Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 19, 2014

There she SAID it…“I’m going to Peru…” ;)

Heartbeats…. Picking up pace… Quiet focus upon a thundering in an ocean of stillness ….. as words rush through like a sudden, stiffening breeze…words that land softly, but tread with force upon a world that suddenly changes… – An unexpected moment of electric touch in the delivery of a reprise….. Or the bittersweet symphony of a swan song, whispered……

Ahhhh, I can Just Picture That! ;)

Maybe her uncle has made arrangements for Gunther to go there as well!

“Sunrise, Sunset”“The End Is A Beginning”“Moment Of Truth”“So Close…So Far Away…”“Castles In The Sand”“A Bittersweet Meal, A Fork In The Road”“One Word, Two Weeks”“The Bottom Line Is A Long Way Down”or“Prelude…..?”

Rosa does Not look happy…but at least Quill is getting a nice hug from Gunther’s Mom… ;)

“my gunther, come with me, because I wanted us to be able to go somewhere together”

“Somehow, that just doesn’t sound good…”^Bernice had to wear it all day on her sash…..

Told ya!C ut and Run!

Tis funny, that was!!!

3 Stooges, huh? Hmm…. I wasn’t going to think of that, before! “Why, I oughta!!!….”

Can you imagine Quill trying to reciprocate with a “Larry” move and "Gunther with a “Curly Joe” on Ms. Berger? – If they do, Quill really will have a last name of " ! " …..

LOL! ;)

I guess this will be the end of Rosa in “Luann”… ;)

If she were going to Colombia, then it would make sense.

I think he means the country…it’s next door to Peru… or at least two doors down…

I also wonder if she’s going there on a “secret mission” to confirm if Curious George came from there, instead of Africa…..

Re. your “rosas” Are they all blooming?! Every one of mine had great blooms this year! Even that ailing French Lace floribunda (although I continue to cut them off in order to direct the plant to produce leaves and not flowers. It is beginning to grow outward, a positive step!). The new Bleeding Hearts that I planted about a month ago are growing and blooming, My Red Carpet Border Lilies Really outdid themselves this year as did some of my Iris (some didn’t bloom for whatever reason. I get them from a reputable company, so I was surprised. Oh, well, at least they are growing, anyway! They are supposed to be re-bloomers towards the end of summer, so I will see then what is going on… ;)

Oh, geeze… =-O

I think that’s why he went to CSI…. to figure out just what was he thinking?….

Not letting me reply to you directly, IJB…Again! Anyway, this might just work as he could be an exchange student living with Rosa and her uncle’s family. Perhaps Gunther’s Mom is the type of parent that sets her child free instead of tightening the apron strings… ;)

Mmmmmmm…Peruvian food is yummy, Gunth!

The one nasty thing about the coming summer is that pollen is just Everywhere… But, I don’t let that stop me…even if OTC medication doesn’t work as well as it should! I have a lot of yardwork to do tomorrow, but I get to feast on my Shasta daisies blooming along with fire-engine red Phlox in a wine barrel (I also have Black-eyed Susans mixed in with the daisies). So, to make a long sentence short, ‘Nite all! ;)-————————————————————————————-“As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green rob’d senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir."(John Keats, 1795-1821)

Ouch. Plan C hurts! Will Rosa disappear forever? Will Gunther run off to Peru after her? How will Gunther’s Mom deal with this blow to her boy, or to his (even worse) running off?This is cartoon strip melodrama!

I like Plan B better, especially when it goes with Plan J.

I think getting into Yale is not a thing to sneeze at. But hey, it doesn’t have llamas.

smart woman, she is getting out of America before its fall.

Gunther should make her a Peruvian flag quilt as a going away present.

To see the Circus Museum?

Peru?

“Peru” MEANS They’re Through!

GOOD! Now to get RID of Pretty Boy and Bring Some Normalcy BACK into This Strip……,

“My boys are graddies.” Because that’s something a human being would say.

No, plan A is always the preferred one. Plan B is the backup plan when A fails. C is the plan that drops in unexpectedly that is superior to either A or B.

And of course we can’t forget Plan 9 from Outer Space…

You snooze, you lose. Gunther is such a goober.

Gunther is not going anywhere. His Mom would have a heart attack.

Gunther is leaving/staying

Or, more accurately,

Wants Gunther to leave/stay

We have no idea what he’ll actually do.

Why in the world would Rosa, a hard working lady, take a slacker like Knute to Peru with her?? For comic relief??

Kewl.. Can I come too?

Notice what Rosa said in the last panel. She said "I’M going to Peru. In two weeks.’ -What she didn’t say is “We’re going to Peru. We leave in two weeks. Are you ready?” or “I’m going to Peru. In two weeks. If you want to come, my uncle can arrange it.”-I don’t know if this means the end of Rosa in this comic strip, but it does look like the end of Rosa and Gunther…

au contraire, she will be the one prodding him to go and make a life for himself.

Precisely!

♫♪ If you love somebody… Set them Free.. ♪♫

But his mom would miss Gunthie a lot and be very sad.

But she’d have Quill there to help her through it. And she knows it’s the right thing for Gunther to go forth and see the world and become fully mature… She won’t be there to baby him forever.

He’s staying, hopefully.

Rosa deserves to date more than one person, why should she settle down already?

maybe Quill will be the one to convince her to let her boy go and have an adventure, like he is!

That would certainly help!

Plan C – Cessation*Shoot, from the June 11 strip, I’d thought she’d clued Gunther in on Plan C. Looks like he’s about to feel his first dump.

And I’m glad Quill had a mom there to celebrate his graduation!

Staying because Rosa is.

So there is Gunther as happy as his mother, and now for the moment of heartbreak. ~So in two weeks there will be the big goodbye, followed by a week of reliving the memories in his head, and then a week of really missing her. Then, “Mom, I really like your hugs, but I’m missing the hugs of someone else, and she is in Peru.” ~Then will be Mom’s tears because “no decent boy goes away to his girlfriend when they aren’t even married.” “I’m not going to pay your airfare.” “If you go, you’re out for good. You’re not going to live here again. I won’t let you.” “Don’t you dare take one thing out of this house because everything in it is mine because this is my property and whatever is on my property is mine.” “I’m going to the grocery store. I will be home in 30 minutes. Before I get home, I want you to wash the whites and hang them on the line, and you have the towels washing by the time I come back. Also, take out the trash while I’m gone. I know you already took it out this morning, but there’s more.” ~ One year later Gunther will say, “Mom, you have taken a whole year out of my life when I could have been in Peru.” ~ Another year goes by and another before Gunther finds a way out, but by then Rosa is married and has a child. ~Then Gunther will say, “Mom, living with you was like living in a prison, and the memories come flooding back every time I walk through your front door.”

" If Rosa truly wanted him to come, you think she would have told him about “Plan C” when she was considering it a long time ago."^I understand your point, but in the strip I posted above, she took the time to ask (even in a soft way) if he’d go with her…. she didn’t ask late because she didn’t want him with her, she asked late because she knows that he’s not the “spontaneous, seize the day” type.. at least he wasn’t …. he has changed that just a bit… but now is a crucial time to see if he’s changed a bit more ……

Isn’t Quill going to be living at Moony in a dorm?

I don’t recall if his freshman housing was ever mentioned or established. Even so, he could always change his mind, if it gives Gunth a chance to “go forth.”

I wouldn’t necessarily say following your high school GF to another country to follow her dream instead of getting your college degree is the “right thing” to do. It certainly is a thing to do, and worth doing if that’s your goal in life, but it’s certainly never been Gunther’s goal.

It’s the “right thing to do” in re: getting Gunther out of the house and onto a new life…. and, maybe… just maybe… entertain some new goals not previously considered.

All we know is that Gunther is set to go to Moony Uni. But we don’t know his housing arrangements, either. I suspect he’d still want to stay at home and look after his mother while attending classes there.Is he condemned to that house for the rest of his life? He has a potential opportunity now to go out and explore. Perhaps it wasn’t his goal, historically, because he saw no means to achieve it. Now, with Rosa, and with help (maybe) from Quill and Ms. B, he has those means, and the opportunity…. Hopefully, he’ll now have the “motive.” To waist them would be a “crime,” no??? :-)

Ah yes, the look on Gunt’s face in panel one, he loves when mom scratches behind his ear…

“Though We’ve Gotta Say Goodbye…For The Summer…And Fall…And Winter…And…Spring…And Next Summer, etc.”^Heh, heh!!! and Ha ha!!!

“Prelude…..?”

“…to a Miss (as in “I miss you”)"?^Actually, it’s an “open ended” one… it could be the “beginning of the end”, the “end at it’s beginning”, or the “prelude to a fall”, or the “prelude to a major change” (whether he leaves or stays" or if it’s a prelude to “a new outlook on either life or love or both or either person” – So the possibilities are….

The Clash: “♫….But you’ve got to let me know…. should I stay or should I go ?…..♫”

“I wouldn’t necessarily say following your high school GF to another country to follow her dream instead of getting your college degree is the “right thing” to do”^But, sometimes the “right way to go” may be something that doesn’t “occur to you” until someone (or something) happens to make you realize what the better choice would be…

Ya know…

Gunther COULD follow her to Peru…and he could stay with her all summer long, really…and yet, it doesn’t count as a life choice until September when fall classes at whatever college he picked start.

So…I want him to go. 3 months in another country with a hot girl is not a bad way to spend your summer. And if he wants to stay with her after that, may he find happiness.

Somebody here nailed it.

That’s my vote for Gunther is going, by the way.

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My opinions:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Gunther going to Peru for any LONG TERM timeframe is utterly preposterous. Gunther going to Peru for a brief (most likely a week or two, the longest might be for the Summer) visit is still in my opinion more UNLIKELY than likely. I think Gunther will be at Mooney this Fall. He is too integral a character to dispose of.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++As for Rosa, I suspect she will head to Peru for a spell… in effect be written out of the picture for a while…. perhaps a year or two… while the comic focuses more on the core central characters in their initial adaptations to college. Then, perhaps when the group reaches their Sophomore or Junior years in college (time frame for this to occur in the comic…. who the hell knows) then, THEN Rosa may show up again, back from Peru, perusing her college education at that point.

I wonder if the comic of Luann will become, in effect, a comic replica of “Beverly Hills 90210” on a small-town budget? :)

That wasn’t me… I was quoting the comments of someone else…. and answering why they’d want him to go… that’s the way that they phrased it…

Now is the time to do the unexpected Gunther!

Followed by “Dunh-duhn….dunh!!!!…” – And the classic stock sound effect, the “Wilhelm Scream”….

Peru?

And now, come the moment for Gunther to decide… He must choose whether to stay near home or go to Peru, and when I weigh the two scenarios, I don’t know which one he will pick.

To darkest Peru? With a certain little bear???

Ouch. That happened to me twice in a span of six months my senior year. One moved to Alaska and the other to Taiwan. Both had dads in Air Force.

Nothing is set in stone.

Roger that. In fact, I’m counting on it.

I think that Gunther could apply to Yale too. If he goes to Peru with her he’ll go anywhere to be with her, and her with him.

He’ll have to come up with some major $$$ to attend, though. Maybe he can get some kind of scholarship $$$ or something. But yes, he could attend after returning from Peru.

I guess it depends on what the plans are for Lu and whether or not Lu and Gunth are destined for each other, eventually. Like I’ve said, it doesn’t have to be immediate…. Lu and Gunth could (and should) go through a few relationships (if only for training/practice) before trying to make a go of it themselves.

Gunther is certainly NOT going to Peru. He has no interest in that at all and he probably does not have a passport. He will (wisely) go ahead with his own plans to get an Engineering degree.

I have a feeling they both will be going to Peru. Maybe this is Evan’s saying he might stop the comic? Who knows..

Not if the forces are of their own making.

-how bad the plumbing is in a lot of South American countries. toilets overflow everyday. Knute would be in Paradise-LOL!!!!

The Gunther- Luann pairing never made sense to me. Gunther is a brainiac. I don’t think he’d be happy, in the long run, with someone who isn’t his intellectual match.-Luann’s interests are varied (acting, song writing, singing, taking care of kids, falling in and out of love), but are not oriented towards the academic sphere. -I think they would end up boring each other, in the long run…

All: you can quit predicting Greg’s retirement from Luann. It’s an empty guess, no basis whatsoever.

for the Gunther / Luann shippers …exactly. What they don’t recognize if that Gunther HAS to leave in order to return a different , evolved person suitable to pursue Luann ( if that’s Greg’s long-term plan).

[Gunther Returns, but does not seem the same]… TORAD_07 pulls out “Pokedex…”

Gunthrilla The final evolved form of Gunther…

Strong…confident…Can handle “high maintenance” partners without batting an eye…

;-)

Ok, so Rosa has partially changed Gunther into a semi-secure, semi-romantic, semi-passionate boyfriend. Good for her.*Maybe it’s now time to do a 180 and look how ROSA has grown from the relationship. What if Gunther’s solidity, his roots, cause Rosa to change her mind and stay?

I was a lot like Guenther, and I met my wife of 45 years in Peru.

Here is where Rosa is going.

Why Gunther should not go to Peru:

(1) He’s probably never been outside of Pitt, much less outside of the USA, so he doesn’t have a passport.

(2) We have no reason to believe he even speaks Spanish, much less is fluent in it.

(3) This is a guy to whom a major adventure is walking across an open field, not going to South America.

(4) Who would bring him his plate of cookies and milk at bedtime every night?

(5) Peru is Rosa’s ambition, not his, so why should be pursue it?

(6) Mooney Uni is his ambition, so why should he forego it?

(7) If he is not interested enough in Rosa to kiss her more than once a year, he’s certainly no interested in her enough to follow her to another continent.

(8) There are probably other girls at Mooney Uni who are better matches for Gunther. Shy types for whom one kiss a year is just what they want. Domestic types who enjoy sewing and would enjoy preparing plates of cookies and milk. Weird girls who wear plaid all the time, except for when they stroll around naked in the library.

So Rosa is going back home, and that kind of ends it with Gunther.It’s hard for him to take, but it’s much easier on a guy than getting dumped by someone he’s in love with. Sadness vs. heartbreak. He’ll survive.

anybody state the obvious, Luann and Gunther finally figure it out for each other, and the strip ends.

Machu Picchu and Chichen Itza!.Not in Peru? No Problem!!

I say Gunther goes for the summer even though he really doesn’t have enough time to get a passport; but after all this is Luanniverse where passports can probably be obtained very quickly.

“Gunthie might stand a chance of making it to Peru – as long as he doesn’t try to hold his breath during the flight.”

Lol!

“Gunthie’s biggest problem: Blending in when he gets there…”

They’ll love him, especially the girls; Latinas are always attracted to gueros!

Actually, I didn’t say Gunther was staying. I gave 7 good reasons why it would be far more logical for him to stay than leave. Logic, however, is largely irrelevant in the Luannverse.

Drum roll….!!!! Gunther goes for a year and then stays in Pitts… ;)

Happy early 36th anniversary! ;)

If 83.92% of Peruvians speak Spanish, do the remaining speak a variety of Native languages? ;)

“Güero,”

How do you make the “u” with that little deeliebob? I know how to make all the accent marks, but I don’t even know what that thing is called.

2 Decs, today!….

Thanks! And to your sneaky idea, aren’t you clever!

Okay, let’s see . . . güera.

Hmmm, it didn’t work. What am I doing wrong?

“2 Decs” = Jay’s way of saying that is post # 200 today. Actually, it was # 199…"

Oh, okay, thanks.