For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 17, 2023

Estrogen driven violence

She just hates sewing

I wish I had siblings while I was growing up.

Maybe Mike will be a bit more hesitant to harass “Lizard Breath”!

Feel Better now Liz ?

More like one of those fist swings.

That is one nice “mood swing” she’s got! Now go away, Michael, before you get a taste of her left “mood swing”.

Does that answer your question, Michael?

Be glad Micheal that she hit where she did. From a sitting position she could have easily his you a few inches lower. Now that would have hurt.

I appreciate that Liz can dish it out instead of just taking it!!

What was that?

Michael’s got a death wish. :D

Yep! Hades hath no fury as a woman in PMS mode!

This could be that Elizabeth is not going to be handy with the craft of sewing. Ellie is going through wishful thinking if she thinks that any daughter of hers will be a carbon copy of Ellie Patterson.

LOL… i said Mike should stay out of it.

A swing … and a hit … and she scores!

does that answer your question.

When a moood swing ends up being a gut punch.

When working on machines I get angry with myself if things go wrong, never the machine – it´s inanimate!

Family : )

If she didn’t like sewing then she should have picked Home Ec as a class

I wish my spine could do a full 180 twist (the physics of her position and swing are unrealistic)

I thought she got him lower than the tummy.

Well there you go Michael, has Elizabeth’s swing changed your mood?

So, is that a ‘yes’? You are having one of those mood swings?

Michael is lucky he’s not a wee bit taller, or that shot would really have made him grunt!

It’s not a mood swing if things really are going bad. A wise man knows the signs.

Eh, serves him right.

He’s lucky she did not hit lower.

Mike hasn’t learned that “as you sew, so shall you reap”.

Good swing.

How is that for a swing?

At this rate, Michael should know to at least stand a couple feet away before teasing.

How appropriate that a " family" cartoon strip advocates domestic violence!!! Would it be as cute if the situation was reversed!!!

My sister was a BEAST back in her early teens!!! Poor sweetie. Now she’s a JOY to be around and she brightens an entire AMPITHEATER with her friendliness!

“Are you there, God? It’s me, Elizabeth”

I think she missed.

My sewing machine Singers off key

Michael is also fond of going to the zoo and sticking his arm into lion cages.

And to quote a future Lynn book title—-“She’s turning into one of….THEM!!”

next up: menopause. what a blessing that was. no more monthly visits by the raging ax-murdering psychopath. she was usually a beautiful, wonderful woman, except for that one week.

I’ll take that as a “Yes!”

My mother sent three of my sisters to Singer sewing classes. Not one of them ever used that training.

Well, Michael, you just felt the mood swing or schwing. Are you happy now?

A powerful swing, anyway.

Never knew she was a swinger.

My mother used to threaten to tie me to a tree when PMS hit.

Question asked, answer given.

You asked for it, Mikey. Be glad it wasn’t below the belt into the jewels.

She’s living out what wrestler Dick The Bruiser used to say: “I’m gonna put your lights out!”

Michael has no idea how lucky he is, I always aimed a bit lower when my older brother was being a jerk.

Elly thinks “hormones” and leaves the room to tell Mike “hormones”? What is wrong with her?

Elizabeth is really not in the mood for Michael’s antics at the moment.

So, maybe?