Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 14, 2015

You’re reading Gunther quite well like a book, Quill.

Disappointed. Looks like nothing happened between these two.

Oh, Gunther! Your Freudian Slip is showing…. – Gunther’s probably just “taken aback”, because of the “depths” of that book they had to refer to….. – It could also possibly (maybe) be that what happened is he left the door to his heart open, and Tiffany just wandered in, when she took a wrong left turn at his Cerebellum, on her way to getting the paper done…

I sure hope they got together.Isn’t that what universities are for…education?

Low turnout this time. Only 45 voters, but a pretty clear majority…

Which of Bernice’s dorm mates do you want to see more of?1) 16 votes – None, I hate them all.2) 10 votes – Dez3) 9 votes – Piro4) 4 votes – Sun5) 4 votes – Who? I don’t know these people6) 2 votes – ViperNew poll up – How long before Gunthie and Tiff start dating?

Sometimes, imagination is greater than knowledge!!Use your imagination!

Probably said more so, in reference to Gunther not being a “Midnight Rambler”. Gunther probably has what he usually needs to do his work, at home-except, of course, in this case, he had to actually have a collaboration….

“Cinderella Man”“Something About Nothing”“A Net Full Of Feelings”“I Know, But I Don’t Know” (♫)“In The Moment”“Down On The Bio”“Bio Country” (♫)“Getting On My Nervous”“Safe At Home”“A Brief Debrief”“What? Me Worry?”or“Home, Sweat Home”

I was hoping to see them act out the roles of the salamanders… Biology is a great course for co-study.

But, if he can stand up, he didn’t do it!

It looks like we’re in for some “guy talk” about Tiffany. Gunther will probably ask Quill for advice.

“Bio partner” is a term that can mean different things to different people. Gunther seems to be emphatic that they are bio partners only in a strict academic sense. Why am I not at all surprised?

She has everything: Money, looks, brains.Plus, she knows where she’s going!What a catch!!Why settle for a guy like Gunther?First time, maybe.Let’s see where it goes, from here.I’ve seen this happen, in real life.Best to both.

Gunther’s entire vivit to Peru was a lie, why should his time with Tiffany be any different>

Harrumph. I knew something was amiss when I saw Tiffany the way she was yesterday.

To Quill: No worries, mate. They were just “boning” up on their studies…

to write it? no, but if G says “field study”, usually midnight is very late unless it is bats or light bugs

10 months? What planet are you from?

I hope something happened. He can’t be a stammering fool around girls forever. This isn’t Anime.

Ha ha ha!!!!!!!

We know it was still daylight when Tiff got out of the shower (blue sky in the window behind the couch). It could have been as late as about 7PM. Even if you allow an hour for Gunther to get home, he would have been there at least until 11. Four hours seems like a long time to write up field notes for what appears to have been a very short time in the field.

Greg has dealt with touchy subjects in the past (such as Luann and her “.”) We know that kids in college have sex sometimes. Even if they didn’t go all the way, this might be an opportunity to touch ever so lightly upon the subject.

A freshman from Australia in a comic strip!

Quill knows something happened and being tiff it probably something bad i think tiff might help realise his feeling for rosa

I hadn’t actually considered this, but Gunther and Tiffany might actually be good for each other. Stranger things have happened.

I think more worried about being in a Swamp at midnight

Easy, easy people, this isn’t hentai comic.

For all those hinting that something physical is going to happen with any of the charectors in this strip..not just Tiff and Gunth..not going to happen..The possible tease might be there over time..long time ..but that’s it..very, very successful strip and nothing is going to jepradize that..sorry all but thats the way the cookie crumbles.

Again you show your good sense! Yes, midnight studying and homework is pretty standard!

Whether anything happened or not, Gunther is is definitely bewitched, bothered, and bewildered. This should be the start of something. The boy has feelings for the girl, whether he realizes it or not.

I got it. They ate the salamanders.

Quill doesn’t really need to be super-sharp to decipher Gunther’s blithering. It’s clear that Gunny is still panicky after having had what he perceived to be “a close call” with Tiffany and having enjoyed it, despite all his pent-up guilt over pretty much everything….

Weird, but I really like “bio partner” :-)

Yes he’s growing up, or mom’s still out with Mr Gray.

We never get to see the good stuff. Just the we have to think they did or didn’t after the fact stuff.

A university student referring to Gunther?

A theatre major.

Gunther is stammering like Billy Bibbitt in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, when Nurse Ratched threatens to tell his mother what happened.

There y’go, Mr. Evans – always leave ’em wanting more…

“First of all, what kind of university student thinks midnight is too late to be working on homework?”Gunther said, “I was doing a field study for a bio lab.” What kind of “field study” would be done at midnight?

Since Gunther obviously spent a great deal of time with Tiffany and he didn’t enter his home babbling, I think we can assume that he has made some progress in the field of romance.

Be interesting to see Tiffany’s state of mind when next we see her.

I was pleased to see, after reading all of yesterday’s comments, the number of men who—like myself—prefer women without makeup. Not a single respondent yesterday expressed a preference for makeup on Tiffany.

This could go one of two ways. Either Gunther an Tiffany got swept up in the moment and Gunth lost his V card (Tiff too, I actually would think) and Gunther’s denial, or they came to their senses but he is shaken up, thinking about what might have happened.

9 months from now, this strip goes to the next level

It’s time to think about a name for this potential couple! Gunthany? Tiffer?

I think it’s entirely possible that Evans will explore burgeoning sexuality. He can’t do it with his main character, but could use supporting characters.

So something but not everything happened.

Well, checking her FACE for beard burn is one place to check…

Or, to keep things in the comic-strip world, the same way that Snuffy Smith took over the “Barney Google” strip. I think I shall henceforth envision Gunther as a jug-toting, mule-riding, barely literate hillbilly. It would make him far more interesting than the character of which Greg Evans is apparently so fond.

He got burned on some concert tickets too, you are probably right.

That would be extremely tragic, imo. We thought we got rid of this blubbering fool for good but he turned up again like a pest. This, however, could be something different – but I do not have the confidence that either would change and offer much beyond being worthless space, taking away from much better and more interesting characters.

It is clear that Gunther “doth protest too much.” It is also clear that it did not take till midnight to complete the assignment and that Gunther was with Tiffany the whole time— or he would have said so. The last thing we saw yesterday is that Tiffany began to defuse their mutual embarrassment by leaving the room for more coffee. She may or my not have satisfied the squeamish among us by dressing also. When she returned they would eventually have gotten around to doing the assignment, and probably would have talked a long time, with a lot of sexual tension in the air. If that was not resolved by acting on it, that would account for Gunther’s explosion when he spoke with Quill. If they did proceed to act on it, Gunther may have regretted it afterwards for one reason or another, also accounting for the verbal explosion later. Let’s hope our curiosity is satisfied, but I would not bet on that.

I’ve heard “partner”, “friend with benefits”, “lover”, but first time for “bio partner”. Apt title (and double entendre).*Look at G-man’s mouth— is he suppressing a grin, or is he just shocked?

*(I almost used an exclamation mark this morning in writing an anniversary card for my cousin. Whew— at least I - ACTIVIST have self-control.

I hate these ellipses in the story line. ( … )

“More like something happened, but we didn’t see it.”*JPW – Wish we could have seen more. But now we’re just like his friends— in the dark except what he chooses to tell us; or what we can pry out of either of them.*BTW – I was wrong yesterday. It was far from a record number of comments. I blame my Ouija Board.

RB2, I wanted to simply set the record straight…. I never said a random bus driver was going to be a “father figure” for Gunther. I said that Luis (a van driver associated with Rosa’s Uncle’s Clinic) was an appropriate “father-figure” because he was kind and knowledgable, and was not being portrayed in the stereotypical “dopey-dad” or “wicked loser” formats most male, father-figure types are portrayed as. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++While I can understand that you disagree with my assessment of Luis, I must say that I very strongly disagree with you that bland Quill is any sort of “father-figure”. He is the same age as Gunther, he isn’t really any more knowledgeable in most regards to Gunther, and he is…. bland as well. He is (to me) simply a FRIEND for Gunther, and sometimes friends do talk about things.

I feel sorry for any woman Gunther might have sex with. He would feel so guilty about it that she wouldn’t enjoy it at all. I don’t think Gunther will ever have sex, he is just too uncomfortable with that aspect of being human.

What if Tiffany spent the evening crying on Gunther’s shoulder like she never dared with anybody else? What if she’s used sexiness for manipulation so much that it makes her scared and ashamed to kiss a guy she actually cares about? What if she told him about the long line of trophy-wife “Moms” that were her only female role models as she grew up, and how she watched them discarded as they aged, so that she grew terrified of not being sexy enough to survive? What if she spent hours confiding things that would horrify her if they got out? What if it’s Gunther’s duty to not kiss and not tell?

Writing a Bio report does not take until midnight to do!

Gunther is a very confused young man with some deep seated psychological issues that need to be confronted…if not, he could be the next Norman at the Bates Motel..(that’s a reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” for those of you too young to remember)

Anyway, it’s probably more fun to speculate than have it spelled out.

Gunther as Snuffy Smith, yes. I had rather hear him shouting about “revenooers” than constantly whining about Mr. Gray. Anything is preferable to that.

Everyone had an opinion, nothing was confirmed. We are free to draw our own conclusion, until Gunther tells Quill what happened. Personally, I hope they did some steamy making out.

You two (Night-Gaunt49 and Corpcasselbury) are both full of nonsense with statements like: " universities are, by and large, nothing more than centers of left wing indoctrination" and “[Universities have]…too much boozing and sex to learn anything.”++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++1. Universities do not make a person. It is the effort and time that a person puts into learning that determines their success. So, if a person wants to learn and works hard at doing so in college, they can and will. ’++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++2. Political rumble/grumbles are just preposterous. Universities have a MORE diverse array of political opinions that most of the rest of society.

Right…. a friend or brother figure. Thanks, Dave53.

“All I can say is that I need to wash up.”

There’s something about Biology classes… kissed my first girl during a Bio field trip when we got “lost” for a few minutes..Hope Gunther got some romance goin’ with Tiff!

Gunther should be coming home at 6 in the morning with a sly grin on on his face. And Quinn shouldn’t be asking questions like he’s his mother. Kind of messed up and difficult to believe. If they were real college kids, Gunther would have bedded Tiffany and six weeks later learn a new word he would appreciate: Chlamydia.

Gunther and Quill as a couple? Now, why in the world would anyone think such a thing?-

Quill cannot stand Tiffany.

Sooooo Tiff played the dance music after we left yesterday’s strip and before Gunther completed the notes and went home….

" maybe all the criticism over the purported racial stereotyping led to the artist being a touch ‘Sun-shy’ …."

Cartoons tend to stereotype everything. .I saw nothing wrong with Sun. .PC can go too far. .Should Delta be turned pink? .Is L.J. an Italian stereotype? .Is Tiff an anti-Anglo valley-girl stereotype?

> Looks like someone’s complaints backfired>People’s complaints about Sun didn’t backfire; on the contrary, they succeeded. The people who complained did so because they found her visual depiction offensive (highly reminiscent of WWII cartoon depictions of the hated Japanese enemy), and Evans has stopped using her. Maybe when she re-appears in the strip, that ear-to-ear grin will be lessened.

:) I like the analogy, Brdshtt! Thank you. The “jumping the shark” episode was so cringe-worthy classic, that it lead to its own colloquialism!

For all her external trappings, Tiffany is probably virginal and clueless…

> I guess it’s a wonder Delta stuck around as long as she did—those early strips don’t look like anyone took sensitivity classes before drawing them either.>And what did Greg Evans do? He kept the character, but changed her to be something other than a stereotype. Let us see whether he takes that same approach with Sun, rather than sending her to visit Aaron Hill on a volcanology field trip.

so we have two more days to learn about this via Gunther. I am glad we weren’t treated to any graphic episodes. Evans is good about leaving things to our imagination (which is as it should be) I’m sure they got physical in some way.

Out until midnight? Vehemently denying something before it’s even asked? Yes, I prefer to think that Tiffany has helped Gunther get over one of his neuroses. I hope Gunther was a proper gentleman and Tiffany enjoyed it.

“The salamanders return to the pond from their ‘field trip’ for their biology class "*BS – I’m afraid the little guys couldn’t get an “A”, as their report would end, “The female wiggles her tail, and the male stands up and leaves.”

This is a family comic strip so, of course, nothing happened. Now if this was a movie, TV show or any other form of poular entertainment then yeah, they would have totally done it!

Yup The smart dorkie Lady killer ,that’s Gunther .

Quill has already understood everything!

And if the Feather was so worried,why didn’t he use that modern inventioncalled the cellphone and ask?

…because he and Gunthermum were usingthe opportunity to do what Gunther wasmanifestly not doing?

I wouldn’t call it a ‘one night stand’ which implies some sleaziness. For Gunther, it would be a learning experience.. more on the lines of self discovery.

it’s usually 9 months

Actually, in the last panel where Gunther is saying “…no… yes… um… we didn’t… no…”, it is not that clear what he is referring to. He might not be sure what Quill is asking and could be denying that anything happened between him and Tiffany. we will see tomorrow… arrrghh… it is almost ‘tomorrow’ here. time to go home.

“…so it’s natural to assume he’d be conflicted about any feelings now. …”^Eggggg-zackly….

_@KOMIKAL1: _

Yes, yes I do like Rush. But no, I actually meant “Something About Nothing”.

“Cinder-Fella”.^For an “underdog” sort of role, yes. But since Gunther “hoofed it” by midnight, it reminded me of “Cinderella”…

@KOMIKAL1:^Yes, yes I do like Rush. But no, I actually meant “Something About Nothing”. Sort of like the Shakespeare play title, but at the same time, not really based on it…– Plus, in this case,we don’t know yet, what would even be a “Something For Nothing” that Gunther is referring to…if anything…

Yes, or no?

Yes, or no?

I wonder if his sweater is inside out. I too saw the comparisons between Gunther and Norman Bates and almost commented on it yesterday. Both have an unusually close relationship with an overly protective mother; both are jealous of their mothers’ male companions; both have encounters with “sex kittens” that their mothers probably would not approve of. This is eerily similar to the last episode of Bates Motel. I hope Tiffany is okay.

that boy is in WAY over his head.