Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 30, 2012

Goth not!

i think i heard a few rainbows commit suicide after seeing knute’s outfit…

Looks like a 80’s wrestler

Bella?……Lugosi?

Time for Plan B.

More like Bella laughs.

Dang… Goth is so not him… I mean, it’s kind of hard to not look good goth…

Crystal’s problem is that she’s trying to match him to her personality. She has to update him according to his personality…that is, she has to figure out how to make goof look good. A trying task for the wisest of fashion designers.

Neither of them much interested in the rest of the world, they are slowly learning about each other. Greg Evans produces great chemistry – perhaps the best I’ve seen in cartoon land.

Actually first thing I thought when I saw him was, “Boy Robin must be pissed for jacking his look and then ruining it.”

Careful knute Batman may be coming to deal with you.

It is one thing to try to get him to dress a little less “slacker”. But this is trying to turn him into something he is not.

Yellow panties are goth?

Goth no, over-the-top hip-hop yes.

Ok back to the Ox & AI story or the Toni and Brad story.

At least Knute has a good sense of humour!

In that get up, Knute looks like one of the Village People!

A “backless” coat?

Lesson, Crystal: Knute is not Goth and you can’t turn him into one because you are one. You only need to look at his personality and know he is not a Goth – he is not an intense personality that Goths are famous for. He is just an easygoing skateboarder. You gotta accept him for who he is or go find a Goth guy.I guess this week strip will be all about Crystal trying to figure how to dress Knute and Saturday will have Knute back in his regular clothes.

No necklace.

The slacker-fu is strong with this one!

Bella Lugosi, Bella Twilight.

How about just plain belladona.

He’s too happy-go-lucky to be goth. Goth’s are supposed to look lugubrious all the time.

Oh my Goth!

Knute, can you say ‘Steam Punk’?

well she got what she asked for! Now she sees what she looks like & might change her tune?? ya right!!!

Yikes! Knute is more of a problem than either Crystal or I imagined! How about “less is more” and “wipe that silly grin off your face before I do it for you”?

Mein Goth!

Looks like he’s guest starring with the New York Dolls.

Hah, that doesn’t look goth… Put him in a frock coat, a ruffle shirt or fishnet shirt, tight leather or velvet pants, then he’d look goth.

Is that yellow underwear? LOL I’ve never seen goth look so good. Go for it, Knute.

Thereby killing the contention that clothes make the man.

This is a comic after all – to give us a laugh. If Crystal were serious, she would have picked out clothes that were stylish but more subdued.

no just weird

" … like an ’80s wrestler." lol.

Where’s the damn LIKE button?

This reminds me of my dating life….some women take men on as Projects .. can’t leave well enough alone. Its ok to encourage us to dress up a little but to change our entire look is just wrong. Better to leave us alone than to make us what we are not then just to dump us or make our lives a living hell. Whew….got that off my chest.

Looks like a pimp in that outfit. With Crystal in charge, this may be intresting.

Underwear worn on the outside of pants is always a good look.

Looks better in cargo shorts and T shirt…but then I’m biased because I’m a cargo shorts and T shirt kind of guy!

There was a Bella in Harry Potter, too, but whatever, I’m liking this arc. The sexy goth and the happy goof. Get ready GQ, they’re not done yet.

Never understood that “goth” charade…

So true..Plus, anyone who cycles (road bike) and wears a bike store bought jersey that has sponsor ads all over it should be shot. Twice..The weekend riders who wear this uniform are the most ridiculous looking tools out there.

I’m sure Greg Evans is referring to the Bella from Twilight, but you’re right Flyingairman, there was also Bellatrix Lestrange played wonderfully by Helena Bonham Carter — the ultimate role model for an aspiring Goth!

first thing I thought of was he looks like a pirate. What is wrong with his slacker look? I don’t much care for it but if it is who he is then so be it.

Noticed how Greg calls it goth “gear”.

Knute, YOU Look like a 14-Carat JACKASS.

But You Know, Maybe, Just Maybe, Crystal’s doing this “Make-over” bit because She wants to spend Time with You, since You hardly ever seem to ask Her out.

In FACT, None of the So-Called “Good Guys” in this strip seem have any Gumption for asking the Ladies out at all.

Only the Bad Guy like Leslie Knox.

Whats the PROBLEM, Greg???

You just can’t change some people.

You’re forgetting Elwood Dave!

His shoes appear to be on the wrong feet.

ready for a rock show

It’s hard to look “Goth” with that Great Big GRIN!

he looks sooooooooooo coooooooooooooool , he should dress like that all the time

Crystal is trying to re-make Knute into something that she wants, and it can’t be done. You cannot – no matter how you try, you CANNOT – change people into what you want them to be. You have to take people as they are. Crystal does not understand that.

Is Knute trying to channel Gene Simmons?

Glad you don’t live near me, where there’s a concealed weapons law.

I think today’s strip was meant just for laughs.

gotta love Knute….he just is…

Somehow, he came out looking like a Hasidic punk rocker.

This is getting ridiculous…

Count Dorkula?

The problem Crystal has is that their school doesn’t seem to have any other Goth kids, and her best friend Tiffany is so into her own style that there’s no chance she’d want to change. So Crystal has to try to make over someone else into it so she’ll have a friend she can really share with. It can be very lonely when none of your friends understand your style/worldview.

Hope Mr. Evans has enough outfits in his repetoire to give us TWO weeks of silly laughs. Here are some ideas:- Knute goes Goth – Knute goes Liberace – Knute goes professor (tweed jacket with elbow patches) – Knute goes hoody (with sagging pants that get him kicked out of school) – Knute goes beach boy (most appropriate)There are five ideas. Anybody got five more?

@activist1234Here’s one: Knute suits up (it will be legen – wait for it – dary!)Or: Knute goes geek (a la Gunther)

Oh my goth :-)

I do like the belt buckle….very Knute…not

Its the grin, glasses and cap that does it.

I would totally wear that

Okay… I have to admit I love Knute’s outfit. He looks like a supervillain. A really cheerful one.

Wow, he would do great as a stand in for the movie Dark Shadows.

yeah, its ridiculous she would chose so many contrasting colours for a Goth look. Greg, you may want to do some research on the style itself.

It’s funny that looking like a hungover vampire gets any attention at all, aside from the WTF stares.

Love the comments today. They are just as funny (or better) than the strip. I read the comments every day, but today was the first time I felt the need to jump into the conversation.

YEEAAAHHh here are simply somethings that should never go together.. And this is one those things..

Knute, simply is a slacker.. He does not have the dark eerie thing to pull off a goth look.

He needs a haircut and to ditch the cap.

Dave53 – to answer yesterday’s question — just a random kawinky dink that Knute’s boxers are close to Crystal’s eyeshadow (in color). Was going to say close to her lips, but that would spark a new thread.

Today, it has been established that Knute is incapable of developing away from being a one-dimensional character.

Sometimes clothes don’t make the person. A happy go luck Goth does not compute.

Happy go lucky is exactly what Knute is.

Wow, a ton of comments on here today. I think Knute looks awesome – so very, very him. This is gonna’ be an hilarious arc!

I thought Goth was all-black, like Crystal’s outfit—not with accents of red, green and yellow!

After we have had our fun and the dust clears Knute will still be Knute. Nothing will have changed.

Perhaps when Luann stops obsessing over boys, and Tiffany gives up cosmetics, Knute will stop being himself.

I think Knute could pull off “Steam Punk” really well.

Looks like a Halloween Reject.

Somebody should photoshop Knute’s head onto Justin Bieber – just to see what it would look like. Maybe use this image:

Oh hey, David Bowie from Labyrinth!

He’s So good humored…he MUST really like her to go thru this.

Turnabout is fair play. Do we really think Crystal would let Knute take her shopping for what he thinks she would look good in?

“I feel scary and silly at the same time” is going to be my new slogan.

Such is the fate of those who follow the flavor of the month.

I love Knute. Not quite in Gunther’s intellectual class, but cheerful, totally free of teenage angst, no vanity, not a lot of self-deception, and he wants to be a cartoonist.

Knute and Crystal are a great couple. Knute doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. They could very well become the parents of the future Lady Gaga.

Fully agreed that Knute seems happy go lucky and puts the kibosh on Goth. However, he does have a little dark spot – his obsessive cleaning of bathrooms. Something a tiny bit off there.

I guess they look “a little different” than Knute & Crystal.

Why am I surprised that she’s trying to dress him like her? Boring!

I don’t know Goth, but that looks ridiculous. Doesn’t anyone realize that that’s a girl’s Goth outfit? The outerwear looks like what Crystal would wear, and the platform shoes give it away.

Knute is obviously a keeper for putting up with this.

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