For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 06, 2024

Here we go. Hope your ready..

Evidently Grandma hasn’t told April to keep away – although in fairness, at her age, she wouldn’t understand or listen anyway.

SPOILER ALERT: My car has one of those spoilers on the back of it.

I thought Carrie had gone home already.

Safety first

The comment you expect in Panel 4 and do not get: “Hey! Where is April? I hear her singing to herself, but I don’t see her.”

Three people and not one could keep an eye on the little brat?

With all that rain, their basement didn’t get flooded this time?

Spoiler alert, Lynn’s comments in my second comment.

…ominous music plays quietly…..

aypo, you get away from there RIGHT NOW!

A big heart <B will soon stop beating :’(

Too much stress for the comics. I’m out.

doesn’t look much like a raging torrent. And “Aypo” is making me feel stabby.

Panel 4: I thought Milborough was a suburb of a Toronto… a.k.a, the city. So why does it look like their backyard butts up to the wilderness?

Not going to be good…

And now,….(spoiler) the cast of Degrassi: Next Generation show up for a crossover! (I hope that didn’t give TOO much away)

If it has been raining nonstop for the past week and just two days ago April was singing, “Snow’s all gone, snow’s all gone! I can see the grass again.” Then may I ask in panel 4 what is that pile of white stuff that April is climbing down upon?

This is sad. Not looking forward to reading it.

Why did her sister see her and not take the care to keep her safe?

How do you keep a turkey in suspense?

I’ll tell you tomorrow…

Oh, no. I think I’m going to need tissues.

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Well, Ellie, where is your child?

I am not creative enough to figure out a joke that comes from a kid playing near a busy river… with a boat to play with… and a pup.

Aypo’s going to drown is more like it…

Dogs to the rescue ! Just like the old Lassie and Rin Tin Tin TV series.

That water is freezing cold, too…. snow melt coming off the banks.

Cue ominous music.

Wow. I’d forgotten how self-centered and completely oblivious Elly was, bragging on and on to Connie about her cruise (and she did it on the phone the other day which is part of the reason April escaped!) and completely forgetting about her child. Yikes. Terrible parenting.

This is NOT what I read comics for. Deal with this too much in real life. Guess I’ll be dropping this strip for a while.

The spell Czech lol

And as usual, Cru-Elly is so busy bragging about her cruise that NO ONE is watching April!

Dear colorist, quit mistaking Connie (yellow hair) for Michael or John (brown hair).

Maybe this time around we’ll get a happy ending: Farley 1, Aypo 0.

Uh oh…

“And lo, Aypo wandered down to the river, and discovered an infant, wrapped in swaddling clothes in a pitch-lined basket on the bank. And Aypo knew, this child, to be raised in the Patterson household, Someday would lead them out of Slavery in Millborough, and to the promised land of Mgtwaki..

She’s always leaving Aypo unsupervised. The kid is bad news. I don’t want to watch if something happens to the dog. I just missed it the first time around. There’s enough sadness in the world, I don’t read comics to get more.

Aypo needs supervision. It’s not like they aren’t aware that she keeps getting out of the yard.

Yikes, drama and suspense. Refreshing.

How long does this arc last? I think I’m going to skip it, as, like flagmichael says, I have enough going on in real life.

Hey Lynn… I’ve been a loyal follower since 1979…. but once was enough for this arc…. God Bless…. See you on the other side…( or a few weeks anyhow…)….k

Too soon!

The neighbors might be expected to look after April, but when they saw a singing mushroom carrying a toy boat, they wondered if they should get their eyes checked.

they must need to cut a character from the script to lower costs

Oh crap we’re here ALREADY?

What a rotten, rotten, rotten child! I could almost forgive her if she wasn’t so cocky.

Of all the places to leave a Saturday cliffhanger!

I’m hoping this is one of the things Lynn wanted to do differently this time.

April’s gonna go glub glub…April’s gonna go glub glub

Who’s watching the kid? That’s the problem.