For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 16, 2009

“Thems fightin’ words”.

I’ve been enjoying this week’s strip since I never got to see Mike and Deanna when they were young. Makes me curious who April will end up with - I always thought Jeremy.

The truth will out. Oh, to be young again? Not me.

Akenta, according to “the end” back on the last day of August, April graduated from vet school, got a job with the Calgary Stampede taking care of the horses, and stayed out west with a boy she met there.

Michael’s startled expression in the 4th panel is a lot like his adult version of the same expression.

Hey Lawrence, you got a BIG MOUTH!!!!!!

How old are they at this time? I thought girls had cooties then.

Boys always challenged to fight each others all the time! Who will win? LOLs!

marveePro says:

How old are they at this time? I thought girls had cooties then.

Depends on the kid - my cousin was picking up girls in the supermarket when he was five!

Wow, Burlington, Ontario gets a mention … my hometown. Woo hoo!

I’m so glad Lynn’s doing these strips. In the original run Deanna just disappeared, now we get a foreshadowing of things to come.

krusher2 I think that expression runs in the family; the other Pattersons wear it often. A similar great take done by the father in ‘Calvin & Hobbes’ was a reax to being called ‘Dopey Dad’ - priceless.

I actually think Lynn is Retired so these ones are actually in syndication like few of the other comic (eg. Calvin & Hobbes)

Lynn said herself that she is redrawing and may focus more on the funny this time around. :D

To follow that up, Michael, you yell “as a FRIEND!” works every time.