For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 19, 2022

Sounds more like risky business to me !

have fun without Lawrence’s support, Michael, Gordon, and Brian

Lawrence is the voice of reason.

Mob-mentality. And it’s not even Jan 6th!

Are they getting arrested?

Wesley D. Bates. He’s gonna be somebody. He’s no ordinary kid. He uses his middle initial. He’s gonna be important.

It can get out of hand and you can get in trouble that might go on your permanent record. Do you want to take that risk?

One nice upside of reprints is seeing arcs you REALLY like again, sometimes with fresh eyes of people who don’t really care to binge the archive and are thus reading this for the first time. This arc is a faviorite of mine and while I can’t get into why till a bit later (possibly next week) it has a really sharp moral. I also noticed here that Laurence and Brian kinda hot potato the braincell in the group. Usually one of them is the resonable one and one of them is acting dumb like the rest of the group. In this case it’s Laurences’ turn.

The more things change… High school kids still walk out for reasons they only have a vague notion of but for the same purpose: A. Get out of school early and B. Hook up with someone they meet. Guess it’s better than setting things on fire and looting stores.

Why is Lawrence the only one who makes sense?

How much “fun” will it be when they’re arrested and their sorry @sses are thrown in jail??

El Schlubbo Gordo…

Most of the protestors come to make some fun, without knowing the purpose of protest.

I’m not familiar with this arc, but I’m wondering: Are the “school” buses actually free, and so the “fare hike” doesn’t really exist, at least not for them?

It’s all fun and games until someone sets a small locally owned business on fire.

I say go for it, kids. Let them know that you’re not gonna take it anymore.

Will there be looting?

Who refers to other people by their first name, middle initial and last name?

In Austin you have to live 2+ miles from the school to ride the school bus (free). The school district has also contracted with the local public transit system to provide fare free rides for students; not sure if the students have to show/swipe their school IDs. I would assume it is similar with this school but the students have to pay a fare to ride city bus.

and the kaos will commence in…

their parents are the ones who pay the bills, so why do they even care. And is it normal in Canada to charge kids to ride the school bus ?

Lynn’s Comments:

Filled with righteous indignation and thrilled with the excitement of getting involved, I happily joined the protest.

Sure, what’s wrong with a little spontaneous fun and rage. Let that brutality begin. Someone call the cops and the National Guard. Hand out the Molotov cocktails and bricks. Let’s PARTY!! …tsk …sigh

That sounds like a lot of high school protests. Half the protesters are mature enough to actually know what they’re doing and care about the issues; the other half are just excited for a chance to cause a ruckus.

Wisdom come with age….sometimes!

“Issues dude!” “Not a party!”

Schedule protest for AFTeR school,so the grownups have no rulebook complaints

It ain’t a party till someone goes broke.

There could be a strip where the day after school they pat themselves on the back after protesting, then go into a classroom:

Blackboard: MATH TEST TODAY

The kids’ smugness turns to shock as nobody except Lawrence has studied for the test

It’s all fun & games ’til the RMCP trample your nan with a horse.

Young enthusiasm has no bounds ;-)

Back then it was buses.. Today we call that BLM!!!!

Ah yes, who cares about the issues when there’s a bandwagon to be hopped on…

Wesley D. Bates, hm? I don’t think we used ANYone’s middle initial in school, let alone knew what it was!

And the next thing you know you’re behind bars crying for mommy…

It’s not they’re storming the Capitol.

Lawrence does have a point. Before any action is taken on anything, find out all the issues first.

The “issues” often turn out to be false talking points, manufactured to profit professional rabble rousers, a’la BLM and ANTIFA.

Since this is an ongoing storyline I have to ask, why aren’t they riding school buses?

Also, why is it everytime I sign in to comment, I’m brought to a different comic strip and have to use the back button on my browser?

I was an angry teenager once, and now I’m an angry adult, and nobody I know ever talked this way. Lynn Johnston is setting up a strawman to be knocked down. Transportation is usually people’s second largest expense after housing, and bus fare hikes fall on the poor most heavily.

Lawrence is the voice of reason. You know the reason why.