For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 11, 2023

Incipient sororicide

Anthony’s best response: “I dunno. Wanna find out?”

April knows a bit too much about romance for a 4 year old…I suspect her parents are responsible.

At that age, my girlfriend and I both had braces. You guessed it, sure enough, they got snagged in a kiss.

Test #1…

Okay April, you’re going to bed RIGHT NOW!

Annnndddd, exit stage right. Preceeded by ….MOM!

Only desperate girls with low self-esteem would kiss that.

That’s it, Liz!! Time to physically throw that brat out of the room!!

BTW, I wonder why Lynn seems to put such emphasis on showing characters’ lower teeth. It wasn’t like that in the early days of the strip.

Liz should go to her mom and ask her to please get April out of the room. If she refuses I’d find a way to get even. This is really unfair to Liz.

Subtlety unleashed.

Boy! You just go right to the heart of the issue.

Parents kissing in front of their chuldren? Heavens! The children should not see that their parents love each other. What is this world coming to? lol

“That’s what Elizabeth and I were going to find out before you showed up.”

Out of the mouth of babes.

A good fifth panel:

Anthony: “Good question, better test it out.”

Anthony grabs April and kisses her passionately; April breaks free and runs out of room

April: ACCCK!

I’m thinking it’s time Apo went to bed.

April!

So much for the little tyke’s promise a couple days ago, (maybe a half an hour ago in this comic’s time keeping) to “Just sit here on the couch and watch!”

Didn’t take her long to stop watching and becoming the center of attention! Even sticking her finger into a stranger’s mouth whom I presume she never met before.

For Elizabeth, April’s ‘irritation factor’ just jumped off the scale ! ! ! !

Yep… April has that first little girl crush…. on an ‘older’ man… LOL

Fair question…….

She is a little kid with big ears…….

It’s a shame that April is being drawn as such a brat. Seems unnecessary.

While April may be acting like a nosy little brat playing an annoying game of “20 Questions” here, I still have to laugh at the look of mortification on Elizabeth’s face right now because it’s absolutely priceless! (ᵔ◡ᵔ)

Yes, but you have to be careful of the other persons mouth.

They don’t mind April being there, but they DO mind the binoculars…..

Poor Elizabeth; younger siblings were the worst! Ask me how I know.

And THIS would be the time to drag April out by her ear!

There is no way on god’s green earth I would let a little kid put her fingers in my mouth! Lord only knows where they’ve been.

kids have NO filters LOL

April’s head shape is like a piece of male anatomy, which she sure is acting like today. Sure hope Lawrence doesn’t notice this and try to insert

April will probably understand soon enough. Two’s company but three’s a crowd.