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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templo SUD said, 3 months ago
You’re such a bad influence, Gordon.
TheSkulker
said, 3 months ago
You know this old if you can get games (plural), for a buck!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
Parents warnings can be for a good cause. But peer group pressure can over rule it.
curmudgeon68 said, 3 months ago
@TheSkulker
A quarter a pop in the day.
MadCow
said, 3 months ago
K.C. Fahel said, 3 months ago
On my 16th birthday, I met a REALLY cute boy at school, who came into the office to ask if he could put up fliers for a new video game arcade (I worked in the office one period a day). He asked me if he could take me to the opening. When I asked my parents, my father (who usually left things like that to my mother) spoke up with a firm “NO”. The arcade was in a “really bad part of town” and (of course) he didn’t know the guy. Naturally, I was upset (yeah, I actually said, “I’m 16! Stop treating me like a child!”) but very soon after I had reason to be thankful, as the guy was M-A-J-O-R trouble, as was the place!
nananonie
said, 3 months ago
I like the new pictures they are great
lightenup
said, 3 months ago
Parents usually have good reasons for what they say. Sometimes they don’t make sense, but it’s better to not wait for trouble to happen for them to make sense.
Dave Eicher said, 3 months ago
And to think what Gordon turned into.
icky mudd said, 3 months ago
@nananonie
The whole site is better. IMO.
gocomics did a good job with the upgrade.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
Lynn’s Notes:
“Crazy Eddy’s” was based on “Fergy’s” in Lynn Lake — part confectionery, part pool hall; a place where boys of all ages liked to hang out. Fergy himself was a dishevelled, crotchety old guy whose motto (printed over the entrance) was “Buy or bye-bye.” He sold cigarettes to minors, bent the liquor laws, and bragged about being just honest enough to stay out of jail. Even though we didn’t like our boys to go in there, we knew where they were, and in a “frontier town,” Fergy’s was safer than some of the other haunts around town.
gaebie said, 3 months ago
And my paper today has John searching around at midnight for the schools hamster that got loose in the house. Why isn’t it the same strip as Gocomics?
gaebie said, 3 months ago
@nananonie
All except John and Elly at the top. Those grins are really freaky!
summerdog said, 3 months ago
In my day, if your mom didn’t want you to go in there, then you definitely would check it out.
sjsczurek said, 3 months ago
Video games!
With prices so low they are INSAAAAANNNNNNNE!