For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 30, 2014

I fail to see how Michael is supposed to dance with Deanna…there’s sort of a table between them… ;)

Michael will do fine. he has a good head on-er-off his shoulders.

That smirking clown in the second panel tells me the fix was in.

…and a decade or so later they’re married…

What’s the point?

For a staff member of a local high school, that guy in the Superman costume has a rather remarkable physique – most of the actors who have played the part spent considerable time in the gym before they donned the costume.

It’s a good thing that ‘Superman’ isn’t the English teacher at that school…

[hat tip]

I’ve been deeply perplexed by this whole storyline. Isn’t Michael still in elementary school? Kids don’t dance at elementary school dances; they run around shrieking like maniacs.

Even in middle school, most the kids don’t do anything that remotely resembles dancing. Sixth-graders run around the outer ring of the gym, chasing each other. Seventh-graders clump together in the middle ring of the gym, talking and getting into weird emotional outbursts. And eighth-graders cluster in the middle, waiting for any nearby teachers to avert their eyes so that the students can grind on each other. I guess you could call that dancing?

At least, that’s what I observed at the dances I chaperoned when I was a teacher.

Just because she’s one of the chaperones doesn’t means she’s one of the judges.

Give him a few years.

They might as well give it a shot. They’re not learning much at school “anyways.”

Might as well dance with her, Mike. She’s destined to become your wife.

thebird55: That comes much later.

Hmmm, I could have sworn that Lynn had some kind of “she’s gone, boo-hoo” story line after the Sobinskis left. But knowing you research things much deeper than I do, I will concede the point.

Hey, coach! Not so super, man!

Forget John Ted. This gym teacher is the man for you.