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[howtheduck]

For Better or for Worse Complete Library Vol. 09 HC

The For Better or For Worse saga comes to an end in this final volume that finishes collecting Lynn Johnston's comic strip masterpiece. A fire at Michael and Deanna's apartment building leaves their family without a place to stay, but this coincides with John's retirement and desire to downsize

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[aprilp_katje]

So this means that Lynn has written every comment she will ever write, for the remaining run of the strip. I feel a bit sad about that. By the time they run, if she was making any "current" references (about herself or the world), they will be wildly out of date, I expect.

Also, I wonder if she wrote any comments about the "new run" discontinuities. "Oops, I introduced Richard before he was actually born and made Christopher older than he was supposed to be!"

[howtheduck]

That would be great if she did. Finding out might actually motivate me to buy this one. For some reason, I suspect when they get to the end of the current run of reprints, they will not use the new-runs.

[aprilp_katje]

For some reason, I suspect when they get to the end of the current run of reprints, they will not use the new-runs.

That's my expectation, too.

[howtheduck]

I also wonder if the syndicate will even be able to sell the comic strip for another round of reprints in 13 years. I also wonder how quickly Kate will try to market a new version of the comic strip once Lynn gives her the rights.

[dreadedcandiru2]

At least we won't have to end the strip with a tie-in to that idiotic Allotobotz mess. That was my chief concern.

[howtheduck]

As long as they are not publishing the Allotobotz, then you are pretty safe there.

[dreadedcandiru2]

What bothers me is the number of people out there who just swallow the 'without a place to stay' bilge without really understanding things. It's not as if Mike and Deanna had no options. They just had no options that they liked or that John could exploit. One must remember that John wanted the Tiny Train House long before the fire in Lovey's Barn-Like Deathtrap Of Happiness; this would require John to find a different means of calling April a spoiled child who wants to be parade around like Lady Much because she's an obstacle to his being a doorknob screwing everyone else over to play with toys.

[howtheduck]

What bothers me is the number of people out there who just swallow the 'without a place to stay' bilge without really understanding things. It's not as if Mike and Deanna had no options.

It appears that the editor, Kurtis Findlay, has swallowed it too.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Which means that he's flattering her to get on her good side.

[howtheduck]

While that may be true. when it came to the Lawrence edition of the Library, Kurtiss did take my advice and stayed far away from Lynn's stories about Michael Vadeboncoeur, so he has clearly gotten better about when to believe and flatter and when not to.