New Phase of "For Better or For Worse" Begins Sept. 3
Posted: August 29, 2007 | News Bites Home
Kansas City, MO (08/29/2007) Aug. 28, 2007 -- Lynn Johnston’s popular comic strip “For Better or For Worse” begins a new phase Monday, Sept. 3, as character Michael Patterson looks through a family photo album with his 5-year-old daughter, Meredith. With this strip, Michael begins retelling the Patterson family story by recounting the courtship of his parents, John and Elly, the central characters in the 28-year-old comic strip read by millions each day.
In a mixture of new, old and retouched work, readers will begin to see scenes of the past -- Elly reading in the library at college and catching the eye of the young dental student who will one day become her husband.
“This was an opportunity to give my readers new material, as well as my being able to pick and choose through the original art and making it different, making it a new entity, as it were,” says Johnston.
Johnston will keep fans engaged with a mix of special strips from the past and newly drawn panels that will help reintroduce favorite storylines. The strip’s current storyline will be interlaced with Michael's remembrances until it gradually reaches a natural closing stage sometime early next year. When that happens, time will stop for the extended Patterson family, but not their stories. The stories will be relived by a current generation of fans and introduced for the first time to a new generation.
Right now, Johnston is still exploring the budding romance between oldest daughter Elizabeth and an old high school flame.
"I'm interested and readers are interested to know what is going to happen with Anthony and Elizabeth," she said. "That resolution can't happen too fast. They've only just started to see each other again after a long time apart."
OK, so Lynn is taking a souped up hiatus. That's excusable; I've loved going through some of the strips that were before my time on the Web, so I guess those of us who never visit the website will get to feel a little weird that Elly used to be kind of hot 30 years ago, and that she wore bell bottom pants. (adds to the hotness, IMO)What troubles me more is the last couple of paragraphs. Not only at the hint that we're going to be waiting until at least 2008 for a resolution of Liz and Anthony's story, but the-----
whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Let's wait a second here and go back and read the third to last paragraph, like I just did. It's phrased in a confusing way but am i wrong in interpreting the phrase "When that happens, time will stop for the extended Patterson family" as "The strip will end?"
My friends I do not use these letters together often, but:
WTF?????????
Is this the end of FBFW?
And if so, why the deceptive phrasing, Lynn (or more likely Laura, pun-tastic temptress of my heart that you are)? Why not just come out and say it rather than have me write a half a blog that then gets interrupted and that I feel compelled to nonetheless share because of the dramatic nature of my epiphany.
Well the cat's out of the bag now, ladies. The more I reread the above article, the more I'm convinced: No more new fbfw in 2008.
I need to be alone with my thoughts for a little while. Seriously man: this makes me feel sad.
4 comments:
um...what? no way...i, uh, words fail.
words really do fail, except to say that i've been thinking about this all day since i found out. big old colon + left-hand parenthese from this PSA.
There must be some mistake. Lynn would never do that to us. Would she? Wait... would she?
dear friends, the end draws near.
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