Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 16, 2015

Gunther, quit overreacting.

Hmm… breaking out the fancy plates, huh? Panic mode! Just more of Gunther "pushing the big red button” at the sight of an “itty bitty caterpillar”… – A Gray train leaves the station at approximately 4:37 P.M. A Green and black one leaves Peru, for a stop at Moony U. at approximately 4:32. They are both headed to “Bergertown” at roughly the same speed and didn’t make any other stops along the way. If this is so…… what time is dinner?

Aye… a crafty lass, that one!!! She prepares a “showdown” in a “steel cage”… okay, more like an atmosphere of “awkard conversation” and what Gunther dreads… “getting to know thine enemy”…. – I’m supposing that Gunther would like to have gotten to find out things about Mr. Gray, but would have probably preferred to do it in an “au clandestine”-like way, all “furtive” and in a way that helps to fuel his mistrust of Mr. Gray, and through the “comforts” of a “wall of dislike”….without actually getting to know him … which is the more direct way….

“Too Close For Comfort”“Just Some Of All Fears”“Know Thine Enemy”“More Cow, Please!”“Roasting And Grilling At Desert”“Bringin’ The Beef And Hashing It Out”“On With The Show, This Is It” (♫)“Heart To Heart….To Heart…”“Getcha Popcorn Ready”“Silverware For A Steel Cage Match”or“Opportunity Knocks… And Eats…And Has An Antacid…”

And make sure they wear the complimentary stickers and brightly colored T-shirt that easily marks them…

Well, as far as he’s concerned, Gunther’s the “Sgt. At Arms” for Bergertown…

Just so you all know, I’m rolling my eyes at Gunther’s immaturity

Overreaction…

Gunther,have a prozac,you’re acting like a loon!

Or “Danger, Will Robinson!”or “No, Don’t Eat With Dr. Smith!”or “Dinner With The Enemy” or “My Dinner With Android”

He probably stopped at a gift shop at the airport in Peru, for just such an occasion…

My son was trying to marry me off at that age

Gunther has turned to the dark side…

Gunther grow UP and get a shave!!

Enough of Gunther. ALREADY!

“50 gabbles with Mr Gray”

How many shades might there be to this Mr. Gray?

Since it looks like this week is going to be focused on the relationships among Gunther, his mom, and Mr. Gray, I really hope that it ends with Gunther being able to tolerate his mom dating Mr. Gray. His attitude about that has been hard to tolerate.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, but this is over the top. He’s 18 for pete’s sake!

Hey, Oedipus Rex…

She has one? … Besises the self-serving vapidity?

Are you kidding? Greg knows what he’d doing! It’s his strip…he has a plan for every character here. In Tiff’s case, seems she’s everyone’s scape goat. There has to be at least one!Her name wouldn’t be Tiffany if she weren’t!

I thought the purpose of the (improbable) Gunther-follows-Rosa-to-Peru story was to make him grow up and stop being a Mama’s boy. Since that obviously failed – his “concern” for Mama’s welfare is more nearly “jealousy” – just what was that big adventure all about, anyway? Was it just to bring him back in a sweatshirt and a stubble?

Also unless Gunther is planning on living with his mommy for the rest of her life she deserves a life of her own.

Hey, Gunth…bring a date. Ask Tiff…

Chill, Gunth.

Gunther is leaping to conclusions at a furious pace. But the funny thing is that he may be right. And that’s okay.

It’s just painful to watch Gunther acting like such a little kid…

I have to say once again that I very much hope Mr. Gray is an OK guy. Having him be a bad person and making Gunther his mother’s “rescuer” would be a disgusting plot development and just plain bad writing.

The World Is Rapidly SPINNING Out of Control, Gunth.

But YOU can Set It to Right.

When Mr. “Friend” arrives for Dinner?

“Back-Pack ’Em” like You Did Lesile Knox!

Gunther obviously gets his wimpyness from his Mum. Maybe it’s time for her to stop coddling him and tell him to get over it.

“No Gunthie, we’re just friends with benefits.”

Get over it Gunther, she is an adult and you should love her enough to want her to be happy. After my parents divorced my dad went his way with his girlfriend (the cause) and my mom just settled into another part of her life. Then she met the best guy in the world and my stepdad came to be and we all wanted her to be happy and were happy for them.

Her eyes in the second frame as she describes Mr. Gray as a friend seem to indicate that he is something more. Wonder if we are going to learn his first name soon.

Time for Baby Boy to grow up and not be so spoiled.

I can’t help but think of the book “50 shades of Gray”. Yes he is over reacting. But in truth I know alot of adult son that would react like this.

Ok moving on Im sick of Gunther and his mommy complex.

Not this again…

Grow up Gunthie,or move out,(after you get a job of course).

Am I the only one who is wondering why his Mom always calls her date MR Gray instead of using his first name. It sounds more like she is having the dean of the college or high school principal to dinner …

Quit being Gunther, Gunther.

Which answer would freak out Gunther more?

“Yes I am, and you need to man up and deal with it.”

“No dear, we’re not in love. We just have sex a lot.”

“No dear, we’re already married. It happened in Vegas. Elvis did the honors!”

“No dear, I’m in love with his sister. We’re lesbians. And we’re getting married in June.”

“No dear, I’m becoming a nun.”

Gunther… all your “growth” is simply making you impolite, snarky, unfocused, and a person who is really not particularly likable. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++In my opinion, you should a) Meet Mr. Gray, give him a chance, and presuming he is not horrid person, see how the family unit may progress, b) Start looking inside YOURSELF and get some actual goals, aspirations, and DO something to become the person you want (or figure out you want) to be with your college experience, c) Let the damn “peach fuzz” grow out and become a true beard and mustache to give yourself a more distinctive look, and d) have some FUN without being snarky to others.

“No, Gunther; he’s gay.”

Fifty Shades of Mr Gray at dinner!

Wouldn’t Gunther be shocked if Mom tells him Mr. Gray is gay?

Gunther is an idiot and this strip is getting annoying.

Maybe you won’t need that granny flat after all…

It is not an oedipal complex and it is all Gunther’s mother fault. I’ve seen it happen in real life and it happens when a young mother suddenly finds herself alone, either by widowhood, divorce or abandonment, with a young son.

To make the son feel better she starts treating him as the “Man of the House” and make him feel as if he were the center of her life.If she has any relationship with another man, she keeps it hidden from him.

So the son grows and soon feel like his mother is HIS alone and nobody else’s. As if she were his wife. He became jealous of any other man that enters her life. Because then everything that she told hims become a lie since it turns out that he is not the center of her whole life but just one of them.

Gunther is in this phase. It wouldn’t surprise me that his mother’s relationship with Mr. Gray is years old and that she always kept it from him so he wouldn’t be upset, but now that he has allegedly grown up she feels safe in announcing it to him.

Unfortunately he is reacting badly to the notion that he is not the only man in his mother’s life. But, then as I said, that probably is entirely the fault of his mother.

It happened in my family with my grandmother when she became a widow when my father was 2 months old. He was the youngest of 5 siblings, 3 boys and 2 girls. 10 years later she asked her sons permission to remarry. My dad and my uncles just say to go ahead and do so. Despite the fact that my oldest uncle was the bread winner of the family and that for all purposes he was the de-facto family head, he never felt that my grandmother belonged to them and acknowledged that she needed a companion of her own.

On the other hand, I saw the widow of a friend of mine get trouble from her son just because she had a new boyfriend. In her son’s words, she was a slut that was sullying the memory of his deceased father.

I think that Gunther falls between those two categories. He feels betrayed because his mother dared to have a relationship with another man, but at the same time he knows that she has a life of her own. It is just that he is having a hard time to acknowledge that he has to share his mother’s affections.

It seems his train has arrived so the Gray train would have to derail & that won’t happen!

Maybe Gunther will realize his worries/fears are unfounded & worthless. Mrs Berger needs a friend her age!

I don’t feel like Evans is mistreating Tiffany. He is showing that she has a hard time acknowledging the fact that she is not as popular as she thought she was.

She is resentful that her father ordered to get a degree. And you are overlooking a very important fact, something that even Luann wondered about: She obeys her father without question. His orders are her commands.

That actually speaks really bad about Tiffany and her dreams. In order to succeed in a career as a public figure, she needs to be her own woman.

You see, she could have said yes daddy I am going to study but I want to be an actress so I am going to study drama. Yet here she is, dropping Psych and trying Bio. She is a lost puppy that is resenting the fact that she is not on her way to be famous. She is forgetting the fact that drop-dead-gorgeous women are ten cents the dozen in Hollywood. Unless she has a very special skill that makes her stand out of the crowd, her future will be that of a waitress or as a trophy wife.

Her dad knows that she has nothing special, so he wants his daughter to at least have something to help her earn a comfortable living.

Unfortunately I think she will end up marrying a famous man, so she can be famous by proxy.

As I pointed out, kids don’t like it when their parent(s) date. They feel that the parent who dates is somehow dissing the other parent who contributed to that kid’s life.

I still think that Mr. Gray will be Gunther’s biological father…. who was long out of the picture. I think “Mrs.” Berger was just her maiden name and she did not get married to Mr. Gray and simply used her maiden name for Gunther as well. I think Mr. Gray has entered back in the picture and now Mrs. Berger will be letting Gunther know.

It could probably also be an “Alfred Hitchcock” feature..

Gunther, quit being a jerk. Your mom has as much right to date as you do. He really needs to move out. Doesn’t he have some money saved up from his job in the library or the one he had in Peru? Doesn’t seem like he spends that much on other stuff. I know it’s expensive, but it’s really needed in this case!

Or that there would be anything wrong with it if he was right!

Is anyone else getting a little tired of Gunther week after week? Maybe the strip should be renamed to “Gunther.”

I’m wondering. Is this the first time a single man has been invited to dinner/first time Mom went out on a date? If so, it’s incredibly sad. Comments should be addressed to her lack of a social life in order to please her son rather than the result of that action.

Gunther — look up “Oedipus Complex”. Mom — have him start looking at colleges out-of-town.

Prozac might help with his anxiety, depression and anger issues, but would it get rid of his idea that his mom isn’t supposed to have any kind of life outside of being his mom?

Hmm… where have I seen a panicked face like the one Gunther’s making, before? –

"Frank and Nancy’s “crumbling” marriage…" ^And I suppose when a puppy sneezes, we might as well send “get well” cards? (X^D)

(cue Darth Vader voice:) "I find your lack of optimism… normal for you… " (Lol!)

Oh! Gunther, turn about is fair play! Show your mom how it feels and bring home a girl and say you’re getting married and watch her flip out!

But Gunther, you don’t have a girlfriend. If only you knew a professional actress…one with devastating good looks…from a rich family…a real socialite type…yeah… if only…

You think too hard!Don’t compare apples to oranges! I can only assume Greg does not think it’s depressing or he might not go this route!And you know what Assume means. ass (out of) u (&) me..

While I haven’t read the book (and don’t intend to) I’m thinking the name Mr. Gray might be a take-off on the main character in “50 Shades of Grey” (Mr. Grey). It says that Ma Berger wants a little more excitement in her life, though the image of Mr. Gray (as he is drawn) doesn’t seem to suggest that. But who knows.. as the word ‘gray’ suggests.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Is he the “fifty shades of gray” Mr Gray?

Greg is down shifting again. From a potential South American adventure/love story to a innocent little chat with the hot to trot Tiffany, to a bland dinner with Mr. Gray. Oh well. I should have known better to expect anything more.

Gunther got away from his mother. But instead of using that separation to establish his independence, he obsessed on his mother’s love life and came home deliberately to try to disrupt it. That’s 100% Gunther’s doing, not his Mom’s. I can’t imagine that anyone finds him a likable character now.

Mr Gray? From 50 shades?

response: “yes I might… and it’s not your concern..”

Maybe his first name is “Mister”.

SPOILER ALERT!!!-I didn’t think it was possible to be as annoyed by one as I was the other, but now both of them are annoying. Dinner will probably be eaten in frozen silence. (Well, we can hope…)

Simmer down, now.

Simmah dah nah…

Forget prozac…you need thorazine!

I don’t think any of the characters in Luann would qualify for Mensa. And Gunther would be too embarassed for your other idea…