For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 31, 2024

  1. Dragon
    Asharah  2 months ago

    So Mike apparently was informed Farley died!

     •  Reply
  2. Fb img 1575732366064
    Macushlalondra  2 months ago

    Nice to have ways of remembering him.

     •  Reply
  3. Americauna chicks 1 week 003
    howtheduck  2 months ago

    I am going to guess that Rhetta does not have a key to the Patterson house and maybe just rang the doorbell and did not search the house. Then again, the Pattersons are gone for 3 weeks, so who knows?

    I like Edgar’s expression in the second panel, looking at the reader as if he knows all this exposition retcon does not match his memory (or the readers’ memory) of things.

     •  Reply
  4. Missing large
    eced52  2 months ago

    Farley was everyone’s dog.

     •  Reply
  5. Missing large
    snsurone76  2 months ago

    Mike has been sadly misinformed. Elly never wanted Farley in the first place, considered him a nuisance all his life (just like with his son now), and was totally nonchalant about his death. To the others, though, he was the most valuable member of the family.

     •  Reply
  6. Photo
    Harumph  2 months ago

    Nice name, awful plant. They stick to everything like burrs.

     •  Reply
  7. Missing large
    JetSilver  2 months ago

    Very poingniant. I was away on business when my 18 year old cat died. We have to scatter the ashes this weekend over her favorite spot in the garden.

     •  Reply
  8. B model art
    Funniguy  2 months ago

    The loss of your dog is exactly the kind of thing your dog would have helped you through.

     •  Reply
  9. Missing large
    fuzzbucket Premium Member 2 months ago

    I planted a yellow rosebush for my dog.

     •  Reply
  10. Hot beverage 2615
    More Coffee Please! Premium Member 2 months ago

    My wife and I had to say goodbye to our best friend a few weeks ago. I can’t believe what a hole she’s left in our hearts and lives. We’ve had other dogs in the past and will have another at some point, but Dixie was truly special. Maybe a little like Farley.

     •  Reply
  11. Captn klutz
    JCunnngham Premium Member 2 months ago

    They’re crushed, I accidentally sat in them

     •  Reply
  12. Missing large
    Bob Blumenfeld  2 months ago

    This is one hallmark of a great story teller of any kind: The extension of their immediate story world in other directions, be they physical or temporal, North, South, East or West, past or future. Farley was a part of the Patterson’s lives and still is, and Lynn shows it to us.

     •  Reply
  13. Missing large
    birkemeyerjulie  2 months ago

    Pets are family..

     •  Reply
  14. Missing large
    The_Great_Black President  2 months ago

    Then how come Elly did not want a dog when Mrs. Baird (the Pattersons’ late neighbor and Farley’s original owner) was giving away puppies?

     •  Reply
  15. Missing large
    CultofFarley  2 months ago

    Ooga Farley!

    Booga Farley!

    Googa Farley!

    Rooga Farley!

     •  Reply
  16. Awatchdog 2
    Watchdog  2 months ago

    Woooooof

     •  Reply
  17. Deutsch beer week
    Norris66  2 months ago

    Cats are Royalty. My new cats trial period ended yesterday, I’m ‘stuck’ with him. HaHa He’s already attached to me.

     •  Reply
  18. Missing large
    rebelstrike0  2 months ago

    That could have been something to have a strip like this…

    Elly: Michael is home from school.

    Michael enters Patterson residence

    Michael: Hello everyone. Man, what a rotten semester! Only thing that kept me going was coming home to our dog greeting me. Farley, where are you? Yoo hoo, Farley! Hey, anyone seen Farley?

    John: My son, sit down. There is something I need to tell you…

     •  Reply
  19. Missing large
    waynemadison  2 months ago

    I love how Edgar constantly observes, like Daisy Bumstead!

     •  Reply
  20. Missing large
    pripley  2 months ago

    Elly-bashing is an Olympics-level sport in the comments section for this strip. Today’s strip has nothing to do with Elly, yet there are already a couple of bashing threads. Not sure how she earned the vitriol.

     •  Reply
  21. Missing large
    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  2 months ago

    Okay,Mr.Smartmouth Duck…Mike’s ALWAYS known.

    Now shaddup you face

     •  Reply
  22. Missing large
    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  2 months ago

    Still waiting for the bunny rabbit Liz palms off on April

     •  Reply
  23. Missing large
    lnrokr55  2 months ago

    Circling back to Farley again, nice to see.

     •  Reply
  24. Missing large
    kamoolah  2 months ago

    What can be, unburdened by what has been.

     •  Reply
  25. Coffee turtle avatar
    coffeeturtle  2 months ago

    i think i have something in my eye

     •  Reply
  26. 20141112 192913
    Aladar30 Premium Member 2 months ago

    So sweet.

     •  Reply
  27. Missing large
    John Jorgensen  2 months ago

    Forget-me-nots? What happened to the reincarnations?

     •  Reply
  28. Missing large
    Arghhgarrr Premium Member 2 months ago

    Geez, just as we were getting over the pain of Farley’s demise and she gives us this bittersweet reminder. Poignant but still tough to take.

     •  Reply
  29. Missing large
    sincavage05  2 months ago

    Brought a tear to my eye.

     •  Reply
  30. Heffernan doug  1
    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    Beautiful.

     •  Reply
  31. Cathy aack
    lindz.coop Premium Member 2 months ago

    My 22 year old kitty crossed the rainbow bridge on Monday…it’s been a tough week.

     •  Reply
  32. 781d9a1a 33fa 4b99 9bcb 680376f0ef71
    Anselm the Seeker Premium Member 2 months ago

    Very soon there will be “Farley sightings” around that tree.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From For Better or For Worse