For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 25, 2025

Daltongang has been talking about boob jobs for the last few days so kudos to him for getting John’s opinion right. Yes, folks, John has just let Elly know he does not really care what her hair looks like, but there are other body parts more interesting to him. He is a man after all. Elly has also reminded us that female-on-male violence is funny as long as we only see the aftermath and not the actual violence.

can John afford a boob job or did Canada’s universal healthcare system of the mid 90s cover that?

Must’ve been hard to pull that cap over his glasses! BTW, Elly doesn’t need implants—just a good bra!

Well, took a week for John to spoil his successful escape from having to answer an unwinnable question from Elly in the Jan 18th strip!

Oh well, it was worth a shot?

You had it coming John

John needs to sleep on the couch for a few nights

The best part of this comic strip is that John does not recognize Elly and has to ask “Elly?” to confirm who she is.

Then in the second panel that’s not good enough and John takes off his glasses to get a better look at Elly to make sure it was actually Elly.

Then in the third panel Elly is carrying around a hand mirror to show people her new haircut as if they can’t see it straight on and need the mirror.

This comic strip is so bizarre. I love it.

Oh YEAH? Try telling that to the I.R.S. or Canada’s equivalent.

That comment made you the boob, John!

Implants are not healthy! And it’s disgusting how many women get them and risk their health just to please some dumbazz male who isn’t worth it. You take her as she is, John just like you expect her to take you as you are, with all your sexist comments!

John, if “wrongest” was ever a word, then you have my vote that this suggestion was the wrongest thing you’ve ever said to your wife! (Unless, by some miracle, you were talking about missing tooth implants…)

John…. (WHAP!)

Oh come on, Elly, he’s a dentist. I’m sure he was just referring to DENTAL implants.

Just be glad she lets you keep all your teeth!

When my son was five or six, I shaved off my mustache which I had since my military days. He looked at me and said in the most serious voice a boy of that age could muster, “Don’t you ever do that again!” He’s 34 now and I still have it to this day.

Someone is also going to be sleeping on the couch tonight. LOL

I love the blue toque. In general toques in Ontario, Canada are colored red and white, the same color as the flag. Blue toques are generally found in Quebec , Quebec’s flag color.

But colorist. John lives in Ontario or possibly in Vancouver at times.

I’m sure John was talking about hair extensions, right?

Implants? Wait, so Elly’s nose is natural and not enhanced?!

Being a dentist, I’m sure he meant teeth implants.

John would have been smarter to suggest something that would involve the bedroom. He just might have gotten lucky.

looks good on ya John. :D

John just couldn’t resist the opportunity for the joke …

That’s a bit of a stretch for Jon to suggest implants. My wife mused aloud about getting some. I told her that I love her just the way she was. I also mentioned that with any procedure that requires cutting your body open, there always a chance that something can go terribly wrong.

One sentence too many, Jon!

John is a dentist. An implant is a metal screw affixed to the jawbone to replace tooth loss.

Could it be that Elly has been losing teeth? Maybe that explains her reaction. It is not good to have dental implants suggested then think of the forthcoming dental process to do so.

She wouldn’t be able to trim THOSE back, when someone said something negative.

He’s lucky she didn’t give him an implant!

Nah, more than a mouthful is wasted

Very bad form John. Very bad form indeed. I understand your position but it’s still very bad form…..

Well, looks like the cats out of the bag and John’s head is in the stocking cap. All we need now is a Stripper Pole and this story line would be complete.

It was about time for one of John’s “open mouth, insert foot” remarks. :D

He got off easy. If Elly knew that John went BOING! when he saw Rhetta, there would have been a KONK! when Elly’s frying pan came into contact with John’s skullcap.

But unlike a haircut, implants don’t go back to normal in a few months.

A wonder she didn’t give John a piledriver!!

He is a JERK.

Oh…I have a comeback for Elly, but as this is a family friendly comic, I will keep it to myself.

I suggest that any man who thinks women should get implants should try wearing a suitably weighted bra for a few months and see what it feels like.

Why should women have to change their bodies and wear clothes just so please someone else? Why should what a woman looks like be more important than what she does?

The office manager at my first full-time job asked me to wear dresses instead of pants suits to look nice for the workers.

This was a one-room office tacked on to a warehouse next to a plant, not a high-rise professional building and the only people who came into the office were the truckers and the workers when they needed a signature on something. The plant emitted so many noxious fumes that you couldn’t park your car in the parking lot because the paint would dissolve. I made three dresses and alternated them for two years.

At my next full-time job, my division chief suggested that I wear high heels because it would make my legs look better. I told him that I would, provided he wore them as well because then he would know exactly how easy it is to run up and down four flights of stairs hauling paperwork and briefing essentials, how awkward it is to get things in and out of the lower safe drawers, and how fatiguing it is to stand at the fax [yes, this was a while ago] with 200 hundred plus pages to send. He didn’t take me up on it and I was able to rotate out of his division. [He, of course, remained in place, with attitude unchanged.]

I was the “office girl” at that first job; and an analyst with a Master’s degree at the second. It didn’t matter whether I was “just the help” or a “professional,” I was a young woman and therefore the important thing about me was that I needed to ‘look good’. I felt like we made some progress over the last 30 years, but it look like we are starting to backslide.

I love the drawing in the last frame. I can really imagine, after hearing that silly comment, Elly giving a huff, then a tug, then storming off leaving John in the doorway.

Her hair barely looks different anyway.

Tooth implants? He is a doctor after all. :D

Be grateful he didn’t say “liposuction”!

Once again, Cru-Elly can’t take a joke.

And a great ending pun…

We get it….John is an assh*le.

She pulled his hat down over his face for making the suggestion? Seems a bit extreme.

Good work, John. Your mind goes straight to the boobies. For YOUR benefit. Nice job.

Liz DOES look like Elly !

As I asked before, who the heck listens to teenagers?

John Patterson, thy name is “Bonehead”

Alright, men dumb women etc. , and while we’re at, why the cliche’ that women think about hair 1st when contemplating change? Sounds like 60’s or 70’s TV to me! Love Boat anyone ??? ;-)