If Gunther doesn’t know if they’re still a couple.. they’re NOT a couple! Looks like Bets didn’t love Gunther as much as she said she did.
So will Gunther answer “I don’t know” to everything, so that people will buy Karen’s book to actually know something?? LOL
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I won’t be buying the booklet. They shouldn’t have told us they would send us their van adventures to our email, if we joined their site.. and then do nothing but try to sell us a novella. That just stinks.
So it appears a split has already occurred! A split of wills with each going their own way. This can result in a lack of trust on the pert of our usually Pollyanna Gunther. He may think “What is Bets up to on her obvious flight of freedom? School is starting, does she intend to return at all?” These would be the kinds of thoughts that poison a relationship.
Led is not wrong about Gunther not knowing more about Bets by now. If after spending all of that time together, Gunther still doesn’t know more about her as a person, than he did when they first met, then did he ever really know her at all?
Run—er, drive away, Bets! Otherwise you’ll be caught in a spiral of never-consummated innuendo. Just don’t end up at 9 Chickweed Lane, that place is even worse!
So now we know the story. They had a tire mishap, and they were involved in a ravioli fiasco. They were embarrassed by “Creepy campers” probably looking into their van windows at night. The parking brake failed, but they and the van survived. They roasted as they crossed a desert because the A.C. failed. The engine blew, but they managed to get a rebuilt engine installed. Bets wanted to continue on, so she obviously won’t be in the dorm. Someone will take her place there, but who? Gunther returned to be able to start the fall semester at college. So, now I don’t think it matters what happened on their trip. We already know enough about it to simply want to move on and find out if Bets will return.
So we don’t know if Bets was getting a lot out of this trip, or if it was just that she didn’t feel welcome at Al & Irma’s. I hope she doesn’t disappear like Rosa. Bets was more interesting than Rosa.
Well, they ARE broken up. Gunther is saying the “I don’t know” because he has his head in the sand. He doesn’t want to face his failures. It is not a failure – Bets is Bets. She is the #1 in her life and nobody else. Not your fault, Gunther. You did nothing wrong. You tried to play along with whatever she wants but you did draw a line at continuing with the camper van living – you prioritized your education over this flighty road trip. Yep, you guys are broken up. Bets needs a guy who is genuinely interested in what she does. You merely played along – you were never really into what Bets was doing with her Snapgram. You swallowed up Bets’ dismissiveness toward you. You just wanted a girlfriend and you thought she should be good enough but she was not the right fit. There is plenty of time for you to find your Mrs Right. A lot of folks in here think it is Luann but I am not too sure. Let Bets go. (another reason is a lot of us don’t like her anyway and don’t miss her…I wonder if GnK realized that and wrote her out of the strip?)
Poor Gunther. He was only able to stretch mama’s umbilical cord just so far before hit snapped him back home. Meanwhile Bets is ready to get out in the world and get her life started. He’s all wrong for her. He may be all wrong for everyone.
Irma knew that a few weeks in such close quarters would either make or break them. If they could handle it for that long, they could handle it forever.
Apparently, they could not, although now they know. You know?
Kinda sad that Bets has decided to leave everything just because she wants to continue her trip.I wonder if this mean she has also suspended college or that she will be taking online courses. Will she tell Dez and Tiffany? I think Dez may be on her side, but Tiffany would immediately think about Gunther. Also, Gunther looks sad, but he seems a lot less depressed than when she left him after he confessed to her. This experience together has shown him a Bets that he didn’t know and that maybe he dont like… Maybe it will be good for both of them.
Actually Gunther has learned quite a few things if he’d just open his eyes:
One – He’s learned why Bets had so many “lying and cheating” ex-boyfriends in her life. Difference is, THEY didn’t let her get away with it. And PS: She told him about that on the first date. Major RED FLAG.
Two – Bets (like Rosa), had her own agenda. And You NEVER trust anyone with their OWN agenda, no matter how “cute” she looks.
Three – Bets abandoned him once before, but he learned nothing and foolishly took her back. Gunther needs to make sure there’s no THIRD time.
Four – Gunther should Never, Ever, EVER, take another gal home to meet his meddling mother. In fact, if he ever gets married, he shouldn’t even let his mom get within 10 miles of his kids.
Now.
Get ready, Gunther.
The grilling (and eventual snarking) you’re getting from Les is nothing compared to what you’re going to be subjected to once Luann Bernice and Tiffany find out what happened. :-(
I agree, that this stinks. Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean, Crankshaft) published “Lisa’s Story” as a collection of all the strips involving Lisa Moore, including her battle with cancer and her passing AFTER the arcs had come to an end.
If you have a truly compelling story, as that was, people would gladly buy the book. And a portion of the proceeds were earmarked for cancer research plus the creation of a charity called Lisa’s Legacy. This just seems like a cash grab.
OK, this is so simple. If a series of events are not important to the overall progress of the story, then they are an unneeded subplot. If the optional subplot is necessary to follow the main story, or to understand the characters, then the writers are unskilled. So, if the subplot is unnecessary, it won’t matter if I skip it. If the subplot IS necessary, then the writing is bad and I am doing myself a favor by skipping it.
And all of this must, supposedly, be the evening of the day the truck arrived with Bets and Gunnie if Les hasn’t had a chance to ask the question until now?
Dead ends is almost a guarantee recipe for a closure of saying good bye / exit stage left. After a 3 / 4 year? run of his happiness, it’s time to snap back to just plain Gun for another few years. May not be around to see him happy and hooked up again though.
How did I know the van trip was going to end their relationship. I think I even commented this wasn’t going to end well. But at the same time. this was likely Gunthers moms plan the whole time.
If critics of the Gun and Bets novella offer took a realistic look at the state of newsprint comics where the real money was traditionally earned they’d understand why the Evans team is exploring changes to that once reliable business model. I don’t expect that plushies of Luann characters are in the planning stage—well maybe Puddles featuring live action squeeze ‘n stream—but there are plenty of successful online comic creators who give away content and then sell some form of insider goodies (print collections with personal annotations and rough art, magnets and other imprinted hard goods, exclusive arcs, etc.) to a subset of that fan base. Heck, I’m sure AI is coming after me to do coloring work. Anybody want to buy my stories about pain-in-the-rear cartoonists and coloring mishaps? I’ve got a million of ’em. Operators are standing by.
It is now the 24th. The “Advertisement” ran on the 23rd. The “Advertisement” offer is good until the 28th. If the “Advertisement” does not appear again between now and the 28th, I’d like to think it was because Andrews McMeel said, “You can’t do this.”
Are Les and Gunther bonding at last? I don’t know, will Tiffany re-enter the scene? I don’t know. Was the taxi driver a metaphor for Gun’s failed relationship with Rosa and was used to give us a hint to the breakup? I don’t know…
Blast! It appears they wrote out Bets, the best of the new characters. She was drawn good in a Star Trek uniform. Of the new breed of characters we’re left with an ultra-weird artist, a cheer leader out of the 1980s, and a child with mental issues who destroys her foster parents furniture.
Called it! (As a lot of us did). Bets turned into Rosa, Part Two, and got bit by the travel bug. Honestly, I support this. People who are able to travel, should! The world is big and wonderful and should be seen firsthand, not on the internet. But I get where Gunther’s coming from too. Eventually, the travel has to end and it’s time to return home. Gunther did plenty with Rosa before college anyway.
Sounds like the trip did teach Gunther some important things about Bets, about himself, and about their relationship. I think the “I don’t knows” are not because he doesn’t know her as Les said but because Gunther has started letting go. Where is she? Will she come back? Not his problem anymore. And perhaps he’s started to realize he never really had a hold on her. Their relationship wasn’t that strong to begin with. They liked being together, but that’s all.
A good way to know whether they’re still a couple — or whether they still have a chance — is if Gunther called or texted her to let her know he’s home. Her response (or lack of one) will tell him everything he needs to know.
A lot of criticism on this storyline is aimed at Betts, and she deserves some of it, but it’s obvious to me that the authors have decided that the only stable relationship that Gunthie will ever have with a female will be with his Mama. He has wound up frustrated with interactions with Luann (remember her?), Bernice, Tiff, Rosa, Betts and maybe some more we don’t know about. No woman will ever meet his very narrow standards, and although he projects the image of having great patience and tolerating conditions he doesn’t agree with, he is in actuality very selfish and gets angry when things or people don’t conform to his shortcomings. And, I’m suprised that he still has friends that sympathize and support him. Maybe Les will finally be the cold water in the face or the slap upside the head he so desperately needs.
“It’s simple. Bets didn’t want the trip to end. I did. When we were really far from home, about four blocks away, I had had enough. I said goodbye and called a cab, which by coincidence was driven by Luis who had moved from Peru to to the south side of Pitts a few years ago and became a Lyft driver.”
I actually like anticlimax. It can be funny. Teasing about it is funny, too. It’s not really funny, though, when we’re told “we didn’t have time this summer, so buy the book.” Unless the book is a prank and contains nothing but old strips with Gunther and Bets. Which would be hilarious to all who don’t buy it, and aggravating to those who do.
On one hand, it’s nice that Bets is living her life. But I find I prefer traveling with a companion preferable to solo travel. Maybe she’ll eventually miss Gunther and return. I’m sure Gunther learned a lot about Bets other than a heat rash. Les isn’t asking the right questions. Gunther seems to have accepted Bets’ decision, but can he concentrate on school and studies? Will someone replace Bets in his life, maybe return to his life, only to have Bets return too?
We still have a couple of days left for the storyline to take a surprise turn. Or will it end like Tiffany, Luann, and Bernice alone at sunset at Tiff’s swimming pool?
All I can think about is Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie. That’s too dark for this kind of comic strip and I can hardly see Gunther doing anything like that, but the similarities are eerie.
Once a dweeb, always a dweeb. I wish they would write Gunther out of the strip. He can ruin any relationship, just take him away from his momma for more than two weeks.
I never have really like the Gunther character. The red fuzzy hair, the buck teeth, the mommy. Gunther should just go back to being a secondary character (sans Bets), since he isn’t leading man material. But now we’ll watch the girls talk about it, scheme on him, and the eventual meeting between the two of them for resolution….OR…G&K could send the whole thing down their rabbit hole (which is their habit) and that would be the smartest thing they could do this week.
I used the word resolution in a comment for Luann. Sorry, looks like I need to make a doctor appointment! LOL!
They now have different goals in life, their feeling for each other don’t seem to have been stronger then the pull of the road. It happens, could be way they are not married.
It most likely taught Gunther that Bets was a commitment-phobe—not just in personal relationships, but in the rest of her life as well. Someone not to get into any relationship with, personal or business.
I was once in a very long-term, on-and-off-and-on-and-off relationship with a woman who had many of the same characteristics as Bets, though not as severe and narcissistic. I was one of the few that didn’t propose to her—not that I didn’t want to; it was just never the right time in our lives. She accepted at least five proposals that I knew of, and never followed through with any of them. Changed colleges three times (well, one was to get lower rates when her parents relocated), quit grad school because “Texas was too da*n barren,” hopped from decent job to decent job for a variety of frustrations, finally came into an inheritance and bought an orchard, only to contract breast cancer and die a year later after “ghosting” all family and friends…….
To be fair we don’t have Bet’s side of the story. G&K said there was a story that needed to be told; so far there isn’t much of one; just a bunch of ‘i don’t know’.. In Rosa’s case we knew her game; she had aspirations of doing international aid work (like Dez) and getting into rural medicine; she had a position lined up and Gunther was along for the ride; but a 17 yr old mama’s boy just wasn’t into roughing it outdoors much less being so far from home. But this one should have been easier and Gun is older. Bets had a taste of freedom without constraints and ‘sneaking around’ and she just couldn’t let go. Gunnie should have been able to deal with it. That said, Bets has not always been the voice of reason.
Didn’t his last girlfriend choose adventure over him by staying in another country doing relief work? He seems to like a type of woman that tends to have very different life goals than he does.
Gunther may not know if they are still a couple or not. but I bet BETS knows. She is the one that has most been in control of their relationship, However a disagreement like this does not necessarily define a relationship.
Gunther has not grown an OUNCE since Peru. At least with Peru, Rosa changed her plans during the trip, prompting Gunther to leave. But this…this is just sad.
With all the speculation of what was a dream and what was real is really irrelevant if they are still 18/19 and thus starting their sophomore year. Didn’t Gunther miss his Freshman Fall Semester when he was in Peru so he is still a freshman after only completing one semester. A real surprise twist to his dream would have Gunther wake up and everyone is 21+ starting their Senior year.
Les, seems to me Gunther’s learned a lot; Bets may be too much of a free spirit for him. She did get him to step out of the box, which is not a bad thing; but for a long term/permanent personality change, probably not.
I would by G&K’s book titled: “Broken window, Piro’s life, where’s Ann Eiffel, Mr. Gray answers and all other stories not completed”. That’s a big book title.
see it was always about HER never gunther. she just wants the attention from her streamers and that streaming life and given an oppertunity to travel and stream she took it and dropped gunther. she needs to be forgotten about and move on.
You know, I feel like I missed something. They showed up at home, the van was towed there and Al paid for the tow. Suddenly the van is operational again and Bets took off in it?
Honestly? There was always something about Bets I never liked…sometimes, her unrealistic view on life, to her goofy nickname for Gunther. As far as I’m concerned, she, and Stef can be roomies, and we never see either, again.
Gunthie poo isn’t looking for a girlfriend he’s looking for a mother replacement. Once he figures that out he’ll be better off. He’ll stop looking for hot chicks and start looking for frumpy dumpy girls that will stay home and cook for him and make sure he takes care of himself.
lvlax over 1 year ago
If Gunther doesn’t know if they’re still a couple.. they’re NOT a couple! Looks like Bets didn’t love Gunther as much as she said she did.
So will Gunther answer “I don’t know” to everything, so that people will buy Karen’s book to actually know something?? LOL
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I won’t be buying the booklet. They shouldn’t have told us they would send us their van adventures to our email, if we joined their site.. and then do nothing but try to sell us a novella. That just stinks.C over 1 year ago
All Bets are off
Yuban333 over 1 year ago
I hate to break it to you Gun, but if you’re not sure if you’re still in a relationship, then you’re not in one. Bye-bye Betts.
Kymberleigh over 1 year ago
Yep.
Bets has become the latest “written out” casualty.
Thanks a lot, Karen, for edging your family’s contribution to society closer to its demise.
Tyge over 1 year ago
So it appears a split has already occurred! A split of wills with each going their own way. This can result in a lack of trust on the pert of our usually Pollyanna Gunther. He may think “What is Bets up to on her obvious flight of freedom? School is starting, does she intend to return at all?” These would be the kinds of thoughts that poison a relationship.
Where goest thou GnK?
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
Glad you came home Gunther, it is progress that you stood up for yourself…
Rhetorical_Question over 1 year ago
Bets is a true vagabond as where Gunther is a homebody? Bernice is a homebody?
Ruth Brown over 1 year ago
Ask what he did learn. Sounds like he learned that she is noncommittal. We knew that.
Rockabore over 1 year ago
We’ve just got “Schrödinger’s Bets” today to try to drum up interest for the novella.
“So is Bets alive or dead?”
“I don’t know.”
Also nice high heels Les! Bold and unexpected footwear choice.
GreasyOldTam over 1 year ago
Considering Bets doesn’t know the difference between a hammer and a screwdriver, good luck keeping that van running.
ericbrower over 1 year ago
It’s Rosa 2.0 . Gunther gets a girl who wants to experience Life. While he would rather crawl into a corner of the World, and just exist.
Remind me again, taking into account Bets’ pushy personality, why so many think he’s too good for her?
PicaraJustina over 1 year ago
Doesn’t Bets have classes this semester? Tuition already paid probably.
Yuban333 over 1 year ago
Led is not wrong about Gunther not knowing more about Bets by now. If after spending all of that time together, Gunther still doesn’t know more about her as a person, than he did when they first met, then did he ever really know her at all?
Joe1962 over 1 year ago
I hate to break to you Gunther but Bets has left you.
BJShipley1 over 1 year ago
Okay, my view is clouded by my age and marital status, but holy crap, Karen Evans is HOT. Too bad she seems to be a prude though.
brendancalling over 1 year ago
Run—er, drive away, Bets! Otherwise you’ll be caught in a spiral of never-consummated innuendo. Just don’t end up at 9 Chickweed Lane, that place is even worse!
yoey1957 over 1 year ago
Bets is Gabby Petito. Gunth is Brian Laundrie. Art imitates life.
priyansh.jeziel over 1 year ago
Maybe Gunther and Les will become a “couple”.
Willow Mt Lyon over 1 year ago
So now we know the story. They had a tire mishap, and they were involved in a ravioli fiasco. They were embarrassed by “Creepy campers” probably looking into their van windows at night. The parking brake failed, but they and the van survived. They roasted as they crossed a desert because the A.C. failed. The engine blew, but they managed to get a rebuilt engine installed. Bets wanted to continue on, so she obviously won’t be in the dorm. Someone will take her place there, but who? Gunther returned to be able to start the fall semester at college. So, now I don’t think it matters what happened on their trip. We already know enough about it to simply want to move on and find out if Bets will return.
mysterysciencefreezer over 1 year ago
So this really WAS Rosa 2.0. Yay.
Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago
It taught him that she isn’t very reliable…
kenhense over 1 year ago
So we don’t know if Bets was getting a lot out of this trip, or if it was just that she didn’t feel welcome at Al & Irma’s. I hope she doesn’t disappear like Rosa. Bets was more interesting than Rosa.
French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Bye, bye, Bets! Bye, bye, narcissist! Hello, sweet release! I think I’m a-goin’ to party! I think I’m a-goin’ to party!”
Robin Harwood over 1 year ago
Get down to some tensor calculus, Gunther. That’ll cheer you up.
Wilkins068 over 1 year ago
Look at the first picture in todays comic.
Take out th word balloons.
Have em in pajamas on their beanbags.
Then add 49 more cats to Punk.
Now you got the picture
The Cats n Jammers Kids!
Rhetorical_Question over 1 year ago
Bets is an independent spirit! So was Rosa? Homebodies are attractive to independent people?
kiwannabee over 1 year ago
Let’s go back to the Gunther/Tiffany tension. Bets was never a good fit.
drewpamon over 1 year ago
So my prediction, in a few weeks we’ll have a storyline where bets is in trouble on the road and Gunther rushes to her rescue.
9thCapricorn over 1 year ago
Well, they ARE broken up. Gunther is saying the “I don’t know” because he has his head in the sand. He doesn’t want to face his failures. It is not a failure – Bets is Bets. She is the #1 in her life and nobody else. Not your fault, Gunther. You did nothing wrong. You tried to play along with whatever she wants but you did draw a line at continuing with the camper van living – you prioritized your education over this flighty road trip. Yep, you guys are broken up. Bets needs a guy who is genuinely interested in what she does. You merely played along – you were never really into what Bets was doing with her Snapgram. You swallowed up Bets’ dismissiveness toward you. You just wanted a girlfriend and you thought she should be good enough but she was not the right fit. There is plenty of time for you to find your Mrs Right. A lot of folks in here think it is Luann but I am not too sure. Let Bets go. (another reason is a lot of us don’t like her anyway and don’t miss her…I wonder if GnK realized that and wrote her out of the strip?)
Enter.Name.Here over 1 year ago
Poor Gunther. He was only able to stretch mama’s umbilical cord just so far before hit snapped him back home. Meanwhile Bets is ready to get out in the world and get her life started. He’s all wrong for her. He may be all wrong for everyone.
Pet over 1 year ago
Oh Irma, you sneaky woman, you!
Irma knew that a few weeks in such close quarters would either make or break them. If they could handle it for that long, they could handle it forever.
Apparently, they could not, although now they know. You know?
Well done, Irma.
Aladar30 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Kinda sad that Bets has decided to leave everything just because she wants to continue her trip.I wonder if this mean she has also suspended college or that she will be taking online courses. Will she tell Dez and Tiffany? I think Dez may be on her side, but Tiffany would immediately think about Gunther. Also, Gunther looks sad, but he seems a lot less depressed than when she left him after he confessed to her. This experience together has shown him a Bets that he didn’t know and that maybe he dont like… Maybe it will be good for both of them.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Actually Gunther has learned quite a few things if he’d just open his eyes:
One – He’s learned why Bets had so many “lying and cheating” ex-boyfriends in her life. Difference is, THEY didn’t let her get away with it. And PS: She told him about that on the first date. Major RED FLAG.
Two – Bets (like Rosa), had her own agenda. And You NEVER trust anyone with their OWN agenda, no matter how “cute” she looks.
Three – Bets abandoned him once before, but he learned nothing and foolishly took her back. Gunther needs to make sure there’s no THIRD time.
Four – Gunther should Never, Ever, EVER, take another gal home to meet his meddling mother. In fact, if he ever gets married, he shouldn’t even let his mom get within 10 miles of his kids.
Now.
Get ready, Gunther.
The grilling (and eventual snarking) you’re getting from Les is nothing compared to what you’re going to be subjected to once Luann Bernice and Tiffany find out what happened. :-(
Wilkins068 over 1 year ago
Jus got my order confirmation an transaction ID for th signed booklet at 3:59 AM (Central Time). $43.29 with tax and shppg.
I tried it earler an it didnt work. Didnt say how long it’d take to get here though in th confirmation, but when I ordered it it said 3+ weeks
limarick over 1 year ago
I agree, that this stinks. Tom Batiuk (Funky Winkerbean, Crankshaft) published “Lisa’s Story” as a collection of all the strips involving Lisa Moore, including her battle with cancer and her passing AFTER the arcs had come to an end.
If you have a truly compelling story, as that was, people would gladly buy the book. And a portion of the proceeds were earmarked for cancer research plus the creation of a charity called Lisa’s Legacy. This just seems like a cash grab.
Robert Nowall Premium Member over 1 year ago
There! It was like pulling teeth, but it’s the info we’ve been waiting for.
mgl179 over 1 year ago
Gunther, count your blessings that she’s gone, stop your whining
KenHelmick over 1 year ago
OK, this is so simple. If a series of events are not important to the overall progress of the story, then they are an unneeded subplot. If the optional subplot is necessary to follow the main story, or to understand the characters, then the writers are unskilled. So, if the subplot is unnecessary, it won’t matter if I skip it. If the subplot IS necessary, then the writing is bad and I am doing myself a favor by skipping it.
DanielDrummond over 1 year ago
MOONEY UNIVERSITY
GRADES SUMMER SEMESTER, GREG AND KAREN EVANS
HONESTY . . . . . . F
MARKETING . . . . . F
BRANDING . . . . . . F
GREED . . . . . . . . . . A
LawrenceS over 1 year ago
And all of this must, supposedly, be the evening of the day the truck arrived with Bets and Gunnie if Les hasn’t had a chance to ask the question until now?
computerprogrammer2028 over 1 year ago
Dead ends is almost a guarantee recipe for a closure of saying good bye / exit stage left. After a 3 / 4 year? run of his happiness, it’s time to snap back to just plain Gun for another few years. May not be around to see him happy and hooked up again though.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
They’re on a break?
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 1 year ago
Gunter and bets are the most toxic couple
They made toni/dirk relationship look like nothing
Barrelmaker13 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Maybe next week we’ll get a new story line with LUANN. I’m not holding my breath.
6foot6 over 1 year ago
How did I know the van trip was going to end their relationship. I think I even commented this wasn’t going to end well. But at the same time. this was likely Gunthers moms plan the whole time.
Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member over 1 year ago
If critics of the Gun and Bets novella offer took a realistic look at the state of newsprint comics where the real money was traditionally earned they’d understand why the Evans team is exploring changes to that once reliable business model. I don’t expect that plushies of Luann characters are in the planning stage—well maybe Puddles featuring live action squeeze ‘n stream—but there are plenty of successful online comic creators who give away content and then sell some form of insider goodies (print collections with personal annotations and rough art, magnets and other imprinted hard goods, exclusive arcs, etc.) to a subset of that fan base. Heck, I’m sure AI is coming after me to do coloring work. Anybody want to buy my stories about pain-in-the-rear cartoonists and coloring mishaps? I’ve got a million of ’em. Operators are standing by.
Vilyehm over 1 year ago
It is now the 24th. The “Advertisement” ran on the 23rd. The “Advertisement” offer is good until the 28th. If the “Advertisement” does not appear again between now and the 28th, I’d like to think it was because Andrews McMeel said, “You can’t do this.”
Pure speculation, but luckily, I can do this.
Nekosho over 1 year ago
Are Les and Gunther bonding at last? I don’t know, will Tiffany re-enter the scene? I don’t know. Was the taxi driver a metaphor for Gun’s failed relationship with Rosa and was used to give us a hint to the breakup? I don’t know…
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
Don’t know if she’s coming back and doesn’t know if they’re still a couple?
Well, if there was any question that Bets was a self-centered jerk, this should put it to rest.
DM2860 over 1 year ago
He learned that she is more interested in adventure than him.
marisas03 over 1 year ago
Les sure has grown as a person. He’s more of a friend to Gunther now than he was before. It’s nice to see that.
Lescoe Brandon over 1 year ago
Blast! It appears they wrote out Bets, the best of the new characters. She was drawn good in a Star Trek uniform. Of the new breed of characters we’re left with an ultra-weird artist, a cheer leader out of the 1980s, and a child with mental issues who destroys her foster parents furniture.
rickmac1937 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Finally she dumped Ma mas boy. Good for her
Don Bagert Premium Member over 1 year ago
Ugh…heat rash. Must be on a top 10 list of relationship-breakers LOL j/k
DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago
That’s one thing. Another is that she REALLY loves road trips!
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
One thing I learned is that these two don’t deserve each other.
TwilightFaze over 1 year ago
Called it! (As a lot of us did). Bets turned into Rosa, Part Two, and got bit by the travel bug. Honestly, I support this. People who are able to travel, should! The world is big and wonderful and should be seen firsthand, not on the internet. But I get where Gunther’s coming from too. Eventually, the travel has to end and it’s time to return home. Gunther did plenty with Rosa before college anyway.
gigagrouch over 1 year ago
But did Gunther learn anything about himself?
WilliamVollmer over 1 year ago
If Bets got heat rash in certain places, that would seem to put a block on one component of the whole idea behind the road trip.
calliarcale over 1 year ago
Sounds like the trip did teach Gunther some important things about Bets, about himself, and about their relationship. I think the “I don’t knows” are not because he doesn’t know her as Les said but because Gunther has started letting go. Where is she? Will she come back? Not his problem anymore. And perhaps he’s started to realize he never really had a hold on her. Their relationship wasn’t that strong to begin with. They liked being together, but that’s all.
andrew.scharnhorst over 1 year ago
A good way to know whether they’re still a couple — or whether they still have a chance — is if Gunther called or texted her to let her know he’s home. Her response (or lack of one) will tell him everything he needs to know.
Lord Hearteater over 1 year ago
She GONE!!!! Hallelujah!
pontiac59 over 1 year ago
I’m just glad she’s gone. Never understood this need to pair up Gunther the way they keep doing.
Wubbie over 1 year ago
A lot of criticism on this storyline is aimed at Betts, and she deserves some of it, but it’s obvious to me that the authors have decided that the only stable relationship that Gunthie will ever have with a female will be with his Mama. He has wound up frustrated with interactions with Luann (remember her?), Bernice, Tiff, Rosa, Betts and maybe some more we don’t know about. No woman will ever meet his very narrow standards, and although he projects the image of having great patience and tolerating conditions he doesn’t agree with, he is in actuality very selfish and gets angry when things or people don’t conform to his shortcomings. And, I’m suprised that he still has friends that sympathize and support him. Maybe Les will finally be the cold water in the face or the slap upside the head he so desperately needs.
drewpamon over 1 year ago
I believe that’s called rug burn Gunther.
Crann Bethadh over 1 year ago
“It’s simple. Bets didn’t want the trip to end. I did. When we were really far from home, about four blocks away, I had had enough. I said goodbye and called a cab, which by coincidence was driven by Luis who had moved from Peru to to the south side of Pitts a few years ago and became a Lyft driver.”
Solomon J. Behala Premium Member over 1 year ago
I actually like anticlimax. It can be funny. Teasing about it is funny, too. It’s not really funny, though, when we’re told “we didn’t have time this summer, so buy the book.” Unless the book is a prank and contains nothing but old strips with Gunther and Bets. Which would be hilarious to all who don’t buy it, and aggravating to those who do.
anaditz over 1 year ago
I guess Bets has officially been written out of the strip, courtesy of another botched relationship. Next romantic victim, please…
Cincoflex over 1 year ago
Gunther left Rosa and now Bets. Gunther doesn’t like to travel.
lemonbaskt over 1 year ago
but you want there autographs of course
timzsixty9 over 1 year ago
Meh….good riddance to Bets…didn’t care too much for her.
YorkGirl Premium Member over 1 year ago
On one hand, it’s nice that Bets is living her life. But I find I prefer traveling with a companion preferable to solo travel. Maybe she’ll eventually miss Gunther and return. I’m sure Gunther learned a lot about Bets other than a heat rash. Les isn’t asking the right questions. Gunther seems to have accepted Bets’ decision, but can he concentrate on school and studies? Will someone replace Bets in his life, maybe return to his life, only to have Bets return too?
Ina Tizzy over 1 year ago
Egad, today’s strip has generated a lot of comments. Does anyone know what any of this strips characters are majoring in?
nightflight over 1 year ago
We still have a couple of days left for the storyline to take a surprise turn. Or will it end like Tiffany, Luann, and Bernice alone at sunset at Tiff’s swimming pool?
AmissaSada over 1 year ago
All I can think about is Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie. That’s too dark for this kind of comic strip and I can hardly see Gunther doing anything like that, but the similarities are eerie.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Once a dweeb, always a dweeb. I wish they would write Gunther out of the strip. He can ruin any relationship, just take him away from his momma for more than two weeks.
comic reader 22 over 1 year ago
I never have really like the Gunther character. The red fuzzy hair, the buck teeth, the mommy. Gunther should just go back to being a secondary character (sans Bets), since he isn’t leading man material. But now we’ll watch the girls talk about it, scheme on him, and the eventual meeting between the two of them for resolution….OR…G&K could send the whole thing down their rabbit hole (which is their habit) and that would be the smartest thing they could do this week.
I used the word resolution in a comment for Luann. Sorry, looks like I need to make a doctor appointment! LOL!
BuckarooDave over 1 year ago
tomorrow: Punk offers Gunther solace.
tcayer over 1 year ago
Again, I say… Tune in to her VLOG. The answers may be there.
locake over 1 year ago
Where is Punk?
locake over 1 year ago
Bets cannot come back into the strip without an explanation. She can’t just show up for college one day. So no more dorm drama with the 4 roomies.
becida over 1 year ago
They now have different goals in life, their feeling for each other don’t seem to have been stronger then the pull of the road. It happens, could be way they are not married.
BuckarooDave over 1 year ago
still two days left this week … maybe Gunther will get a text from Bets?
French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Bets cares more about her social media stuff than she does about Gunther. Time to cut her loose for good.
LNER4472 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Absolutely wrong, in all probability.
It most likely taught Gunther that Bets was a commitment-phobe—not just in personal relationships, but in the rest of her life as well. Someone not to get into any relationship with, personal or business.
I was once in a very long-term, on-and-off-and-on-and-off relationship with a woman who had many of the same characteristics as Bets, though not as severe and narcissistic. I was one of the few that didn’t propose to her—not that I didn’t want to; it was just never the right time in our lives. She accepted at least five proposals that I knew of, and never followed through with any of them. Changed colleges three times (well, one was to get lower rates when her parents relocated), quit grad school because “Texas was too da*n barren,” hopped from decent job to decent job for a variety of frustrations, finally came into an inheritance and bought an orchard, only to contract breast cancer and die a year later after “ghosting” all family and friends…….
RSH over 1 year ago
To be fair we don’t have Bet’s side of the story. G&K said there was a story that needed to be told; so far there isn’t much of one; just a bunch of ‘i don’t know’.. In Rosa’s case we knew her game; she had aspirations of doing international aid work (like Dez) and getting into rural medicine; she had a position lined up and Gunther was along for the ride; but a 17 yr old mama’s boy just wasn’t into roughing it outdoors much less being so far from home. But this one should have been easier and Gun is older. Bets had a taste of freedom without constraints and ‘sneaking around’ and she just couldn’t let go. Gunnie should have been able to deal with it. That said, Bets has not always been the voice of reason.
StackableContainers over 1 year ago
Didn’t his last girlfriend choose adventure over him by staying in another country doing relief work? He seems to like a type of woman that tends to have very different life goals than he does.
mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago
TMI on the heat rash ….
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Heat rash….where?
Jim 9700 over 1 year ago
Nothing lasts forever.
sobrown51 over 1 year ago
Gunther may not know if they are still a couple or not. but I bet BETS knows. She is the one that has most been in control of their relationship, However a disagreement like this does not necessarily define a relationship.
Ginny Premium Member over 1 year ago
It sure taught Bets a lot about Gunther. Move on, girl.
mindjob over 1 year ago
Bets landed her own talk show, I’ll bet
Statick over 1 year ago
I sincerely hope Betts has moved on. Gunth is a mom’s boy and he’ll forever by like Peter Pan and never grow up.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 1 year ago
It taught him that she is a known unknown.
StoicLion1973 over 1 year ago
Gunther has not grown an OUNCE since Peru. At least with Peru, Rosa changed her plans during the trip, prompting Gunther to leave. But this…this is just sad.
Dr. Caligari over 1 year ago
No biggie, Bets was a loser
alexius23 over 1 year ago
Gunther’s women tend to move on….
happyainthappy over 1 year ago
Saturday’s strip will have the wrecker truck bringing Bets back home in a totalled van; and she’ll hand Al the $900.00 repair bill.
Gen.Flashman over 1 year ago
With all the speculation of what was a dream and what was real is really irrelevant if they are still 18/19 and thus starting their sophomore year. Didn’t Gunther miss his Freshman Fall Semester when he was in Peru so he is still a freshman after only completing one semester. A real surprise twist to his dream would have Gunther wake up and everyone is 21+ starting their Senior year.
DanielDrummond over 1 year ago
It occurs to me that Bets wouldn’t travel anywhere w/o WiFi available for her vlogging. No idea what she’s telling her fans about where Guns is.
The Quiet One over 1 year ago
Well I suppose that’s something.
pamela welch Premium Member over 1 year ago
Les, seems to me Gunther’s learned a lot; Bets may be too much of a free spirit for him. She did get him to step out of the box, which is not a bad thing; but for a long term/permanent personality change, probably not.
tutibug5 over 1 year ago
I would by G&K’s book titled: “Broken window, Piro’s life, where’s Ann Eiffel, Mr. Gray answers and all other stories not completed”. That’s a big book title.
Scoutmaster77 over 1 year ago
That book is still open…
MAGA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Bets returns pregnant from a hookup with one of her followers.
redhawk1138 over 1 year ago
see it was always about HER never gunther. she just wants the attention from her streamers and that streaming life and given an oppertunity to travel and stream she took it and dropped gunther. she needs to be forgotten about and move on.
HodgeElmwood over 1 year ago
You know, I feel like I missed something. They showed up at home, the van was towed there and Al paid for the tow. Suddenly the van is operational again and Bets took off in it?
Red_Gertz over 1 year ago
Should Les tell Luann,Bernice and Tiff about what happened?!?
leighabc123 over 1 year ago
Bets will show up between Friday and Saturday!
sisterea over 1 year ago
As my brother rest his soul always said living with someone is easy, you don’t really get to know someone until you travel with them.
tinstar over 1 year ago
Honestly? There was always something about Bets I never liked…sometimes, her unrealistic view on life, to her goofy nickname for Gunther. As far as I’m concerned, she, and Stef can be roomies, and we never see either, again.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
I hope everyone is satisfied.
Gunny is back to being his hapless, witless self (or faking it really well).
Greg and Karen are hoping to make a fistful of dollars off fans who feel a desperate need to know details of the Great Road Run by Gunther and Bets.
And we, mere readers of a comic strip about non-maturing teens, get along as best we may….
DanielDrummond over 1 year ago
I figgered it out. Bets talked Gun into going to Vegas, where Bets showed how she got her name and lost the van in a poker game.
JenF over 1 year ago
I’m thinking Gun will pick up with Rosa and eventually Bets will be back to try to get him back.
Black76Manta over 1 year ago
I think Gunther learned that he and that woman have almost nothing in common!
ironman01 over 1 year ago
Gunthie poo isn’t looking for a girlfriend he’s looking for a mother replacement. Once he figures that out he’ll be better off. He’ll stop looking for hot chicks and start looking for frumpy dumpy girls that will stay home and cook for him and make sure he takes care of himself.
AgingComicFan over 1 year ago
Do you trust us?
Rose686 about 1 year ago
Fernandes, T’amo! Je t’adore!