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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
Puddles: Wait, why am I not dead? What AM I?
Dreamdeer about 2 years ago
Apparently they do listen to the fans.
Ahuehuete about 2 years ago
Just what is Bern reading?
Dreamdeer about 2 years ago
Oh, and I just now noticed the change in the book Bernice is reading.
DaJellyBelly about 2 years ago
Anyone notice the change in the book title. It’s Libido as teens, then Lumbago as oldsters!
Templo S.U.D. about 2 years ago
yikes
beb01 about 2 years ago
A bit too meta for my taste
ronaldspence about 2 years ago
scary thought…
gnmnrbl about 2 years ago
Bernice has a libido? I figured she’s terrified at the thought of sex.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 2 years ago
“Will you still heed Me?”
“Will you succeed Me?”
“When I’m ninety-four? Hoo!” – Sgt. Pepper. – The Beatles
Kymberleigh about 2 years ago
Does this mean they’ll die soon … and take the insipid weekday story arcs with them?
momofalex7 about 2 years ago
Puddles looks pretty good for an old dog. Maybe a great-greatgrandson puppy.
duckman26 about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
You have been teens forever.
Caldonia about 2 years ago
Libido? Nil knows she has none
SHIVA about 2 years ago
Puddles is still the same!!!
Rhetorical_Question about 2 years ago
Amazing aging – Puddles is still a youngster!
Rhetorical_Question about 2 years ago
Is Luann wearing hearing aids?
Brdshtt Premium Member about 2 years ago
Hasta Lumbago …
Johnny Q Premium Member about 2 years ago
Just 30 or 40 years…
syzygy47 about 2 years ago
The Libido book changed to Lumbago. Additionally, Luanne’s dog should have changed to multiple cats.
sallymargret about 2 years ago
That’s PERFECT! He really captured their “old age” looks!
TwilightFaze about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
Puddles has not aged.
wolfiiig about 2 years ago
Gather rosebuds while ye may . . .
Purple People Eater about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
Is Luann wearing hearing aids? Those things are in the wrong place for earrings. LOL
Dale 15 about 2 years ago
GnK have discovered micro-dosing.
Johnnyrico about 2 years ago
Holy moly…. It’s Hillary Clinton!!
OneTime59 about 2 years ago
Good strip today. Funny third frame. Nicely drawn.
ACTIVIST1234 about 2 years ago
Oh my, Bern gets female pattern baldness. And her reading material does change.
MacGuyver about 2 years ago
Love how the book title changes from “Libido” to “Lombago”!
Ellis97 about 2 years ago
It’s weird that Puddles ain’t dead in that last panel.
colddonkey about 2 years ago
Love the books.
Tyge about 2 years ago
YIKES! Puds is 560 in dog years!
SquidGamerGal about 2 years ago
Umm… How is poor Puddles not mummified by now?
momcom about 2 years ago
Should’ve turned puddles into a ghost.
[Traveler] Premium Member about 2 years ago
Inside of every old person is a young person thinking “what the heck happened?”
cabalonrye about 2 years ago
Have they been zombified? Because if they suddenly became 70 years old ladies the dog should be a skeleton.
reedkomicks Premium Member about 2 years ago
The horror!
WilliamVollmer about 2 years ago
I thought Bernice had assigned herself to just “muse” status with Nil. So, why is the teen Bernice reading about libido?
TheBigPickle about 2 years ago
The end.
preacherman Premium Member about 2 years ago
An unfortunate reality: old age.
lorenkinzel about 2 years ago
I like Bernices’ “Libido” magazine. There’s real potential in that title. It would sell.
vickie.105 about 2 years ago
Yep, those aging spurts are hard on a body.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’m extremely scared of this possibility. At least Luann will become a nice elderly woman.
poppacapsmokeblower about 2 years ago
The artist did a great job, I can see the younger people in the elder ones!
GaryCooper about 2 years ago
You HAVE been teens for about 37 years, Luann and Bernice. It doesn’t just seem that way.
WTP about 2 years ago
Noooooo! This has happened to me.
vlhatch about 2 years ago
Couldn’t help noticing that the title of Bernice’s book changed, too.
FassEddie about 2 years ago
That dog is the current Doctor Who!
tremaine53 about 2 years ago
Whoa! Scary! Don’t know whether Greg Evans has been reading Stephen King, ingesting pharmaceuticals, or BOTH!
Joe1962 about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
But…They have been teens pretty much forever. “Bam” definitely happened to me though.
eladee AKA Wally about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
There is no way puddles would still be alive.
rxrjay about 2 years ago
That is kind of the way it happens.
eladee AKA Wally about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
Even Puddles is wondering “WTF”?
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
Well, it took 28 years of real time for them to finish high school.
KEA about 2 years ago
yep
dbradway1 about 2 years ago
And that is Puddles the Twelfth between them?
jr1234 about 2 years ago
Okay, now let this be the last Luann.
liberalnlovinit about 2 years ago
TIME JUMP!
kenhense about 2 years ago
Oh No! They’re still living together into old age.
raybarb44 about 2 years ago
Glad puddles made it……
BuckarooDave about 2 years ago
Monday: oopsies. then?
yangeldf about 2 years ago
so is Puddles the world’s oldest dog, or is that Puddles’ great-great-great-great-great grandson?
comic reader 22 about 2 years ago
The elderly Luann and Bernice are drawn perfectly!
Back to Big Mike about 2 years ago
I wonder how many “Puddles” that is between them.
GirlGeek Premium Member about 2 years ago
They should be in their 20s at least…Brad is
ScretWitch about 2 years ago
I love the look on Puddle’s face… like “WTH just happened?”
The Orange Mailman about 2 years ago
Quantum Leap
miscreant about 2 years ago
I see Bernice turns into an alien as she ages.
Lescoe Brandon about 2 years ago
Why is the dog alive? It should be nothing but a skeleton.
WoodEye about 2 years ago
The dog hasnt aged!
David Rickard Premium Member about 2 years ago
That only happens in Flunky Wankerbean.
Need coffee about 2 years ago
Too bad they won’t keep this going into the main strip for at least several weeks.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 2 years ago
Interesting turn of events if it’s permanent.
(Had my 50 year class reunion yesterday. MAN some of them had gotten OLD.)
ElJorro about 2 years ago
I do kind of hope there is some progression in the narrative.
luann1212 about 2 years 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 about 2 years ago
“Quondam Leap”
“From Here To Eterni-Teen”
“Aging Bull”
“Time, Warped”
“Sudden Beldam”
RolloTheGrouch about 2 years ago
August 21 had the same theme.
Are GnK trying to tell us something?
Realimaginary1 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Last night she dreamt of Lumbago
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 years ago
Maybe this strip has gone on too long.
DaBump Premium Member about 2 years ago
Sorry for you guys who keep saying Luann should dump her as a friend.
Sisyphos about 2 years 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 about 2 years 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+ about 2 years ago
Puddles hasn’t aged a day.
StoicLion1973 about 2 years ago
I would ask how is Puddles still alive in the 2nd strip but that is Puddles III.
andrew.scharnhorst about 2 years 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 … "