PROTECTION!!

Finally

Ah

They won’t. Or if they do, it’ll quickly be brushed off as a mistake and never spoken of again. This strip is too afraid of upsetting the status quo to take this step.

Let’s see about Monday: 1) If Luann thinks of Jack right now it’s curtains for Gunther. 2) If Les walks in right now it’s curtains for Gunther. 3) It Gunther thinks of anything, anything at all, it’s curtains for Gunther. 4) Gunther and Luann kiss and then Luann writes “dot, dot, dot” in her diary, as they say.

So, after the vote, it’s curtains for Gunther. Three to one.

Do it! Just do it already!

You usually need alcohol to make these kinds of mistakes.

This has been coming for years. Luann is falling for an image of her father. Shocker!

THE kiss, I want THE kiss then I don’t care what happens. In fact that would be a great story line that the interruption comes either as THE kiss is happening or right after! BUT I WANT THE KISS……………………..NOW!

Cue the surprise appearance/phone call by – what was her name – Rosa? – in three, two, one,…

DO IT!!!!

Ewwww. No.

I’m hoping it will be Jack, too. I like her better with him.

This is nothing new. When Luann and Gunther were in early, early high school, they kissed. Luann spent the next week telling everybody, even Nancy, how she enjoyed the kiss but wasn’t attracted to Gunther.

We’ll return to ‘Friends With Benefits’ …(?) … after Sunday’s ‘strip’?! Perhaps?! ;)

Well, ok. Close enough. You know in Alaska Eskimos rub noses…although…“— in a nuzzily show of affection. And it’s not done instead of kissing. It’s usually a greeting rather than a romantic overture”. Their facial expressions says it all. I really enjoy the roller coaster ride called “Luann”. Every dip and hill and curve, who can ever expect? Keeps me coming back to ride it again and again!

I knew it !!!!!

If you look at Luann’s eyes in panel #4, she seems a bit surprised that it’s come to this. Give in and enjoy it! Go Gunther!

No. Just no.

To reheash from yesterday, are we REALLY going there?? I REALLY rather both find meet other people and fall in love in love with one of them. Please do another Brad and Toni.

Been there. We tried dating, no sparks, but he became an amazing friend.

Awwwwwwwwwwww…….

Tune in next year when this arc suddenly resumes!

Getting that close will make you cross eyed – better close them.

This does not look like the prelude to spontaneous combustion, it looks more like a Mr. MaGoo x 2 cartoon.

Thus concludes our latest episode of “As the Stomach Turns”……

The last two frames seem to show them really seeing each other even though they have known each other all their lives.

AAAAAAAHHHH! wow! I love the suspense!!

OK. Everyone’s having fun today. So here’s some stream of consciousness takes:

Lu: “Is there something in your pocket, Gunthie?”

G-man: “Excuse me a moment while I put a sock on the doorknob. Stay right here. Don’t move.”

♪Zombie Jamboree♪ (chorus; line 1)

Gunther: Quick! Where’s my lip plant recipe?

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Lu…

Mordock999 : “The chick has come home to roost Gunther, don’t lay an egg!”

♪Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you…♪ — Madeline Kahn, Young Frankenstein

bout ####### time!!!!!

Be ready for a new arc on Monday….

Do you supposed that they are noticing that each has gotten the Pink Eye going around in Pitts?

boop!

Aaaaaand Les walks in . . .

First there was Rosa, but he could not cope. Next, there was Tiffany and whatever happened after being in the woods while doing a class project. He has feeling for Bernice, who is too hung up on Piro to see how he feels about her, and now this? When did “Luann” turn into “Friends?”

So Monday, back to the Tiffany storyline or Brad & Toni tell the DeGroots about the house code violation?

If it turns out that Luann and Gunther become a thing, it’s been nice reading some of your comments, and I’ll be moving on (and don’t bother telling me to avoid letting the door hit me as I leave. I’m disappointed, because a Luann-Gunther pairing would only mean that Luann would suffer terminal self-hate because she’s not booksmart like Gunther, and he will end up snarking at her just the way Bernice does…)

Since both of them are fairly clueless I’ll be surprised if they admit they more than just care – but I’ll hope…

I wonder what would happen if Luann’s first love, Arron Hill, suddenly came back into her life????

Jack is gonna hurt you boy!

This is ridiculous. We all knew this tease was coming when she showed up dressed for a date. This is going nowhere unless there are plans to end the strip.

Like I said yesterday … the almost lip-lock, JUST as Les walks back in.

This is about right since Gunther always had a crush on Luann…but what about Jack?

ARGGGHHHHH!!!!! Don’t keep us hanging until Monday (when we know that Les is going to come back in and break up the moment).

I don’t know what to think. But is a good thing they stopped in time.

Gunther is making the move, but Luann’s eyes suggest she might resist.

SLOW DOWN THIS ISN’T RIVERDALE

Pry is a fortune teller.

Whoa! Well… it is about time for these two.

Meh – it’s coming across a bit forced to me, they haven’t shown any interest in that way in either direction for quite a long time and now suddenly they’re interested?

“The Wizard Of Schnozz”

“Luann DeSnoot”

“Who Nose What’ll Happen?

It’s about time!

Okay kids, do it now or regret it later.

Odds on Les walking through the door on Monday just to ruin the moment, despite not being gone nearly long enough to make any logical sense?

And if you don’t think Evans would use such a hackneyed plot contrivance, need I remind you what happened right after Luann and Quill first kissed? That was the closest I ever came to full-on quitting the strip in disgust.

I’m thinking we will get around 500 comments by the end of the day.

Nooooo!

the yellow (or orange ) circle containing two people and w/ a black background always means there’s something between the two. We’ve had that with Bern and Piro and maybe w/ Luann and Quill a while back. Luann and Gunther both seem to have a look of surprise on their faces in the last panel.

OOPS.

To those who have been hollering NOOOO!!! – and as a suggestion to Team Evans – I say, Why not? “Gunther One-Joke” has been too old for a very long time, the he’s gotten stale (I was rather hoping for for something to start with Tiffany, but that doesn’t seem to be happening), and resolving his issues with girls would be a great way to give the character a seriously needed reboot. What better way to do that than sparks with the girl he’s had the hots for since before the Pleistocene Era?

My post is going to upset some people here, but I’m going to say it anyway. As much as many of us don’t want to see Luann and Gunther together (I sure as hell don’t!), the fact is, Greg has wanted these two to get together practically since the beginning of this strip. Gunther has been longing for Luann for a long time, and since Greg is the creator, he (and Gunther) are finally getting what they’ve wanted all along. It doesn’t matter what we want. It doesn’t matter if we want Luann with Jack; Gunther with Tiffany; exes to come back; or someone interrupting the intimate moment. Unless I’m proven wrong (and I hope to God I am), this eagerly-anticipated (on Greg and Gunther’s part, anyway) pairing appears destined to happen. Greg isn’t going to give us what we want, just like life often gives us what we don’t want.

Face-to-face, nose-to-nose, a light dawns on these protagonists.

Momentous Moment, or is this just another fizzling-out misdirection?

And somewhere, Jack feels a disturbance in the force. As if a million ships cried out, then sank.

if she take gunther over jack , I’m done with this strip

can i just point out i called this on wednesday

Haha, they missed!

Right now Gunther is ahead by a nose! :o)

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2008/04/19

I hope on Monday when they will more than likely change this plot arc, we get something good. Lu and Gunthy must remain friends.

Zero chemistry with those two. I would hate to see a great friendship ruined.

NOOOO she needs to kiss Jack not stunkthard

Sure, why not?

Aaaaaaannnnndddddd, we’re off to another arc!!

Uh….Well Valentines day is this Thursday

Please let it be. The kiss we have all been longing for.

There may be a kiss, but it will not lead to a relationship. Why? Because a relationship either leads eventually to marriage, or it leads to a breakup.

If LuAnn and Gunther get in a serious romantic relationship that lasts, that is the end of this strip. Or it becomes a latter day Cathy.

If they get in a relationship and break up, then it creates bad feelings between two main and beloved characters. Nobody wants to see that. I certainly don’t.

I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY STRIP!

Nooooooooooooooo