For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 23, 2021

The true value of a friend is elusive sometimes.

How fortunate of those guys… always relying on someone with a driver’s license to get them to places to which they want to go.

Ironically, the unknown kid who replaced Gordon (second from left between Mike and Brian) is the one who says the line, “There was something special about Gordo…something hard to replace.” I don’t know about that. It seems like they replaced Gordon with this kid pretty fast and it was not hard at all.

I have to wonder if any of those boys have a fake ID which would get them into a bar,

There is a replacement, guys. Whoever the guy is between Mike and Brian.

Hey, it’s important to have someone with wheels. Ordering burgers, fries and shakes on foot at the drive-thru looks pretty dorky.

Well, guys just wait until you are all married and move on with your life. Between work and family, you won’t have time to hang out together anymore.

If you want a girlfriend, get a car. Otherwise there is no place to make out

Sure, surprising what teenagers think of and discuss these days. (OK, I know that the strip is ‘ump)-teen’ years old but it still applies ! ! !

Ah, friendship.

Yup. It’s always good to have a friend with a pickup truck in your circle.

Gordon drives his Dad’s old truck. Just how many guys can you stuff in it before the cops notice? New driving laws in my state do not let a teen driver drive friends around until a certain amount of time has passed. It’s dark, too. Same for driving after dark.

I wonder if it is significant that Brian is the one who comments about the truck.

Bingo!

I adore the art on this strip today.

They’re walking into the darkness,like Gordo has just sentenced himself to death for havinga wife/girlfriend;and t hat h e’s now some kind of “prisoner”.

For happily married people,just the opposite is true.As Mike would eventually learn.