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For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library #3
For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library Vol. 3
No phone, no light, no motor car, not a single luxury—John and Phil's canoe trip turns them into castaways on an island! Once back in civilization, John solves his mid-life crisis by buying a sportscar, and Elly improbably winds up in front of a judge as a result! Michael enters junior high school, but not before learning a different sort of life lesson at summer camp with a girl named Martha, while Liz loses her first tooth, gets her ears pierced, and finds herself in a "Mean Girls" situation with her friends at school. Then it's wedding bells for Uncle Phil, and Lawrence moves back to town–with a new family of his own! Volume Three, which collects the complete daily and Sunday comics from July 6, 1986 through December 9, 1989, brings to a close the first decade of Lynn Johnston's modern masterwork, but of course, the story is just getting started...
- GenresComicsHumorComic Strips
549 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2019
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Lynn Johnston
144 books134 followersLynn Johnston CM OM is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, and was the first female cartoonist to win the Reuben Award.
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October 10, 2019
In this volume, the Pattersons are dealing with the kids growing up while Elly and John are getting "older".
There's so much going on in this three year stretch that it doesn't quite seem fair to single out separate examples at the expense of others.
As I've said with the other two books in this series, For Better or For Worse is the best comic strip I've read and going back through their daily life adventures is always a welcome treat for me. The series is timeless to me.
(It should be noted that I read this in hardcover print form, not the Kindle version but this appears to be the only edition listed on Goodreads.)
There's so much going on in this three year stretch that it doesn't quite seem fair to single out separate examples at the expense of others.
As I've said with the other two books in this series, For Better or For Worse is the best comic strip I've read and going back through their daily life adventures is always a welcome treat for me. The series is timeless to me.
(It should be noted that I read this in hardcover print form, not the Kindle version but this appears to be the only edition listed on Goodreads.)
March 12, 2022
I developed a love for newspaper comic strips as a kid reading whatever newspapers I could get my hands on and then following the logical path to Calvin & Hobbes.
It's probably misguided, but I genuinely feel like I'm doing everyone a service by buying up collections like these, Foxtrot, C&H, Baby Blues, Peanuts, etc. etc. etc. It strikes me as completely backward that newspaper companies would look at their flailing businesses, say that anyone can get news from anywhere now, and not try to capitalize on the one thing in the newspaper that's harder to get in one collected and curated spot, which is the comics.
Instead, they doubled down on the news anyone could get anywhere and reduced the amount of comics offered.
They're practically endangered at this point.
So yeah, I snatch them up whenever I can and I have a very soft spot in my heart for For Better or For Worse, mostly because the family ages right next to us. I like the grounded tone of the strip. It's very calming.
But I will say that if you're the type to collect these, you have to hit fast because it seems like the printings are limited and then the price goes WAY up.
It's probably misguided, but I genuinely feel like I'm doing everyone a service by buying up collections like these, Foxtrot, C&H, Baby Blues, Peanuts, etc. etc. etc. It strikes me as completely backward that newspaper companies would look at their flailing businesses, say that anyone can get news from anywhere now, and not try to capitalize on the one thing in the newspaper that's harder to get in one collected and curated spot, which is the comics.
Instead, they doubled down on the news anyone could get anywhere and reduced the amount of comics offered.
They're practically endangered at this point.
So yeah, I snatch them up whenever I can and I have a very soft spot in my heart for For Better or For Worse, mostly because the family ages right next to us. I like the grounded tone of the strip. It's very calming.
But I will say that if you're the type to collect these, you have to hit fast because it seems like the printings are limited and then the price goes WAY up.
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