Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 20, 2018

good call, boys, on not letting the MATURE adults come by

United in desire to keep it in-house.

Hey. Les’ bowl is still full. Looks like the lads didn’t care for the leeks.

Gunther, the next young woman you meet? Be sure to make plans to spend all of your “quality time” at HER place.

And have “fun” cleaning up this mess….,

Mr. Gray is full from the baloney he just got fed.

“Mess Avoided” …

Well, at last, they agree on something.

This feels like the end of this particular storyarc. A shame, since nothing has been resolved and the overall plot hasn’t even really advanced at all (in other words, the character dynamic is exactly the same as it was before.) Everything after Tiffany left has been a complete waste. Oh well, maybe next week will be better.

Not to much harm here, and like I figured, Les is not as much as a thug, like so many want to pin on him, nor is Gunther so much as a wimp, as so many people love to pin on him. Some at the ArcaMax site put the onus on Al not solving anything, but that was not the point. He took a different approach to dealing with these two bozos, sort of father like, something they desperately need, and they heeded it by both quickly saying DON’T come over. It would be embarrassing. On that, it seems that the food fight results were reversed: its seems that Gunther has cake on him, and he was holding the cake, while Les has pasta on him, and he was holding the pasta. They can’t even do a food fight effectively. I call the this the Great TiffanyGate fiasco.

I was expected a giant food fight mess when the visual returned to Leslie and Gunther and I was a little disappointed actually. It won’t take Gunther but a few minutes to clean up that mess.

Idiots.

If Uncle Hitch only knew the truth about the avertion…………..Though it looks like Gunthie and Less got to take their frustrations out on the food fight. They seem content.

You can’t be totally, seriously angry in a food fight. There’s hope for these two yet!

The worst part is, this might be the end of this arc!

I love it that Mr. Gray is always, always in his suit and tie no matter the moment or occasion.

I want to know about the dish that created the black splotches on both of their shirts. Squid in ink sauce, perhaps?

Al, with the best line “Mess averted” now clean up and y’all two might end up being friends.

Middle panel: Greg enters his Jackson Pollock style. Third panel: Al signs off, and Greg exits the arc. Monday: Bernice goes in search of the mysterious dorm crasher.

The hijinks continue as they can’t agree who gets to use the shower first so they’re fighting in the shower, ripping each other’s clothes off, learning an important lesson in cooperation and becoming best pals.

Food fight!

Maybe this strip needs to be renamed because Luann seems to be entirely forgotten in this mishmash of minor characters who’ve taken over.

Yaaay …. the food fight ….. and Big Daddy Al Gray gets strudel …. too much, too much …..

Time for the Sunday stand-alone comic. So Monday we will see (1) Three’s a crowd (Luann, Jack & Tara); or (2) Toni is pregnant or they adopt Shannon; or (3) Fly on the wall time starring Ann Eiffel & Tom Farrell; or (4) G & K think of something else…

I assume the No is to ‘Can you two handle it like adults?’.

Hmmmmmm…wonder if this is how the expression ’ united we stand, divided, we fall’ was born????

Wow, Mr. Gray is dumber than I thought. And doesn’t he ever take the jacket off?

You did your job, Al. Now go to dinner with your sweet wife and get your sweet dessert. And don’t worry, your boys are fine.

Proper end for store-bought cake.

And Big Al remains Mr. Wonderful in Irma’s eyes. At least that relationship is going well.

I wonder if “strudel” is one of these euphemisms that Irma uses for “you know what?”

Is this the beginning of a new relationship between Gunther and Les? Has Tiffany really “had it” with these two? Will Al and Irma have a surprise announcement? Tune in three weeks from now when we hear Irma say: “Oh Alsie… I have a surprise in the oven for you.”

Mr. Gary deserves a strudel, and we deserve a new story arc. That should happen Monday, but the depressing thing is that this is just Round Two of the “mismatched roommates” thread that will probably continue at least until Greg runs out of ideas for it and likely even beyond that. (Round One was the furniture disposal, and the story was already tedious by then on account of all the whining that Gunther had been doing at the prospects of living with Les, even while the guest house was being built.) I hope the strip will turn away from this 3 Stooges style of “comedy” (which works far better on film than in a comic strip) and, whenever these two losers have to be featured, it will be not in terms of their relationship with each other but in terms of each one’s relationship with Tiffany, since she showed by walking out in disgust that she has just the right temperament to handle this story properly.

Now that is comic relief! The boys finally agree on something.

Hopefully, this arc is now OVER! I just hope that there aren’t an y permanent casualties…. the primary one being Gunther and Tiff. I hope they can work things out. I really think they are destined for each other. But we’ll see. At least Al is there to keep things from getting out of hand with Les and Gunth. I hope.

Let’s move on!

this comic strip is very much becoming boring…

Ding dong!

I think strudel doesn’t mean strudel here….

Maybe the resolution of this arc is that there is a friendly truce between these unlikely roommates.

I’m almost afraid to ask what that is on Les’ right shoulder. I mean, I didn’t think Gunther would fight THAT dirty!

Two guys would not likely have a food fight. Someone mentioned Laverne and Shirley a few days ago…still, it is a comic strip and meant to be fun……

Must be her code word for “Al Gray” gettin’ some… :-P

“No Appetite For Disappointment”

“You Don’t Re-Veal A Sliding Cutlet”

“Morsels Under Wraps”

“Waste Makes Paste”

“When Gray Skies Are Threatening”

“Mess Haul”

“Labor Through The Labyrinth Of Linguini”

“Stumbling And Wandering Through A Billy Mays”

“The Mission Is: Scrub! "

“You Made Your Bed Of Pasta…. Now Lay In It!”

or

“The Picture Of A Very Fuzzy Resolution”

NOW KISS!!

Lunther? Geslie?

“FOOOD FIIIIIGHT!”

It’s an ongoing story. I’ll assume at some point we will pick this back up and see if they’ve learned anything from this. I like it, but there is only so much you can say in a three panel comic. We end this little arc and next we will be treated to Luann and Jack or maybe Brad and Toni. Time crawls in comic strip land. I don’t get worked up over stuff like that.

No blood, no bruises, and no broken bones. Their relationship is improving. Now, if the two of them figure out that Tiffany is a person and not a thing to fight over, I would say they were starting to grow up.

Knox obviously isn’t covered in cake. On top of being childish, Gunther doesn’t even have good aim. It vaguely looks as though Knox threw Gunther’s dish all over Gunther and himself.

Considering that Gunther has behaved in a manner that makes him look awful in every way, I wish Mrs. G. were coming over. She would see the real Gunther.

Are the adults really that clueless? When both boys shout NO, that’s the time to drop the phone and go straight back there.

Called several days ago – food fight.

Al and Irma won’t go over to check on the boys… this time. This one was just a warning. Next time there’s a shouting match, though…

The shame really belongs to Gunther’s mom & Les’s uncle… neither deserve strudel. It was their hare-brained, not to mention selfish, idea to force these kids who obviously despise each other and have nothing in common, to live together.

Very Greek—the violence and gore takes place off scene, leaving us free to feel sympathy for both boys, pathetic heterosexuals that they are.

That “NO!” was in response to Mr. Gray’s question not Gunther’s Mom’s question.

Exit arc, and do not return to this crime scene. Come back, Luann, all is forgiven.

At least Gunther stood his ground!

I see what Greg did there! “Gee, how did our food fight create this lettering I see?!” It would fit the Halloween season…

I love Greg’s melted signature. Salvadore Dali’d!

It’s going to take them all Night to clean up that mess.

And, I’ll bet they Miss the noodles clinging to the Ceiling.

Sunday: Knute and Crystal go to Pottery Barn !

Strudel me up,Irma. Let the Boys In the Gulag clean up their own mess and resolve their dispute over plump Tiffany….

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Hmm. Al let me down. I thought his effort would have helped me to better understand this entire arc better, and especially help with understanding the rather silly food fight. But, alas, no.

Next week will probably be about the boys (our dynamic duo) cleaning up the damn mess they made.

Or, might we be lucky and we flip to another arc…. any other arc?

I’m surprised she didn’t reward him with some pie.

I think they’re acting more like siblings than they would like to admit :0)

I like the drippy signature and date. :-D

Were LUANN!!

Thus starts the bonding between two step-brothers

“Mess averted.” … Yeah, right.

IMHO – the introduction of the “Leslie Knox” and “Al Gray” characters to the strip has been a detriment. “Les” is a bully and a jerk, with no redeeming qualities. “Al” is shifty, annoying, and sleazy; the “Irma” character deserves better that him. Just my “two cents,” you understand.