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1. 4 days ago on Luann

   Well without it, how would the rancher know if you’re one of his cattle or part of some entirely different herd? You could get rustled! So bend over, little dogie. This won’t hurt a bit. Your misfortune and none of my own. You know Wyoming will be your new home

   ;)

2. 5 days ago on Luann

   Because on an unconscious level, they know they never say or do anything without the name Luann hanging over their heads, because they live in a comic strip named after her?

   It seems to me people commenting on this strip here do exactly the same thing Tiff and Bets do—endlessly comment on how Luann (the character) is doing everything wrong, dresses badly, should be dating this or that person, and what’s up with her eyebrows?

   Again, I think this is the strip satirizing its own fanbase. ;)

3. 6 days ago on Luann

   It’s not reasonable to expect comic strip characters to know they are bashing their own brand, since without ‘Luann’, none of them exist. ;)

4. 8 days ago on Luann

   It seems they really did help Luann get a handle on herself.

   Just not in the way they intended.

5. 11 days ago on Luann

   Ooh! Age stamp! 19! She was 13 when the strip first appeared in newspapers. Almost 40 years ago. When there were still newspapers. I wish that was a joke.

   So in another four decades or so, our time, she’ll be 24. Living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Possibly dating a zombie.

   Honestly, when time passes that slowly, branding is not such an imperative.

6. 12 days ago on Luann

   I’m in my sixties, and I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. I have a job, I have a very long-term relationship, I have friends, I have various interests, and I have a dog.

   Some people define themselves by their career, but I’m not convinced most people do that. I think even people I know who make a very nice living aren’t all that happy with their jobs, because honestly—most jobs suck. They’re someting you do so you can afford to do something else in your spare time. Like eat and sleep under a roof. I don’t dislike my job, and at this point I’d probably miss it if I retired. It doesn’t define me.

   Luann’s ‘brand’ might simply be to be Luann, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Teacher is one of the most useful and admirable jobs there is. I tried it, briefly. It’s also one of the most irritating and exhausting jobs. Unless you really love it, which I’m not convinced most teachers do—but some do. The teachers I know who love it are really great people to be around.

7. 20 days ago on Luann

   I like all three characters. I’m enjoying this storyline. It’s a funny commentary on the current obsession with personal ‘brands’. What is it about this strip that brings out the self-righteous lecturer in everyone? You’re literally attacking their focus on brands by attacking their brands! :D

8. 21 days ago on Luann

   I am so confused about why people who don’t like comedy—which invariably involves tactless misguided behavior—keep reading something that is literally called a COMIC strip.

   Yes, this is all silly, and so is much of human behavior in real life. What’s the problem here? They all mean well, and they all live pretty decent lives, by and large.

   Sorry not sorry, not seeing much in the way of serious-minded intellectualism here. And if that’s what I was after, early in the morning, with the caffeine just beginning to kick in, I wouldn’t be here. ;)

9. 23 days ago on Luann

   People still know these actors, they have a lot of fans who weren’t alive when their films were coming out. It’s an old joke—“Hey, did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?” These days, Wings is the band people have a hard time remembering. Some things defy generational change, and the best work of Hepburn and Stewart definitely qualifies.

   Jimmy Stewart loved talking to children, so Nancy could have been quite young at the time. They don’t want to be specific about it, because of the temporal oddities of the strip, which began in 1985—well before people had cellphones and social media. Meaning none of the kids should know about any of that, since they were tweens in 1985.

10. 24 days ago on Luann

    Stef used a compliment as an insult. There really is no response to that. And that, of course, is her brand. She’s happy with it. So even though she inspired their new business, she’s never going to be a client.