For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 11, 2024

Dump her Mike, she’s too pushy!

Rhetta, buh bye…

Dump him, Rhetta, he’s a slob!

Michael looks SO much better. The facial hair didn’t make him look older so much as it made him look like a slob.

Not a good idea to try to make over someone. I know a man who’s a widower and he’s gone out with a lot of women since his wife died. One of the women was just like this, always trying to get him to change things about himself, to buy new clothes that she picked out, etc. He doesn’t date her anymore.

It is kind of funny that Mike will accept this kind of ‘direction’ from his girlfriend but really resents any similar suggestions from his family…

Looks like Rhetta has become another Elly. End of romance! And Mike DOES look like a 12-year old; he should have kept the ’stache.

Pay attention, Mike! The red flag is waving!

Like all women she thinks she can change him.

Don’t worry, Mike, you’ll get used to feeling like a tool so quickly you won’t barely notice the 35 years went by just like that!

Panel 3: “Well, Mikey, it seems that your deformed head is having a negative effect on your decision-making!”

If it wasn’t for my wife, I’d look like a cross between a beatnik and a hobo

Men marry a woman, expecting her to never change, but they all do. Women marry a man thinking they can change him. but they never do.

you don’t have a say in it kid. :}

Many a successful man is prodded into it by a loving partner/wife.

Behind every successful man is a great woman.

Go Rhetta! Now he looks younger and neater.

Resistance is futile.

Shirt happens.

Debt city, here we come! ;-p

Seems like every man outside of their family are buck toothed buffoons

OK that is a pretty bad pun but I admit it’s kind of funny.

“Don’t worry, I’ll fix you…”

Welcome back to modern times, Michael. How was your trip to 1860?

Looks like Michael will learn the hard way or the easy way that every day we are judged by our appearance. Michael needs to start thinking about his future. Every job or form of self-employment will require a factor of personal appearance and bearing. Michael cannot spend his whole life living off welfare. Women tend to find zero-liability voters unattractive.

Micheal, do not walk, rather RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

When a woman wants to change you like that it is a sign that things will not work out. If you don’t change to her wishes she will never be happy and if you do change to her wishes you will never be happy. Be yourself, what ever that self may be. Live life with no regrets, no apologies and no baggage to look back upon causing you to wish you had done things differently.

There are a million self righteous people in this world that will tell you what they think you should do, mostly because they didn’t have the courage to live their own lives. If they don’t have the courage to live their own lives they don’t want others to do so either.

About 25 years ago I was on an elevator with a young man and his girlfriend. She was fussing over his clothes and I told him: “Better get used to it, women will dress you your entire life.”

I told you months ago that you should have cut her loose, Mike.

He can use a bump up in style.

Get used to it, Mike. I gave up buying clothes for myself years ago. My wife insists on picking them out. She has better taste than I do. The phrase to learn here is, “Yes, dear.”

Michael looks 12 years old? Does that mean Elly has enrolled him at Camp Kawaka where he meet Martha?

Maybe he needs to grow a mustache.

Time for the real world Mike! We get jackets! ;-)

He looked sleazy with the beard. Now he looks dorky. I’ll take the latter.

And so it begins…

Bye bye money.

Rhetta is his “Mom” now.

Aw Mike, Why not at least keep the ’stache?

And dump Rhetta NOW, before she turns in to your Nazi mother!

From the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU, RHETTA!!! Regardless of what everyone else is saying here, I truly despised Michael’s beard and moustache. Besides looking terrible, people in his chosen field did not want to give him a job because of his appearance.

I don’t think schlepping around in a baggy t-shirt and jeans is a professional look, Mike. You aren’t actually 12, try to look like an adult.

I couldn’t really see Mike in a beard.

Mike doesn’t realize he is being sized up for a wedding – his…

That’s what YOU think,Mike!!

My wARDrobe models have always been Spike Jones and his orchestra