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Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 25, 2014
Transcript:
Rosa: "Your mom has a boyfriend?" Gunther: "She calls him a "Friend" but-" Worker 1: "Gunther! Thanks for fixing the network!" Gunther: "It's always been just her and me..." Worker 2: "We need you at the I. T. meeting, Gunther!" Worker 3: "Hey, great job on the tech report!" Gunther: "Now I feel so... unneeded." Worker 4: "I need help with my computer, Gunther"
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Oh, Gunther, you doofus !!! ;)
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Oye, Gunther, Āæles escuchas los compaƱeros de trabajo? (Hey, are you listening to the co-workers?)
JayBluE about 10 years ago
If a person clears trees in a concrete and steel forest (the big city), and no one is there to share in it (the people that matter most to them), does that mean he did it for nothing?ā¦ ā What Gunther doesnāt appreciate, though, is the positive aspect, that he did a good job with just the two of themā¦ and now he can be on the verge of living his own life, and itās not about not being needed by Mrs Bā¦ just about new people to need him, nowā¦
wiselad about 10 years ago
good grief, manā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦. he worries about stuff he should not worry about, and does not see what he hasā¦ā¦ā¦.. and as I said, there are great universities in Lima of his chosen fields
jemgirl81 about 10 years ago
SIGH!!!!
JayBluE about 10 years ago
āThe One That Got AwayāāForest For The TreesāāA Song For An Unsung HeroāāPeruvian Blind SpotāāHer Pat On The Back Is Worth Two And A PushāāTerritoriesāāThe Low Spark From High Tech Toysā āNo Rest For The WeakenedāāMy Perpetual PeeveāāWeakened WarriorsāorāSitting On A Waterbed, With Nothing To Drinkā
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
It will be interesting to see if Rosa tries to talk him out of the silliness heās about to doā¦ ;)
JayBluE about 10 years ago
And it looks like theyāre trying to fold them inā¦.. ā Hopefully , one of them will step outside of the box, if they want to have a good ideaā¦
Mordock999 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Say Gunther? Are ACTUALLY Getting PAID by Any of the So-Called Adults for the WORK You do around here???
William Loster about 10 years ago
Has it really come to this, Gunth? (sighs, sips coffee, sighs)- And is plan D, being the IT guy while Rosa answers calls? I mean good for Guenther, but Rosa must be miserable.
wiselad about 10 years ago
by fact that they do speak English, lot of the clients are probably foreigners, not locals
JayBluE about 10 years ago
Heād better not check out Sophiaās tattoo, thenā¦ā The old standard āI Love Mom!ā Tat during her Peruvian Naval tour.. last stop in the lounge at their Navyās Visitorās Gift Shopā¦
seismic-2 Premium Member about 10 years ago
If Gunther is getting paid, then heās violating his visa and can be deported. They are supposed to be volunteers.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
Shouldnāt they all be speaking Spanish or at least sounding like Ricky Richardo? (Perhaps Evans is afraid of the Curse of Speedy Gonzalez? )
seismic-2 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Gunther is telling Rosa to her face that heās unneeded. So the only relationship that matters to Gunther is the one with his Mom, not with Rosa. Thatās the cue to drive him to the airport and never see him again. Rosa. You picked a real loser and tried to make him into a boyfriend. It didnāt work, so give up.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
ANd what exactly did you DO for your mom, Gunther?From what weāve seen, you were a taker, not a giver.Not a burden, but you certainly didnāt contribute.
wiselad about 10 years ago
Even Volunteers max stay is 183 days per year
Angelalex242 about 10 years ago
Ya knowā¦considering this strip, Gunther needs to STAY PUT. Heās very successful where he is, and heās even happy where he is.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Actually, it makes sense that at least some of the rich clientele at this plastic surgery clinic might be American or European rather than only Peruvians. Some society ladies probably choose to get their face lifts in South America, so that no one they know will see them until they have fully healed and then return home after their āvacationā, looking ārefreshedā.
kenhense about 10 years ago
Geez ā Gunther was visualizing just Mom and him tbe rest of his life??? Rosa ā Save this guy!
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Well, it is 11:00 pm hereā¦time to find out where IS Katie is flopped, and put her to bed! Iāve got a few books I am reading; currently the best one I have is about the history of Sitcoms. And, on that note, āNite all!-āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā-ānow and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.ā(Don Marquis, 1878-1937)
Sisyphos about 10 years ago
Gunther, itās time to stop thinking of your Mom as though you were still only four years old. Love her by letting her live her life and let Rosa provide you with all the s-mothering you want!
Chrisdiaz801 about 10 years ago
To put it In a way youād understand Gunther, trip on the road not taken.
Barry1941 about 10 years ago
Mommy issues anyone?
gocomics about 10 years ago
This is like a Millennial wet dream. āHey! Iām an 18-year-old high school graduate, but due to my mad computer skills, I can walk into a huge medical complex with a professional I.T. staff and immediately be recognized as an indispensible genius!ā
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 10 years ago
āI need you, Gunther!ā.āWe ALL need you, Gunther!!!ā
Willywise52 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Gunther needs professional help.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 10 years ago
āWithout a piece of paper saying he has an IT degree he wonāt be getting a job anywhere else.ā.If he is going to conferences and has a bunch of people willing to testify to his knowledge and experience and work skills, then, YES he can find employment elsewhere. An he can always buy a degree for the ones who are too stupid to realize what the references are saying.
krys723 about 10 years ago
One thing wrong at home and now you wanna go running back? You canāt expect your Mom not to move on!! Jeez Gunther!!
wiselad about 10 years ago
the first indoor plumbing was as early as around 1500 BC!!! on the Crete empire and went from there to Northern Greek and was used extensively by the Roman empire, but donāt worry, the first toilet was as early as 3rd century BC so you ended up correct ,
pumaman about 10 years ago
Could use him where I work.
Skylark about 10 years ago
Hey Gunther! Itās called L*I*F*E! Get used to it!!
nickel_penny about 10 years ago
Waitā¦I thought he was a tailor. When he become a computer tech guy?
MermaidStitcher about 10 years ago
Maybe they will offer him a job. then the conflict of do I stay here or go home . will start?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
Interesting that the background is darker in the Spanish version.
JustSaying2013 about 10 years ago
Okay, obviously Evans is a true moron as to how IT support works. I donāt care if this is comic; a kid just out of High School with no certification or IT experience would never be allowed to work on (especially a hospitalās) IT infrastructure. Quit being so delusional and making your characters to be these āsuper heroesā. First you make one out to be an unapologetic bitch that thinks sheās going to amount to something in politics; then you have someone that can only be described as a depressive slut, youāve got a snake oil salesman who actually happens to be the only humanistic person in the stripā¦ and now a KID that an entire hospital is relying on to keep their IT infrastructure running? I would say stick to teenage angst story arcs, but you canāt even have Guentherās mom call her date by his first name! wth!?!??!?! Is that how you greeted your wife/significant other when you first met them?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
āGunther speaks Spanishā¦āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāOnly in the Spanish language version of the stripā¦
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
I donāt think thereās any evidence that Evans does his own translations.Heās no Brooke McEldowney, after all.
Argy.Bargy2 about 10 years ago
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates both both became very successful entrepreneurs and billionaires without degrees. The field of IT is not like medicine or engineering, where a practitioner must have the paperwork that proves that critical training was undertakenā¦
Argy.Bargy2 about 10 years ago
Most successful IT divisions contain a number of people who learned their craft either in the military, or through on-the-job training. IT is changing every day, so whatever is taught in a university is obsolete before the newly minted grad hits the job market. The key to success appears to be the ability to learn very quickly and to see connections. Thatās how my bro-in-law is doing it; his training was all in the militaryā¦
2Goldfish about 10 years ago
Since when has Gunther been computer savvy? I thought he just knew how to sew.
Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member about 10 years ago
I redrew the panels just to get your attention. Good eye!
harkherp about 10 years ago
Are Both Gunther and Rosa sitting on pre-school chairs? The co-wokers tower over them looking over the cubical walls!! Isnāt Guther wasting his future/knowledge working for such a company?Love is not really blind for him either!!!
CeeJay about 10 years ago
Gunter!!! Grow up !!! Let your Mother have a life !!!
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 10 years ago
āItās the classic stereotype, the anti-social glasses wearing kidā.Not anti social, more like asocial, he donāt know how to interact good like usāns do.Nonetheless, limitation to only one thing is not common even in the real world.
greenearthman about 10 years ago
I know this is all just a story, a piece of fiction, but can you imagine being in Guntherās shoes right now? Talk about possibilities for personal growth. Letting go, so his mom can have a real life. Letting go, so he could have one himself. What opportunity! Adventure! Wonder! Even if you werenāt, or were, young and in love, what a wonderful place-geographically and psychologically-in oneās life this could be. Youthātruly wasted on the young!
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 10 years ago
āThe point is, yes, you can skate by without a degree in certain scenarios but almost always it catches up with you, and itās risky not to get one.ā.Of course, but the statement addressed was that he could not find employment elsewhere based on his experience here.That was incorrect.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
Itās that magical Luannverse where you can work and study, (plot and scheme), showing no outward signs until it becomes useful as an Evans gag.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 10 years ago
āwe would have seen him do something with computers in the past 25+ years.ā.Because weāve seen everything heās done in the past 25 years of his 18 yearsā¦.
palealien about 10 years ago
Sweet. But I bet Evans has not done much IT work.
Airman about 10 years ago
I think that I got bleeped for suggesting that Rosa show Gunther what her needs were.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 10 years ago
Night-Gaunt49,āit was Gunther as the IT guy who figured it out. That was years ago by our time.ā.Good point and THAT was done onstage.
wiselad about 10 years ago
and countless times he has been shown good in math and doing calculations and I think he probably used computers at the library
Vorticia about 10 years ago
Um someone needs a reality checkā¦
Scott S about 10 years ago
She also needs him to fix the hem on her skirt.
wiselad about 10 years ago
http://amradaronline.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/infphoto_1338622.jpg no make up, still beautiful, you make it sound like she puts makeup same way as Tammy Faye Bakerā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦.. and Knute could be a good CEO of a manufacturing company of skateboards, and we already know he looks dashing in a suit
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 10 years ago
You donāt have to be an IT guy to look at a picture and wonder whatās in the reflection in the background, or to re-size a digital photo.Too many people who post selfies forget the background when theyāre posting; like the one girl who posed topless on her bed with her framed diplomas, awards, and family holiday snaps on the wall behind her.
wiselad about 10 years ago
that is nothing, some women have posted naughty pictures without noticing that their toddler kid is in the background(or worse, not caring)
wiselad about 10 years ago
looks like I have to correct what lot of people think, the choice of career for Gunther is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_engineering ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ NOT THIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer
rlfekete1 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Never would have thought Gunther was so selfish.
Caldonia about 10 years ago
None of this makes sense, and here we have the usual bootlickers giving themselves nosebleeds trying to make it make sense. Yes, keep explaining and explaining and explainingā-what I really want is apology after apology after apology for this terrible plot, Greg Evans!
Caldonia about 10 years ago
Why should I feel sorry for Gunther? Heās 18 and lives in a whole other country and feels depressed because his mother just started dating? And his dad is out of the picture and/or dead? The only person whose life will be changed by Mrs Guntherās Mom (first name: ?) dating is Quill, because heāll want to make himself scarce before Mrs. No First Name and Mr. No First Name start cuddling on the couch while they watch nudity-ridden HBO programs.
lmonteros about 10 years ago
Sheesh, my kids were more than happy to leave home. But for some reason, my pleas to help me find a nice old guy with independent means has never been answeredā¦.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 10 years ago
Just a bit???
JayBluE about 10 years ago
(navel:) Ha ha!!!!
Srover about 10 years ago
I didnāt know Gunther had any computer skills.
JayBluE about 10 years ago
āAmerican Standardā¦ā ^Then I am reminded of him, almost every dayā¦..
JayBluE about 10 years ago
In medical records, I would be making copies or faxes, and if a doctor comes up to use the machine, I have found some that become bewildered as soon as they walk up. And these are people paid to have a scalpel in their hands! I wonder if I could come up and work on a patient or two while Iām waiting for them to finish faxing or making copies at my copy station?
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
I donāt think Greg E. gives a flying fig about being a stilted comic-writer. He goes for gags and surprises. It seems like all you want to do is stuff him into your idea of being a comic artist. What is important is how he wants things to be in his Luannverseā¦ ;)
Argythree about 10 years ago
Hereās what you donāt necessarily get. Some cartoonists donāt see themselves as writers. They are more into the graphic side of this kind of work. So they put more emphasis on āsight gagsā (what you are looking at) then they do on the narrative.-If youāve ever read Non Sequiter on Gocomics, youāll see that Wiley Miller will sometimes respond to comments. He is especially vocal over the issue of coloring the comic; he believes it destroys the cartoons by taking emphasis away from the line drawing. He considers cartoons to be an art, not a storyboard.-Maybe Evans is more about the art form, and less about the story.