The children and parents got older in “For Better or For Worse”; the first dog died, a grandparents died … the cartoonist is now redoing the story from the beginning.
Are some of you being facetious, or was this really a newsflash for you? Did you think you were sharing a great discovery? “Oh yeah - have you noticed, there’s that one strip where it seems like the characters NEVER AGE…and that one…and that one…but they don’t in “FBOFW”…”! Good grief - how often do you read the comics? It would be interesting to list all (2 or 3) of the strips where they DO age (although, as someone pointed out, they age in “Gasoline Alley” but stall out at a certain point). Anyway, great strip!
Llewellenbruce over 13 years ago
Case in point: Denis the Menace always stays the same age.
COWBOY7 over 13 years ago
I agree Nelson. Don’t ever change.
Yukoner over 13 years ago
Seems to me Calvin is eternally six years old.
lbejo over 13 years ago
Let me point out: grandpas, grandmas and dogs also rarely die in comic strips. Too gruesome. So you are safe.
McGehee over 13 years ago
And to balance the way grandpas and little kids never age in comic strips, spammers should age twice as fast.
docbop52 over 13 years ago
The children and parents got older in “For Better or For Worse”; the first dog died, a grandparents died … the cartoonist is now redoing the story from the beginning.
lightenup Premium Member over 13 years ago
That was sweet. Sometimes I wish my kids would stay little for a while too. But then I wonder what their future holds. What mixed feelings…
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
No need for you to worry, Nelson.
jtviper7 over 13 years ago
Dagwoods dog ” Dasiy ” goes on and on…Dagwood is always hungry. Nothing ever changes.
GailRubin over 13 years ago
Living in a comic strip world? Yes? No worries! If pets and parents are aging and dying, chances are, you are living in the real world.
Today’s Pickles is added to the more than 50 Death Cartoons in the Family Plot Blog collection: http://thefamilyplot.wordpress.com/
radiosports over 13 years ago
Dennis and Calvin are really mutants!
johndifool over 13 years ago
Hey! A good old fashioned Lampshading!
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Easy, Wildmustang1262. It just looks like a typo to me. It happens.
markwalton over 13 years ago
Are some of you being facetious, or was this really a newsflash for you? Did you think you were sharing a great discovery? “Oh yeah - have you noticed, there’s that one strip where it seems like the characters NEVER AGE…and that one…and that one…but they don’t in “FBOFW”…”! Good grief - how often do you read the comics? It would be interesting to list all (2 or 3) of the strips where they DO age (although, as someone pointed out, they age in “Gasoline Alley” but stall out at a certain point). Anyway, great strip!
jpozenel over 13 years ago
Thanks for sharing that Mark.
dukeofurl1 over 13 years ago
Charlie Brown never got older, Lil Abner never got older and a slew of others also. But at some point, for some reason they all died off.
lbejo over 13 years ago
@ak4mc - amen to that! @mark walton: sheesh, lighten up! We’re just kidding around - do you have to take issue with everything?