For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 01, 2013

I love Elly’s eye roll in the third panel.

He probably hasn’t gone yet.

I thought he was fixing to get on the airplane!

As always, Lynn’s amazing talent shines through in their expressions! I admire her work so much!!

i luv you mike……

get rid of the trumpet.play the drums,guitar or accordion instead.

he should pretend to be like ralph kramden and play the cornet.or ed norton and play the piano.play swanee river! i love the honeymooners! i could watch it a thousand times and never get tired of it.

Wishin’ I didn’t blow off my trumpet lessons…‘Sigh’

yeah…that’s an awesome parenting strategy. bet your kids really “love” you…

Everybody is seeming to forget the arc a few months ago when Phil gave Mike his old trumpet.

HAPPY CANADA DAY, EH!

I bet that Chris Botti didn’t have to complain when it came time for trumpet lessons, neither did Miles Davis.

Somehow Micheal, I think you’ll be able to forgive them for that. Being able to play a musical instrument is a worthwhile skill, even just from the standpoint of having to be diligent to practice, and the brain development involved in playing one. Keep at ’im Elly!

Both my girls, after they were grown: “Why didn’t you make me keep taking piano?”

I have a friend who says he can’t respect any instrument that changes shape while you’re playing it. He also has a problem with keyboard instruments you have to wear.

Dave Marsden: Get a trumpet and a technique book and have at it. I am 80 and play in three community bands (two concurrently, but they are shut down for the third one’s season)..howtheduck: That’s how I interpreted it, being like Nanki Poo, “disguised as a second trombone” (Mikado, G&S). But the valve tuning slide on many brass instruments must be worked for some notes.