Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 14, 2023

Awwwwww… Bets and Gunther are back together again and love is in the air! ;)

I hope Bets really means what she says and finally puts Gunther first.

I’m sure this wraps up soon because we need to get a Thanksgiving Arc started ASAP.

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So… will someone there now put Stef in her place?? lol

AWWWWW!

Why is Stefani Bird streaming reunion?

Translating Luann, “Don’t hit me!”

I’m a little leery of that little black heart there . . . that doesn’t bode too well with me.

All’s well that ends well.

Of course, this will probably tick off the Bets haters (◠‿◠)

Is Tiffany hiding out?

A climax on Tuesday seems odd. What are they (G&K) going to do for the rest of the week? I’m pretty sure what G&B are going to be doing for the est of the week.

Is Gunther going to man-up and find a job?

Bets you have grown this day. One side their friends, isolated on the other side Steff.

Not sure of Steff’s reaction.

I love how Luann’s scared for her life in panel 1, she thinks Bets is coming in there to knock her out.

I still say Gunther and Bets have shown more incompatibility than anything lately and I’m not crazy about the way they’re brushing aside all the accumulated red flags for a fast reconciliation. I can’t get over how stilted and robotic sounding the apology in panel 2 sounds.

Anticlimactic. What’s left for the rest of the week? Mutual apologies all around?

I am glad to see the drama end this way although I know many disagree. I hope Betts and Gun go on to finish college and go on with their lives together.

Stef with knee pads. The only thing appropriate to her in that last panel.

Give Stef a PS5! Some Tomb Raider would really be distracting.

All’s well that ends well, but is this the end? It’s mighty hard to sustain a 180° turn in one’s whole world view and way of living.

Not what I predicted. But I do like it :)

Gun there a sucker born everyday!!! Bets cares more about her fans then she does you.

Awwwww, yes!

Well, Bets, five minutes ago you were in your van texting and filming how you were gonna surprise your fans with a reunion with Gunther and fantasizing about filming your reunion with Gunther. Now you’re saying you realized you had it better with Gunther than your fans and are telling him now that you should’ve told him long time ago…you realized that five minutes ago when you read those nasty texts from your fans. Who believes Bets is going to quit social media and resume a regular and mundane relationship with Gunther? Not me. She might try to stay away for a little while but she will eventually go back to social media. Plus school already started so she still has the semester off. What will she do for money? Not many jobs pay better than social media which is basically little work and a lot of fun and creativity.

Steff needs to stay out of it!

i’d give it a week in universe time before she’s back to caring only about her tiktok and insta and every other social media platform

Happy to have been mistaken. Things ended well…for now, but it’s only Tuesday.

Happy!

Im glad my prediction was wrong.

So does this arc finish now? Not sure what’s going to happen for the next 4 days…

Everybody’s happy except Stef. Works for me.

Well I called it. Stef is live streaming the whole thing. But why does she look so bummed? Does she hate to see anyone happy? And where is Kip BTW?

What is Steph’s costume?

That is very sweet. I am glad that they are back together. :)

I also hope that Bets has learned her lesson to not force Gunther into the public spotlight too much.

Also, I saw what the authors did there, with a “Don’t be like Stef” comment at the end.

We’ll see if she feels th same way 15 minutes from now or when she gets her phone back in her hand

At least Bets did leave her phone in the van, unlike her earlier fantasy of streaming her embrace with Gunther.

Gun please remove that hard board you’re wearing. How in the world can you hug someone with that barrier around you.

WWA❤️ED? Vomit.

Well done, Bets. Gotta find that balance.

Well, there ya’ll HAVE it.

The only thing that’s missing is Prince’s “Nothing Compares to U,” playing in the background.

“New and Improved Bets?” I ain’t buying it. Bets could have told Gunther all that stuff and MEANT it back during the “pagoda of peace” incident a couple of years ago.

In fact, she did kinda, back on 07/09/21, only to have her whip that darn phone out.

Odds are, Bets will whip that darn phone out again before the week is out. Perhaps as early as tomorrow.

Unless, Gunther has finally decided he’s had enough of Bets and leaves, since he NOW knows where the front door to the manse IS.

OR, Gunny meets some friendly gal while working as a T.A. who’ll finally give Bets some well deserved, long overdue competion.

Anyway, all that’s left this arc, is Stef getting her lights punched out. ;-)

Panel 3: Notice the black heart??

OK – Back to the issue of where will they sleep together.

There’s been a lot of mean comments about Bets here.

You want to bet the strip creators aren’t reading them?

Congrats, haters. You made the strip. ;)

Awwwwww… How nice! A big and sincere hug between Gunther and Bets without the livestream. Just them and their real friends. I was hoping for this! Now Gunther will no longer have doubts that she left him. Everyone is happy, except Stef, who probably hoped to film a fight between Bets, Luann and Gunther in livestream. But Bets never thought for a moment that the two had gotten together. Now I wonder if Bets will tell Stef what she thinks of her or be superior and ignore her.

Not the reaction I expected, but it’s the results I wanted. <3 Of course their REAL friends are happy about it, but her fans? Yeah, they don’t matter anymore. She’s gonna lose a LOT of subs for this, but maybe it’s time for her to end her influencer career and move on to something else.

Will Stef now delete the picture?

For once, Luann gets it right! She vehemently denies being Gunner’s mate and then backs off and keeps he mouth shut!

Bets ’fesses her love for Gunther and they embrace, making up publicly! Only Stef trolls on.

What will follow hereafter, however, remains subject to whim….

STEF blew it!! I can hardly wait to see the hateful messages directed at her! With the ugliest one from Kip!!

A party about nobody. “we are not on a date” “Iam not his gal”. Somebody might be somebody today.

I can see Mommy Dearest Irma having palpitations over this reunion, LOL.

That settles that. Except Luann has been dumped.

Does this mean that Bets will have to get a real job?

looks like NOBODY got the message…. I think Greg and Karen just put US (the commenters of this strip) in place… (see panel 3) LOL

Don’t worry. By this time next week, Bets will be right back to being Bets again.

These characters are their early 20s. For crying out loud, don’t you remember what you were at that age? Had all the answers, don’t anyone could see it any other way.

With luck, they’ll be a little more mature, a little better person. Going through major chances, like what Bets did today, could put her on the road to being an adult.

Lame

Nice! As it should be… Bravo! Lesson learned (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

Okay, whoever is on the other side of that iPad, shove it up your outport device!

I said it yesterday, but I’ll rephrase it here. We have been on this storyline for three weeks and Thanksgiving is next week. Hopefully this has finally resolved itself and we can move onto something else.

Now, Stef gets her comeuppance.

I have to wonder if this arc is intended as a statement about many of the regular commenters on this strip.

You need to get the hell out of there now, Gunther. Say thanks, but no thanks. Nah, kneel down and propose. Get her tacos and spaghetti and a diamond ring and some ice cream. Take her to a Taylor Swift concert… no, wait, those are about exs. Take her home and dance to the music in her head. I’ll bet she has great music in her head.

Well that wasn’t any fun. No big fight after all that buildup.

And if this is what’s happening on Tuesday, then I’d love to see what happens on Saturday!

It’s great to see that Bets finally sees what is really important.

Actually Stef is the one who caused this loving reunion with her nasty actions. Her post of Gunther and Luann shocked Bets into realizing where her heart really is. It also showed her how her “fans” will turn on a dime.

This just feels…meh. I’m looking at Bets’ declaration and just thinking “yeah, talk is cheap. I don’t really buy it.”

That is a really well drawn hug! Maybe better without the board, but very nice! Bets has realized a great truth – if you have fans you have to keep them entertained. She needed Gunther back in her life – both private and public. Excellent that Steff got the reunion posted (as planned). That will be worth a lot of fans, although it sounds like some of them thought Bets could do better than Gunther and vice-versa. Just can’t please all of the people all of the time I guess!

Okay, time to clock Stef and shove that cell phone where the sun don’t since or throw it waaaayyyy out into the street. Even Dez and all her tolerance and forgiving should have this totally cross the line.

If she’s serious about prioritizing real relationships over her fans, then maybe this can work. But, this is already her third chance on that, so, you’ll have to forgive me if I sound a bit pessimistic.

I like Bets. In other strips she was a high GPA earning business student and she helped Tiff salvage her GPA. It was a little out of character for her to do comic/sci-fi conventions. Also, she ignored this last semester of school. But it’s nice to see her back.

AAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Finally

So…will bets walk up to Steph and thank her a give her a hug? Or will she go up to her, thank her, give her a hug, and then slap her? Knowing G&K, my money’s on the first scenario, too bad.

note Betts never thought Luann was stealing her guy. points for that.

I guess they’ve decided to kiss and make up. Well, hug and make up, but you get the point. But guess who else at the party? Stef! And she’s recording every single thing and here come the trolls and cyber bullies with their nasty comments filled with shaming.

Who is Raggedy Ann?

Go away, Steph! Crawl back under the rock you came from!

Boooooo!

Either Bets does some damage control, fan-wise, or finds a real job.

Hiss, boo :-(

Definitely captures the current state of under 25’s Social Media… whatever platform they are using.

Stef is always in her place. Slithering close to the ground, and ready to strike at any time.

Called it! Well, on my last guess, sort of… love the comments on the phone (eyes rolling).

yeah, she finally chose Gunther over her fans. :D

Surely there’s a comic con she’ll want to go away for next week, right? Please? She’s so annoying.

Tomorrow, we see Bernice reading her report on “female/male interaction -what does body language say”…in front of her class.

Propose to her you idiot!!

This might be the first time EVER I have actually respected Bets. But Stef remains an ignorant, narcissistic, egocentric bimbo.

Awwww, the kiss of two lovers. We were half expecting the fight of the ages. Maybe that comes later. At least, for now, Betts has put her love for Gun in perspective.

Please dump Betts. She hasn’t changed. She doesn’t care about Gunther. He doesn’t see it.

Hummmm I don’t trust Bets

Can Halloween end now? LOL

Bets is mostly sad that she missed a costume event.

YES!!!!!!

Alls well that ends well. For now. Time will tell if Bets is REALLY serious about changing her priorities. But I love this ending. I guess this means she will be back at MU this semester after all.

Probably by Friday Gunther will see Bets returning to her blog addiction full time. Then he will make a decision.

3,2,1 rosa bye saturday

Bets is lucky that it wasn’t too late to tell him that.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

IMO: This is actually an accurate depiction of someone with early trauma and trust issues. They’ll keep running from good things because they cannot accept someone simply loves them, and are expecting to be burned again so they, try to get ahead of it. Gunth being patient is the way to help them both.

Gunther demonstrates yet again that he has no spine at all.

It will last as long as it takes for Rosita to return para ella hombre!

Didn’t like seeing Stef, but at least she is all by herself.

I call Bull! Bets is too accustomed to chasing the dopamine rush from her followers feedback to be weaned off it that quickly. This is the smokescreen afore the fire…

Uh, Gunther? Ditch the “book.”

cool beans

If this is the end of the arc, it seems lazy and contrived. But the good thing about the Luann strip is that there are lots of interesting characters with stories that need developed.

Stefi looks disappointed. I’m surprised she’s streaming the reunion.

Stef is not a happy camper…..ever!

I predicted this a week ago (patting myself on the back). I’m so glad she came back. She brings something fresh and different to the strip and gets a lot of Luann fans hot under the collar. It will be interesting to see if Greg and Karen use the rest of the week to wrap up some details, like if and when Bets goes back to school, where she’ll live, etc., or will they start a new arc mid-week?

Just like I said. No fighting, Bets is only mad at herself and she tells Gunther how much he means to her. I have no idea where the story goes from here.

Barf.

Get a prenup, Bets. You both need to have an honest discussion about where your going to live, life goals for finances, kids, home ownership etc. With measurable benchmarks.

Stef is posting the reunion with the same intent she posted the photo of Gunther and Luann. Without much thought, just vapidly using social media the way many young people use it. Stef does not seem unhappy at all with this outcome. I don’t think she had any evil intentions before.

I like how what happened prior to Gunther coming home angry wasn’t reiterated when very clearly something happened and was never resolved so we were left confounded as to what happened and whether or not they actually broke up. Okay ,well —

I’m not at all surprised because I’ve felt GnK is writing Bets and Gunther to be together and eventually be the second marriage in the strip. I hope so anyway. On this being the end, how wrong can those posters be? Don’t you read the strip, and pay attention to it? This is Tuesday in the arc week, this important arc has at least the rest of the week to go. The issue with Steph is one for example, Since hilarity will or might ensue I think Bets will thank Steph for shocking her into enlightenment, but I expect some more shannigans for the rest of the week. I’m happy these events SEEM to be going the way I hoped, so far.

I have no idea what will happen the rest of the week. I think Bets will continue with her blog and continue to live in her van. She can’t move in with Gunther or into the dorm in the middle of the semester. I think everything will continue the way it was before they went on their road trip. Stef will still be annoying and Kip will not break up with her.

I hope the rest of the characters open their eyes and see the type of jerk Stef really is!

Leaving the arc for Thanksgiving means we won’t see Bernice in a costume…My bet would’ve been on Cruella DeVil or Maleficient. A Sigmund Fraud doll?

I’m thinking she’s streaming it all on a body-cam.

What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.

Everyone who points the finger saying “AHA!” has at one time or other lied or tried to manipulate some outcome or other. Some of us recoil for one reason or other from this practice but we’re all guilty of a deceit of some kind. If a two year old lies saying she didn’t do ‘it’ with the evidence she did in her hand, that doesn’t make her a liar. Many people are ‘interrupted’ unable to mature past this stage because of trauma. These people need gentle guidance and therapy to grow past the trauma that caused them to remain an emotional infant. Judgement will only cause them to defend their actions more.

Nice, but it’s only Tuesday, so…..what happens next? There are many loose ends: her trip, the van, who’s living space, Stef’s photo, classes, his TA post, Thanksgiving? It makes one’s head spin! ;-D

Wow, big surprise but very nice indeed.

Bets is smart and confident, and it’s time for her to reinvent herself as one of those “I’m so over the phone obsession” young people who are rediscovering the pleasures of face-to-face moments, meaningful goods, and creativity freed from the all-seeing Internet. I know a few young people who are heading in that direction. She’s discovered the thing she thought she was using was in fact using her. Kudos! Many people never learn that at all.

Well Stef, if your plan was to create problems between Bet’s and Gunter you failed miserably.

At this point I’d pay money for a novella where Stef gets the crap kicked out of her for her role in this. And I’d pay double for the Deluxe Edition where Bernice gets thrown out on her ear after Nancy gets wise to the literal years of emotional abuse Bernice has been subjecting Luann to.

Yay! Love to see them together, I wonder what is planned for them now that they are back together? Time will tell!!

So the little book is about how they pressed the pause button on their relationship. Fascinating!

Do I sense a lynching on social media for Stef?

Hooray for the nerds!!

Awww….. LOVE it! And I called it a few days ago. Let’s hope they now find a way to compromise their lifestyles and live happily ever after. ❤️❤️

It is time for Stef to take a long walk off a short pier. Tiffany used to be shallow and conceited but Stef is just cruel and there is no reason for it.

It may look like Stef is streaming the reunion, but she’s probably actually the one typing all those comments…

Remember, Luann has feelings for Gunther, too!

Before we go, can we at least drown Steff in t he punch bowl?

That’s nonviolent.No blood.

pounds fist a la Burt Ward’s Robin “Holy Personality Change, Batman! Has Bets really realized her fans don’t matter as much as the real people in her life?”

I haven’t read all of the comments, but I know some are wondering what’s next. This is exactly how I wanted to see things work out for Gunther and Bets. The fact that I’m not all that good at predicting, combined with the fact that it’s only Tuesday, has me a little worried. Is this really it? Is any of it staged? Is it a dream sequence like Gunther’s homecoming? What could go wrong? Nothing, I hope.

Good reason to not be on “social” media at all. It all blows, except , of course, for Go Comics…..

Good! This is what should have happened, but there was no guaranty in real life much less in a cartoon. Though it’s a lot more likely in the cartoon. Glad to see it.

A few nights in the van, did it.

After a hard day at work, I got on the train and browsed over to Luann and that put a smile on my face. The best after work surprise. Just what the doctor ordered. Thanks!!!

Does this mean Bets will come back to college? Because Stef needs to be punished somehow. So far, losing her “room to herself” privilege may be the only way to do it.

a couple weeks ago I received a LuannFan comment (by G&K) where they were talking about situations where someone was dating a person that was wrong for them, the implication was that Bets could be wrong for Gun. Then they posed questions e.g. should Gun date Luann or should he stay with Bets etc? Not sure why they did that since these arcs were probably already planned and it looks like Bets has made a turn around. But it is mid-week and more will happen before sat.

Onward and upward.

That worked.

Im tired of Bets and Gunther and i hated how luann acted when Bets showed up – at least Luann cared enough to be Gunthers friend and go with him to the party. if anything stef should be booted right out of the strip for being a scheming b@#$%.

I think Luann deserves better than this bunch of clowns too.

The bone-brained masses have spoken. Go thou and do the exact opposite for long and happy lives as an item.

And Stef is standing there, wanting to watch the world burn…

Take off the poster, Gunther!

Bets is facing the camera?

I’m definitely with the folks on the left side of the last panel. Stef and the social media brats can shove it

Stef, I have to quote an old flatmate, “Bugger off,”

Good drawing of Bets and Gun hugging. Wonder if Greg used models.(Still no Kip, BTW)

:)

I think Sir-Mix-a-Lot might have something to sing about in the last panel…

BTW, is it Kip commenting on Stephanie’s phone about how Bets & Gun “blew it”? Why would he care?