Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 03, 2019

When in my late 20s, I used to volunteer at a thrift store some years ago, one of the lady workers jokingly said my hair was graying (that was after I cut a cord off a non-functional blender or food processor which I absent-mindedly forgot was still in a socket and caused a little short circuit explosion; I thought she was serious when I rushed to a mirror to look for the gray hairs.) Now that I’m 35, I think I see some thinning in the corners.

Women make us all we are and then have been known to complain at how we turn out.

I have heard for years that if you want to see how a man will keep his hair, check out his mother’s father’s hairline.

I don’t see why he is blaming the woman when he is almost bald himself!

Heck, I started getting gray hairs at 23. Still have most of it though.

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Makes me think of those televangelists that can cure folks by laying their hands on them. I noticed that many of the televangelists wear hairpieces. Now, if they can cure people by laying their hands on them, why do they not just lay their hand on their own head and “cure” their baldness?

Ok, so my maternal grandfather had a great head of hair and I’m bald – My mother had 5 sisters and all my male cousins (on my mother’s side) have full heads of hair – talk about the damned flying fickled finger of fate…

I only had one bald uncle and that was caused by disease. AFAIK, both grandfathers had full heads of hair. That said, I do have a bald spot at the rear of my head but it hasn’t grown larger in 30 years.

I’m bald and i get from both sides of the family. My mom two brothers and dad were bald. And my uncle on my dad’s side of the family was bald.

How nice of Frank to mention that Brad is starting to bald. I bet he would have great bedside manner if he was a doctor.

I never met my maternal grandfather, he ran off with another woman while my maternal grandmother was giving birth to my uncle. So based on my uncle and my grandmother’s nephew I have no worries. My paternal Great Grandfather died long before I was born, however, his son went bald in his forties. If the baldness gene is passed down through the matrilineal line, my father should have gone bald but he didn’t. Me, I am in my mid-sixties with a full head of hair that only has a touch a grey at the temples.

Good going, Nancy. Now you know how women make men feel every single day!

Oh, don’t stop there, Frank. Tell Brad the TRUTH. Tell Brad rest.

That women are tougher, smarter, and generally much better dancers. And NO outfit they climb into, ever makes them look “fat.” EVER.

PS: Frank, you’re married to Nancy. Brad, you’re married to Toni. You two are the luckiest SLOBS in the Strip!

So count your blessings and not your “hairs.” :)

men in my family always had a full head of hair, and by the way Brad, be glad you inherited your mom’s nose and not your dad’s.

A true tragedy. I’m so sorry Brad. Sigh, if only I had inherited the strong paternal hair and not the early baldness of the maternal line. How sad!

@Schrodinger’sDog called it yesterday in regard to today’s strip.

I seem to have gotten my father’s hairline.

OK! Something’s fishy here.

Look at this comment from about mid-day yesterday.

Schrodinger’s Dog tomorrow: Brad wonders if he’ll inherit Frank’s bald spot.

‘Fess up dog. How are you getting the inside info? You work in a newspaper print shop or something? Are you Sheriff Mordecai’s alter avatar?

If what Frank says is true, why isn’t my brother bald too!?!?

I’m not so sure about the X chromosome factor. I have been follically challenged since my 20’s, so was my dad and his brothers, but my maternal grandfather hand his brothers had full heads of hair until they died.

I love my husbands clean shaven head. He looks great! I think the gene for thinning hair skips a generation sometimes. As far as I know both his grandfathers did not lose any hair. All the men on my Dad’s side of the family completely lost theirs. When my husband’s hair started to thin I convinced him to shave it and we’ve never looked back! I love it.

Well, you know that God made only so many perfect heads. The rest He had to cover with hair. :)

I don’t know about hair, but judging from those profiles, nobody got Frank’s nose, except for Knute, and he’s been exiled. Come on home Knute, and we’ll do that DNA thing. “Knute DeGroot”……has kind of a ring to it.

Baldness on both mom and dads side. Dad, former New Mexico ranch hand and military had short hair and all us kids followed. As a teen in the mid 70s I wanted to let my hair grow longer, and pretty much did. Dad was not happy about it and said once as long as I was in his house…… I looked at him and replied “Why cant I have my hair long now, while I have hair to have long?” Mom just looked at him and said “He has a point.”Not another word was said about it. Around 38 it started to thin, by 48 it was gone.

I have three brothers in law. The one that is my age, doesn’t appear to have lost much hair, another’s hair line reminds me of Richard Deacon’s, the third is in the middle of the other two. So, I’m not sure that wive’s tale is true, or, not.

I have not checked out the science on the X chromosome, although I bet someone here could give a really good, accurate answer. This is a foible strip (sorry BJ, just not backing off the use) that stands on it’s own, although it does, in an hilarity ensues kind of way, age Brad as a bona fide adult.

Several years ago, my hair began a migration down my back. What was left on my head is very white.

Brad needs to have each individual hair be thinner, not fewer of them.

The shape of Brads head looks different than normal in the last panel. He looks better than usual. Keep it that way.

My son seems to be keeping his locks pretty well. Very dark (almost black) hair and a bit of grey at the temples at 48. My father was completely balded on the top of his head. I hope my son keeps his longer than my Dad. On another note, it’s nice to see a Sunday edition with Brad and his folks instead of Luann. Not that I don’t love her, it’s just nice to see Brad interacting with his parents.

That’s why I started using medicated shampoo when I turned 20. Now I’m 47 and I have WAY more hair than my dad did at that age.

Dad married a hot babe who could have had any other jock in High School, but she chose him. Brad married a hot babe who could also have had anyone she wanted, but chose Brad. I think both hot chicks chose the man, not so much his appearance, to spend their lives with. Is Luann really looking?

This is only a comic but it is true that the baldness “gene” is carried through the female gene pool, not he males. Look it up.

Genetics are far more complex than people realized when it first came out that baldness came from the mother’s father. While the maternal link is one aspect of that, there are other factors involved. In fact, Multiple genes determine male pattern baldness, and some of those come from the father’s side.

Evidence of that can be seen in families where some brothers are balding and others are not. My own family is just such an example. My Dad was the only one of three brothers to go bald. Yet, his maternal grandpa had been bald. I have two brothers. One is balding and the other isn’t. My mother’s dad was about as bald as one can get and still have some hair!

Place your bets for Sunday night/Monday: Another arc – or back to Tiffany dealing with where to live.

Ok when did Brad change so much? He looks more mature yet younger and slimmer all at the same time

Patrick Stewart at about 20 https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1414&bih=986&ei=-TK_XZmBJIfN-gS24KPYDQ&q=Young+patrick+stewart+hair+loss&oq=Young+patrick+stewart+hair+loss&gs_l=img.3…2868.17649..17786…7.0..0.228.2551.33j2j2……0….1..gws-wiz-img…….0j0i5i30j0i8i30j0i30.grK3yS8vkWQ&ved=0ahUKEwjZ4cO8687lAhWHpp4KHTbwCNsQ4dUDCAU&uact=5#imgrc=jno52eKELhB6NM&imgdii=l0ddWk7h41pmpM

I know that this is true, but I had a barber laugh at me and tell me it was total nonsense. He said he knew so many men and their fathers that had similar hair loss.

My husband, on the other hand, has the same hairline as his maternal uncles while his dad had a full head of hair.

Mom’s face in the last panel looks very much like Tiffany’s.

My dad had a full head of hair with no grey, and I am the same at 64.

From WebMDNöthen’s team studied 95 families in which at least two brothers had premature male pattern hair loss. The group included about 200 affected men.

Genetic screening showed that the “cardinal prerequisite” for premature male pattern baldness was a variation in the androgen receptor gene. The gene variant was found “very much more often” among prematurely bald men than among men who still had a full head of hair after age 60, says Nöthen in a news release.

Androgens are male sex hormones, such as testosterone. Nöthen’s colleague, Alex Hillmer, says the exact mechanisms aren’t known, but the gene variation seems to boost androgens’ effects, leading to hair loss.

THIS pretty much shows that Men’s Hormones are to blame. HOWEVER, The “X” chromosome does come into play.If the men’s hormones are strong, no baldness.So, it’s really the men’s problem NOT the woman passing it down.

I still have most of my hair at 60, because God felt sorry for me. My younger brother is about 6’2", and slim… my older brother can (and probably does!) still wear the same clothes from high school. Me? I’m vertically deprived, and when I go outside into the sunshine, I cast 2 shadows. Somewhere on me, the word “Tonka” was tattooed, when I was a kid, because I’m about as delicate as a dump truck!

It’s all that X-Y Zzzzz stuff, Nancy. Don’t let the boys get you….

Hair raising.

All I know is that 47 years ago when I got married, I had hair. My wife complains about grey hair and I tell her some of us would like to have a head full of grey hair.

I have just started reading Luann again after years of not reading any comics. Luann was one of my favorites. I remember when Brad was struggling with what he wanted to do with his life. And then he settled on becoming a firefighter. I also remember a girl he liked. I can’t remember if she became a firefighter first and he followed her.

It is amazing how Greg has allowed them to grow older. I started reading Luann when he first began publishing the strip. I eventually had to compliment him for a job well done. And he seems to be continually keeping the families together. Well at least everyone with the exception of poor little rich girl Tiffiny. Her issues are making her grow to maturity and finding out how “the other half” lives.