Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 24, 2012

Me, too, Knute! I will give you a headache!

It’s funny. Sometimes the ones we fear the most are the ones we have the least to fear.

it’s giving ME a headache!!

We want Ann and TJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So why is he so nervous about Rosa, but never seemed to be too nervous around Luann – thie girl he has loved since they were practically in diapers?

You’re It, Gunth!

who wants to help me slap Gunther until he regains (or gains) common sense, it is sad when we have to say Knute is making more sense……………. and actually he has been nervous in the past when it gets “serious” (sometimes in actuality, sometimes just in his mind) with Luann, Tiff and Bern

High School logic is what has kept him in High School these many years.

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Get thee to a monastery, young Gunther! You’re going to be celibate forever, anyway, with that attitude, so you might as well channel it to some good.

I got a feeling that Gunther is going to be like this for the rest of his life. He won’t get married nor even have a girlfriend. He such an idiot. I’d kick his ass just for the hell of it.

Poor Gunther, born without gonads…………….

can’t … sustain … interest …

No great loss for Gunth. Although Rosa is very cute and smart, I also find her a bit annoying & sometimes overbearing. However, after TJ & Eiffel, this storyline is a bit of a snorer. Interesting how Gunth is suddenly the voice of reason. I’d like to see development of the relationship between him & Crystal.

Or like Hector and Priapus.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Okay, AGAIN let me HELP, Gunther.

Why don’t you two DO something that YOU like to do, Gunther?

Like costume making,eh? Get Rosa to ‘model’ some of those “Fiddler on the Roof” costumes, you’re making for the school play. And be sure to Lovingly take Rosa’s measurements for the dress like you did with Luann. Now if THAT activity doesn’t SPARK some INTEREST, then there Just AIN’T no Chemistry between THESE two.

Gunther, read what FDR said in his inaugural address: "Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”

That IS normal teenage thinking. Most teens are scared witless when it comes to romance. It’s new territory for most, & they don’t know how to go about it. Plus, all the hormones cloud their thinking. Yes, they think with their “gonies” but there’s always a lot more uncertainty involved – at least for most.

Suggest the consumption of industrial grade laxative.

Well, gee, it looked for a while like LuAnn and Gunth were going to be a thing – - what happened to that???

Give me Rosa’s number, Gunth. I’ll take good care of her.

Not only do Luann and Gunther both have inferiority complexes. They have both decided to do some kind of “non-dating” thing in order to avoid being hurt. Both Quill and Rosa are better off with each other. At least they are willing to risk being hurt for the glorious feeling of romance.

Luann and Gunther both deserve each other. They should not be allowed to tease others and then pull back the second things start to look really good. They behave like no teens I have ever known. As long as they both have no hormonal drives, they should explore the deepest depths of their inferiority together.

That’s Porgy and Bess. Try to find a video or DVD of that today.

All these people criticizing Gunther – I wonder what their love lives are really like. I mean, really TRULY like. And I wonder just how they were back in high school. So many here sound like bully material.

If only I had known why so many girls thought my trumpet playing would make me fun in bed. Honest! I didn’t figure it out until a few years later, either. That’s what being raised in an anti-sex cult can do for you here amidst sexual plenty in America.

We know, Wes…we know. So does HectorPriam. He was making a deliberate and humorous play on words. That’s called a “joke”. Google the subject if you need any further help.

Can we get back to TJ and Ann Eiffel?

did brad and his girl make-up?? I been gone

please answer on tommorrows strip

Good work, Hector…your humor went right over the heads of these self-appointed experts. Norm Crosby would have been proud of you.

ha, and this is why luann is off to greener pastures. It’s demeaning waiting on someone to decide if they’ll be part of a relationship or not.

Thanks for your earlier post that kicked off all the “corrections”. I grinned when I saw the post and I grinned more broadly when I saw the “corrections”. We need humor and especially so when the subject contains humorless situations like this week’s subject. Keep at it and we might even lure Susansunshine back. She’s a punster of the first magnitude but has apparently vacated this strip in favor of being more broadly accepted in other strip forums..Meanwhile, let me add my pathetic bit. It’s knot funny when Gunther is seen as a knothead – when he’s all tied up in knots trying to solve the puzzle of love with confidence – KNOT?

As I remember high school, Gunther has it all— a cute girl, a good friend who shares his interests, arm candy. Not everyone has/had explosive hormones. Though apparently they are appearing— hence his vague desire to kick it up a notch. Go slowly, Gunth, don’t let society pressure you into doing something you’re not ready for.

Fear the Latina my friend! Fear the Latina!!

it looks like rosa’s going to have to take the upper hand in this relationship for whatever she sees in him anyway.

He’s giving me a knot in my stomach. Nut up dude.

the greatest regrets are not the things we’ve done, but the things we didn’t do….ladies and gentlemen….i give you exhibit one.

Gunther will be twice the man TJ will ever be.

There is no reason for uncertainty or angst here. As a guy at this age, having already successfully dated a girl, the hard part was over. Now all I had to hope for was would I get any. I remember there being a generally accepted three date minimum.Luann and Gunther seem to be dragging their feet so that the other person will dump them first. Then they can justify their choice to minimize the pain by not having gotten involved.

@ Sheriff and Bald Eagle, yours are the posts I can always give some credence, and I enjoy Susan at Dinette Set (always liked it for the little text extras, but now the community has blossomed). I also always enjoy the many threads that Greg weaves here.

@Dave, is your reference to SCA just what you stated, or to recreationists like myself?

ComicLaff: what you said.

He made a joke/attempt at a pun. And not a bad one either.Incidentally, I wonder why the Evans Fan Club members are suddenly criticising Gunther, and not his creator Evans?

Sheriff, you mean in a few weeks Gunther will have testosterone supplements, perhaps even roid rage? That would be so awesome this strip might almost become worth reading again.

without belaboring (sic) the point every time outThe point is that Evans, while his artwork is evolving, is losing it as a storyteller. No competent storyteller keeps pressing reset on his characters if he wants them to “evolve” and never, ever, resorts to deux es machinas to resolve conundrums. Evans has to make a hard choice: either keep recycling plots like Archie, or take the Doonesbury route and have the characters grow up and have lives of their own. He can’t take it half-way.