Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 28, 2018

more baby carrots for Gunther and Leslie if Leslie keeps tricking the kids

Hey, Great idea, Gunther!

“Healthy Eating.” Maybe if you start volunteering to fix your No Good, Two-Bit, Dirtbag of a Step Cousin, Healthy Meals, he’ll soon leave.

On the other hand, THAT might be the REAL reason Tiffany only “booked” You for two hours, and soon left in disgust, last Arc……., ;)

By this, we are to presume, they worked out their differences?

Gunther is apparently related to Big Nate’s dad…

Les is doing the decent thing for once.

Funny, but why are they knocking on the door of a mother-in-law cabin? I always assumed it was sort of in the backyard?

First time I ever saw Les do a good deed.

Les is taking out two birds with one stone; he preventing girls and boys from disappointment of getting healthy foods rather than sweets. And he preventing disappointed trick-or-treaters from getting revenge by TPing and/or egging their house.

I would assume the boys work things out.

Gunther couldve given the kids staplers and such instead.

It’s official – Gunther is from another planet.

Leslie did well at looking scary.

Frankly it would have been funnier to see them run in fear of the carrots.

That stubble grew back quickly.

By tomorrow he’ll have shaved it off again in order to maintain continuity.

Baby carrots…

Baby carrots. They never got to know what it’s like to be adult.

I guess the store was all out of the little bags of broccoli!

I see…Gunther would be one of THOSE neighbors.

Either way their house would be shunned next Halloween by the neighborhood gremlins. Or the target of the old dog doo doo I the flaming brown bag.

Today I agree with Les. I usually don’t.

I would like to see someone pull a trick on Les.

I’m getting to like Les more and more!

That is a good way to get your home toilet papered and windows soaped.

Baby carrots for Halloween??? Gunther, you… MONSTER!

I don’t believe that even Gunther is this clueless.

I’m actually on Gunther’s side here. Sugar, especially hfcs, is poison and we need to stop giving it to children.

@SHERIFF Any particular reason the “O” on DONG is a different color?

Peter David, the writer of comic books like “The Incredible Hulk”, always gave Trick-or-Treaters comics instead of candy, claiming “It’s better to rot kids’ brains than their teeth.”

one year The Wife gave out little boxes of raisins, because some Home magazine or another convinced her it was the healthy thing to do.

She realized she’d made a possible error when she overheard one disappointed kid proclaim after leaving the doorway, " Raisins?! She gave us RAISINS !" . We still laugh about it.

Little baby carrots for Halloween? That’s just wrong!

If you want to participate in the beggars night festivities, give out sweets.

Or turn off your light and put out a sign.

Ohh.. Gunther… no, no, no…

Oh Gunther you Conehead, don’t you know you’re supposed to give out beer and fried eggs?

I have to quit followng this strip for a while… These two guys need time to go away

Gunther is such a hose head.

Baby carrots? Les did them a favor!

Gunther, while the kids parents (thinking of dentists bills) might appreciate the idea of the veggies, the kids won’t. Think of the mess you’ll have to clean up. (Les won’t help, blaming it all on you.) I know you’re portrayed basically as a (former) mama’s boy, "goody two shoes.) But really, when you were their age, wouldn’t you preferred candy as well?

He’d find those bags of carrots on his lawn in the morning.

Are you trying to get tricked, Gunther?

I’m not sure, but can anyone actually buy small bags of individual servings of baby carrots? If so, that would be fine as a give out for Halloween. But if they are not in pre-packaged bags, but in something like a Ziplock or other type of baggie, then the carrots would be going to waste as parents would throw something like this away due to safety concerns. It’s a nice gesture by Gunther, but as I stated, I’m not sure how you can buy baby carrots in small packaged bags.

So it turns out Gunther is the monster!

What a twist!

Unless they’re prepackaged, the parents will throw them out.

I haven’t and wouldn’t do it, but combining the two, I ran across the idea of wrapped chocolate dipped brussel sprouts. Eee-villl!

Why would trick-or-treators be knocking on the door of a guest house in the back yard?

A suggestion: Instead of giving out candy, go to Sam’s Club or Costco and get a box of vending machine size packs of potato chips. (Usually 50 packs/box.) They always go over big with the kids. After eating a ton of chocolates and cheap candy, something salty comes appreciated. Not a health food, to be sure, but different.

Best Halloween treats I ever got were from a small (and I mean small!) neighborhood grocery store. The owner gave out ice cream sandwiches one year. Not the best idea, in retrospect, because of course they had to be eaten en route, but I’ll bet our eyes grew big as saucers when he handed them out! Another year he gave out boxes of snakes, the kind that grows and leaves a mess on the sidewalk when you light it with a match. He might have given them just to the older kids, but… my brother and I could not have been more than seven and eight, respectively, at the time. He sure created indelible memories! (and I sure miss my “little” brother at times like this!)

this time, les did them a good deed!bags of baby carrots, for kids on Halloween? Really?

Hey , Les did something nice for those kids. Maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all.

Not content with being hated by his roommate, emasculated by his mother, ignored by his stepdad and viewed as invisible by most of the female gender, now Gunther is trying to be despised by all the neighborhood children.

This panel actually made me laugh out loud, which is good thing for a Sunday foible strip. For those who want Les gone well forget it. If he makes the Sunday foible, it’s over, he is a regular. Frankly I like it, opens up so many story possibilities. Also my Degroot theory. Anyone who stays around the Degroot orbit long enough becomes better versions of themselves, although that might not work with Ann, but I would argue she is not in that orbit close enough, and she is a sociopath, so she can’t change.

One year I thought I would give out healthy snacks so I chose those little boxes of raisins, sweet and good for you. As one group of kids walked back to the car (the parents drove them around to various neighborhoods) one of the parents must’ve asked then what they got because one kid answered “We got raisins, AGAIN!” Guess I wasn’t the only one who had thought of that.

I have to side with Les on this. What choice is there? This year, Gunther is being the monster.

In my mind I see a front lawn blanketed in baby carrots. It’s one day of the year. Give the kids candy and save the healthy stuff for the other 364 days.

Just what I need……..enlarged drawings of the two saddest losers this side of La Cucaracha.

“What The DING-DONG!?”

“Twenty-Four Carrot Ghouled”

“A Comedy Of Terrors”

“Les’ Tricks Are For Kids”

“Door Sur-Prize”

“Put A Shock In It”

“Shock And Aw, Phooey!”

“Rob(ber) Zombie”

“It’s The Fright Thing To Do”

“Monster — Cheese It!”

“Fear Factor”

’A Clown, Scared By A Bozo"

“Pair ’Em — Scare ’Em”

I noticed that “Dracula” dropped his treats. Look for Les to claim them for himself — and Gunther will never know about it.

Bags of baby carrots. gunther is going to be picking up lots of bags of carrots. And clean up the TP and wash off the eggs

Horrible Halloween candy? Gunther is related to Big Nate’s dad, confirmed!

As Gunther’s stubble seems to come and go, so does Les’s chin hair. You’ll notice he lost it in the second panel, but found it again in the third. :D

Gunther: “But Les! They’re ORANGE, you see? Just like PUMPKINS!! So … I carved little, tiny Jack O’Lantern faces into each carrot!!”

It’s giving trick or treaters things like that that get your house toilet papered and egged, Gunth.

The Les fans should appreciate how much the sleazy dirtbag has matured since high school. High school Les would have stolen their candy or kicked their butts. Adult Les merely scares the bejeezus out of the little brats. Better that he take his anger out on random kids than on put-upon Gunthie.

Even the Bags of Baby Carrots are better than total Disappointment.

the day when they’ll _have" to eat sensibly will come all too fast. Let them enjoy binging on chocolates, pixy sticks, and everlasting gobstoppers now while they can enjoy it!

Man, Gunther is cruel.

This is amazing.

Les scares kids away he’s a “hero.”

Gunther tries to give them healthy food, and he’s a “monster.”

Well, I’m now convinced. If Gunther were to find a cure for Cancer tomorrow, “folks” would STILL Hate his guts.

I got a rock.

The thing is, I love baby carrots! Eat some every day!

So I have to side with Gunny here, even though I understand Leslie’s warped reasoning….

The only losers, actually, are the Trick-or-Treaters….

Can’t believe I’m going to say this but for once I’m with Les.

“Jerk In The Box”

The Halloween paradox: Scaring small children is not actually funny.

I count 14 anti Gunther statements but only 2 anti Les statements. I count 11 pro Les statements but only 2 pro Gunther statements. This is strange, since Les is behaving aggressively toward children, and Gunther, though misguided, has their best interests at heart.

Gunther was called a “monster” 3 times, “cruel” twice, and also “from another planet”, “clueless”, “hopeless”, “wrong”, a “cone head”, a “hose head”, “mama’s boy”, “goody 2 shoes”, “hated”, “emasculated”, “invisible”, “despised” and having “bad mommy issues.”

Les was said to have done a “good deed” twice, and was said to have “saved the kids.” Les was also called “decent”, and was said to have “matured.” Others said, “I agree with Les”, “I like Les”, “I side with Les”, “I’m with Les.”

I am amazed, and not in a good way.

Les’ semi-goatee disappears randomly now

Les finally did something decent. Baby carrots for Halloween?…Bleah!

Haha, Les’s scare was the treat vs. Gunther’s carrot tricks.