For Better or For Worse ...

So I'm a big fan of the comic strip "For Better or For Worse." The strip follows The Patterson family, who live in Canada, and is inked by Lynn Johnston.

So for years, we've watched character Elizabeth Patterson grow up, go to college and eventually become a teacher.

Her evolution has included several heartbreaks, and beaus have come and gone. Two cheated on her, and the rest have fizzled.

Now, Johnston has reintroduced an old high school boyfriend, Anthony Caine.



He's always carried a torch for Liz, even throughout his now-failed marriage. He even asked her to "wait" for him while he was still married. His wife, Therése, was always jealous of his past relationships (and apparently rightly so). She eventually left him a single dad raising a daughter. Ugh.

WIth all that said -- Lynn, did you really have to get them back together? I mean, I know ya shaved off his creepy moustache and cut his hair (both of which made him look like a child molester driving around a dingy ice cream truck with a sound system that blares "Jingle Bells" in August), but couldn't we have had somebody new?

Such is the case when you're retiring, I guess. Gotta wrap things up real quick.

I know, I know -- I refuse to watch soap operas and this is basically the same thing. But at least this is art.