The Journal Star is getting ready to celebrate the ending of the For Better or For Worse comic strip, so they’re asking readers for their thoughts on it. Just one thing: the strip isn’t ending. Contrary to the PJStar’s statement that “its final, new-content installment” will be August 30, FBOFW creator Lynn Johnston has decided to keep adding new content after all, according to her website and the L. A. Times:
Calling the next phase of her comic strips “new-runs,” Lynn Johnston announced that beginning Monday, Sept. 1, her immensely popular “For Better or For Worse” will start over again. Using new comic strips drawn in the style she used 29 years ago when the Patterson family first appeared on comic pages, Johnston will begin retelling their story from the beginning, eventually blending at least half of the classic original comic strips with new material.
Not long ago, Johnston, 61, had planned to retire this year and offer mostly reruns of her 29-year-old comic strip. But her life changed when her husband fell in love with another woman and the couple divorced. “At this time in my life, I thought I would be on a cruise ship to Panama or the Mediterranean, retired with my Tilley hats, my sneakers. But I’m a single lady now, and I want to keep working,” she said in a video posted on You Tube.
Not that I care. I’m not a fan of FBOFW. I’m still waiting for Bill Watterson to come out of retirement.
