For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 30, 2009

Nah…he’s just fine.

Gee, he IS comfortable in his own skin! Talk about loud and proud :o)

Mind you, Elly might just rip him right out of that same skin if she cops an eyeful of his Macho Man… xD

there’s fantasizing, and then there’s fantasizing

My girl of two years cannot understand why my three year subscription to Maxim keeps coming.

I thought John was focused on his dentistry. Maybe it should have been “Playtooth”

@Fairportfan2 - I think it’s “Macho”, but I thought the same thing the first time I read it…. LOL!! :-))

Next she’ll be screaming, “John!”

Is that a guy with a mustache on the cover? If so, I have some concerns about John.

I do not like the way Lynn is portraying John. Was this particular strip in the original series?

Hey, wait a minute here! This is a family friendly cartoon strip!! :-p

Settle Down Girls!!!!

That Macho Man is a comic book character (I think). It’s not porn! Lynn is not portraying John in a bad light, and it is still a family strip. (she could have used a different comic book to avoid this confusion though.

And she really does emphasize Elly’s butt there!

@Macushlalondra

yes, this is an original from way back

Fantasizing makes up about 90 percent of my life on a busy day.

Smutt!

Susan: From yesterday - if you are looking for failures in the Patterson family stories, how about Elizabeth and Erik where she exhibited the classic symptoms of an emotionally abused partner. Or Mike & Deanna’s relationship with the Kelpfroths which was never really resolved because the house burned down.

Shame on John looking at that trash. He should be seeing what his family is doing. I don’ think that type of magizeen will be at a dentist office.

Oh, those are the girlie’s dark, open mouthed lips you are seeing on the magazine cover.

I know… it looks like she has a goatee and mustache.

John must really prefer sleeping on the couch…………..

well this is interesting… my listing shows I made a comment here…no comment here…was it deleted?

Did this strip actually appear the first time around, or is Lynn entering new ground as a man-hater? This just doesn’t match the John I remember at all.

I’m serious. I want to know if this is a new comic or not.

First - Yes this is a reprint. second - yes that is a porno mag. Third - there have been a handful of mags in the comic like that. The two that I can remember is when Mike was in high school he fell asleep with the lights on, his mom came in to tuck him in and realized what he had been reading. The second was at a magazine stand that John looked at one ELly caught him and he explained how all the women had dental issues. THey left with her rolling her eyes and the stand owner saying “I’ve been looking at these for years and I’ve never noticed any of them had teeth before.

This one reminds me of a Ray Romano improv, where he said “men do most of their imagining in the shower.”

ooooooooo! Someones going to get in TROUBLE!!!!!