For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 10, 2024

And with that, m’lud, I conclude the case for the prosecution.

Look who’s back for spring break!

I hate it when Elizabeth makes that ugly face—she looks too much like her mother!!

You don’t ever, ever, ever, mess with someone else’s food… or woodpile.

Familiar pattern here: Put yourself in harm’s way and then be surprised when harm comes to you.

That is a human interest story Mike can write about

I’ve heard of the “Tell Tale Heart”. But the ’Tell Tale Peanut-butter breath?

Busted Michael! By your peanut butter breath!

My older daughter came back home for Spring Break on Friday. This coming Friday her younger sister is coming home, but the older one is going back on that Sunday.

My………how she ‘grown’ in the time Michael has been gone—ready to take on ‘her big brother’ over a peanut butter sandwich !! ! ! !

Who has a landline anymore? Yeah, I know. She started over with the strip, but I would think she could update the storylines.

Does she also put butter/margarine on the sandwich (yellow tub)? Having a landline/VOIP means you can have a phone in every room/have multiple people on the line/speaker phone if you are on hold for an hour+.

Not cool to steal your sister’s sandwich, Mike!

I like the Christmas decorations that haven’t been put away, and that blobby cowboy clown…thing next to them.

Hehe… I know Liz does miss Mike.

I thought the dog got it. My sister was sitting and let her plate get a little too low. One of the pieces of chicken was snatched by the dog.

Elizabeth just hauls off and punches Mike every time he does something to make her angry. Fortunately for Mike, everyone knows that girls can’t hurt boys, no matter how hard they hit, plus female-on-male violence is hilarious!!

Aggh. Dog breath.

So what’s in the yellow tub? I can’t believe it’s not Peanut-butter?

Punching someone in the gut is funny. Stealing a sandwich is forgivable, just like the Patterson kids stealing cash from Elly’s purse and John’s wallet.

That’s right, Liz. Get to the source before blaming anyone (pets included, of course) by examining the evidence first. It leads right to Mike!

So… to make this a “teachable moment” for our "college boy – was that a case of inductive or deductive logic that led to his “lights” being punched out?

Michael’s not playing with a full deck. How hard is it for him to make his own sandwich?

Elizabeth cannot use that tactic which is reserved exclusively by mothers! Just ask Marie Barone (Everyone Loves Raymond).

What’s Mike doing here?

Old strip, who has a corded phone nowadays.

I see the peanut butter jar, but what’s other container?? Please don’t tell me she puts butter or margarine on her peanut butter sandwiches!

Lizzie, don’t act your mother! Punching Mike in the stomach was way too mean for a simple prank. Besides, you’ve done far worse, like using his toothbrush on Farley!

What’s wrong with Mike making his own sandwich?