For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 03, 2024

I would say that Matt Landry is not even noticing the girls, but then again, he has no eyes, so it makes sense. How did he drive Elizabeth and Dawn to school with no eyes?

If these girls want to attract Matt Landry, they are going to need to put on something that would attract him by smell or maybe by hearing. His ears are enormous.

This is obviously old stuff. Why did Lynn re-copyright it??

No doubt someone has a theory that says equal people cannot or should not compete. Makes no sense to reasonable people, though.

Are girls really so keen to chase boys? This was never obvious to me when I was young. Perhaps I was a slob.

This is a bunch of old stereotypes…

No different than men drooling over pretty women.

If this really was 2024, everyone’s faces would be buried in their phones..

When this strip first ran on October 5, 1995… It was “this is the 90s!”

Perhaps it’s my age showing, or perhaps it’s a younger generation thing, but the more a girl primps herself with heavy lipstick, rouge/blush, eye-liner (especially the exaggerated cat eyes look), fake eye lashes, large dangling ear-rings, and an over use of perfume, the more I prefer to keep a girl like that distant from me. You begin to look clownish with all that make-up which only belies a desperate desire to be noticed. Guys catch on real quick to such a thing and recognize such a girl as high maintenance.

This is the year 2024. Not only are men equal to women, those transgenders that were born males can now even compete and join on women’s sports teams. Although there are some people still complain that those born as males and are now females still have bigger muscles and are usually the ones who win the games and place in first place compared to the naturally born females!

If you want to pass it for 2024, you must redraw it with smartphone.

Ontario schools banned smartphones this year, so this 1995 strip is strikingly contemporary. The dates of this strip are modified to match the current calendar year, and minor changes are made to ‘dated’ references in the dialogue. Lynn is doing just fine and has a new series of children’s books, ALOTTABOTZ.

So… Matt makes Lisbeth squirt ?

This equal rights movement should have been stopped before it started then we never would have a black, oriental woman trying to run this country and let in all the low life’s of the world and to have them feel that it is their right to do so.

Wait, I thought this took place in the original time period. That’s why they don’t have cell phones and stuff. Since when is it taking place today?

You know…Aaron McGruder doesn’t change the years for The Boondocks. Just saying.

But the time they get out of the ‘Little Girl’s Room’ Matt will be long gone and they won’t see him again that day.

It’s astonishing the breadth of comments, especially when you go back to read the strip itself.

Ooga Falrey!

Booga Falrey!

Googa Falrey!

Rooga Falrey!

Public education

Your tax dollars at work

I prefer the dialogue to not be adjusted. No modern dates. No adjusting gas prices for inflation. Let them be true reruns. The hairstyles and fashion are clearly mid-90s, so stop pretending otherwise.