Toronto Mike

For Better or for Worse

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The FOOBiverse

I'm a For Better or For Worse fan, and I recently discovered a great blog for fans of the strip.  It's called The FOOBiverse! and every day the strip is discussed in a very snarky and hilarious manner.  It's the kind of blog I wish I had started. Speaking of
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FBOFW Update

We have a For Better Of For Worse update. The strip isn't going away, but Johnston is scaling back. Next month, she will start running older material, which will occasionally be interspersed with new strips. She eases into it beginning today as older daughter Elizabeth, just reunited with her old
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Lynn Johnston Not Retiring

We already knew Lynn Johnston was freezing the For Better or For Worse characters' ages next fall, but we now have more details.  The strip isn't actually being retired, there will be new material that would include revisiting storylines from the past and expanding on them.  Everyone will stop aging,
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Riddle Me This

It doesn't happen often, but it happened today.  For only the second time in recent memory, I'm unsure about a For Better Or For Worse strip. If you read today's strip, you'll see the final frame is Elly's employee staring at a telephone book that appears to have been bitten.
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I Don't Get It

I've been reading Lynn Johnston's "For Better Or For Worse" for as long as I can remember.  It's the only comic strip I read daily.  After reading thousands and thousands of FBOFW strips, this weekend was the first time I can honestly say that I didn't get it. Here's the
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