For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 21, 2017

I think butting into your stepsister’s private life is none of your business, Lawrence.

Didn’t these guys get into enough trouble the last time they spied on Lawrence’s stepsister?

Uh oh,Keith Richards.

Yikes. A Canadian zombie! :o)

Aaron Aagard doing a crossover?

Could those hockey sticks get any longer,or further away from the body?

Saw a meme on FaceBook this morning labelled “Canadian protester”. It was a woman holding a small cardboard sign (less than a foot square) that said “I’m a little annoyed”.

Lynn’s Notes:

After the strip became second nature to me, I began to look past the main characters to the Pattersons’ neighbours and friends. I was so immersed in the neighbourhood that I wanted to know what was going on in their families, too. I began to introduce strange new characters; people who would be interesting for the readers, and a challenge for me.

Interesting looking at how the strip “fleshed out”, so to speak. Lynn ultimately decided not to include the parents of Mrs. Thomas (Lawrence’s mother), saying she had too many characters on her plate; thus Connie’s parents were dead by the time of the strip’s beginning. An unused strip was later revealed, the one where Michael flew as an unaccompanied minor, where he is telling Lawrence about his voyage to see his maternal grandparents, whereas Lawrence said “Wow, when I want to see my grandparents I only need to go crosstown”. Because the strip was never released, we never saw Lawrence’s grandparents alive.

Are these strips published in order? It seems to me that the children’s growth is uneven.

Man, somebody needs to teach those Canadian kids the proper way to hold a hockey stick. I’d do it… but I’m in Alabama.