For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 03, 2010

Why do you have to visit your family now that your son needs you? Just go home.

I should… visit with family and go straight home.

If you visit with family first, then that’s NOT going “straight home” !!!

….who’s a silly Connie?

OpenWings - “….who’s a silly Connie?” LOL x 2!

Only you (and Lynn) know, Connie…

She should go home.

I am a grown woman with a child and well, most of my life I have acted older than this, but I know many people well into their 40s who are not always mature and responsible, who rationalise and who make really bad decisions. And that’s without them even being divorced and dating!

it’s not always easy to decide between what you probably shoud do and what you think you really want.

Besides she did not abandon her son. She left him with kind and caring friends while she took a short vacation.

There is hardly any reason to rush home. Elly has things under control (more or less). She’s traveled the distance, she should visit her family while she is there.

Yes, we all know what Lynn Johnston is doing.

At least the second time around, Connie is still being “revised” as a consistently irresponsible, cheap tramp. It will help us to hate her even more later on. If that’s what you call “new perspective”. : )

mrslukeskywalker: great article link yesterday. Very funny. and enlightening.

Ah yes. What a dingbat this Connie is, to be sure.

When she got tired of telling the story the first time, Lynn should have racked her cue and retired gracefully.

This venture of “telling the whole story again from the start” isn’t going well, and begins to look just self-indulgent. Even the drawing isn’t as good as it was the first time.

Besides, there’s no longer a narrative. She isn’t telling the story again. It’s frozen in time now, a strip version of “The Family Circus” (without a doubt one of the stupidest comics ever created).

I’m glad you guys liked that article. I’m surpriZZZZZZZZZZZed, but glad it was still there. I didn’t know I wasn’t alone until I read that when the strip ended.

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I like Family Circus, Ocean17. It preserves innocence and makes you remember how you thought of things as a child. Too bad all the sicko pedophiles go there to comment though.

But Lynn IS telling the story again.

Pretty soon there will be no new additions.

“The Family Circus” is a much loved strip, as proof of it’s very long run.

Toldya, HowtheDuck! :D

Connie, you do really think your plan will work out smoothly. Make sure that you visit your relatives in short time and then, YOU better go straight home and take care of your boy who had broken his leg immediately.

I am sure that Lynn who is semi-retired tweaked the strips a little bit to catch up the unfinished stories. We all would be appreciated very much to read the strips for Better or For Worse. :-)

I have always liked this strip and take it for what it is: entertainment. Who hasn’t had a friend like Connie - putting everything and everyone off while seeking for the elusive “love of one’s life?” I can relate to a variety of the subjects she visits - my son was born at home around the same time April was born at home. A daughter with a boy friend who turned to be a jerk. The list can go on….

If the FBOFW family is boring then so are we America and Canda.

I know I’m probably going to get flamed for this but here goes anyhow.

I guess in the whole grand scheme of things, if Connie hasn’t seen relatives in who knows how long (years maybe?), what could it really hurt if, while she’s there in the area, she stops by for a half-hour or so to visit them before heading home? Broken though his leg may be, Lawrence is being well taken care of and it might be years before she comes back this way again … especially since we know that things aren’t going to work out between her and Phil as she so desperately hoped.

On the other hand, since this has never happened to me, I can’t say that this is exactly what I’d do if the circumstances were the same though! I’d most likely rush home to be with my child as fast as I could and save visiting with relatives for a day when my child wasn’t suffering with a broken limb of some sort!

And the phone rings and it’s………………………Phil.

I suppose what Connie could do is speak to Lawrence on the phone and say since she’s here she’d like to see her family unless he really needs her to come home right away. He could then be the one to make the decision.

As for Family Circus I have always liked it. I read it on another site. It’s been around as long as I have (or longer) and that’s a long time!

The kid is going to live and wow isn’t she lucky to have all of us to tell her what she “should” do. She did a dumb thing in following Phil because she doesn’t get the fact that he’s not interested. That doesn’t make her a bad mom. As I’ve said before I was a PS worker and believe me, it can get a lot worse! She left the kid with a responsible adult – how is that abusive? She did a dumb thing – how is that abusive? He fell and broke his leg – how is that abusive? I can’t wait to read the logic.

surprize = depends on where you learned English.

surprise - surprize color - colour gray - grey

the list goes on…… I used to get blasted because I used British spelling, but I still do.

I think “surprize” is a variant, most Brits write surprise afaik.