For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 25, 2021

Why are they still trying to upgrade everything for the modern times? Just keep it in the 90s

Nice move mike!, (that was sarcasm)

That’s pretty good. To me cars today pretty much look the same between manufacturers.

did not need to change the cars.

Cars are cars. Takes me places. And, Mike, just how long since you last saw Martha?

OK Mike, what’s the year, make and manufacturer of that “Martha model???”

/SHNARK/

they have to fool the elderly comics section readers into thinking these are new, but Lynn Johnson hasn’t been slapping masks on them like Jeff Keane his been doing on his daddy’s old panels

The shout-out to Ollie on the wall of panel 2 is for cartoonist Tim Oliphant (AKA Mr. Ollie).

https://tnartseducation.org/teaching-artist-roster/tim-oliphant-mr-ollie/

Sorry Martha. But your boyfriend has caught the “I am dreaming of owning a car” disease.

And ‘Mike’ wonders WHY he had ‘problems’ with girls ???

He’s only got room in that brain for one passion at a time. Sorry, Martha! :D

My husband has that kind of mind for cars. At his job (he’s a 3rd-shift security specialist at a manufacturing plant), if someone leaves their lights on in the lot, he doesn’t even have to look it up. He’ll also surprise someone by, as they walk in, asking them, “Did you get a new car?” He can also tell who is already at church as we’re pulling into the lot. Unfortunately, he sometimes forgets that not everyone can do that. He’ll ask, “Did you see their car there?” if I go to an event. I’ve said to him, “Not everyone identifies someone by their car!”

Should have thrown a Tesla in there..

Guess they haven’t seen each other in a while.

I wish they still thought this way…lol

So I said, “I’m so sorry. I was thinking about important stuff.” …and then hell rained down upon me the wrath of the goddess before me. I wept.

Lynn’s Comments:

The graffiti in panel two was a shout out to my friend and cartoonist Tim Oliphant.

https://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/1992/05/29For those that can go so long ago, you can see that they changed the car’s datation on the new edition of the strip … cheap skates …

New and improved just means the same but with less room, less power, but costs more money.

Didn’t this strip stop running in ‘07 or ‘08 or so? And by then Mike was married with children.

Hi Ollie, so glad I checked your wall!

Yes you remember auto names, but not the girls name.

Smooth Mike, real smooth.

I hate it when I run into someone and they know me but I don’t recognize them; or worse. I recognize them from somewhere but can’t remember where or their name.

She’s not a car so he can’t identify her…

Shame on you, Michael. How could anyone forget Martha?

Yep, that is what most teen age boys in small town America back in the ’60s did. We knew every car on the road because cars back then actually looked different. Each model by each manufacturer had its own style. Unlike a few years later when a bean counter became CEO of 1 company(to remain nameless) and decided that one style was good enough for every vehicle the company made. I for 1 hated that. Because every car looked like every other car

At that age, you got to think the kid would have at least a two track mind.

Original panelshttps://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/1992/05/29?ct=v&cti=1842073

He sure ain’t Magic Mike!

At Mike’s age I was thinking way more about girls than cars…

Never got the car gene – it’s just a way of getting from Point A to Point B.

Why does the song “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide” come to mind? Probably because it was sung by Martha and her band, the Vandellas!

Isn’t that funny, micheal, that you know all the names of cars and dont know your girlfriends name? Maybe a good swift kick in the testicles will remember her name,right.?

I’m even worse than most females about recognizing car brands. I have taken countless trips over 2 years with a particular Uber driver. My friend and I were talking one day about what nice cars Uber drivers have, and she asked me what kind of car that driver had. I paused, and then stammered…“Silver”! After all this time, I had no idea what kind of car he had, even though one day he and my late husband had chatted about it!

Not even remembering her name? After all they meant to each other?? Doesn’t matter that he was distracted by a fleet of cars: he’s for it now!

I get updating the years, but why are they all 9 years old?