Luann mystery solved

Luann's comic was inactive this week because the site was being revamped: Luann's Room 2.0.

The site has a terrific archive going back to 1995. (Funny how I was just bemoaning the lack of a complete archive!) Luann now joins the latest fad: colored strips every day of the week. I like it so far.

One problem I've found: you pick a time period of comics that you would like to read... and it puts the newest one at the top! There's no way to reverse the order. That's ridiculous, especially with an episodic soap opera comic like Luann. Anyone reading is going to want to start at the back and read forward.

Look what I found! The first strip where Brad decided to become a firefighter. I don't know what the opposite of "jumping the shark" is, but for me this is really the point where the strip started gaining ground. Brad went from being the fridge-raiding lazy brother and butt of all jokes to a dedicated young man with some purpose in his life, and it's led to a dozen good subplots such as meeting Toni Daytona, contending with Dirk, and the current plotline about the calendar shoot.

All right. I posted on the blog. Now...back to reading some classic Luann strips.