Hey, I had a character of mine address this before. You see, canonically speaking he’s a 4-year-old monster, but he’s been in existence for almost 20, and on his birthday one year, he remarked about how he’s still only 4 by theorizing that he has to be trapped in some sort of time warp in which he’ll never grow any older.
See for yourself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdRp8jM2OSs
Time leap? Is this Greg and Karen’s comical way of telling us they are getting ready to move everyone forward say to age 21???? Probably not a good move since they have such difficulties writing for 19th at olds. But if they did feel more comfortable with that it might loosen up a few things and allow them to write more freely for the characters. It’s probably just a red herring though.
Speaking of time leaps has anyone been watching Heart of the Dragon? Every episode has a few years of a time jump. I hear this one tonight has a jump of 10 years!!!!!!
I’m 39, been 39 for 36 years. It’s no thing (LOL, although my chronic arthritis, chronic indigestion because I have to take numerous medications to stay alive, and the fact that vanity is still in me, but young girls and old guys, 50 or better, call me pops, remind me of my age, but…
Comics dogs, like comics people, age differently than dogs in our reality. Other than putting on some weight, it appears to be me that Puddles is just as he was before!
J. Scarbrough over 1 year ago
Hey, I had a character of mine address this before. You see, canonically speaking he’s a 4-year-old monster, but he’s been in existence for almost 20, and on his birthday one year, he remarked about how he’s still only 4 by theorizing that he has to be trapped in some sort of time warp in which he’ll never grow any older.
See for yourself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdRp8jM2OSs
lvlax over 1 year ago
Finally! We get to see an age realistic pic of Luann and Bernice and how they really look.
Hmmm.. So what is happening on Marmaduke today? LOL.
This was actually a pretty good Sunday strip.
jroggs over 1 year ago
Puddles: Wait, why am I not dead? What AM I?
Dreamdeer over 1 year ago
Apparently they do listen to the fans.
Ahuehuete over 1 year ago
Just what is Bern reading?
Dreamdeer over 1 year ago
Oh, and I just now noticed the change in the book Bernice is reading.
DaJellyBelly over 1 year ago
Anyone notice the change in the book title. It’s Libido as teens, then Lumbago as oldsters!
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
yikes
beb01 over 1 year ago
A bit too meta for my taste
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
scary thought…
gnmnrbl over 1 year ago
Bernice has a libido? I figured she’s terrified at the thought of sex.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Will you still heed Me?”
“Will you succeed Me?”
“When I’m ninety-four? Hoo!” – Sgt. Pepper. – The Beatles
Kymberleigh over 1 year ago
Does this mean they’ll die soon … and take the insipid weekday story arcs with them?
momofalex7 over 1 year ago
Puddles looks pretty good for an old dog. Maybe a great-greatgrandson puppy.
duckman26 over 1 year ago
Old Berniece looks like that weird alien character on “American Dad.” Let’s hope they get the Mary Worth artistic makeover when they grow old.
Asharah over 1 year ago
You have been teens forever.
Caldonia over 1 year ago
Libido? Nil knows she has none
SHIVA over 1 year ago
Puddles is still the same!!!
Rhetorical_Question over 1 year ago
Amazing aging – Puddles is still a youngster!
Rhetorical_Question over 1 year ago
Is Luann wearing hearing aids?
Brdshtt Premium Member over 1 year ago
Hasta Lumbago …
Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago
Just 30 or 40 years…
syzygy47 over 1 year ago
The Libido book changed to Lumbago. Additionally, Luanne’s dog should have changed to multiple cats.
sallymargret over 1 year ago
That’s PERFECT! He really captured their “old age” looks!
TwilightFaze over 1 year ago
Honestly? Seeing Luann and Bernice in their olden days would feel like a comic strip version of the Golden Girls. I’d read it!
jea9hrkr over 1 year ago
Puddles has not aged.
wolfiiig over 1 year ago
Gather rosebuds while ye may . . .
Purple People Eater over 1 year ago
They’re still teenagers? I thought they’d been in college for at least two (strip) years. Wouldn’t that make them at least 20?
dlkrueger33 over 1 year ago
Is Luann wearing hearing aids? Those things are in the wrong place for earrings. LOL
Dale 15 over 1 year ago
GnK have discovered micro-dosing.
Johnnyrico over 1 year ago
Holy moly…. It’s Hillary Clinton!!
OneTime59 over 1 year ago
Good strip today. Funny third frame. Nicely drawn.
ACTIVIST1234 over 1 year ago
Oh my, Bern gets female pattern baldness. And her reading material does change.
MacGuyver over 1 year ago
Love how the book title changes from “Libido” to “Lombago”!
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
It’s weird that Puddles ain’t dead in that last panel.
colddonkey over 1 year ago
Love the books.
Tyge Premium Member over 1 year ago
YIKES! Puds is 560 in dog years!
SquidGamerGal over 1 year ago
Umm… How is poor Puddles not mummified by now?
momcom over 1 year ago
Should’ve turned puddles into a ghost.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
Inside of every old person is a young person thinking “what the heck happened?”
cabalonrye over 1 year ago
Have they been zombified? Because if they suddenly became 70 years old ladies the dog should be a skeleton.
reedkomicks Premium Member over 1 year ago
The horror!
WilliamVollmer over 1 year ago
I thought Bernice had assigned herself to just “muse” status with Nil. So, why is the teen Bernice reading about libido?
TheBigPickle over 1 year ago
The end.
preacherman over 1 year ago
An unfortunate reality: old age.
lorenkinzel over 1 year ago
I like Bernices’ “Libido” magazine. There’s real potential in that title. It would sell.
vickie.105 over 1 year ago
Yep, those aging spurts are hard on a body.
Aladar30 Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’m extremely scared of this possibility. At least Luann will become a nice elderly woman.
poppacapsmokeblower over 1 year ago
The artist did a great job, I can see the younger people in the elder ones!
GaryCooper over 1 year ago
You HAVE been teens for about 37 years, Luann and Bernice. It doesn’t just seem that way.
WTP over 1 year ago
Noooooo! This has happened to me.
vlhatch over 1 year ago
Couldn’t help noticing that the title of Bernice’s book changed, too.
FassEddie over 1 year ago
That dog is the current Doctor Who!
tremaine53 over 1 year ago
Whoa! Scary! Don’t know whether Greg Evans has been reading Stephen King, ingesting pharmaceuticals, or BOTH!
Joe1962 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Ageism is a part of life Bernice. Some woman don’t age and still look like 45 when they are 75 years old.
rrsltx over 1 year ago
But…They have been teens pretty much forever. “Bam” definitely happened to me though.
eladee AKA Wally over 1 year ago
Time leap? Is this Greg and Karen’s comical way of telling us they are getting ready to move everyone forward say to age 21???? Probably not a good move since they have such difficulties writing for 19th at olds. But if they did feel more comfortable with that it might loosen up a few things and allow them to write more freely for the characters. It’s probably just a red herring though.
dgaietto22 over 1 year ago
There is no way puddles would still be alive.
rxrjay over 1 year ago
That is kind of the way it happens.
eladee AKA Wally over 1 year ago
Speaking of time leaps has anyone been watching Heart of the Dragon? Every episode has a few years of a time jump. I hear this one tonight has a jump of 10 years!!!!!!
w16521 over 1 year ago
Even Puddles is wondering “WTF”?
tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 1 year ago
This is how it feels when you look like a young person your whole life and suddenly see wrinkles around your mouth.
Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Well, it took 28 years of real time for them to finish high school.
KEA over 1 year ago
yep
dbradway1 over 1 year ago
And that is Puddles the Twelfth between them?
jr1234 over 1 year ago
Okay, now let this be the last Luann.
liberalnlovinit over 1 year ago
TIME JUMP!
kenhense over 1 year ago
Oh No! They’re still living together into old age.
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
Glad puddles made it……
BuckarooDave over 1 year ago
Monday: oopsies. then?
yangeldf over 1 year ago
so is Puddles the world’s oldest dog, or is that Puddles’ great-great-great-great-great grandson?
comic reader 22 over 1 year ago
The elderly Luann and Bernice are drawn perfectly!
Back to Big Mike over 1 year ago
I wonder how many “Puddles” that is between them.
GirlGeek Premium Member over 1 year ago
They should be in their 20s at least…Brad is
ScretWitch over 1 year ago
I love the look on Puddle’s face… like “WTH just happened?”
The Orange Mailman over 1 year ago
Quantum Leap
miscreant over 1 year ago
I see Bernice turns into an alien as she ages.
Lescoe Brandon over 1 year ago
Why is the dog alive? It should be nothing but a skeleton.
WoodEye over 1 year ago
The dog hasnt aged!
David Rickard Premium Member over 1 year ago
That only happens in Flunky Wankerbean.
Need coffee over 1 year ago
Too bad they won’t keep this going into the main strip for at least several weeks.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 1 year ago
Interesting turn of events if it’s permanent.
(Had my 50 year class reunion yesterday. MAN some of them had gotten OLD.)
ElJorro over 1 year ago
I do kind of hope there is some progression in the narrative.
luann1212 over 1 year ago
I’m 39, been 39 for 36 years. It’s no thing (LOL, although my chronic arthritis, chronic indigestion because I have to take numerous medications to stay alive, and the fact that vanity is still in me, but young girls and old guys, 50 or better, call me pops, remind me of my age, but…
JPuzzleWhiz over 1 year ago
“Quondam Leap”
“From Here To Eterni-Teen”
“Aging Bull”
“Time, Warped”
“Sudden Beldam”
RolloTheGrouch over 1 year ago
August 21 had the same theme.
Are GnK trying to tell us something?
Realimaginary1 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Last night she dreamt of Lumbago
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Maybe this strip has gone on too long.
DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago
Sorry for you guys who keep saying Luann should dump her as a friend.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Relax, Lulabelle and Bernie! This is just a Scare from Greg and Karen! You guys will NEVER grow up or old….
finnygirl Premium Member over 1 year ago
Comics dogs, like comics people, age differently than dogs in our reality. Other than putting on some weight, it appears to be me that Puddles is just as he was before!
mnexplorer+ over 1 year ago
Puddles hasn’t aged a day.
StoicLion1973 over 1 year ago
I would ask how is Puddles still alive in the 2nd strip but that is Puddles III.
andrew.scharnhorst over 1 year ago
“And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you – no one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun … "