Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 15, 2014

Welll, now we know of G-man’s secret plan to get Quill out of the way- he’ll make Quill sick, using his trusty tailor skills… sickly green is the new black!….– And now we also know who put the lime in de coconut!….

“♫…Chlorophyl Kid Was A Friend Of Mine…♫ " “The Grass Is Greener (On The Other Side Of The Collar)”“It’s Not Easy Being Lima Bean Green”“Give Snow Peas A Chance”or “Hulk Smash Person Who Make This Shirt!”

I think Belinda needs to get a life just like Gunther does.

Gunther, Rosa doesn’t think you are that boring. She just wants a little initiative and a little romance. Kiss her without asking permission for goodness sake!

Romantic idea for Gunther. Sew your own quilt, bake some cookies, and take Rosa for an impromptu picnic in the library. That should be in your comfort zone enough for you.

Look out MPQ… Gunther is waiting to pound you! :P

It doesn’t work that way Gunth… you are, who you are.

First? What are you talking about?

What happened to Quill’s flag quilt? Twenty-third!

Methinks Belinda has “issues”

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“….then they can sit around all day long going:…”^In that case, it’d be a perpetual “Daily Affirmation Class” conducted by Mr. Smalley, himself!….

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JayBlue, you may be onto something. Greg won’t keep Quill around permanently. Luann must experience a broken heart and disappointment in men. Sighhh. I was hoping for better.

Quill is getting tired of this—and so would anyone else.

You are who you are, Gunther. Break up with Rosa and meet some nice girl who’s terrified of intimacy and who craves a quiet life free of all excitement. Kiss her once a year on New Year’s Eve, stay as far away from each other as possible the rest of the time, wait until you’re both about 50 before getting married, go on your honeymoon in twin beds, and spend the rest of your life more nearly as housemates than as spouses. Therein lies your key to satisfaction, if not actual happiness.

babies spew up sickly green stuff all the time

Whats so great about commenting first on a comic strip?

So, you’re telling us the new saying is, “Sickly green is beautiful, baby?”" ^What? “Say it loud”, please!…;-)

Hmmm….Belinda Banana Ana (and others) like to amuse themselves with a little innocent fun at seeing who can be first in the door…..and some others seem to really get their shirts in a knot over it. I wonder which are the ones with the issues……?

Well, Mr. Rogers did sing: “You are…..special!”… – Wait… maybe that was a sort of subliminal message or something…..

“…and some get on one of the short buses…” ^Especially if your last name is Kardashian, Suleman, Lohan, or A-Rod….

LOL!

Yes….thank you! “It” is enough…. -Just ask Dick Van Patten…..

Time for the ‘musical’ part: ^Ha ha ha!!! – No wonder Quill went straight to sleep after talking to him, and is groggy upon being awakened!….

MEH!!!

My wife said the same thing about “Rent”!… – For instance, she said if someone so much as dropped a dime, then everyone would stop and break out: "♫Some one dropped a dime! Someone dropped a dime! Someone dropped a dime!….♫ "

Well, Well, WELL.

Mr. Perfect Is REALLY Bending Over Backward with “Helpful Hints” for ’Ya, Huh Gunth?

BAH.

Here, TAKE this Bucket of Ice Cold Water, DOUSE Him and Wake Him Up.

And When He FINISHES Shivering, ASK Him How HIS Date with YOUR DREAM GIRL Went.

And Be SURE to Ask Him What He Meant EXACTLY by “WHOOO” when Sneaked into the House at 530 in Morning.

Complain with the artist, Gunth.

Gunther just can’t self-change himself!

Gunther is just as clueless as the fool who trolls the comments to be “first”!

Good question. What didn’t work?. Why is Gunther fully dressed? How long has Quill been asleep? Is it January 2nd? Is Gunther Doctor Who?

Soylent Green is people!

It was worth a try Gunther.In fact Quill probably also considers you a wee bit trying at the moment.

He can change. I did it. I wish I’d had his self-awareness at his age though.

A little maturity will go a long way too. Look at Greg.

Creating works of art is not boring, Gunther.Be proud, you are good enough to kiss even the hottest squeeze in town.

Gunny thinks his Great Plan has failed. But has it? Note how he is speaking and acting today!Batten the hatches, Quill!

Congratulations. .Tell us, what do you suggest Gunther do??Personally, I think he should smile more, enjoy life and try to be FIRST in Rosa’s heart.

NO ONE CARES!

latest, but hopefully not for long…

you are who you are, but if you want to change and add something to your life you can, you just have to put your mind to it and step outside the box. I think Gunther is a good person just like he is, and either Rosa will take him as he is or not.

I just don’t know about all these random crap remarks, and who the heck cares if you are first or 123rd with a comment. It just means you stayed up later than most folks…….get a life.

That is really well said. I guess I sometimes think like that about the characters, but it’s nice to have the reminder.

@blunebottle I agree. Have seen people do that for a long time. Why pick on Belinda? Doesn’t bother me.

Simple solution Gunther – Follow Rosa and join the Peace Corps. See the world.

Two options to get out the comfort zone – 1) Peace Corps, 2) The Military. Both will change Gunther immensely. Imagine Gunther joining the Marines and coming back as Rambo.

There was an error in the first panel. Did anyone else catch it? Also this who strip is confusing.

How old are you? 12?

-short buses-Aw, come on, that’s not nice….we all know that the short buses way back when were for those with what we now know as learning challenges….

♫♫ I can’t get no sat-iss-faction ♫♫

-Sorry kid, you have to make the change. It just isn’t going to happen on its own.-Absolutely, and why are so few of us saying this…..

Yep, it is still you in that shirt, Gunth. A change of shirt does not change you. Pretty shade of green though. It is soooo you. Did you stay up the rest of the night making it? Green as the grass just like the freshman class. Gunth, you have some catching up to do.

If I ever got a dozen responses, I would be elated ^You’re just pouring it on, now!!! In your efforts to “encourage” the kid into “doing your bidding” by “stirring it up”, You know you get a lot of responses, and you’re pretending that you don’t get a lot…..

In effect, you’re manipulating a kid , and “shoveling it on” kinda thick"!…

115th!

Poor Gunther. Just be the person you want to be and stop letting other people tell you there is something wrong with your life.

You don’t need to change-its rosa!

-The VAST majority of people here oppose Banana-The VAST majority of people here, at least those whose comments appear on this board (because many read and don’t post) are VASTLY indifferent to this particular issue…. honestly. No foul, no harm, but also, not much of interest….

-People are dynamic creatures, not rocks. They can change. They do change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not.-Agreed, and if someone is unhappy with himself and WANTS to change, there is nothing wrong with that. So those who keep saying that Gunther should just allow himself to be Gunther are not paying attention to the fact that he himself is not happy about the person he is right now.

-Another way to put it is that we give advice to “comic strip characters” because we can relate to them, -Some of the info we exchange here is probably helpful to a lot who read, but don’t comment, and who may have the same concerns as those shown in the comic…-Giving advice to a cartoon character is the same thing as shouting ’don’t go into that dark basement!’ to the kid in the horror movie who is going to do exactly that. It gives us an opportunity, together, to recognize the monsters in our own lives and maybe figure out how to slay them….

- I ever got a dozen responses, I would be elated. It would be an all-time record for me.- What you are really seeing is all of us old geezers complaining -False modesty is not modesty. (And I am not referring to your bragging about being an ‘old geezer’….)

Maybe Quill ought to take Gunther shopping. Get a new wardrobe, new haircut, maybe pick up some decent after-shave (granted, that’s very hard to find nowadays). But get him into a new mode, a new style. Then maybe Gunther will start to emerge into a new man.

people who reply first should be neutered so they can’t reproduce more idiot offspring.

replying second means you were the second idiot of the day and unoriginal.

Which means Darrin Bell’s wife is a real hottie lovely lady.

My advice to Gunther, just work to be a better you. As has been pointed out he has a lot of good points which probably attract Rosa, including being gentle, very smart, sincere and not a fake, a great artistic sense, a sensitive nerdy guy who probably will be quite well off, and accomplished as an adult. Just keep getting better, take some chances, for God’s sake dress a bit better!!

Well, what can Gunther change overnight?

1:Clothing. He needn’t wear the same outfit.2:Who asks who out. He may have it planned to the nth degree, but it’s still progress if he asks Rosa out to somewhere. 3:Kissing:Seriously, it’s a physical movement that he has proven ability to do.

The rest of it may be asking too much of him.

I know she is a rhymes with witch, but our main man may want to get with Tiffany and ask her about current mens fashion.

^^Gunther already tried that, and fell (temporarily) for Tiff, only to have her reject him; I can’t see him trying that again! haha

-people who reply first should be neutered so they can’t reproduce more idiot offspring.

Similar to Nazi philosophy towards the Jews.-Not even…

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the US has, in past, actually sterilized those who had been forcibly institutionalized in what we used to call insane asylums. That was wrong. But it was nothing like the construction of a series of camps to burn in ovens or starve to death people whose religion (Jewish and some Catholics), ethnic origin (Polish and Romany), mental abilities, gender identification, political beliefs (nonNazi) or sexual orientation did not meet the standards of the rulers of the country….

-The Nazis kept intensive records of the fate of each internee, confiscated property, experimented on those still alive in camps and used them as slave laborers.-There have been and continue to be terrible slaughters of people on this planet, but the Nazis still rank beyond even what is going on in Syria now and what was done in the Soviet Union after the Communists took over.

OMG!!! LOL….

-kid needs meds -Just like relying on a new haircut and fancy clothes, different kind of crutch, but same approach….pills to take the edge off wear off. If you run out of money, you can’t afford the fancy duds. And you’re still the same person….

144th

-Yeah, I’ve heard all the self-hatred from my fellow Jews that I need for a lifetime. If these folks knew the history, maybe the self-hate would lessen, I don’t know.- The reality is, yes, the Nazis didn’t suddenly appear. But their first acts had nothing to do with kicking out the Jews. They began by sterilizing the mentally ill, because it offended them that there was anyone in their midst who was so imperfect. At the same time that his was happening, Jews and others less acceptable were being moved into ghettoes.- And here’s the thing: Jews and other minorities had been forced to live in segregated areas of Europe for a long time before it began in Germany. So it didn’t seem like anything new, to the population at large or the Jews themselves. Certain professional became off limits to Jews, like teaching in a university or being a doctor. This had happened in the past in Spain. Jews in Germany often considering themselves ‘German’ rather than Jews, so they didn’t think it applied to them. And some were able to continue their lives for some time. Arrests didn’t happen till much, much later.-After sterilizing mentally ill, many of those in institutions were put to death. The Nazis waited on their next actions to see if anyone objected internationally. Apparently not. So they started on their ‘final solution’ for the Jews, but at the same time, moved against other nationalities and religious groups.

-In addition to the 3 million Polish Jews who were ultimately killed by the Nazi’s ‘final solution’, there were 3 million non Jewish Poles slaughtered. A lot were Catholics, some were Eastern Orthodox. -

None met the Aryan definition, so they were denied a ‘liebenstraum’ (living space) , forcibly removed to ghettos out of sight of the general Aryan population who were being fed nonsense about how these enemies had stolen their birthrights and so on. Those who the Nazis decided to kill were not ‘invited at gunpoint to leave’. They were forcibly removed at gunpoint, although the Nazis were happy to accept money from anyone willing to buy the freedom of those they were moving.-If someone suddenly attacks you while you are still healthy and in the home you’ve bought, it’s one thing. After you’ve been rounded up at night when thugs break down your doors, transported to strange areas on packed cattle cars standing up (with no food and no bathrooms), you probably wouldn’t be able to fight back well, either.-Yet there WERE rebellions. The Jews in the ghetto in Warsaw fought, but they lost. They had no arms to fight against the armies of Hitler, and no allies if they did manage to escape from the ghetto. There were those who did survive, escaping through sewer lines and such. Some joined a French underground resistance.-But the idea that as organized a killing machine as the Nazis could have easily been stopped by unarmed, untrained shop keepers fighting their torturers makes as much sense as asking why the women who were kidnapped and imprisoned by that serial rapist didn’t just overpower him and walk out, or why those on the flights that crashed into the Twin Towers on 9-11 didn’t just rise up and subdue their captors.-People need to read history, because they are making major assumptions that are not supportable by facts. -Why don’t all those North Koreans fight against the dictator who is starving them to death or throwing them in prison? Fighting the armies of a government that has decided to kill you is an overwhelming burden.

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Ask the Seminole Indians. Better yet, ask the Mayans. If you can find any of them….

What happened to the original ‘First’ comment? Was it removed?

Remember Levi,

First the worst,Second the best,Third the golden nerd.

Just don’t bring out that rhyme if and when I get first comment.

Anyway, congrats Belinda!

People with too much time on their hands.**

See above.

@sjsczurekHow do like having argy.bargy2 around to be the thought police/knowitall?

Chill out, Gunth! Quill didn’t give you any advice — you gave it to yourself, so don’t blame the Quillster when it doesn’t work.Tho’ I suspect that the idea that Q and Lu are an ‘item’ has more to do with the evident hostility than the faulty self-advice.

@Mikeyj

I agree. Have seen people do that for a long time. Why pick on Belinda? Doesn’t bother me^^Same here, I just ignore her, she isn’t insulting or harming anyone

Precisely.

^That may be so, but that’s not the way that GoComics sees it…. – Check out the top of yesterday and today…..

But then the COMIC STRIP wouldn’t be as much fun!

Zillions of tropes from TV and movies?

Gunther is Carrie? Should be interesting. Who’s got the pig blood?

Rosa can help Gunther here. It would be a loving act on her part.

Ohh, look! A “buck ninety”….

The only thing they read is Luann. Sad really.