As It Begins, So It Ends
I didn’t really look at this sequence in For Better or For Worse the proper way until I remembered this strip:
http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002308.php
has the same joke that we have in tomorrow’s strip, i.e. a woman is exasperated with a man.
Interestingly enough in that strip, Dr. John Patterson also acts oddly as he does tomorrow with his P.M.S. joke. He starts off with an interesting sentence, which is “Now that Howard’s been sentenced, you can get on with your life….move forward!” Is Lynn Johnston actually trying to tell us that the Lovepocalypse is actually due to Howard Bunt?
http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002308.php
has the same joke that we have in tomorrow’s strip, i.e. a woman is exasperated with a man.
Interestingly enough in that strip, Dr. John Patterson also acts oddly as he does tomorrow with his P.M.S. joke. He starts off with an interesting sentence, which is “Now that Howard’s been sentenced, you can get on with your life….move forward!” Is Lynn Johnston actually trying to tell us that the Lovepocalypse is actually due to Howard Bunt?
posted by howard at 11:39 PM
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And another curious element is April knowing that Liz's problem is "men." There could have been any number of other causes for Liz's thump-a-licious behavior, but April immediately (and correctly) leaps to the conclusion that Liz is having man trouble? Is this the essence of Liz?
These days it is. She has always been portrayed as a teacher, with what Lynn Johnston considers to be good teaching skills, much in the same way she tries to portray Mike as a good writer and April as a good song writer. However in Mtigwaki, you got to see Liz interacting with the community, which is something completely missing from hide-in-her-room Liz. If we got to see Liz interacting with her students' parents or at school assemblies or talking to other teachers and making new friends, we would get a different impression of her. As she is now, she is irrational and insane for comedic effect, much like the way Elly has been portrayed for years. Lynn Johnston has always felt a woman screaming out loud in frustration is funny, whereas I have always thought those were her worst strips.
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