Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 07, 2015

Old habits die hard

A real gentleman Gunther is. A real lady Tiffany is.

You have me… Gunther is awesome.

Tiffany’s next possible line: “Hoh, I’m just kidding!….”. Then, with a bit of “second thought”: “No, but really – do you think you could?…” -It’s quite a reversal from several years back, when Gunther was so mad a Tiffany for what she pulled to go to that boy band concert, pulling an “okie-doke” on his date offer… – Sorta the same thing that happens in life, sometimes… – (♪)“We are islands to each otherBuilding hopeful bridgesOn a troubled seaSome are burned or swept awaySome we would not chooseBut we’re not always free…” (♪)

-Three guys ‘in a big hurry’

I agree. Just when I was starting to actually feel sorry for her, she has to tell Gunther that he needs more ‘qualifications’ to be her friend. No wonder she can’t find friends at college. Kids are too busy trying not to flunk out these days to try to impress others with false ‘qualifications’….

Glad Greg writes this strip. If I wrote it Tiffany would be pregnant… the exploding food van would have been insurance fraud, Luann would have gone to New York. I would mess the whole thing up good.

The dam has broken. Let it out, Tiffany. The first step towards resolving a problem is to admit that it exists.

“Alone, Together”“The Old College Try”“On The ‘Lonely Town’ Part Of The Highway”“Swimming In The Current Of Events”“Islands In The Stream Of Time” (♪)“Against The Wind” (♫)“We’re Not In Kansas, Anymore!…Now, It’s Arkansas…”“It’s A Different World…Than Where You Come From…” (♫)“Ch-ch -changes…..” (♪)“Two Lost Souls Swimmin’ In The Same Bowl” (♪)or“Assume The Juxtaposition”

LOL!!!!

Sure…. Actually Gunther looks like the Packer’s Aaron Rodgers during his UCB days.

I just don’t like Tif. Rosa was just right. Wish Greg hadn’t sent her off.

Tif’s problem is that she is still extremely superficial. If she just how good a man Gunther is, she’d realize she’s lucky to have him as a friend.

The week’s not over. If I read this story arc correctly, that’s Gunther’s cue to withdraw and get grumpy, Tiffany realizes she blew it, And on Saturday Gunther sets a new bar that Tiffany has to meet: accepting people for who they are instead of their image. I hope.

And congrats to Gunther’s Mom for adapting enough to supply caffeine with the cookies! She’s starting to let her boy grow up.

Tiffany is actually taking step, baby steps maybe, but she is slowly ‘growing up’ a bit. The admission she makes in p.2 is big, especially for her.

WOW, that is crazy! It’s as if Greg Evans or his daughter Karen read my “wish list”! Is this an accidental coincidence or what?!! Go team Gunt/Tiff or whatever. (It’s not like he’s a prize a gal would like to keep for long, but he’s better than Pyro or whoever that was.)

Funny!

Gunther could play left out.

Great HORNY (And I Meant THAT Literally) Toads, Ma Berger!!! Surely to GAW You DIDN’T Leave Your ONLY SON Alone with This Wildcat??LOOK, Even NOW She’s Trying to Turn Him into a “TROPHY” By Talking Him Into Trying Out for Football So SHE Can Be Seen Hanging Out With a “Star”! So See? She Ain’t Changed.

Ma Berger, If You DON’T Want Your Future Grand Kids to Be Short Bus Riders Who Don’t Know How to CLICK “Next” and “Ok” You WILL Administer Your “Righteous Broom of Justice” and WHUMP This Strumpet Right Outta Yer House!!!

If ONLY he could be drawn looking reasonably groomed….. but noooo! Oh well, can’t have everything I guess.

now it is not about vulnerability but about stupidity…and you know…uh …

They are both starting to redefine themselves, is what I see. Gunther is relaxed and can touch Tiffany; Tiffany has opened up about her loneliness. It is starting to dawn on Gunther that he is comfortable around Tiffany; she sees that she has a friend and is coping with what she has “lost” from the past. These two characters are doing the most maturing in the strip from where I sit. They may have a shot at romance down the road.

Littlefeat had a song where they sang “some kinda man he can’t do anything wrong, if I see him I’ll tell him you’re waiting” that reminds me of someone. Apparently we dated the same girl!

Re: Try out for football. Gunth should say, “Sure, wanna see me make a pass?”. Then he has to smile and see if Tiff will laugh and maybe give him a hug.

Tiffany is so childlike. But if it were up for a vote, Tiffany would make you the all star quarterback right now Gunther! I love this development in the story!

You never want to peak in High School, Tiffany.

Just let Gunther be Gunther. Learn to appreciate who he is.

Run, Gunther! Run!

Kiss her you blockhead!

I like today’s turn of events—right up to the point where Tiff’s bad old habits take over and she blows it, or nearly so, in panel 3; she could recover by making a joke out of it, but I don’t think her mind works quickly enough for that save. But I still have hope for these two, down the road….

I’d have Quill meet Aaron Hill in New York and realize that they’re gay and live happily ever after.

Warning! Warning! Hull breach imminent!

There for a bit I thought Tiffany had run headlong into reality.

I really hope this doesn’t end poorly for Gunther.

Looks like we were right a couple days ago when Gunther asked: THAT’S why you’re here?- and she said uh-Yes.Real Reason – she was lonely.

I still think Tiff is evolving. Admitting her life isn’t that great is a good thing. The problem with her is, she’s had no one in her life. No mother, and a father’s who’s basically not there. Gunth’s mom would probably love to mother her. The girl needs that.

Well, sometimes growth comes in spurts…

So far, Tiffany and Gunther are doing fine. Just hope that Greg & Karen don’t mess things up for their little paper puppets. I’m enjoying a happy storyline that is also interesting.

The twist to this possibility, no matter what one thinks about Tiff, is the football thing. I think being social or accepted is part of Tiff’s dna, and being on the football team might be something she would want a potential boyfriend to be. I don’t think it takes away from how she feels safe to reveal her vulnerability to Gunther. He is familiar, but different. Where will this lead? Personally I hope to love and passion, and it would really be interesting if Rosa comes back and wants to take back up with Gunther, or get him to go to Yale with her (remember she was admitted to Yale?). I think that rabbit may be pulled out of the hat.

I like what I see here. Greg is making Tiff more than a cardboard cutout. He’s making her into a real person.

For those of you who condemn her for her comment, give the lady a break! Old habits die hard. You can’t expect her to change overnight.

Tiff is finally growing up! Look at how Toni and Brad changed as they progressed through college. She’s gonna be FINE (I predict)!

Hate to say I told you so….

“No, Tiff, football’s not my world. But could you try out for the calculus club?”“No, Gunther, that’s not my world.”“Ok, but if we’re friends, we can glom onto each other’s worlds.”“Ok.”

Ditch the beard, keep the mustache. Hand her a tissue for her issue and she will be fine.

Oh yea that’s Gunther alright. Mr pro athlete!

One of the best comics Greg has written to date.

I actually feel sorry for Tiffany. I hated high school but loved my college years. On the other hand I knew some of the extremely popular kids in high school and most of them hated college. They all discovered that they had gone from being a Big Fish in a Small Pond to being a Small Fish in a Big Pond.

Gunther should try out for the football team, and get the *&#@ beaten out of him. Then Tiffany can tenderly nurse him back to health.

Tiffany, you are in college now. There are not status symbols rather or not they play on a team. Everyone is too busy to care including everyone on the football team about status. They just want to succeed and are interested in ladies who want to succeed, too. They also are interested in ladies who want them to succeed in whatever they plan to do.

NO, not another person who tries to change Gunther into something he is not. Can’t he just find a female who likes him for who he is?

He will try out for the football team if Tiff joins the Chess Club.

6My take on today’s episode is a little different:1. While I tend to feel Tiffany’s emotions in panel 2 are legitimate and real, I think the way Greg has drawn this panel is not a “real feeling” as I would have expected from him. Something about the drawing in that second panel has a “fake” edge to it. Please note, however, that my read of the dialogue is that TIffany IS being real with her emotions. 2. I think that regardless of whether you were the popular kid, the nerd, the athelete, or whatever in high school…. I think that EVERYONE goes through a period of realization of the change and the LOSS of what was in their life during or following the first year of college. Feeling the tremendous change, and even thinking about it is the first step that Tiffany is going through at the moment. I suspect that this is an indication of her first steps at growing into who she will be as an adult person. 3. I read the last panel about Gunther joining the football team as an attempt at a “joke” by Tiffany…. referentially trying to portray her “old” attitude about things. I truly do not think she really means that Gunther does not fit her “quality” level. 4. Saturday will indeed be interesting. Any bets on whether Tiffany/Gunther will continue next week…. or will we be onto another arc? I am predicting…. that we will have another week of Tiffany/Gunther.

Doesn’t Moony Uni have fraternities and sororities? Tiffany would enjoy being a sorority girl, since she is really good at organizing parties and other social activities. We are told that her Dad has money (which is how she got admitted), so surely she’s the sort of girl who would be really popular among the sorority set.

Gunther just got friend zoned. Lucky for him, I wouldn’t wish Tiff on my worst enemy,

Well, well . . . maybe, just maybe something more than friendshipwill come out of this lonlyness Tiff has. Of course she would just have to imagine Gunther was a star athelete! She is good at fantasizing so it is possible!

I see this development: Tiff is having one of the first epiphanies that goes with maturing into adulthood. Falls for Gunth. Gunth falls for her in a rebound emotional state. A month later Rosa shows up. First catfight on this strip ensues. Who wins?

Football? get serious, what girl ever dreamed of dating the locker room manager? But if Gunther, got a motorcycle; grew his hair and beard, let his personal hygiene deteriorate, and for g*d’s sake MOVED OUT OF HIS MOTHER"s HOUSE, he could be that stinky bad boy every middle class, wonder bread girl of a certain age want’s to be with but doesn’t her parent’s to meet..

The trouble with Tiff is that she never had a chance with older sisters brainwashing her. She has to break the pattern and that is a hard road for a weak person. She needs a real non threatening friend for support.

Tiffany was so close to a breakthrough.

Kiss her, you fool, and taste her delicious tears.

Tears, hell! Cherry lipgloss!

Tiff misses high school. Football = high school, so it’s like her security blanket. I’m sure we all know people who mentally never progress beyond the good old days in H.S. For others, they mentally stagnate in their college years. You know, they’re the ones with the university bumper stickers and season tickets to the football games. Both Gunther and Tiffany need to grow up. I hope they can do it together, at least for awhile. It’s possible to care for each other and still keep their clothes on.

The funny thing is, these two could be right for each other. Tiff could pull Gunth up out of that hole that he’s always hiding in, and Gunth could actully pull Tiff down to earth.

Tiff’s HS attitude was a front.She’s smart enough to see value.I’m glad she is encouraging Gunth to do something besides study.…“or something,” doesn’t mean football, just something to go along with the beard. Track, tennis, lifting weights, gym stuff,cars, swimming, deep sea fishing, even a great clothes designer, etc.Something she can envy, as she is not a guy.Some great athletes never played HS sports.Other than basketball, I think he can do whatever he wants.Maybe, he’ll want HER!What a combo!Keep it coming.Peru should never come back.

Kiss her, you Blockhead!

Tiffany is definitely changing, but don’t expect big steps or giant leaps.

Tiffany is changing, but only in places where she has no choice… i.e. college. But in other areas, her interactions with Luann, the false façade is maintained.. She will remain friendless in college until she starts taking an interest in something other than herself.

Why do I have this feeling he just might do that?

Well. Who would of thunk it. Gunther and Tiff. WOW!

This feels clunky.

Read this every day, high in my queue, rarely comment because there are so many! Keep up the good job, folks, seriously, I mean that! Back in the day, my group did the same! Thumbs up!

ANYWAY, I would LOVE to see TIFF AND GUNTHER TOGETHER! YES I WOULD!

(John Wayne:) LOL! – Y’know, Wayne and Norris (Chuck) probably would have gotten along, together. Hmmm, okay, not well together, but ….. who wouldn’t have paid to hear the two trade lines in a flick?

Or in a nod to John Denver Omlette (with special guest vocal by Olivia Fig Newton), “Cry Away”?

“I’ve seen so many like her change completely after HS. Some never grow up but most did.”^I’m in agreement…

“(((SNIF!))) And The Tears”^Heh, heh- seems you’re cleverly “sneaking in” a band reference….

“You’ve just made me wonder if Tiffany isn’t regarding Gunther as some sort of “father figure”?”^Oh, no…. oh, no!!!!…. Now that George Michael song is going to start playing!!!!!!!! (X^D)

I am TiffanyI only care about football players and other athletesI care about GuntherGunther is not an athleteI care about GuntherGunther needs to become an athlete so my world returns to normal.I am TiffanyI don’t do change.Life has changedI don’t like changeI like GuntherBut Gunther is not an athleteBut I like himI am confused TiffanyGive me timeI’ll come around I like Gunther even though he is not and never will be an athlete…………..

Same thing the Dr. said, when the guy went to the colonoscopy center…

Well, it’s clear to those two.

I’m just happy that Gunther didn’t yell at TIffany for suggesting that he try out for football.

Actually, I think I do understand what they’re saying. They had ‘a moment’, but it won’t happen again. Because, you know…