Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 13, 2017

We gotta move these refrigerators, we gotta move these color TVs.

(Jack sort of reminds me of a guy from that music video.)

man, is this job as an RA complicated

How could her RA book or checklist not have a space for reporting stolen property? That makes no sense.

Well, CLEARLY the perp has to be someone she knows. No way it could have been a complete stranger.

Hope they can get this mystery all Bhutaned up soon.

(Sorry.) :)

Bernice’s book just lists bodies, not TV’s

It would be nice if this fancy new site let us reply to the person we wanted to reply to…

Of course Bernice is the type to jump to conclusions. She is a single character example of opposite I always notice and note in this comic. I have noticed it with characters who attract each other, such and Knute and Crystal, or for that matter Gunther and TIffany. Bernice’s character is always the snarky know-it-all to her friend Luann, being the one who always has the sensible approach to Luann’s all over the map way of approaching the world. She likes to analyze people and always is concluding things about them which are often way off the mark, because contrary to being a smart as she thinks she is, she tends to separate emotions and jumping to conclusions just the opposite of her superior understanding of the world. Hence some funny,and sometimes poignant outcomes. Ah the smell of a new arc!!

Dear gocomics – it is very annoying to have to toggle the comments “on” every time you go somewhere else – i.e., to check yesterday’s comments or something – and it’s too easy to accidentally toggle out of the comments. Plus it’s likely that only those who are aware of the comments option – i.e., people who used read and commented on the comics before the switchover – will understand what that particular button is all about and give it a try. Couldn’t you just leave “comments on” as the default, while still giving readers all of the other options? Just my two cents’ worth…

@SACTOSYLVIA: Good luck with that. Everything we have asked them has fallen on deaf ears. But they say. “We listened, We hear you, etc.” Really…

Did anyone notice the ad on the common board selling a 60 inch HD TV? And yes, college students are stupid enough to try and sell stolen merchandise in the same neighborhood it was stolen in.

The comments mechanism for the new site seems to be under rework. But at least the way it is at the moment, I found a trick. If you call up the site with " http://www.gocomics.com/luann?comments=visible#comments ", the current day’s strip and the comments will be displayed all at once, without having to click the baloon.

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Unfortunately, at the moment, the links to reply or see a reply chain seem to be broken. I suspect they’ll fix that pretty quickly.

Why does she assume that whoever left the scarf also took the tv? Oh I get it, the scarf reminded her of Piro so she’s in a love daze and can’t think clearly.

Does she know for a fact that the TV was there before? It might have been missing for days.

I don’t like that you have to click on the Replies link to see them, that’s a pain. Too bad there’s no way to just load everything at once.

I like this arc. I also like the fact that the TV could have been missing for days but if so , wouldn’t one of the other RA’s reported it and the supervisor would have told Bernice a few days ago when she gave her the assignment? Liked the advertisement on the board about the TV for sale. Nil and Jack go to Pitts Jr college and not MOONY University . I don’t think they would have access to the dorm and/or common room unless they were visiting someone there. There is a lot of ways to play this out and Greg could have us hanging onto this story arc on and off for several weeks. I really like Dez’s character. She is fun, funny, down to earth and also way out there at the same time. I like her better than Delta and she is a good foil for Bernice , who can be really irritating ( but I guess that is what makes her funny).

Check out the ad on the Mooney U bulletin board: 60 inch HDTV for sale. Coincidence?

I think of Bernice as High Intelligence, Low Wisdom. Dez has boatloads of wisdom.

Please make ‘show comments’ the default and ‘hide comments’ the optional button. Are you getting paid by Facebook? I like the larger avatars, though.

Uh, how come all the suspects are ‘Guys???’

Nobody is “too scrawny” to lift a flat-screen TV. Besides, it was probably just “borrowed” by Tiffany for some party she was throwing.

Oh Bern…sigh. Bring on this new arc!

“Circumstantial Evidence.”

Bernice is always such an unpleasant character. I’m surprised that anyone likes her in this comic strip.

Dez is the only rational person in the room…….

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Interesting switch here for Bernice. Now, not only did she suspect her beloved Piro, but now she is suspecting Luann’s two Pitt Community College friends! I am disliking this very suspicious (and illogical) side of Bernice. If it gets to a point where she actually accuses one of these three fellows….. I hope she gets a true comeuppance about it.

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Does anyone actually think the Community Bulletin Board ad for a used 60 inch HDTV is really linked to the plot…. or is it meant only as a “red herring” for us to ruminate over? If Bernice happens to notice the ad, perhaps she will call whomever’s number is listed and accuse him/her of stealing the Community Room tv? That could be humorous to see (although making Bernice even more annoying about this than she is at the moment).

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Hopefully Dez will be able to bring Bernice to her senses before any direct accusations occur. But, I tend to doubt it, because then the story arc would not have any drama, or tension, or fun.

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Final thought (question)…. With the new site up, I have not seen ANY comments at all from Sukie. Does anyone know…. a) has she purposefully given up on the comments section because of vision challenges with the new site? or, b) is she just away for a few days on some other sort of matter that prevents her from accessing the site? For me, I am hoping she is just gone temporarily. I would miss her comments if she decides to permanently leave.

Look. At. The. Bulletin. Board… Yeesh

I did note the ad on the bulletin board for the 60" TV. If one goes back to the strip where Bernice set up the room for her and Piro to watch a silent film, you can see the TV is about a 32 to maybe at best, a 40 inch set (http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2016/06/01). So, unless they have changed out the TV since then, the 60" set for sale is a different set.

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Also, there is a possibility that it was a gag and the sale notice on the bulletin board is part of the gag. If you look at most of the ads on the board that offer something for sale or a service, they have contact information on them such as the tear – off tabs at the bottom of the ads. The ad for the 60" TV has no contact information on it.

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Just a couple of wild guesses, but who knows?

Off topic question, but I have exhausted all other avenues I could think of….

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I remember on the day of the launch of the new site here that somewhere I had information and/or a link to where the “Sherpa” cartoons are being housed until this new GoComics site can accommodate them. Does anyone recall either the link or where this information is? I would like to look at the handful of Sherpa cartoons I had in my queue.

It just occurred to me that it doesn’t matter to me what I think of the new web site. It’s probably here to stay. I better get on board. I just wish it would keep me logged in. This arc seems boring. Has it occurred to our characters that the television is out to be repaired and not missing? Oh well lets move on.

We pretty much know this already, but here goes with my thoughts, anyway. Bernice does her RA duties according to the “book.” With a lot of room for exceptions, of course. She has not learned, and maybe can’t, improvise. If there is no actual provision on the form to list missing, or stolen property, then use the reverse side of the form, or an additional sheet to note her findings.

There’s a mystery series in this somewhere: The Overachiever Detective…

So this morning I logged in to gocomics and up popped today’s Luann strip with comments showing – no need to go through numerous steps to get to the right strip, and no need to toggle on the comments! I’m not sure if this is a gocomics change or the result of my browser learning my preferences, but I like it!

Dez is of course right, Bernice, my frazzled friend! But here’s another bit of advice: read the dang bulletin board (lower right corner); it may be a clue!

Perhaps it’s a sub-set of “broken/damaged”, Bern.

@Sisyphos: But the TV that Bernice and Piro watched silent movies on, in the Common Room, was smaller than the one advertised for sale on the bulletin board…

A very good observation Argy.Bargy2.

@NIGHT-GAUNT49: I mentioned the size of the set about 5 hours ago, you can see it here: http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2016/06/01

A few separate notes:

1. While I do see the “For Sale” TV notice on the bulletin board, it’s pretty small. I doubt that Greg means for it to be a clue. It took Luann and Bernice four strips to notice the Fuse Follies Talent Show poster, and that was much, much larger than the TV for sale notice.

2. When I was in college, the TVs in common rooms were locked down to protect against theft. That would probably have been a good idea for Moony U. to follow.

3. The idea that the thief might turn out to be a stranger unknown to Bernice (which seems quite reasonable for a burglary) resembles the concepts in TV Tropes’ Stranger Behind the Mask: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrangerBehindTheMask

the LuannFan site just sent an email out, and in mentioning the possibilities for the missing TV it listed the following to vote for:

.-Piro! Bernice found that scarf!

. -Les! He’s untrustworthy!

.- Jack and/or Nil! Because Bernice brought it up!

. – An unknown dorm resident who likes to post ads on the bulletin board…

. – The tv wasn’t stolen—there’s a logical explanation.

I’ve been requested to relay the following note from Sukie :

.“The current commands and navigation are quite unfriendly for my eyes, so if i wait for GC to repair at least those problems i will avoid a lot of frustration. Why should i be unkind to myself when there is already someone in the comment section who i do not even know but who has decided to assume that chore?”