Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 09, 2017

Bern, that wasn’t exactly a compliment…

will Bernice be coming across Piro on her watches?

Lighten up, Bernice. Life is too short. I predict she will join the military and someday be the first unmarried (and possibly virgin) chairperson of the joint chiefs of staff, a 4 star rank.

I’m surprised to see that I can still access the old site. Although I’m not sure that the comment will register, here it is: apparently, Bernice hasn’t learned any lessons from her past rigid approach to a by-the-book life. That’s a shame…

‘Bureaucracy In Action~!!’

Last year the director played a prank on Bernice by making her enforce the ridiculous 10 PM dorm curfew. (No, that’s not canon. That’s my interpretation. Your friends want to come watch the end of the Lakers game on TV with you? Too bad, you’re getting written up!) Now it looks like Bern is getting back at the director by taking the common room inspection way too seriously.

Ah finally a new arc starts. I wonder how long it will take before someone complains about how boring it is can we see something else.

Oh crud, better hide my Luann bathing suit posters.

omg, its just checking, way to overkill

ergE:qhjnqg|AEkgjg|AJgAWgf….. Just kidding

do young people ever say “ma’am” these days?

Oh thank God. When she say “Way ahead of you ma’am” I thought she’d installed a spy cam.

1:17 am in California. Testing, testing at the old site. Can we just continue to use this site and ignore the beta site? Or is this the new site, with exactly the same look and functionality as the old? No, surely not.

I get the distinct impression that the Evanses have no idea what to do with Bernice any more. She and Luann are too close for her to be written out of the script, but she’s by far the most clueless, ignorant and self-absorbed character in the strip.

Tiffany? No, actually. Tiffany does have some self-awareness, and some feelings for Gunther, though neither of them thinks of the other as anything more than a friend. The difference between college Tiffany and high school Tiffany is much greater than the difference between high school Bernice and college Bernice.

Bernice must be of German descent. They over-complicate or over-engineer everything.

I tried the new site again. Even though I logged in using my username, it persisted in using my real name when I commented. So I won’t be back.

It was nice talking to lots of you. I’ll miss this community.

“Thorough Bred”

“Everyday, I Write The Book” (♬♪)

“A Monitor’s Colorful Resolution”

“Simply Complex”

“Ya Hafta Bow To Stern”

“Miss Mary Mack, And The Monitor”

“A Prose On Procedures”

“Kiss Me, Intri-cate!”

“Checklist Charlie”

“Aw, Don’t Be Meticulous!”

“A Very Plain Detail Spin”

“You’re In My System” (♬♪)

“A Quirky, Brown Haired Fox Jumped Over The Crazy Blog”

“She’s A Lumberjack, Lumberjack, I Know!” (♪)

or

“I Fought The Log, And The Log Won” (♪)

“Thorough Bred”

“Everyday, I Write The Book” (♬♪)

“A Monitor’s Colorful Resolution”

“Simply Complex”

“Ya Hafta Bow To Stern”

“Miss Mary Mack, And The Monitor”

“A Prose On Procedures”

“Kiss Me, Intri-cate!”

“Checklist Charlie”

“Aw, Don’t Be Meticulous!”

“A Very Plain Detail Spin”

“You’re In My System” (♬♪)

“A Quirky, Brown Haired Fox Jumped Over The Crazy Blog”

“She’s A Lumberjack, Lumberjack, I Know!” (♪)

or

“I Fought The Log, And The Log Won” (♪)

“Progress”

This feels like The Matrix

I tend to follow the rules but I had a friend like Bern and he would drive me crazy adhering to the letter of the law.

maybe they’re on the Julian calendar?

I see a nervous breakdown in Bernie’s future.

Bernice was responsible for the beta version of Go-comics

Oh my goodness! Bern again— maybe Team Evans is trying to draw Levi out of hiding. (Happy, GS?)

Bernice, you’re not halping.

Hmm. It is 9:27 EST where I am, which would be 6:27 PST (California). With the traditional site still working for me at the moment, I am suspecting they are going to flip us to the “new and improved” site during California working hours, so probably sometime between 8am and noon their time which will be sometime between 11am and 3pm EST.

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It is so funny seeing Bernice…. she is so much “all about the plan” and so less focused on the immersion in the activity. This is a common theme for her and has a definite ring of truth to it…. I know a number of people who are very much like Bernice. I can get that way sometimes, myself, but I have learned to work hard to avoid being “all about the plan” and have tried to become more experiential.

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When I re-read the comic, I found it odd that Bernice called that other girl, “Ma’am”. When I first read the comic, it felt like she was another Resident Assistant, perhaps the “head” resident assistant, and therefore another student, perhaps a senior student. I guess Greg means her to be an older individual, a more permanent staff member at Moony.

I wonder what ‘awful’ things Bernice is going to clean up in the common room?

.Luaniphile, best laugh of the day so far!

judging from the comments here already, some people are never happy about anything.

wow. took about 3 seconds to figure out how to use this

wow. using the new site was about as hard as falling off a log.

Well its Monday and this “New” place ain’t half Ba…..,

WAIT! This isn’t the New Place! This is the OLD Place with that Hideous Wallpaper!!

ATTICA, ATTICA!!!!!!

Couldn’t seem to alter my profile. Do I have to go back to the former site?

So, THIS is the “New” Place, eh? Needs Paint….,

At least this will keep Bernice busy and not bothering anyone, like Piro.

Prepare to recognize NO ONE at the new “site” (once the GoComics Overlords get their finger out).

You will be identified by your email name rather than your Avatar nom de guerre.

So far I personally am LIKING this site.

It changed to the new format while I was reading my comics. What happened to the comments already here?

Nice new site design. It is good!

Old site is GONE as of 5 minutes ago.

The new site is not as bad as I expected. Thanks to everyone who said how to leave comments. It would have taken me a while to figure out to click on a certain icon.

I didn’t think the old site was broke…

Obviously a lot of people haven’t figured out how to comment yet.

Had already used the Beta site since mid November. Still not impressed, a lot of things still need to be addressed. Looks like a uniform on a Mexican General.

Hey I found the comments!! yayyyy

Bernice killing an ant with a bulldozer as usual.

Even though this new site is not to my liking, I suppose that after a few days, weeks, or months I will grow accustomed to its design. I do have to say though, that there are two things I shall very much miss:

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1) It appears all the old comments on the old site are kaput. If the loss of the prior comments is permanent…. what a tragic loss. It is akin to the loss of history. Even though the comments were in many cases “just” comments…. they can provide valuable information about the society that wrote them and from the context of the history of comics, gocomics, and art, they have value in that regard.

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2. I miss the navigation ease offered by the older site. This is not as easy on the computer. I suspect the mobile will not be better either, especially since it is probably basically this site.

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Yes I didn’t like when over 190 thousand of my comments were removed before this. Now it is totally gone. The major draw back of electronic culture. Historians have been worried that much will be lost at power interruptions without solid paper trails.

Why isn’t there an option / setting to display ALL comments, including replies ?

I like the bigger clearer avatars, comics and fonts. I never made use of some features that others are missing, but I understand their disappointment of course.

You can now kibitz on Pibgorn and 9 Chickweed Lane!

Hurry before Brooke McEldowney shuts it down!

It took me a minute to figure it out, mainly because my work site alters a lot of sites and blocks some content, so this site (among others) is not always user friendly. I’m only seeing recent comments though, and can’t figure out where any of the previous comments are located. Did those from this morning just get erased?

that’s another reason why Bernice and Gunther will never work. they can complicate even a trip to the fridge for a glass of milk.

So, now, 4:40 EST… happily it seems that old comments have been migrated back to this new site. That is a relief. Even today’s earlier comments on the old site have migrated. That is a very nice and good thing…. to lose the comments would have been tragic.

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One navigation change that has both good and bad aspects I think is related to REPLIES. Now, it seems as if replies to a specific comment are “linked” directly to that comment and you do not see those replies UNLESS you click on the “3 Replies” (or whatever number it happens to be) link. It is NICE that they are clustered so that you can see the whole thread together. But, it would be nice to have an easier glimpse of who has replied and/or at least a start of the reply so we would have better knowledge of whether we want to take the time to view the replies or not.

Alright! Comments from earlier today have migrated over from the old site!

Now, if we could just have the REFRESH COMMENTS button back so one doesn’t have to refresh the whole page and click the Comments icon again

And way to “up-vote” someone else’s Comment would be nice

And a full bar with a few paper umbrellas would be fun.

I’m digging the new digs. Diggity!

Test

If anyone experiences a loss of icons, just make sure to hover your cursor over each one, and then you can see the names of the icons, at least until they return (or maybe it’s just happening on my computer.

If I could compare this to the first day of school, or maybe even the first day of a new job, it’d be a rough one, for sure….

Bern must be related to Lt. Fuzz from Beetle Bailey!

the previous site had a refresh key that you could click on to update the comments. Does anyone know where such thing is here? I’m not sure if the new comments appear automatically on a site that is already open. I think they don’t. clicking the comments balloon again doesn’t seem to act as a refresh.

The Russians hacked the old site and this is what we got. Yep, that’s the ticket…

I am uncomfortable having my name in all caps. It feels like an exaggerated importance, which I deny.

Yeah, I don’t like my name in all caps, either. But at least it’s less imposing than PANDINUS_IMPERATOR. I swear, that was my name when I looked at my profile just a few minutes ago. What the…??? I was almost tempted to keep it, but then I thought nah, I like my groovin’ cat avatar too much to have to swap it out for an emperor scorpion avatar. But seriously, what the heck was that?

Bernice is certainly in her element when she carries a binder with a check list.

I love the fact that GoComics nuked my (and others’) negative comments about the beta site prior to porting comments over to it for the launch today.

It is confirmed. Bernie is clueless, but OCD as well….

No wonder she can’t get a boyfriend!

So now I’m PROFILE/2157787. I can’t see all the comics in a single A-Z listing. I have to do an extra click to see comments.

A fine example of fixing something that wasn’t broken to make it worse.

I notice that I can now click on every date on the calendar, even in past months. That’s something I couldn’t do on the old site. Now, if I want to refer to a past strip, I can go find it and post a URL to it. Sweet!

One thing I really dislike about this new format is that we have to click on the replies below each comment to see how people responded.

“…One thing I really dislike about this new format is that we have to click on the replies below each comment to see how people responded…….”________________________________________________________________________________________________ I agree. It doesn’t promote the kind of free wheeling discussion that we had when all comments, regardless of type, appeared in chronological order. Though it does save space and keep things organized but it also keeps things hidden. But we can still copy and paste what we are commenting on and make it a new message.

Posting this from my phone as a test. Easier to see and comment on a phone than before. It’s clear the site is optimized for mobile vs. PC.

Flagging a comment is weird. I picked some poor sap’s comment to test-flag just to see how the functionality worked, intending to immediately un-flag it again. What I got was no visual indication that it had been flagged — or unflagged, when I clicked on it a second time. Honestly, the default red flags on everything make it look to me as if every single post is flagged already. If I hover over it, it says “Flag This Comment.” If I click to flag it, nothing changes. The flag is still the same shade of red, and hovering over it still says “Flag This Comment.” Seems broken — or at least poorly designed as far as visual feedback goes.

Sally Forth? is that you (sort of)?