For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 27, 2023

Rhetta is back. I think. She has the cheekbones, but her head and hair are still not quite right. I wonder if we will have to get adjust to this Rhetta or if she will ever turn back into the old Rhetta with the big oval head and giant ponytail?

have your comic strip college students spayed or neutered (pets also)

We knew why Lynn really got him.

Lynn, you did brilliant work back then. Thanks for the memories; I hope they’re enriching you, as well.

Mike must realize that if Elly vetoed her family’s desire for a new puppy, they will never speak to her again.

Spoiler alert, don’t read the second comment if you don’t know what’s coming, as Lynn mentioned something on her site.

Elly, put the pot down before April knocks you down!

So if you don’t know what’s going to happen in the new year and would like to look at the original comics the starting date is June 5th, 1995.

I’ll fully admit that I’d have the same confused look on my face if my kid hugged me and said that last part.

Ah yes the honesty of a small child, so fun, so informative, so refreshing and so depressing all at the same time.

The last panel should have shown April patting Elly on the head.

Out of the mouths of babes! (As in the last panel)

With the puppy safely in a cage, Elly exhales for the first time in 3 days

WHAT HAPPENED TO FARLEY? Did they cut out that whole arc where he dies??

She’ll fall in love with it too.

I tried that and got in big trouble

Well, Elly figured with Michael off at college, she needed another male in the house to curse and scream at.

Edgar was part of a litter. It is important to ask what happened to the rest of the puppies while April is at home playing with this one.

Ed Grrrr