For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 01, 2024

Count the ding dongs

Edgar changes size in every panel. In the 3rd panel his sitting height is the same as his standing height in the first panel. No wonder Michael is confused. Of course Michael may also be confused as to why he is taller than the back door in panels 3 and 4. I don’t blame him. If the same thing happened to me, I would be confused too.

Edgar noticed nobody came when he scratched the door and someone came when he rang the doorbell last night. So he rings again. Mikes comes. From now on, he rings.

Happy Canada Day!!

Edgar may be accidently leaning against the doorbell button, while scratching on the door with his other paw.

A guy answers a knock at the door, to find only a snail on his porch. He kicks it across the lawn. About a week later, he gets another knock at the door. It’s the snail, who says, “What the heǀǀ was that?!?”

For the want of a “Ring” doorbell cam back in the day. “I watched the doorbell video, and it was Edgar!”

Looks like Michael finally cut hi hair. Next, he should ditch the beard. I think. though. a ’stache would look good on him.

Dumb kid! Do not let the dog in unless he barks!!

A comic artists secret; How to save money in the daily comic strip when it happens to fall on a national official Canadian holiday??

Reuse the week’s prior already finished drawn background image and replace the image of John answering the door with an old image of Michael answering the door.

Voila! And now you can go camping on the long weekend holiday!

LOL… Edgar has learned to ring the doorbell.

Elly should be happy, once she realizes what happened.

If only…

What works, survives. The dog will keep on doing (dinging?) that forever, because it gets the job done.

Ding dong, Avon calling! Good boy, Edgar!

Know it’s a old cartoon, but don’t these slugs ever walk the dog?

Sure heard a lot of ding dongs when Ruth Ginsburg died. People were singing “Ding dong, the witch is dead, the witch is dead, the witch is dead. Ding dong the Wicked Witch is dead!”

Michael is pretty low-key about celebrating Canada Day. Then again he works, as does Gordon.

The rest of the family really isn’t keeping Michael in the loop.

I never saw a dog ring a doorbell before. I do remember an early 70s movie Benji where the dog was locked in a bank and somehow activated a speaker, alerting police to rescue him.

By the way, dogs generally don’t walk like that. It’s 3 paws on, and one paw off the ground.

I used to enjoy reading the comments but now everyone’s a critic about the most inane silly things, all ego

Dog’s smarter than the kid!

dog needs better training.. get him excited like playing with a ball or a stick, get him to BARK, and then start teaching him to SPEAK.

Never underestimate an animal.

Yeah

HO HO

Yup

He’s half asleep and no match for a wide awake dog