For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 09, 2022

good game plan, Mr. Crane

Where did Dawn go? She sings in the choir with Elizabeth. Elizabeth is going to need Dawn to help her out if this creepy stalker decides to make a move on her. Why did Dawn leave without taking Elizabeth with her? If Dawn’s parents picked her up, why not take Elizabeth too? She lives on the same street with Elizabeth. I think it’s a conspiracy. Dawn ditches Elizabeth at just the right time. Highly suspicious.

If Anthony’s bio has any accuracy, his stepmother just had a miscarriage so things aren’t good at home right now.

He’s a really smooth operator.

Hmmm, he may mean well but instead of stalking her like he appears that can be kind of scary

Now Anthony. Now that you worked up the nerve to sit next to Elizabeth. Can you manage to do the small-talk? Can you?

creeper

Do you swear you’ve told her the truth, part of the truth, and nothing but the truth?

So, when does he sneak in the kiss? I hope it’s not French!

Ah yes, budding romance. Sometimes all it needs is a little thought, some effort and before you know it the first shoot of caring appears.

At our high school, we had an “Actvities Bus.” It was for kids who had things like sports practices, choir, drama, and the like. A little abbreviated routes compared to normal. But it couldn’t be too abbreviated since we were rather rural.

What is this “late bus” of which you speak? Must be a Canadian thing. Heck, they even did away with the regular bus routes as cost savings measure. Here in the US it’s every parent’s job (nightmare?) for school transportation.

Ain’t love grand?

I once saw a smile like that on a teddy bear….

I don’t remember this part of the comic from the past, but I find Anthony to be sweet and shy. I don’t see stalking – he doesn’t try to grab her, isn’t sneaking around and peeking in her windows. He isn’t calling her all hours of the day and night. I could be all wrong, and time will tell.

Ah yes. I remember doing things like this.

He is inching in…closer and closer…………..

been there done that, it’s love

The worst thing about this stalker plot line is that Lynn doesn’t need to take it in that direction. She’s already established that they are in the same friends group. They talk to each other all the time. Heck, we’ve seen them have lunch together. Why would he need to follow around her in secret all the time? It’s creepy that Lynn insists that this is how people “fall in love”.

Abe Vigoda, the aged detective on “Barney Miller” in response to a challenge by a teenage culprit had the ultimate comment, " I was young once..and I wasn’t very good at it." – a universal truth.

I had a crush on a boy in high school and whenever I saw him in the hallways between classes I would meander over to where we could intersect enough for me to say hello. I thought I was being subtle about it until a group of friends of his new girlfriend surrounded me one day and told me to back off. When you have a crush at that age the object of your affection is an irresistible magnet.

C’mon Boy, ask her out, you can do it…

Come on Elizabeth, get a clue!

Someone has a lot of free time.

Elizabeth is clueless!

Seriously? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU? He isn’t stalking her. JEEZ!

This isn’t “Criminal Minds” for crying out loud. It is an awkward dorky kid trying to be around a girl he likes and failing miserably at getting to the point of asking her out.

And SPOILER ALERT he ends up marrying her. so get your heads out of the dark.

What a bunch of paranoia. SAD

If my memory serves me correctly, isn’t this kid a bad dude?

Whaaa-nthony’s favorite song is “I’ll be watching you” by The Police.

For the record @Johnnyrico has said that I probably stalk young girls, simply because I disagree that there is stalking going on in the storyline.*

Even those people who think differently than I have not made any accusations about me personally.

It has gone on way too long, but he invoked ‘all’ of you (apparently those I disagreed with) as if you were all of one mind on this.

You may or may not want to set him straight, but you should at least know what he said about me, and how he is referencing you collectively.

Apparently he cannot admit when he has crossed the line.

Never understood the point of waiting until a paper or such is due to begin writing it. Teachers can tell when a paper has been thrown together at the last minute.