Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 01, 2018

Gunther & Leslie aka Mack & Myer for hire! LOL

“Cement” …? ✨

St. Peter’s Cathedral didn’t take this much effort to build.

If Gunther needs this giant list of equipment, then why don’t they already have it? The only one of the list I can understand the need to replace might be the 6 bags of cement.

AL and you will do indoors.

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Will do what indoors?

Whoa. Way overboard. Irma beats my aunt in law Peggy. I only put up a wreath on the door and a string of lights on the porch. We used to hang lights around the house but at our current age, it is just too much work and a simple line on the porch suffices. Oh yeah, and a Season Greetings mat. Simple is more is my motto.

This is as tacky as you get. It could be included in one of Jeff Foxworthy’s “redneck” books. It could make Larry, the cable guy, run to the nearest Home Depot to use their bathroom plumbing display. Just make these awful people go away.

Or at least a handy excuse thereof.

I totally agree with Les on this one!

Whoever said it yesterday, they were right on: Gunther is looking more feminine every day!

And to Schrodinger’s Dog, who yesterday said that Greg “put to sleep” the notion that G&K may be preparing us for a gay Gunther, methinks there are enough continuity errors over the years, well, at this point, anything is possible!

Nooooooo ! I saw SPEAKERS ! NOOOOO ! I’m already anticipating “Silent Night” played so loud the birds are falling out of the sky.

RIP President George HW Bush, passed at 94, just seven months after his wife, Barbara.

Gunther looks horrible. He looks like a pixie in that sweater, and his hair looks worse than I’ve ever seen it. Al looks absolutely ill.

BRING BACK THE STUBBLE!!!

Gunther looks transformed when he dives back into the childhood he shared with his Mom. However I still hold out hope that Tiffany can get to him. Maybe she invites Gunther over to her room, then takes the wheel with, “Are you lonely, Gunther?”

It’s like Gunther is trying to be as off-putting and unbearable as humanly possible.

Does the word “overkill” ring any (sleigh)bells?

I agree with Les on this one.

Gunther is not the point people. RIght now the romance angle is not being played. Les is being humanized in an hilarity ensues Luannverse way. I keep saying. On the other hand Tiffany is being terrorized, also in a bizarro Luannverse kind of way. How those arcs will end up is interesting, but even though Gunther seems to be regressing, which he really is not, he is in a good space now, and Les seems to be progressing, Gunther himself is not the main point of this particular arc. People are obsessed with Gunther too much IMHO again.

Scumbag Leslie does have a good point there…

I’m not American but I love the way Americans do Christmas. I’ve had too many where the family Grinch wrecked it all so that even when I was on my own for all those years I would go the whole hog with the tree, decorations, lights and a small but proper Christmas dinner.

Interesting thread: do the step brothers end up in a rivalry over Tiffany (with a side of vengeance on one Anne Eiffel), become the new Felix and Oscar, or do they jump in the deep end and go Bert and Ernie?? Plus what if that Aussie kid comes back, Luann’s old flame? Does he become a third wheel???: The plot thickens!

Six bags of cement? They putting up ornaments or building a guest house for santa?

GOOD GRIEF!!! Their electricity bills will be astronomical! Even if they use led.

Big Al looks like he really wants to get Chrismassy ….

For once I agree with Les. More is not always better.

This is too much decorating and I like Christmas

This reminds me of the times Tim Taylor would put up decorations on Home Improvement.

I really have to wonder if Gunther and his mom are related to Clark Griswold.

…and one medium-sized construction crew

I’m with Al and Les.

Drinking is for year-round, and can be done responsibly. Cranky is for the holidays, though, and is often in response to rush-rush-rush in close proximity. Crash!

And also sometimes in response to calling them generic holidays. Name them with me now! Kwanza, Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice… and some more?

Cement? This is going to be permanent?

Gunther! You forgot the mega-watt sound system. If you cannot hear “Silent Night” 3 blocks away, you need a bigger amp.

Gunther both looks and acts more nearly like a 6-year-old boy every day. If it was ever the writers’ plan to make him a more “mature” character upon his return from Peru, they’ve apparently changed their minds.

Gunther is taking the lead in frame one by grabbing Les and jerking him outside. There is or was a textile mill town near Charlotte, NC where the owner of the mill, a Mr. Pharr paid their power bills every December so the citizens could go all out decorating their houses. Traffic would be backed up as tourists came to see the displays. Jim and Tammi Baker of PTL Club fame decorated their property at Christmas. People visited the lights for a small donation.

This is why I don’t do outdoor lighting.

I can’t stand Mr. Gray ! Someone who lives in a buttoned up coat and tie is a weird ! Can you please put him in some clothes that are normal .

Is that property zoned for all of that? With everything Gunther says they need to set up the displays, sounds more like a permanent commercial display, than even the most over the top home display I’ve ever heard of, or, seen on YouTube.

He’s wise beyond his years.

Today, Gunther had been drawn to look twinky. I wish I could rip that sweater off, throw it in the trash, and put some manly clothing on him. He was looking quite masculine and grown up on 7-14-18. Compare that comic with today’s. On 7-14-18, he was wearing the same color clothing, and was dealing with his mom and her storage, but he looked like a young man, unlike today. His movements are different today. The shape of his body is different today. His hairline is different. They are drawing him to look and dress and gesture like a pubescent girl. He even has curves. Look at his hips, as compared with 7-14-18. I hope this is just an experiment and will pass. I don’t like it at all. Give the guy a break.

https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2018/07/14

The true mark of the Christmas Spirit is not in how many decorations you put out once a year, but in how giving you are throughout the year.

Post hole digger and cement?? If you do this every year, you either already have the posts set from before, or your yard is loaded with concrete (not “cement”) plugs…

I know it’s grinchy to hassle over continuity, but did Mr. Gray never visit the Berger home during the holiday season in any previous year?

He left out: jackhammer and welding torch.

Does Al wear that suit to bed, too? The same thing everyday since the character was introduced. Jeez, relax a little, man! :)

I do not do Christmas decorations unless it is simple.

If she has always been so Christmassy how come we have never seen this before?

I can’t believe they’re so late! My niece had the contractors put up her display over a week ago (cheaper!) and the reindeer are already flying and twinkling all over the place.

Les is right, you know…

Nothing like making a fake extravaganza out of reindeer and snowmen to warm one’s heart at Christmastime…

I realize the strip’s creators are trying to emphasize the contrast between Gunther’s enthusiasm for celebrating the holiday and Les’s “meh” attitude towards it, but in Panel 1 they’ve taken things too far by actually transforming Gunther into an elf.

@Mordock999 et ales I’m starting to get the impression that that the Leslie character is beginning to supplant Gunther in the Luann strip pantheon. The character has been moving toward a curmudgeon-like persona from the vicious bully trope. A movement most commenters believe to be positive even if skeptical.

While Gunther, with the shaving incident, the poor handling of Tiffany at the dinner and his being drawn as being indistinguishable from his mother is diminishing him in positive reader interest.

P.S. Mordy No original comment today?

Somebody in the holiday spirit. I love it!

If there actually was a “War against Christmas”, this would be a good reason for it.

My guess is that Jesus would not have wanted his birthday celebrated via tacky, garish, plastic, environment-destroying kitsch.

At least, now we know that they do not live in the northern part of the USA. Not just snow-free, but not even cold enough for a jacket.

Perhaps all this new outdoors wiring will burn down the “guest house”, and Gunther and Les will have to move somewhere else (separately!). At least that would put this whole contrived story arc out of its misery.

“…and a partridge in a pear tree.”

Oh wait, Gunther may already HAVE one of those.

It’s December, I’d think Gunth could use a coat.

I live in Las Vegas, and there’s one house in the community that goes WILD for all the holidays, especially Christmas. I wish I could post a photo. It’s EXTREME, but so much fun too.

I LOVE Christmas too, but I think Gunther and his mom are overdoing it just a teeny, tiny bit.

when you need CEMENT to put up your Christmas decorations that should be your red flag that you’ve gone overboard.

Les should say “Have fun, see you later”. He has a job he can go to. Mr. Gray can’t get out of helping quite as easily.

“Tis the season….pass the eggnog!!!!!

My ex and her family are like this. I’d rather have the $1500 in my pocket so I can give it to charity rather than the electric company. But my new home has solar panels and it won’t be so bad now.

I can’t believe it! I am in total agreement with Les right now!

He’s setting stuff in concrete? That is way overboard.

When I was little, the neighbors across the street had a homemade plywood snow family, which was made and hand painted in the 1940s. As a 2 year old, I was fascinated with it, and scrutinized it every year. When I was an adult, I found the same plywood snow family in an antique shop in the same town, and bought it. I can’t be sure it was the very one that was across the street, but if it isn’t, it’s an exact duplicate. (I have never seen another decoration like it, before or since.) We put our antique snow family in front of the house, and a wreath on the door and that’s it. We’ve talked about making life-sized wise men/camels on plywood (my husband is an artist and does very beautiful work) with a star in a very high place—on the tip of the roof or high in a tree—but we haven’t gotten around to it. Every year we talk about it, which is fun in itself.

The neatest Christmas decoration I’ve ever seen in a front yard was Santa and Mrs. Claus sitting in a Model T. I would love to do that, and we have a 1915 Model T Ford touring car, but I would be very uncomfortable leaving it in the front yard.

Irma and Gunther have really radical Christmas traditions. At least Al seems to agree with them. Probably he would do anything for make his wife happy.

A post hole digger and six bags of cement? How’s he going to take down those decorations? Or is he ever going to take them down?

Luckily Mr. Gray has lots of bags of cement stockpiled, for when he disposes of the bodies.

It’s now December 1st. Maybe G & K have devised Gunther’s hyped up Christmas zeal for the following purpose: On Christmas Day, Frame 1 has a Christmas Dinner table with Frank, Nancy, Brad, Toni, Shannon, Luann and yes, Luann brought Jack. Frame 2 has a Christmas Dinner table with Al, Irma, Tom, Ann, Gunther, Les & Tiffany. Al is doing the cherry stem trick and everybody is laughing. Maybe a caption below: “Peace on Earth – Merry Christmas.”

That is insane and should have been set up in October.

Let’s hope this was a “filler” week so that we won’t have to endure more of this in December. Don’t the students at Moony Uni and at Luann’s community college have exams, term papers, homework assignments, lab reports, etc., due before the Christmas break? A story about that would be better than one about anything that goes on in the “guest house”. For that matter, so would be a story about another one of Pru’s Christmas pageants at the Fuse, even though of course we wouldn’t ever actually see it.

While my disgust grows at the Knox/Gunther premise, I do appreciate this new storylijne, for justly mocking people who put great effort into their Christmas lights. Cement and pole diggers, indeed.

And how many times would their neighbors probably call the police over the nuisance the Bergers cause? Idiots.

In a short time, the Evanses have stripped the veneer off Gunther. He looks ridiculous.

Les might be on to something this time.

I know where they can rent a couple giant Werewolf statues …

“Things Could Get Christ-Messy”

“We’ve Got A Ladder Work Ahead”

“Concrete Jumble”

“An Outside Chance”

“An Inside Job”

“Going Post Hole”

“It Takes A Santa’s Village”

“Rope Springs Eternal”

Okay; I’m with Leslie today. Gunny and Mommy are decoration-looney! Help!

Dude, if you need post hole diggers and cement you are going WAY overboard. I hate those houses that are covered with lights from top to bottom and flash with synchronized music. I especially hate those huge ugly inflatable things. What does Scooby Do have to do with Christmas? Just because you put a Santa hat on something doesn’t make it a Christmas decoration. Would so much rather see a small tasteful display including greenery and just a few lights.

Jeez, for once I agree with Les.

Les certainly has a point lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNU6atT0-k

wow. I actually snorted out loud at a Luann cartoon instead of being mildly amused.