For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 16, 2008

Mike has his priorities straight.

*&#$% Sunday versus Daily deadlines – Uncle Phil is arriving 2 days after he helped them pick out a tree.

Just take Sunday strips as alternative storylines. They may never be directly related to the daily comic. After accepting this, things got less confusing. :D

Yes, Sundays are always alternative, mostly always have been.

I never wanted to discover what was in my Christmas presents until Christmas morning. I loved the anticipation and suspense. Having said that; every Christmas Eve I had the same recurring dream. I would dream that I was up and opening presents, only to wake up and discover I was still in bed; go back to sleep and repeat, repeat and repeat.

A Sunday comic from last Sunday and this current strip should be backward. This current strip should be on Sunday and old strip from last Sunday should be posted on it today! Does that make sense? I do!

I like that story, cleokaya. I can completely relate. The anticipation on Christmas eve was always so sweet.

well this is an old one.

I was even worse as a kid. This is a birthday however, I would go into my parents room and unwrap my presents then wrap them up again. I hated surprises.

cleokaya says: ‘I would dream that I was up and opening presents, only to wake up and discover I was still in bed; go back to sleep and repeat, repeat and repeat.’

Wow, that sounds great! You got to open presents over and over again; and just when the feeling of anticipation was lost, you woke up and renewed it. It's like a dozen Christmases in a row!

Bill Watterson addressed this when he did a Calvin & Hobbes’ story arc that revolved around camping, to which the Sunday strip was included. He said Sunday strips are required to be submitted two months ahead of the date of publish. As such, it is considerable inconvenience for cartoonists to coordinate a weekday story and include the Sunday strip in it.