For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 04, 2020

Well, that blows all the privacy and modesty discussions!

yep… nothin’ like privacy

Keep a good thought, Elly.

Privacy????

anyone know what happened to that Temple guy ?

Whew. What an audience. And she is naked under the blanket. I’d be extremely uncomfortable if I were Elly. And Lynn drew April so tiny it is easy to overlook her. She looks like a doll from Liz’s childhood. Makes me wonder if it was on purpose that Lynn made Carol a nurse…planned ahead of this birth? If not for Carol, she might be in trouble because Connie is not in a medical profession but a technician – she is just a radiologist who takes xrays and sends them to the doctors. She’d be the one talking on the phone trying to figure what to do while trying to tend to Elly and the nosy people outside in the hallway and little Liz. Having a nurse helped a lot and Connie was able to focus on other things.

I was born at home. I guess I lived……..

True fact: I was born in a Ford Consul, on the way to the hospital!

In the second panel, you might think that John is talking about a hospital birth instead of a home birth. However, what you don’t know is that the guy with the beard in the first panel looks just like Dr. Murray Enkin, Lynn’s Johnston’s obstetrician. Whereas most mothers would have to ride in the ambulance to go to the hospital to get herself and her newborn examined, Elly has the good fortune that this particular ambulance just happened to bring the obstetrician to her.

Pizza dude’s eating the profits.

Of course, this strip is a rerun, but in today’s world, just think of the risk of virus and germs for the newborn and mother in a case like this!

Honestly, Elly couldn’t have picked a better crowd than everyone gathered at that moment! I love the ending.

privacy???? looks like grand central station to me!!

She still looks totally undressed. I’m stressing again.

She didn’t have a nightgown on after giving birth? I get it, they want her body to breath after an intense labor, but there’s a lot of people in her house.

A wonderful uplifting arc for these trying times,

I suspect she is still a little delirious, and not a little bit relieved, to have just performed the miracle of producing another human being. Welcome to the world April. It’s a wondrous and terrifying place, but you have family. You’re alright.

Is there any more pizza?

I love the pizza guy still eating pizza

They may need to rephrase that….just sayin’

Akme Ambulance – I wonder if they treat coyotes?

Who’s the guy with spiky hair hair that is only a silhouette in shadow?

Maybe she meant “comfort” instead of “privacy.”

All is well that ends well and this one ended very well with the birth of April

Who’s the woman next to Michael?

Hopefully the pizza delivery guy still has a job after all of this.

Frank Capra is probably looking down on this strip and smiling.

I remember when this thread ran originally YEARS ago! Nice to see it again. Would love to have an update as to what the ADULT kids are doing today and if all are well. Thanks for the years you have put into drawing and scripting this comic.

Acme Ambulance Company? This is Canada, for chrissake!

If you say so, Elly…

Over 10 people are here and only, like what? 2-3 of them are actual medical professionals and yet there’s privacy. Call it irony but, I guess it’s still kinda sweet

Farley is there too