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Freezing FOOB

I closed my eyes.

There was a sound like that of the gentle closing of a portal as big as the sky, the great door of heaven being closed softly.
It was a grand AH-WHOOM.

I opened my eyes—and all the sea was ice-nine.

The moist green earth was a blue-white pearl.

For Better or For Worse 9/3/07

Today is Fööberdämmerung — launch of the new, frozen phase of For Better or For Worse.

Well, so they say. In fact, the strip road-tested its “Mike ‘n’ Meredith” photo-reminiscence gimmick back in July — so nothing really begins today. And the current storylines, including the one with Canada’s Favourite Couple, won’t treacle out until early next year — so nothing ends, either. In fact, despite the announcements and interviews, there is no actual event here — it’s like Canadian Grandparents’ Day or something.

Whatever the timeline, I’m conflicted about the conversion of FOOB into a zombie/rerun hybrid:

Gee!

It’ll be nice to see the old strips again. They were good!

The author is doing the responsible thing for her staff. Nice!

Good way to ease into retirement and keep an income stream going. You go, girl!

But!

Reruns of a serial won’t attract new readers, and nostalgia is mighty thin gruel.

Hey, 2,000 papers! There’s plenty of new talent out there — give somebody else a chance, eh?

Twenty-eight years is a great run — retire, already!

And Yikes!

FOOB is now all Michael, all the time.

Despite all the buildup, the FOOBocalypse turns out to be precisely nothing — perfectly congruent with the way the strip manages characters and events, and oddly satisfying.

AH-WHOOM

– Uncle Lumpy

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 11:12 pm and is filed under For Better or for Worse. |

68 responses to “Freezing FOOB”

alamo
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:18 pm [Reply]

i wonder if i can see reruns of my puking.
McManx
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:18 pm [Reply]

First responder? Woo hoo.
“Daddy, who’s this?”
“Lynn Johnston”
“Who’s she?”
“She’s the bitch that ruined our lives and trapped us in an eternal strip of mundane recollections.”
McManx
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

Sorry. Kudos to Alamo.
alamo
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm [Reply]

i will defer to your first original thought mcmanx. mine’s a rerun. i puke everytime i think of the foobville follies. my cat pukes. all nine of his lives puke. a regular pukin’ party of ten we got here. we got this thing see?
Poteet
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 pm [Reply]

I’m happy for those who will be happy to see the old strips again. However, my Foobloatharianism is permanent. For me, the old strips will merely be less painful than the new ones. I think. Until this strange hybrid is actually lurching along, I won’t know for sure.
commodorejohn
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 pm [Reply]

I can’t recall having ever read a more chilling phrase than “all Michael, all the time.”
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm [Reply]

Damn, my essay question post didn’t even last 15 minutes!

Anyway, check out my post yesterthread for a thought-provoking question. Then answer it in this thread, so someone will have a chance to see it for at least a couple hours before Uncle Lumpy posts his 2 a.m. paean to Alley Oop or Dondi or something.
kurt
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm [Reply]

Whooooo… frozen time. I wonder if FBOFW will change art style as well as it tells the story… :-0

Meanwhile, over at A3G, Margo, chin held high and chest prominently displayed, smugly announces: “I’ve got a feeling that tonight’s the night”. To which another A3G denizen (Luaan, I think) ripostes “The Night for WHAT?”

Perhaps, it’s The Night that Mario:

1. gets evicted for good,
2. is jumped on, tied up, and again packed off to a sweatshop to make sneakers,
3. waltzes over to JP country to kick Trudi in the butt for being more provocative than her,
4. whips out her secret Disney Princess outfit to become the 9th Princess and dethrone Mandy from “Princess and the Frog”,
5. Becomes so ecstatic about date, she doesn’t look where she’s going and tumbles down a flight of steps, spraining ankle and thus ruining date,
6. Goes on date, only to find out Eric cannot perform and that all the drug stores are closed,
7. Goes on date, finds out Eric could perform, then belts him in mouth for being so lewd.
LTBF
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm [Reply]

Wouldn’t Elly be a better one to tell Meredith how she and John met, courted and got married? I know how my parents met but not a whole lot about their dating, marriage and what they did prior to my birth.

Since these strips are really new, expect them to be as puke worthy as Liz-Anthony. Even sadder wil be the fact we know John and Elly get married.
LTBF
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:32 pm [Reply]

I think Josh took his vacation this week just to avoid the new Foob.
Suicide_Blonde
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 pm [Reply]

Delurking to say ye gods, FOOB is going to be a “very special episode” strip for the rest of its days. Why is nothing being done about this?
Rusty
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 pm [Reply]

Maybe Mike can explain all the glam shots of Lynn J. on her website. And how all the characters were drawn differently way back when, because Lynn actually had to draw them instead of delegating out to staff.
SecretMargo
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:36 pm [Reply]

“Certainly we need history. But our need for history is quite different from that of the spoiled idler in the garden of knowledge, even if he in his refinement looks down on our rude and graceless requirements and needs. That is, we require history for life and action, not for the smug avoiding of life and action, and even to whitewash a selfish life and cowardly, bad acts. Only so far as history serves life will we serve it: but there is a degree of doing history and an estimation of it which brings with it a withering and degenerating of life.”

–Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of HIstory for Life
Mibbitmaker
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:40 pm [Reply]

If you haven’t already, please read my yesterthread post #141. It’s got my FOOB & FW Monday snarks in it. Thank you, drive safely. (Now to actually read this thread…)
Crankenstank
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 am [Reply]

I’m looking forward to when Michael finally runs through all the old stories, catches up to the present, and then they have to start a thread where they reminisce together about going through the old photo album.

Now, back to Brewster Rockit: Spaceguy for a look at what Michael’s great-grandkids will be doing…
Uncle Lumpy
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 am [Reply]

#7 SSB –

. . . before Uncle Lumpy posts his 2 a.m. paean to Alley Oop or Dondi or something.

Henry or Mr. Tweedy — you be the judge!
Jadis White
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 am [Reply]

Stilted dialogue? Check.

Precocious child? Check.

Background that reminds us of the hellish void the Patterson’s lives have become? Check.

Throwing up in my mouth a little bit? Check.

I hope you’re happy, Lynn.

And so it goes.
NotThatGuy
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 am [Reply]

Uncle Lumpy, I’m still lovin’ Fred Basset. Dog humor, not perverted-human-in-animal-suit-humor. What’s not to like?

‘Course, I have an odd fondness for Henry too.
Dollface
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 am [Reply]

I’m impressed that you used the Canadian spelling of favorite. Very Pattersonish.
erikagwen
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 am [Reply]

I would rather the cancer story as opposed to anyone in FW going “commando.”
Rainbird
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 am [Reply]

Ah, I posted a thread on yesterthread, for those who wondered where the ideas for FOOB were coming, if they weren’t exactly retro. See yesterthread #146.
Rainbird
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 am [Reply]

A.D Why do they still look like cavemen if they know about the metric system? Shouldnt’ they have rebuilt the cities by now?
Mibbitmaker
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:19 am [Reply]

#7: I’d far more trust myself with an original idea for a strip than try to continue someone else’s with a long history behind it and characters well worn in another’s drawing style. But…..

I like the idea of doing A3G. My “realistic” style is somewhat cartoony, and I sometimes draw my heads alittle big, but it’d suit my idea. I’d keep it a serial, but make it more like a humor strip (like the FW/FOOB conversions in reverse). I’d use more comical versions of the main three, though strive not to exagerate too much (admittedly, with Margo it’d be tempting). The fun’d be only semi-ironic; satirizing a bit, but maintaining the characters’ integrity. Actually ever doing all this? Probably easier said than done.

Or, taking over FW. I’d have one last absurd tragedy happen before a character — probably Funky, maybe Les — wakes up from a dream. Looking like they did from 1972 to 1993. Les (or Funky) tells Funky (or Les) about the dream: of them having aged and living increasingly tragic lives, as though really continuing their existence.

Eventual last panel of my early FW version (Let’s just say Les was the dreamer in this scenario):

Funky: “…’Newhart’?”
Les: “More like ‘Dallas’.”

One more strip slyly suggesting they remained teenagers from the Nixon through Dubya administrations (not in the dream!), then I’d be off and running, returning FW to its ’70s/’80s glory.

Again, maybe easier said than done.
Slither
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 am [Reply]

If FOOB is going to regularly subject us to reminiscences over photo albums, then I say “No!” I hope all the readers call, write and E-mail their local papers and request something new, relevant, or at least different to take up the space once given to FOOB. Yes, 28 years is enough — and more of the same re-hashed ad nauseam would be unbearable.
Spotted HØrse
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:32 am [Reply]

Yesterthread, CrabbyGenes and Poteet discussed the changes in Lynn’s style over the years. I really like the concept of Elly’s facial potato, and thought it needed celebrating. Facial potato! Facial potato!

I’d like to see the mutation of Lynn’s style addressed as the Patterspawn smear up the family photo albums with grubby fingers. I’m really looking forward to Mewedith asking Michael, “Why has Grandma Elly gots beady eyes?”
Spotted HØrse
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 am [Reply]

Oh, and the idea of seeing John and Elly courting… g-a-a-ack. It’ll be like Anthony and Liz all over again, but minus the smoldering sexual chemistry.
bats :[
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 am [Reply]

Monday drolleries:

MW: Oh, come on, I’m here for Mary Worth goin’ ape-shit on Drew’s butt, not dispensing wise platitudes.
Or am I here to see her go ape-shit on Jeff’s butt?

FOOB: sigh. Carry on.

FW: Maybe Harry can enlist Lisa as cannon-fodder for his assault on the school. Nothing beats going out in a blaze of glory! (I must’ve missed the fact that it’s being torn down.)

Pluggers: stay off my lawn, you damn kids!:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/1309561526/

FC: and when he’s done with Rat, I’m next on the list:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/1309571554/

Well, CCers, we’re off to Vegas for a few days. We’re actually considering coming back through Surprise AZ, so if we see pitchforks and torches amongst the saguaros, we’ll take pictures!! Snark on!
Leu
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:42 am [Reply]

Yeah! Slylock Fox without a shirt!
seanman
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:50 am [Reply]

Emmm, I’ve often seen this business, people claiming about the Foobs “were once a good (comic) strip.” When again? Go look at their wretched archive; I even remember the TV special. IT ALWAYS SUCKED! IT STILL DOES.

Make it go away.
lettuce
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:06 am [Reply]

I nominate that Kurt Vonnegut quote for COTW.

In other news, boy, for a small child that Meredith sure sounds like a grown-up expository device!
off-model
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:21 am [Reply]

#28 Leu, but *alas* no kilt, though he did keep his cape and hat on. He needs to work out a little, though.
Captain Thunder
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:22 am [Reply]

The comparison of FOOBageddon to the Twilight of the Gods is particularly apt, since the most famous version of that particular myth, Wagner’s the Ring of the Nibelung, ends precisely where it begins, with the whole opera repeating itself (hence the name “ring cycle”). Thus also, we see the FOOBnarok, in which the FOOBs are condemned to an eternity of karmic revolution, until at some point they can break free from the wheel of existence and experience Nirvana, an event that will only occur when everyone tells Ellie to get bent and decides to live their own lives, their own way.
Anna Russell
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:25 am [Reply]

And remember — it was their gold!
ZippyWooWoo
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 am [Reply]

So I went to the FOOB official site because Uncle Lumpy said it was ok to do so and found the “Make a move on the muffin” game. I bet Margo wins that every time. Roadside!
deeelightful
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:01 am [Reply]

so i’m a little confused…as much as I hated and was disfoobened over the lizthony love story, I hate to admit I was foobtually interested in seeing the outcome over their relationfoob. Do they wind up together? do they not? are we trapped forever in this frozen vortex where lynn goes over the classic trips and turns them into the watered down malarky we’ve come to hate these past few years? I’m foobergasted that she fooben’t let us know whats going to foob…I mean happen. foob. foober fafoober. Its like a dr. seus cartoon sometimes. I miss calvin and hobbes.
Uncle Lumpy
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:08 am [Reply]

#35 dee –

Don’t worry. You won’t be spared a single detail.

I miss ‘em, too. The books help.
Cafangdra
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 am [Reply]

Fööberdämmerung!?!

Wow! I’m in love with Uncle Lumpy.
Frank Parsnip
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:47 am [Reply]

I am not sure what would be more enticing:

1) a day spent reminiscing with Michael about old Foob strips; or

2) a day spent watching realtime TV news with Spider-Man.

I think a lot would depend on whether any of the Patterson family members would suddenly get Muppet-faced on me and/or if MJ would be present for extended periods of time.
Robert Whitaker Sirignano
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:56 am [Reply]

Its time for Michael Meyers to visit Canada.
Rob in Japan
September 3rd, 2007 at 4:58 am [Reply]

[delurk]
Wait, wait, wait, are y’all saying that John is gonna turn out to be some long-lost dentally obsessed childhood “friend” of Elly’s?

Who moved out there first? Surely this means that the first one to leave their hometown was being relentlessly stalked by the second?

Rob in Japan
[/delurk]
The Photocopiest
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:23 am [Reply]

Shouldn’t that be “trickle” out? Or is “treacle” the arcane, original use of the phrase, like “just deserts.”
Little Guy
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:30 am [Reply]

Will the Cease & Desist letters now be issued by Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer?
Pendragon
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 am [Reply]

#41 – Treacle is tone-perfect in this case. You can find out more about treacle, well, you know…
ScienceGiant
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:52 am [Reply]

“What may this mean that thou, dead corpse, again in complete steel, revisits thus the glimpses of the moon, making night hideous, and we fools of nature so horridly to shake our dispostiion with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? Say, why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?”
– Hamlet, Act I, scene iv

Yeesh! What’s the count on ghost strips now?
- Peanuts
- Fred Bassett
- For Better or For Worse

And then there are “legacy” strips
- Family Circus
- B.C.
- Wizard of Id
- Nancy
- Sally Forth

And Funky Winkerbean is in a category all by itself — assisted suicide?
awksome
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am [Reply]

At this point I’m far beyond being surprised by a character in this strip laying their hand on another’s arm in a forced display of emotion and spouting some tender, feel-good phrase in lieu of a punchline… But seeing said tender phrase come from little Meredith’s mouth is beyond terrifying. What five-year-old would ever be capable of such dialogue??
Now I can’t stop picturing a swarm of little Merediths shrieking platitudes. It is like the worst horror movie ever.
Michael Farris
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:52 am [Reply]

Am I the only who gets a “We are Zogg” vibe from that last panel in todays FOOB?

“Learn of the humans’ filthy mating practices to facilitate psychological control.”

for the Zogg impaired:

http://www.bitfurnace.com/TheCuddlyMenace/target0.html
Hysterical Woman
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:14 am [Reply]

Meredith does not know what horror she has inflicted unto the world.
LTBF
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am [Reply]

“Daddy, isn’t GRandpa Jim the one who had thre stroke?”

“Yes.”

“And doesn’t he live across town with Grandma Iris?”

“Yes.”

“So why don’t we go visit? Aunt April says she goes all the time and he always seems to be happier when she leaves”

“I tried that once. I went to tell him about my book being published and the rude old bastard just sat there and grunted like Robin does. Never had the decency to say “Congratulations’. I think he’s crazy. Grandma went by the other day and he didn’t seem to care she slaved all day making her tuna casserole. He can rot in Hell for all I care. And when he does croak, you think he’ll still look over you like Granpa Keane? You can forget that.”

“Your right Dad. Sorry to make such a silly suggetion.”
andreavis
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

My daughter is almost exactly Meredith’s age. You know how that picture book conversation would go at my house?

Her: “Mom, who’s that?”
Me: “That’s your grandma. She’s my mom.”
Her: “She’s your mom, and you’re my daughter?”
Me: “Uh, nooo, you’re my daughter…”
Her: “Hey mom? What do you call a fish on your head? A fish-heady!”
Jennifer
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:24 am [Reply]

#19 Dollface

That’s “Pattersonian”
Jennifer
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 am [Reply]

#40 Rob in Japan

:: shudder ::

I just had the most vivid image pop into my head of Elly belting out “I Will Always Love You!”
huntingbyrd
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:31 am [Reply]

#10 LTBL
Your right. Josh is probably playing his Wii or something to get rid of the fact that Lynn is NEVER GOING DO ANYTHING MEAN/BAD TO HER STRIP AGAIN!! THE WORLD HAS COME TO FRIKEN END ALL BECAUSE OF STUPID LYNN!!!
huntingbyrd
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 am [Reply]

#49 andeavis
thats so funny! my mom said that i would of talked like this at about 4:
Me:Is that you mommy?
Mom:yes thats me.
Me:but where am i?
Mom:you weren’t there yet.
Me:Where was i?
Mom:uhhh..
Old Man Muffaroo [Inka Dinka Kip W]
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:52 am [Reply]

ScienceGiant @44 – “Stripe” is still done by Bud Myers, who died some time back. His strips are not in any way reliant upon trends, or even the outside world, and can be repeated until kids no longer play in the mud and hate violin lessons.
kostia
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

It boggles the mind to see Cat’s Cradle quoted here. I cannot remember ever reading anything that scared me as deeply as ice-nine.

GOD I love that book.
Anna Nimity
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:52 pm [Reply]

Hi All. First, I want to say thanks to Uncle Lumpy for stepping up to the plate and filling in for Uncle Josh while he’s gone. I’m fairly new to CC and hopelessly addicted.

And speaking of hopelessly addicted, I have a question about FOOB, namely, why am I so bothered by this stupid strip?

Other lame strips I can just laugh off, or enjoy the kitsch or the bad drawing. But FOOB goes beyond irritation or amusement. What is it about this strip that is so incredibly annoying?? Is it because there seems to be an underlying assumption that this is the kind of life I should have or want? That this is “normal” and everyone else (including myself) is screwed up? Obviously, there are millions of people out there who love FOOB and sigh over every step Liz and Anthony make towards each other (blergh!), so are we FOOB haters just cranky wierdos or do we have a very good reason to HATE THIS STRIP?!

Awaiting your keen cultural and sociological analysis….
Necktie Weasel
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

#56 -
I used to love FOOB. I read it faithfully throughout my college years, and could relate to Elizabeth. She and I went through nasty break-ups at the same time at one point, and when I moved across the country, I could relate to the adjustment issues that she had.

However, in the past few years, all the characters have completely lost whatever personality traits made them interesting. Deanne only serves as a wife and mother. All the neat things she did pre-marriage have gone to the wayside for her to merely exist as the patient wife to a man who thinks his computer is more important than his family.

Elizabeth came rushing home, leaving behind all that had made her interesting, and is now dating her childhood sweetheart – who made a move on her while he was not only married, but after she was nearly raped. And, we, as readers, are supposed to say “awwww.”

April, who has shown potential to be an interesting character, was shoved to the side, portrayed to be a “spoiled brat” when she was feeling ignored by her family, and anything interesting about her – such as her trip to Manitoba – was summed up in a few strips.

This on top of the “very special” strips featuring Shannon has taken FOOB from a sweet – sometimes overly so – strip that I could relate to – into pure drivel. And I think that’s why it pisses me off so much.
Lou Shumaker
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:54 pm [Reply]

Hey, Lynn’s turned the Foobiverse into the Matrix!

Her characters are now Duracells, frozen in time but not knowing it, serving their masters, the Johnsons.

question is, who will be neo?
brownsfan
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

Mabye this is our chance to reincarnate the FOOB’s into people like us…..riiiiiiight!!!!!!!
Jana C.H.
September 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

Uncle Lumpy, I think Föoberdämmerung should have only two unlauted letters, such as I used back on my post on July 7:
—
No one else seems to have noticed that Liz and Anthony have finally adopted the Official Operatic Love Duet Pose and are about to burst into song. In German. I know it’s going to be German because it’s gone on so long already.

Puccini would have had Liz disembowel herself over Paul months ago. Verdi would have her fling herself from Warren’s helicopter. Gilbert and Sullivan would pair up the entire cast neatly by voice type (sopranos with tenors, altos with baritones, flutes with clarinets, violins with cellos) and let them dance merrily into the sunset.

But no. We have to wait for Lizhilde and Sieganthony to set themselves and the entire comics page on fire in a glorious if confusing Föoberdämmerung. There’s only one thing I need to know: Where’s the horse?
—
Three umlauts is overkill.

Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Anna Russell: I’m not making this up, you know!
Uncle Lumpy
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:25 pm [Reply]

Jana –

You’re right about the umlauts, of course. But nothing exceeds like excess.

John Adams would have them sing Anthony’s divorce papers.

Philip Glass would use Warren’s helicopter as the percussion section.

Olivier Messaien would insist that Thérèse have the only speaking part.

Nadia Boulanger would make April the star.
Tux Pendelton
September 3rd, 2007 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

(Father, forgive me….)

This is the way the FOOB ends
This is the way the FOOB ends
This is the way the FOOB ends
Not with a bang but an umlaut.
genevieve
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:29 pm [Reply]

@57 – thanks for summing up how this foobstrip got derailed. I grew up with FBOFW and always loved it. But this is some soulless version in which the Pattersons implode on themselves because no one is allowed to leave their ever-more-tightly knit family circle.

I’m most sad about April – so much potential!

But I’m more upset about being stuck with the charmless minifoob Meredith for an eternity than Mike.
Spotted HØrse
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm [Reply]

#60 Jana C.H.:

But no. We have to wait for Lizhilde and Sieganthony to set themselves and the entire comics page on fire in a glorious if confusing Föoberdämmerung. There’s only one thing I need to know: Where’s the horse?

Hey, you have to ask? What am I, chopped liver?
Matt McIrvin
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm [Reply]

I was thinking of a different Vonnegut.

Listen:

Lynn Johnston has become unstuck in time.

Poo-tee-weet?
WolfDreamer
September 6th, 2007 at 11:40 pm [Reply]

Ok as the one of the few people who love For Better or for worse I guess I need to explain a few things.

First, the strip is yes going to freeze, it was intended to give readers all the different back stories of minor characters that we have grown up with but couldn’t get to. It also explains how the main characters interact and such.

# 57 – Shannon is based on Lynn’s own niece whom is like Shannon, just like the story arc of Lawrance dealt with her brother in law, she likes using her family as means of getting the point across that everyone wants to be treated equally.

Those that want to know if Elizabeth and Anthoney get married the implied version is that yes she will marry him and raise Francise.

As to why the drawings are different, yes she uses other people, but also she did take more art lessons as the years went by so she improved as she went on.

Lynns reasoning for ending the strip was she didn’t want to be one of those cartonists that the people who replaced her couldn’t wait for her to die so they could do their own things, and also she realized that she has nothing in common with young parents these days as they are dealing with things she never dreamed of nowadays.

However I do like the reason why the Pattersons give for stopping the strip as they do. Micheal broke the fourth wall in his letter of the month and explained that the Pattersons talked with Lynn and decided that the series should end because it was a story of one generation of a family and while the family continues to age and grow as characters the cycle is complete. Incedently, I liked how he explained that the strip started very simmerly to how it ended. Micheal and Deanna are the ages of Elly and John were and Merideth is the age Micheal was and Robin is the age Elizabeth was when the strip began, so like he said, a full circle of life happenned and now its time to move on.

And yes I did tear up a bit when I found out about it ending, but I do understand.
Andrea
September 21st, 2007 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

You do realize, of course, that Lynn Johnston is being divorced? So much for ‘for better or worse’ . . . or is that ‘worst’?
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