For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 06, 2021

Liz, did you write MIKE on it? Otherwise people won’t know who it belongs to thus what’s the point?

touché, Elizabeth

Tyge told ya so!8^ )

Should have pinned it to the back of his backpack just before school with a couple of grapes and a Smokey Joe little sausage.

Well done Liz

HOW is it “invading her privacy”?

Aide from laughing at Elizabeth and her bra, Elizabeth takes it one step further in revenge and steals Mike’s jockstrap and puts it in a place where he will never be able to recover it. It’s funny because Elizabeth is escalating the conflict. What is the message here then? Theft and destruction of property are good things if your brother teases you?

Also, Mike is drinking milk straight out of the carton and leaves the milk on the counter and not in the refrigerator. Why in the world is Elly letting that go without a lecture?

Hell hath no fury (and so on…)

/SMIRK/

Let the battle begin

The over the shoulder boulder holder vs The down low pebble pouch.

Mike should have been grounded again.

I thought at first that Mike was eating a chocolate covered doughnut, but it apparently is an apple. Aren’t apples red in Canada?

Nice, once she tells a few folks it will get around town that it’s his jock in the sky. It could be up there for years. Bold move Liz. …I mean tsk, tsk, tsk. Revenge is never the way. Forgive and forget. …sigh

The expression on Mike’s face in the first panel is worthy of one solid swat upside his head. In other news: Brava, Liz !

LOL. This is something I would have done to one of my brothers for picking on me. I never told my parents on them. I just got even.

HA!! Good for you, Liz! Give Mike a taste of his own medicine! As they say, one turn deserves another.

Lynn’s Comments:

I was hoping the item on the wire looked like a jock strap! When newspapers reduced the size of the comics page, we had much less space in which to make a gag work. Every square centimeter had to count and small details had to be drawn with real care so that they were evident to the reader. I hoped that I’d had enough space in the last panel to include the characters (for expression), the dialogue and the gag. Maybe not!

Shoes work because they act like a bolo. I don’t see this happening with a girl and a jock strap. Too unbelievable to be funny.

Glad nobody suggested Bengay. Or Tiger Balm. Somebody suggesting things like that would have to be really evil.

payback

Write MIke in big red letters

I love everything about this strip. Love Michael’s pleased-with-himself expression in panel one. Love his befuddlement in panel two. Love that he left the apple core and milk carton on the counter. Love Elizabeth’s marvellously effective vengeance. Excellent.

Touche!

He kind of had it coming…

At least we know Liz is no wuss!

And here I was thinking Ed Crankshaft and Les Moore were the biggest a-holes in the comics. How could I have forgotten Michael Patterson?

Now, as a home owner who loves her home and where it’s at, I would be very angry to see this done outside of my house. It would be removed immediately. Since I would have to pay someone to do that…. if I knew the culprit….! I do find today’s comic funny, but predictable.

He wouldn’t have gotten off that easy with me……

Eww, you touched it!

That’s actually pretty impressive.

Elizabeth should have had her friend record it then posted it!

Wait until he sees this!

My wife had 3 sisters and no brothers. 1 day she found my cup in the back of a drawer. I told her it was a nose and mouth protector.

It’s too bad Lynn never followed up on this. There could have been some major gags that flowed from this little “revenge”.

KUH-KUH-KARMA!!!

Wow, it’s extra small!

She is on site telling.

Excellent, Liz!!!

I would just buy Mike his own “training” bra and say, “Well, you seemed to really like your sister’s. I sure don’t want you to feel left out.”

Way to go Liz!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone will ask around to see who it belongs to and I am sure you and your friend can give them the answer! LOL

If siblings didn’t invade each other’s privacy … they wouldn’t be siblings!

Payback and all that…

Mike will know soon enough.

Please tell me she got it out of the clean laundry. Anything else is just a big no. As a guy, I wouldn’t even let my own mother touch it to wash it, let alone my sister. ((shudder))

I know shoes on a power line mean drugs for sale, so what does a jockstrap mean? Hmm.

I never had a sister growing up but I can’t imagine a brother treating his kid sister this way.

Good one Liz, but I agree – you should have put a large and legible name tag on it.

Liz is more resourceful than meets the eye.

Yo Helly! Your wide open mouth has broadcast a lot of things about Mike that were none of YOUR business!

I still think chili powder in it would have been a better revenge but perhaps a bit too mean for Liz. Plus, they may not even know what real chili powder is in Canada.

Revenge is sweet. ;-)