Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 27, 2014

Be careful what you ask for, Rosa…. After all, you are still helping the poor… just without the “having to get all dirty” part… – Which seems to suit Gunther just fine !

Eso es el espíritu, chicos (that’s the spirit, kids).

Again, the dichotomy between Rosa and Gunther… ;)

“Long Arm Of The Med”“License To Chill”“A Medical Mistake”“Remote Control”“Dr. Living Well, I Presume”“The Remote Villiage People”or “My, That’s A Really Long Roll Of Gauze!”

Gunther looks happier and happier about this. Rosa…not so much.

something does NOT add up.

So they’ve been in Peru for weeks (remember, Rosa said she had to leave 2 weeks after graduation, and absolutely no later, thereby rushing Gunther into a decision to accompany her rather than going to Moony) but they’re just now meeting her uncle’s executive secretary? That should have happened on day one, whether her uncle is in the country or not. The timing (and so much else) of this story arc makes suspension of disbelief a huge effort. It would almost be more credible if they learn that they have really been abducted by aliens, and they’re on the planet Znargh. This whole story is just plain bad.

Well, this is an interesting twist…

I think Rosa’s problem is that she is too idealistic. Her idealism got in the way of rationalization. She didn’t do a through check of exactly what she and Gunther (whom I don’t think she expected to accompany her) were going to do and Where. I can only see disaster between her and Gunther… ;)

Either that, or “Roundabout” by Yes. Or “Like A Surgeon”, by Wierd Al…

Well, I have a Very Loud Irish Setter who is Demanding that she go to bed. Since I am very tired from walking all over a very large Fairgrounds today, I am going to do just that! BTW, I love State Fairs, there are just so many different things to see and do! I even ate an “Elephant Ear”… ’Nite all! ;)-———————————————————————-“Business first; pleasure afterwards.” William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811-1863)

Gunther happyRosa not so much

We can forgive the naive and homebound Gunther for thinking everything outside America is the third world, but I would think Rosa, having traveled a bit, would have known better.

Can’t really say anything too much, nor can we be hasty, here. – After all, there are still three more days to see what we shall see… including just specifically what the job will actually be! For all we know, the “cycle of love it/hate it oscillation” could possibly end for both of them, once they actually get into…..whatever it is they’ll be getting into…

Rosa is up for adventure. She’s sure not getting any (adventure) from Gunther.

LOL!

I’m sure there are plenty who are famous and work in jungles. They may not all be famous to us, but I’m sure they are renowned and skilled wherever they may be (even in the jungle)…..

Well, this explains why Rosa’s parents weren’t too concerned about letting her go to work for her uncle! I think Oramouse hit the nail on the head – Rosa’s plans were based on her romaniticized notions about what kind of “clinic” her uncle was running. Having made a few bad assumptions like that myself, I can relate….

Despite his penchant for plaid (and his current attire), Gunther is not the outdoorsy type.He should stay in Lima.

Here is an example of a group, called “The Royal Flying Doctors of Australia”… – (You can Click on link above, or go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia))

And here is some info on the “challenges and issues” regarding remote medical service….. – (http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/4/457.full)

Looks more like a sex-retary to me…

From the Charles Atlas school of Cartography and Cartology… full of shortcuts…. – The before guy’s name, upon graduation, must’ve been Dr. Chicken George. His plaque is probably located in his teeth….

Gunther “Patch Adams” to the rescue! He’s going to dress up in his own clown outfits and read stories to the kids in the children’s hospital wing.

Will we see that Rosa is a snob: To good to work with those dirty ‘rich’ people?

Look, even privileged folks need medical care. Sometimes very badly! I figured out something Gunther could do—spend time with the mamacitas whose sons never visit.

Before Reaction: Ick.After Reaction: Ewwwwww! My eyes!

Dear Evans and Rosa’s uncle, please give Gunther some muscle, but not enough to look like a mutated meat head.

Sincerely, a girl who thinks professional body builders look ugly and stupid.

Hmmm I’m thinking Rosa’s uncle has sadly misled her…this will be an interesting arc. No way is this the poor clinic she was led to believe she was going to help with.

Well.. is the story arc bad? No, I don’t think so.. it’s actually quite good, Rosa channeling Delta, Gunther being as always autistic selfish unattractiv and the secretary straight from the 8os with Crystal’s goth-make up and granny-hair added. I say: it will be all “a dream”…

I have a feeling they are going to be ‘helping’ the executive secretary….as in filing, fetching and making coffee!

She gave up Harvard to be help at a medical supply center. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

Oops! Uncle is not who she thought he’d be.

Rosa’s dilemma is made perfectly clear in panel 2. She knew her uncle was a great doctor/surgeon, but she romanticized that his clinic was in the outback and catered to The Poor. This is the internship of Service she expected. She didn’t bother to check the facts! This is working out well for Gunther, who is not the rugged outdoors-type. And, if things go smoothly enough with Sophia and her uncle (will we ever get to see him?), Rosa will, I think, adjust to her new reality….

The Sofia remind anybody of the Theater director lady? Something bout the head and way she stands maybe?

Person up and suspend disbelief as needed.

How many great surgeons would be great without the support of a great team and the technological support they need?

How’d you get my picture???

Also, how cheap is her uncle? Dude has a twelve-story clinic, but he doesn’t have a guest room in his house?

Unless he paid for the swanky hotel… Point being, the uncle’s status couldn’t be given away until right now, when it would smack Rosa in the chops (like it seems to have). Otherwise, she’d be alerted to it sooner and could circumvent it quickly. Now, she’s kinda stuck with it.

Seems like Rosa was hoping for something more along the line of “Doctors without Borders”.

And Gunther was hoping for a nice clean desk where he can plug in his cell phone and laptop.

This is why parents don’t let idealistic 18 year old girls make their own decisions. I just hope Gunth is getting some serious tail for all this…

So, Gunther.

WHEN Is the Next Flight BACK to the Good ’Ol USA??

Gunther still gets props for going in blind, but this setup works out perfectly for him. I can easily see Gunther deciding to pursue medicine over engineering after getting a chance to shadow a doctor.

And just what did Gunther expect to be doing at the clinic in rural Peru? For that matter, now that he knows it’s a well-funded establishment in downtown Lima, what does he still expect he could do there? Maybe when Dr. Big-shot surgeon returns from the conference in Madrid, he will tell Gunther, “You’re Rosa’s boyfriend the tailor, right? After seeing the current styles in Europe, I’ve been thinking I need some new suits. Can you make me something in a Mohair pin-stripe for the next meeting in Paris?”

Nope. He smiled more than Gunther does….

I can definitely see how this was worth giving up a full boat to Yale

Rosa, Here’s a hint— after a year volunteering for your uncle, go to Yale, become a health worker, and open up your own clinic for the poor. You can get supplies from your uncle.

@ ReallyBad2 stated…. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++“So far, Rosa doesn’t know:-Where her uncle’s clinic is located-What he does at the clinic-What she’d be doing at the clinic-Basically Rosa threw her college plans away for an idea she literally knew nothing about other than “I have an uncle and he has a clinic” and she made up the rest of the story from there.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++This sums it up really well in my opinion. I am rather disappointed in the character of Rosa at the moment. And this is also seemingly a silly waste of time and money for Gunther as well. To have Rosa (let alone Gunther) take this route with what APPEARS to be absolutely NO KNOWLEDGE or UNDERSTANDING on Rosa’s part… and an equally foolish devil-may-care attitude on Guther’s part…. makes me feel annoyed at BOTH of them.

“I can only see disaster between her and Gunther… ;)”*ORM – or maybe Gunther will end up loving this volunteer work and devote his life to it, and Rosa will be a bridge between the two worlds.

> regardless of who liked it, S2 and RB2 would hate it!>Who is it that likes this? Do you? If so, please explain why. (Feel free to be as long-winded as you wish.)

To me, it simply seems TOO FAR out of character for either one of them to be THIS unknowledgable and underprepared.

Has Gunther ever done anything more adventurous than tying his shoelaces, without first spending many hours researching it thoroughly on the Internet? If Rosa’s uncle is a “famous surgeon” and this clinic is a big deal in Lima, it must have a fairly significant Web presence.

No matter if they work in an upscale clinic, a poor village clinic or something in-between, this will be a full filling adventure for them if they have the right attitude. ~The only thing stopping any 18 year old lady from making her own decisions is lack of money, lack of knowledge of opportunity, and maybe, heaven forbid, a living situation where she feels she must stay in order to protect other family members from the family villain.

Prediction…. Gunther stays in Peru for awhile where he will mature and grow… Rosa, disillusioned…leaves to satisfy her need for adventure.

Oh, so THAT’s Des…oh wait.

Oh, so THAT’s what happened with TJ’s insurance claim….oh wait.

Oh, so THAT’s what happened with Brad and Toni’s wedding….oh wait.

I see several scenarios – 1. her uncle is looking out for them and doesn’t want them in danger. 2. her parents only agreed to this trip if the uncle did that. 3. the uncle is a scam artist of sorts. He gets donations for the poor, but only send a few donations to them and rest goes into his clinic. If this was a close knit family, why didn’t Rosa (and her parents) know all of this?

When Rosa talked with her uncle to get invited on this trip, she didn’t even ask where his clinic is and what she would do there? Apparently the only thing they discussed was that she had to be there in two weeks after graduation, which obviously she didn’t, since she and Gunther have been playing tourist while her uncle is in Spain. Will any of this be explained, or will it all remain a mystery?

-* regardless of who liked it*-It’s not that I like this, it’s that I recognize it as within the realm of the possible for idealistic young folks like Rosa. -I’m in my mid 60’s, but unlike most of the ole fogey posters here, I do remember those ‘I can save the world’ days right after high school (when so many of my classmates were drafted and sent to Vietnam, and returned in body bags).-Maybe what helps to make Rosa’s actions credible to me is what my middle niece and oldest nephew are doing now. Both actually finished their undergrad and earned a degree (mostly on scholarship and work study, but still have debts). Neither could find a job in the US that paid enough to both pay on their loans and pay for rent.-So both are teaching ‘English as a second language’ in foreign countries (nephew in Thailand, niece in Japan).-Both did do some research first, into the programs that they applied to participate in, and the places they would be posted. And both were totally shocked at what they ended up with. -My nephew found himself in a beautiful but remote village, teaching English to adults who want to work for a Thai company that is opening plants in the US (he was told he would be teaching the children of diplomats.) Fortunately, he is nowhere near all the demonstrations and police reaction to same that is happening where he was actually told he would be located, but he is with a bunch of long time vets of this program who have a very sour attitude and frequently take ‘vacations’, leaving him to handle all the work.-My niece ended up not at one school, but having to travel between several. Fortunately, the children seem genuinely happy that she’s there to work with them and eager to learn, but she spends so much time commuting, she has no time left for lesson prep.-But so far both are still excited about the possibilities of ‘making a difference in the world’.

Rosa seems surprised by all this.. did she NOT talk to her uncle?? Seems to me she talked AT him not WITH him.

LOL..

We all know Gunther doesn’t speak Spanish, but apparently Rosa doesn’t either, or anyone else in Peru.

And this, kids, is what happens when you think that everything South of the border is people with sombreros and riding mules!!

I am SO glad to see that Gunther is not suffering the way Rosa wanted him to. She doesn’t seem smart enough to get into Yale.

Shock & awe sets in . . . :-0 Could this be Barry Maquire’s “Eve of Destruction” for Rosa & G-man?

I once looked into volunteering for Up With People. As I recall, they wanted their volunteers to pay them $20,000 per year to cover expenses.

Well, we have Rosa & Gunter’s story, TJ’s story, Brad and Toni’s supposed wedding, Bernice’s new roommate mystery. Did I leave anything out? Gee, the name of the comic is Luann, who seems to be a minor character lately.

“Rosa knew less about her uncle than she thought. Probably had never visited him either till now.”*NG – Think you’re right. On the other hand, we’re not even in the middle of the arc, much less the end. Might the uncle have told her over the phone of a new outreach mission he’s setting up, one in which he could use her & G-man’s help? I’m not arguing with the arc until I understand it.

At last, a genuine sophisticated, intelligent and HOT female character;

“executive” secretary is sooo much more politically correct than “personal” secretary,

and judging by Gunther’s expression, he’s thinking, “maybe I made the right decision after all”

Wanna bet Rosa becomes so disillusioned that she decides to go back home and starts at Yale instead. She is not going to get her adventure and start “living.” And it is her own fault – she thought his uncle is a poor doctor working for a downtrodden clinic for the people of poverty, that his uncle has a good heart for the poor. No, he simply sends supplies but does not attend to them. Her parents’s fault also if they did not tell her exactly what his uncle is. Perhaps they did but she didn’t want to hear it. She wanted her adventure.

If her parents purposely sabotaged her trip then they’re doing a great job of getting disowned by their daughter. She’s out of high school and basically an adult, you don’t play these games with someone her age.

You do if you are confident your child can’t support them self yet… Unless Rosa has independent wealth somewhere under her direct control, she’s going to have to rely on her parents. Parents know this, and they use it to control their children even after they become “legal” adults. And after that, (and if they’re rich enough), they use “Estate/Inheritance” control, well into their adult lives.

> The secretary’s skirt is too short for the 80s. Actually the skirt is kind of short for an executive secretary in a medical clinic in 2014.>Unless this is a plastic surgeon’s office; the women there show a lot of skin, as sort of a living billboard to advertise the doctor’s skill.

By the look of his Executive Secretary, it appears that Rosa’s uncle might be a Plastic Surgeon.

And to add to that, it’s also not along the lines of Mark Trail, with all of the “facts and technical information”, etc. Of course, sometimes the way we all have our own reactions (at one time or another) here sort of reminds me of “Ripley’s”….(for the “believe it or not” aspect).

to whoever predicted this previously… yes! maybe Gunther will find himself in high tech heaven and perhaps discover a new niche goal for himself… biomedical engineering???

re: Gomer Pyle, sorry don’t see it. Gomer is so friendly and affable. Gunther is so opposite of that.

Rosa is willing to live in unfavorable conditions doing volunteer work. if she wanted a fancy lifestyle I’d agree, but it seems money is not her aim. She’d be in the Peace Corps right now if she could and that wouldn’t take any help from her parents.

Actually, it would. The reason she can’t be in the Peace Corps is that you need a at least some post-secondary degree to be in the Peace Corps, and she (presumably) can’t get that without financial help from her parents. She said so, herself.

Luann 03/14/2014

Betcha Gunther comes up with a solution that pleases everyone!

The premise of Green Acres was a lot more plausible than this. The lawyer knew he was buying a farmhouse in a rural community when he did it. We may think that an unlikely decision on his part, but it could certainly happen. This story requires a Yale-bound student to throw away her future education by going to Peru on 2 weeks’ notice, after talking with her uncle but not being told where she would work or what she would do. The nature of that phone conversation between Rosa and her uncle is beyond any even remotely plausible explanation.

She’d be in the Peace Corps right now if she could

“IF SHE COULD”. Yes, I’m aware of all of this….

Not the point of my response…. It was when you said:

AND THAT WOULDN’T TAKE ANY HELP FROM HER PARENTS..

And my point was, YES, IT WOULD!

If she had enough cash to finance her own college education so she could join the Peace Corps, she’d have taken that route by now, and bypassed her parents. Since she hasn’t yet, I think it’s safe to say that she can’t without their help.

Furthermore, Rosa also wants to take the shortest, more immediate path to her desires… to be able to “do more,” than “learn more.” She must have thought her uncle was that shortest path. So that might also be why she bypassed Yale, or any college, even if she did have the cash for it, or other alternatives if she didn’t (i.e. tuition assistance from the “military, etc.”)… It is on this point where I think she might not be thinking “end game/ big picture.” Maybe it is worth sticking it out at Yale for 4 years and letting her parents pay for it, before she goes off to the Peace Corps, etc.

I think that Rosa is a little naïve. She thought that her uncle helped poor people. I guess that reality came and smacked her in the face. What a shame.

Hummm…i think there is more to this…Gunther is going to end up rescuing Rosa before she uncovers that the Mafia is running the" clinic". Are we sure they are running "Medical (wink wink) supplies?

I agree with some previous comment: Sofia looks like Viper’s mother. And if Rosa doesn’t give Gunther a little action, Sofia will take it from him. She is a real cougar. Also just wondering, Gunther never unbuttons his top button, but neither do the other male characters. They either wear t-shirts or shirts with ties. I may be wrong on that, but its just an impression. Maybe an open collar is hard to draw.

> plastic surgeons often do pro-Bono work on disadvantaged kids with deformities>and on adults who have been disfigured in accidents or fires. However, Sophia seemed to imply that whatever Rosa will be doing, it will be in that high-rise office HQ of the clinic. She might not even meet any patients at all.

Hoo Boy!! She disturbingly looks like Ann Eiffel.

Maybe Gunther could take a tip from Beetle Bailey and hide his eyes behind tinted designer glasses. Also, a black, mock neck t-shirt, jungle vest, and Indiana Jones hat. The kid has to butch up and give Rosa something to fire up her fantasies and make her navel tingle.

Maybe the uncle uses the Hollywood style “clinic” to earn money from celebs or the wealthy to fund outreach clinics. That building and secretary seem too glitzy. Maybe we are being setup by Evans.

I guess the real question is, why did Rosa want Gunther to come with her?

Oops!!

Sofia = Vampira

You know it does and Really finds it irritating.

Lisa always understood the critters..Remember how she would tell the cow and chickens how much milk and how many eggs she needed?