Just what exactly is Last-Ditch Effort? The quick explanation is that it's a comic strip about three roommates trying to make their way through life at college. It covers a wide range of topics, from dealing with school assignments to part-time jobs to Spring Breaks spent camping in the great outdoors. Beyond that, I'll just let the characters speak for themselves.

The first time I drew this strip was for my own college newspaper. Since that time I may have graduated, but the characters seem to be perpetually stuck in school, showing up at various campuses across the country. So far, the strip has run in over 50 university and college newspapers - if you think you'd like to see it added to your own student paper, please send me an email at kroes@lde-online.com.

In the end, I don't hope for much more out of this than the chance to tell a lot of the stories I didn't get to the first time around, plus all the new ones I've written since then. The boys have had a couple years off, but now they're back and ready for fun. 

Let the chaos begin...