Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 19, 2011

I think he might be gay.

Uh, Rosa? You ever heard of feminism? I think YOU’RE allowed to ask HIM out these days …

Nab, it’s not that we aren’t interested in “nice guys;” in fact, every crush I’ve had after junior high has been a nice guy—nice, but interesting (that’s the key) and interested in me for myself. In fact, that was usually why I fell for them—I was comfortable around them and could always count on having a funny or fascinating conversation. Of course, every one of them has either come out of the closet or gotten married by now, and none ever dated me, but my point is not to overgeneralize.

Oh, and I’m only 27, so it’s not just age, and my best girl friends were the same way.

Go Rosa!!!

Shape up and grow a pair, Gunther! You’ve got a beautiful girl practically begging you to ask her out! And she’s sitting just a table away from you right now! Now get going, young man!

Anyway, it’s a great gag. I laughed out loud. (No LOLs here, I am scared of rats with bats.)

Why is he so afraid of women? Why should he be shy and scared around Rosa?

Why? I’m a Human. I was the same way.Found a Wife. Wife left. But I have the Greatest Daughter 33.

Gunther is straight. It’s TJ I wonder about.

go for it gunther

Great – that Rosa recognizes Gunther’s insecurities and wants to help develop his confidence. She COULD have asked him out, but the more intelligent thing to do is work with him until HE asks her out.

ENOUGH!DOG GONE IT, Gunther, ASKING Girls out is EASY!You DONE it BEFORE, Remember?Look, just PRETEND Rosa is Luann!

Oh, WAIT…..,

I was shy around girls, til I found out that they were dumber than me.

When I was Gunthers age, it was the “No” I worried about. That can’t be his fear because she has all but told him yes. All he has to do is make the words come out of his mouth.

I was thinking we were going back to Brad and Ann this week. Now with this detour, and then another trip through the self-destructed love life of Luann, we may not find out about Tiff and the movie for another few weeks. Ah Greg – you do love to leave us hanging.

I was the same way back in ’61 with my first girl friend. Very insecure and was afraid of rejection. She had to practically hit me over the head to get me to ask her out the first time.

Why do I suspect Rosa’s gonna turn Gunther every which way but loose, and he’s not going to mind one bit?

I was like Gunther, a total bonehead around girls I liked. Not sure how I ended up married!

After all this, to those that STILL don’t get why Gunth would be scared, nervous, whatever, around women: I’m … lets say .. post half-century mark …. and I’M still scared around women. Especially my Cuban wife .. and MORE especially our 6 yr old daughter. Now SHE is scary, I tell ya. Very Scary. I mean, I’m-hiding-behind-Gunther scary! I used to fight with sharks for a living, and THEY didn’t scare me near as much! So YES, even a Macho-Gunther can be scared of women. And he should be. …. Just sayin’ ……….

right, Knute is gay, that’s why he’s hitting on Crystal so much, Quill is gay, that’s why he’s hitting on Luann so much, Gunther is gay, that’s why he’s drooling over Rosa so much. What is it with you people who think these guys are gay? you probably thought Brad was gay too until he started dating Toni, oh but then you probably still think he’s gay. Exactly what are the “clues” that are “all there”?

Jughead…. HOW is all of that “obvious” to you?!? If you think Gunther HAS TO BE “GAY”, you must have been a pretty damn self-assured (aka cocky?) 16 year old to not recognize Gunther’s plight. Now, Gunther could potentially be homosexual, but nothing in this story arc suggests that to me. I would say the same thing applies to Knute and Quill….. all three of these characters could potentially be homosexual…. but none of them seems to be by the way their respective story arcs have developed thus far.

I’m in the Gunther Club. Girls had to ask me . Even whe Girls had to grab my collar and told me they like me. I was still a geek afraid of makiing the wrong move or going too fast. My first wife had to literally drag me to the altar. Im 53, and only getting married for the second time after being divorced for 20 years. Im not gay, I love women. my first marriage ended because I wasn’t man enough. I cant count how many girls asked me out, or tried to pass the hint. But I can count how many girls I dated, and those were only the girls that took charge and told me “We are going out this Friday.” Both my first wife, and my fiance told me we are getting married.

Sure, feminism provides a woman for the option of a girl asking a guy, but my I have found that a woman enjoys being asked. Nothing wrong with the classics!

What in the world did we ever do before cell phones? We actually had to talk face-to-face at school!

Who knew … that a simple phone query from Rosa would restart the whole “gay he is/isn’t, because he/she doesn’t or does do this/that proof/” C’mon, can’t we just focus on the strip content?

What I got out of the comments today is that a lot of guys – myself included – feared rejection. That is not the case her. She has done everything except a “Gibb’s Slap” in the head. That may be what he needs.

Time to put pedal to the metal, Gunth.

You seem to know a lot about him – what’s his name, so that we can call his mom and tell her what he’s been up to! (I’m presuming that poor woman has no idea what he’s up to, spending all time in her basement…)

@zacbsm; at last! someone who thinks being gay is just being gay! doesn’t define your hair colour, type of clothes, native language… I get so fed up reading all these endless comments “is he or isn’t he?” so if he is? or if he isn’t? SO??? as I periodically ask when people get off on this road, WHO CARES???

well, not me – to me people are people, that’s all. has worked fine for me so far.

but nobody listens to me (sniff) (sigh)…

I still don’t understand why she isn’t capable of asking HIM out, especially seeing as she seems to have much more of a backbone. Also I don’t really get what Rosa sees in him.

Then you really need to look up “troll”. And since when do you speak for anyone other than yourself? Talk about delusions of grandeur….look that up too, if you aren’t too busy telling us yet again how many other comics we should be looking at because you don’t approve of how many posts there are on the board?

You can do it Gunth!!!