For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 22, 2024

April wants to keep the gum bubble and then somehow it starts walking around the top of the check of drawers, judging from the motion lines around it in the last panel.

Panel 8 Elizabeth was portrayed by the comic strip actress that normally plays the part of Moira Kinney. There is no mistaking that mouth and jawline. I suppose the real Elizabeth needed some time off in that panel.

Gross…

I never learned to blow gum bubbles…

I was never able to blow bubbles with bubble gum. But it sure tasted good—and there were nifty baseball cards, too!

Never could catch the nack of bubbles and have only whistles a thimbleful of times in my Life….

Anybody see any of those coin operated bubble gum dispensers around anymore? With today’s super runaway inflation rate those machines likely only take nothing less than a bit coin!

I remember my cousins teaching me to blow gum bubbles when I was about April’s age. I didn’t save any of the bubbles but I think I swallowed gum before I got the hang of it.

Which is better, being the big brother/sister? Or having one?

Isn’t that supposed to be on the Bedpost?

Shades of Chief Bromden in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

Important pre interntet life skills – blow bubble, spitballs, tie shoes, Now – download apps, virus checks, and velcro

This kinda reminds me of the time my dad tried teaching me to whistle a tune. I can’t imagine how frustrating it is to teach something like that. I can remember trying for a very long time until I was able to get the first noise that sounded anything like a whistle outta my mouth. My mother wasn’t as thrilled as I was. I eventually learned and still enjoy whistling a tune while I’m working.

this is why i leave quarters on top of gumball machines

Bubblegum works much better as a musical genre than it does as something you chew.

Elizabeth has nothing connecting her glasses to her ears.

“Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?”

Another stupid “April“ comic… I swear to God, she’s just the “Cousin Oliver“ of the comics world.

This is so cute, until the last panel ruins it!

Does your chewing gum lose its flavoron the bedpost overnight?

If she wanted to keep working on her bubbles, why don’t she just get a fresh piece of gum instead of using a used one? Sick!

Does your bubble gum loose it’s flavor on the bed post over night?

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor

on the bedpost overnight?

If your mother says don’t chew it,

Do you swallow it in spite?

Can you catch it on your tonsils,

Can you heave it left & right?

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor

on the bedpost overnight?

Leaning the important things in life I see!