For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 24, 2025

For some reason, people like to pretend that a dog’s owner is its parent. Therefore, Elly’s comment about Edgar’s dad is assumed to be about John and not Farley. If a wife were to say something like that about her husband right in front of her husband, that would be a very passive, aggressive way of indicating a very poor home life between the wife and the husband. Kit probably thinks John is scum.

Nevertheless, John does have a history of people thinking the worst about him. Back when John was getting his cousin Fiona Brass into an apartment, it was taken by people who misheard him to be an indication that he was cheating on Elly with a mistress for whom he was getting an apartment. It is a running joke in this comic strip that other women think really, bad things about John.