For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 02, 2023

This is the first in what will be a series of comic strips over the next few years where Elizabeth will hit Michael every time he says something insulting to her. Female-on-male violence is often played for laughs.

Having a sister in the house is like owning a cat. Sleep all day, come out of their room to eat and hiss at you if you try to be nice to it.

foot in mouth? more like fist in gut

And, she’s teaching you to not be such a boor. :P

You notice that Michael didn’t go running to tell Mom and Dad, because he knows what he said was wrong.

When little sisters catch up with big brothers.

Possibly the most “big brother” thing Michael has ever done, haha.

Saying things, even teasing things, are an action. And with every action there is a reaction.

I had seven…….i know how to fight dirty!!!

Weaker sex? Careful Michael.

My youngest daughter, when she was a 90-something pound sophomore in high school, helped me pack our moving van for our trek out west. It was just her and me loading everything whilst the missus was getting the last minute things ready to go. Sleeper sofa included. She was on the other end of every heavy load and muscling all the boxes right along with me nonstop. Weaker? Don’t say that to her.

Too bad she didn’t give Mr. Jackazz a second whallop..

This is the first time in a long time that Michael has called his sister, ‘Lizzard-breath’, I thought he had ‘grown out’ of it - am disappointed that I was wrong- I thought he had grown.

On the positive side, it she buries Michael in the snow they can find him in the spring and do the job properly.

Words may sting, but a 5 knuckle sandwich goes right to the gut of the matter.

If she had hit him just a little bit lower, he would be rolling on the floor. IMVPO Girls, starting as young as 8 should learn how to defend themselves. Because No is not an effective defense against rape

I admire Liz’s restraint :D

Future Husband abuser ! LOL…

Classic joke and Classic response.

Watch it, Michael, you’re outnumbered. Your mother may not wallop you, but your sisters will.

If this was a brand new comic strip, she would be a lesbian and he would be a transgender!

I might have pushed him outside for a few minutes.

Sucker punches are effective, no matter who throws them

Telling someone they are ugly is abuse too.

Having “stupid” brothers is what make girls strong.

Unfortunately, there was a similar situation in my younger years when I was in the Boy Scouts. One Scout made fun of another Scout for attending a Catholic school, which turned into bombast about he goes to “public school, which is as American as apple pie” and being in Catholic school is disloyalty, which then escalated into disgusting remarks about Catholics. It then became a fist fight over words, which stopped with a broken nose.

Well, you asked for it Mike.

MAD Magazine had a piece about “What to do about cop-a-feelers”, first showing a crowd of people gathering around an altercation between a woman in a dress and a man in camoflague trousers and a Rebel flag T-shirt. The man is arguing with a policeman, saying he wants to press charges against the woman for slugging him. The woman in turn accuses the man of touching her inappropriately, to which the man protests he did not such thing and kept his hands to himself. The woman then gets angry, saying someone touched her inappropriately. As the crowd is watching this argument, a man who looks like a well-dressed professional is walking elsewhere, minding his own business and has a cartoon halo over his head.

Jeez, Elizabutt. I think Mike was just spoiling for a SNOWBALL fight!

I rarely fought with my sisters because I had five brothers

That’s the same treatment the better half, Adam’s, get after a few years of marriage.

she’s too sensitive

I like to see that Mike got what he deserves, he’s a jerk!

Ugh! Will Michael ever grow up?