For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 21, 2024

We’re left wondering if there is a discernible difference between “very very very very very very very very very good” and “very very very very very very very very very very good.”

When my mom said: “Well see” it meant no.

How about something interesting… Like their airplane gets hijacked, or their cruise ship loses power and it becomes a floating gulag for several days?

I think the question here is, can she live up to all those verys?

Just last week, April was talking like she was 12. Talk about regression !!! Make up your mind, Lynn.

Gramma Carrie? Is she a stepmother? Maybe I missed something. Gramma is Gramma no matter if she’s Lynn’s or John’s. It just sounds so disrespectful. Maybe it’s just my generation.

How did the Return Gifts ritual start?

so where is she going ?

Gramma Carrie. We have not see her in 6 years. This will be the first time she has seen April. This should be an interesting meeting.

You said plenty of verys, April.

Don’t worry April, they will always bring you something, they just want you to worry about it so you be good. Parents are like that.

I love that little sweet look. How can you resist?

She’s not going to be very good, though, is she?

Strange how passionate commenters can get over a fictional character in a comic strip.

Verily…..

Do not count on the very, dear. Mothers will go to any extent to make their little ones happy.

April needs to know how to negotiate. She should start with “If the house is still here when you get back…”

Like Calvin and his uncle

Uncle Max: Hey! What are you doing going through my luggage like that?

Calvin: Where is my present? You didn’t bring me one so figured you must be hiding it. Come on, what did you bring me?

Max: Did Mommy and Daddy raise you this way, or did they just untie you for my visit?

Alright April, time to put your money where your mouth is. For the following week, in everything you do, you ask yourself:

Was that very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very good?

A straw hat, perhaps?

You left out a comma.

She will bring back a case of norovirus if nothing else.

Gone a week? Gordon will probably be married by the time they get back…assuming he and Tracey have their nuptials in a Las Vegas wedding chapel.

Amazing expression on Lynn’s April character. Reminds me of the same innocent expressions found on wild dog pups hoping their parents would bring back food for them. Likewise gifts, things for humans whether they be young or old are like “food……”comfort “food”.