Since its debut in 1979, For Better or For Worse has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do. Cartoonist Lynn Johnston’s eye for detail and her uncanny sense of what real parents and children struggle with daily are a big part of her success. The world has watched the Patterson family grow up in real time, and to many readers, the Pattersons feel like family!
Parents and children alike will relate to the obstacles that the Patterson family faces. Curfews, parent date nights, babysitting, pets and distractions are all hurdles that the Pattersons must overcome in order to enjoy each other as a family. They face the same obstacles that real life families do, which is what makes them so loveable.
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KA7DRE said, 11 months ago
He should have stayed out there and made a crop circle pattern while he was at it.
Keith Robey said, 11 months ago
He probably does. But why isn’t today’s strip colourized?
afficionado said, 11 months ago
@Keith Robey
a lot of strips are not.
gocomics must have glitches or something could be adding a lot of strips with a spanish version
kfccanada said, 11 months ago
‘bye, Arnold! Don’t come back, you here???
Respectful Troll said, 11 months ago
wonder how many bushels of wheat were lost with that shortcut. farmers have a very tight profit margin.
prrdh said, 11 months ago
@Respectful Troll
I don’t think Arnold is going to have a lot of eager helpers at his next barn raising.
icky mudd said, 11 months ago
measure the damage and charge Arnold the cost of his escapade. Dah,is not a valid excuse.
Monkeyhead said, 11 months ago
@KA7DRE
Some of the people who have done the crop circles have been prosecuted for severe damage to the crops.I figure that any farmer that allows it in the first place is because it’s a bad year on prices or the yield isn’t what they need it to be.
swami mommy said, 11 months ago
why do so many of the non-regular characters have buck teeth in this comic?
lightenup
said, 11 months ago
Aargh! What a rotten neighbour!
Gokie5 said, 11 months ago
@swami mommy
“why do so many of the non-regular characters have buck teeth in this comic?”
That’s how Lynn represents stupidity or general awfulness. Kind of insulting to people with buck teeth, what?
Gokie5 said, 11 months ago
What Arnold (named after the pig on “Green Acres”?) did was way worse than what people used to do in my office. I’d show them a map, and they’d draw on it with a ball-point pen, or I’d show them a book, and they’d lick their fingers to turn pages.
Ugh! I’d object.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 11 months ago
This Arnold must be the rural version of Ted.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 11 months ago
@Gokie5
Actually, I think that trend began with Disney’s Goofy.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago
Lynn’s Notes:
One morning, I awoke to a strange noise. I looked out the window to see the wheat field parting like the red sea. In a cloud of dust, smoke, and flying chaff, Freddy Parkinson (Don’s brother-in-law and neighbour) was driving towards the house on an old snowmobile. He roared into the yard and then calmly announced that he’d come for coffee.