For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 23, 2009

My cheapass newspaper, part of the Gannett enpire, dropped this in favor of garbage. It’s great to be able to see it daily on my pc as I think this is one of the top 5 all-time cartoon strips. This one reminds me of me at a young age, except I had to “purloin” the only flashlight in the house. A giveaway, especially when the battery wore down so quickly.

I’ve done that many a times with a book!

aawww, my son does this half the time - and he’s also terribly grouchy in the morning…

Yeah! What handheld is he playing? I only remember the Head-to-Head games the boys played..

On the nail Gweedo, just as the secretary thread was “updated” from lovely blonde Cheryl Ladd (original–perhaps Lynn should have used Carole Laure or Karen Kain, though I didn’t think of these at the time) to scratchy-voice brunette Shania Twain (lovely, golden-voiced, auburn-tressed Lisa Brokop would have been much nicer).

If we go back about 43 years this is my brother Bobby only he’s not texting on some doohickey like this, he’s in the bathroom using the nightlight to read his comic books. No wonder he had such bad eyes trying to read with so little light.

Parents have been there and one that. They can always tell what’s up, down, on or off.

Pong man. he’s playing Pong.

wait ‘till he LEAVES.

This is a great flash back in time.

It looks like a DS 1. New comic. The old hand held games were large!

There were no flashlights for me to use. I took apart some game with small bulb and battery and created a hand held together light to read by. When the battery died I went back to reading by the light of the street light down the street.

No wonder I needed glasses by the time I was in 7th grade. I read every book I could get my hands on.

Most Dads would have taken the game out of the room with him. Problem solved.

A book to read is way better, anyways.

Reading in bed is much more conductive to going to sleep - especially if it is a boring book.

I love that Lynn’s not so stuffy that she can’t make subtle changes to keep up on her reruns. It makes it more interesting to try totell what the changes are, kinda’ like a game.

some handheld games have adapters with a snake light so you don’t have so much light showing through the covers

My guess for what he’s playing would be Caleco football.

It was DonkeyKong for my kids. For me, i would be reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, or the Bobbsey Twins.

reading under the covers does not weaken your eyes!! it makes them tired, but it doesn’t change your vision - if it did i’d be blind!!!

Children don’t read in bed anymore! Of course they updated it.

Bender, not all, mine still read books. My nine-year-old’s currently reading The Hobbit :D

and he’ll actually grow up to be a writer… :-)

I wish there was a way to compare the originals to these. But I think there were handhelds, just with the red LED’s no graphics (except what was drawn on the screen).