For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 16, 2023

  1. B986e866 14d0 4607 bdb4 5d76d7b56ddb
    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    April’s showers.

     •  Reply
  2. Trollspry
    Enter.Name.Here  over 1 year ago

    April represents drought-ravaged California right now. Bring it!

     •  Reply
  3. Missing large
    snsurone76  over 1 year ago

    At least, Mike and Farley seem cautiously optimistic. Reckon they’re the only ones in the family who are aware that no mortal can change the weather.

     •  Reply
  4. Video snapshot
    Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 1 year ago

    In another year, Farley will rescue her

     •  Reply
  5. 20210517 082929
    flagmichael  over 1 year ago

    Once we get soaked to the skin rain no longer means anything. It is resisting that wears us down.

     •  Reply
  6. Americauna chicks 1 week 003
    howtheduck  over 1 year ago

    I have to say that in my day, math books were not waterproof and teachers tended to frown on destroyed math books. Elizabeth’s trajectory is a little confusing to me. Normally she stands by the bus stop on the way to school. On the way home, she goes straight from the school to the bus. And yet the next time with see her with the wet math book, she is at home.

     •  Reply
  7. Photo
    dcdete.  over 1 year ago

    They say this comic strip is based on real life, but it is far from real life here in Ontario, Canada where this is based. For the last few days it has been sunny and dry with fire bans issued and RECORD BREAKING HIGH temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius! Though the forecast calls for cooler and possibly scattered showers on Tuesday.

     •  Reply
  8. Photo
    DawnQuinn1  over 1 year ago

    April has the right attitude. If life throws you lemons, make lemonade.

     •  Reply
  9. Photo
    dcdete.  over 1 year ago

    April reminds me of Gene Kelly dancing in ‘Singing in the Rain’. “Gray skies above makes me happy again .. because I’m singing and dancing in the rain!” Makes you wonder, everybody is mise able because they have to be out shopping or playing baseball. or reading a newspaper out in the pouring rain, so who is babysitting the little 3-year-old girl? Oopsie daisy. Time to sing in the rain.

     •  Reply
  10. 288880045 10221076520606585 8531060568730745726 n
    dlkrueger33  over 1 year ago

    Living here in Florida, we LOVE the rain (there is so little of it). As long as it’s not accompanied by a hurricane!

     •  Reply
  11. Squid icon
    SquidGamerGal  over 1 year ago

    Panel #6: That paperboy has just lost a month’s worth of tips!

     •  Reply
  12. Kay 053021
    kaycstamper  over 1 year ago

    We’re getting snow all week starting tonight! Trade ya!

     •  Reply
  13. Albagast jpeg
    belgarathmth  over 1 year ago

    She looks like the Morton salt girl.

     •  Reply
  14. Missing large
    Chris  over 1 year ago

    at least someone’s enjoying the rain. :)

     •  Reply
  15. Og01
    Robert Williams @ Williams Web Solutions  over 1 year ago

    I remember I was about 4-6 years old (meaning it happened more than just once) and it would rain at my grandparents’ farm in Missouri. I would want to play (you know, the kids on Sesame Street played in the rain) but I knew I couldn’t play without “rain boots”. I couldn’t say galoshes and that was what I really wanted. So my grandma made some using the used brown sugar bags she kept by putting them over my shoes and then using a rubber band or some kind of tie. I then went outside to play in the puddles. Would I had been embarrassed back then to had worn them into town or wherever? Yes. Now I look back on it with sadness because it was one of the many special things that my grandma did for me to make childhood more unique and special. I really miss her.

     •  Reply
  16. Another day in paradise  maldives
    interstateking Premium Member over 1 year ago

    A baby girl so cute in a yellow raincoat and hat

     •  Reply
  17. Tommy lee jones look
    Johnnyrico  over 1 year ago

    All a matter of perspective, isn’t it?

     •  Reply
  18. Missing large
    g04922  over 1 year ago

    Ahhh.. the joys of childhood. Used to like walking in the rain and run through the water filled street gutters and pools of water…just like April.

     •  Reply
  19. E31134eb d589 4362 b1a6 c6cb709434a6
    ears2u812 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I know these are repeats, but Lynn, the artwork portraying the rain is just perfect!

     •  Reply
  20. Missing large
    The Great_Black President  over 1 year ago

    It is dangerous to drive in inclement weather. Elly was in danger of a vehicular rollover in the fourth panel.

     •  Reply
  21. Missing large
    kamoolah  over 1 year ago

    Tomorrow’s strip: April gets pneumonia

     •  Reply
  22. Image
    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Somebody has to like April showers!

     •  Reply
  23. Missing large
    rebelstrike0  over 1 year ago

    Elly is likely very worried about this heavy rain. If the sump pump fails to work once again, it would mean yet another basement flooding. If Elly made sure to subscribe to flood insurance, will the coverage take effect so soon?

     •  Reply
  24. Missing large
    sheashea  over 1 year ago

    Rain, as seen through the eyes of a child. It’s a beautiful thing.

     •  Reply
  25. Silverknights
    JanLC  over 1 year ago

    I guess it’s all in your attitude.

     •  Reply
  26. Bearfront
    paranormal  over 1 year ago

    She’s Singing in the Rain

     •  Reply
  27. 20211101 125120
    scote1379 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Life is good when you can Dance in the Rain !

     •  Reply
  28. Missing large
    Drbarb71 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    She’s living up to her name!

     •  Reply
  29. Fdr avatar 6d9910b68a3c 128
    Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Carrie Fisher’s (Princess Leia) mum (for a few words at the beginning) and some guy from Pittsburgh have a few words about that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

     •  Reply
  30. Missing large
    raybarb44  over 1 year ago

    All in how you choose to view it…..

     •  Reply
  31. Smokey stover
    sjsczurek  over 1 year ago

    Ah, early childhood.

     •  Reply
  32. Dragon
    Asharah  over 1 year ago

    I’m singing in the rain

    Yes, singing in the rain

    What a glorious feeling

    And I’m happy again

    I’m laughing at clouds

    So dark up above

    The sun’s in my heart

    And I’m ready for love

    Let the stormy clouds chase

    Everyone from the place

    Come on with the rain

    I have a smile on my face

    I walk down the lane

    With a happy refrain

    Just singin’, singin’ in the rain

    Dancing in the rain, da-da-dada

    I’m happy again

    I’m singing and dancing in the rain

    I’m dancing and singing in the rain

     •  Reply
  33. Missing large
    The Great_Black President  over 1 year ago

    Future strip. April is sitting in a tree.

    Elly: “April, get down from there.”

    April: “Aww Mom, how come?”

    Elly: “Some of the branches are dead and might break. Come on.”

    April glowers as she descends tree

    April: “Mom spoils everything.”

    April is then seen sitting atop a ladder

    April{talking to herself}: “This isn’t quite the same, is it?”

     •  Reply
  34. Missing large
    Quentin1992  over 1 year ago

    Wish we’d get some.

     •  Reply
  35. Missing large
    eced52  over 1 year ago

    Only April knows how to appreciate God’s bounty.

     •  Reply
  36. No more mask bucking horse
    catonmyshoulders  over 1 year ago

    When in high school one of my friends and I would get together and walk in the rain, But that stopped when she ended up in the hospital with pneumonia.

     •  Reply
  37. Photo
    HodgeElmwood  over 1 year ago

    Well, sure, when you’re four and all you have to do is play in the rain. No bills, no school, no job, no responsibilities.

     •  Reply
  38. Americauna chicks 1 week 003
    howtheduck  over 1 year ago

    The toddler somehow is able to put on a raincoat, boots, and hat, bring an umbrella with her, open the door (which nobody locks), open the umbrella, and wander out into the yard. April is very talented, unless Farley did that for her.

     •  Reply
  39. Jorts avatar
    emiesty Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I like how Lynn’s Sunday comics use little to no text.

     •  Reply
  40. Missing large
    kamoolah  over 1 year ago

    Elizabeth uses her math book like a hat?

     •  Reply
  41. Picture
    CoreyTaylor1  over 1 year ago

    “Oooooh, April’s laughter in the rain…”

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From For Better or For Worse