Lawrence Lives in a New Article
New Article
Most of the article involving Lynn Johnston rehashes her 1993 “Lawrence coming out” strip. However there was one part involving modern For Better or For Worse I found interesting:
The good news is that Lawrence will be returning for a final appearance on For Better Or For Worse, before Johnston goes into partial retirement on September 29th, turning the strip into a “hybrid” of new strips and reworked older ones. “Lawrence has to do the flowers” for Elizabeth’s wedding, Johnston says, noting that he and his partner Nick run a landscaping business.
If true, this will be Lawrence’s first appearance in the strip where someone refers to him by name, since helping Mike to change apartments back in 2005. It also sets the stage for other For Better or For Worse characters to make contributions to Liz and Anthony’s wedding. Lawrence Poirier provides the flowers. Anne Nichols provides the catering. Josef Weeder does the photography. Maybe even Elly and Connie Poirier get together and sew up the bridesmaids’ dresses. Mike writes up the service. April does the baby-sitting, naturally.
More interesting to me is the way the strip change in September is now described. It is not described as it was back in the February 21, 2008 Chicago Tribune article:
Start from the beginning again, rerunning the old strips – but tinkering with some to “augment” or “fix some of the stuff”.
I could interpret “’hybrid’ of new strips and reworked older ones” that way; but I could also define that as what we have currently, especially since the word “hybrid” has been used again. The other thing which has changed is that ending date of “by September” is now essentially “by the end of September”.
As is usual with For Better or For Worse publicity statements, the only way to know for sure what will happen on September 29th, is to see what happens. If Lynn Johnston operates the way she has been operating, then we can expect some more publicity statements just as confusing as this one, with more changes to the way things are going to end if, in fact, they are going to end at all.
Most of the article involving Lynn Johnston rehashes her 1993 “Lawrence coming out” strip. However there was one part involving modern For Better or For Worse I found interesting:
The good news is that Lawrence will be returning for a final appearance on For Better Or For Worse, before Johnston goes into partial retirement on September 29th, turning the strip into a “hybrid” of new strips and reworked older ones. “Lawrence has to do the flowers” for Elizabeth’s wedding, Johnston says, noting that he and his partner Nick run a landscaping business.
If true, this will be Lawrence’s first appearance in the strip where someone refers to him by name, since helping Mike to change apartments back in 2005. It also sets the stage for other For Better or For Worse characters to make contributions to Liz and Anthony’s wedding. Lawrence Poirier provides the flowers. Anne Nichols provides the catering. Josef Weeder does the photography. Maybe even Elly and Connie Poirier get together and sew up the bridesmaids’ dresses. Mike writes up the service. April does the baby-sitting, naturally.
More interesting to me is the way the strip change in September is now described. It is not described as it was back in the February 21, 2008 Chicago Tribune article:
Start from the beginning again, rerunning the old strips – but tinkering with some to “augment” or “fix some of the stuff”.
I could interpret “’hybrid’ of new strips and reworked older ones” that way; but I could also define that as what we have currently, especially since the word “hybrid” has been used again. The other thing which has changed is that ending date of “by September” is now essentially “by the end of September”.
As is usual with For Better or For Worse publicity statements, the only way to know for sure what will happen on September 29th, is to see what happens. If Lynn Johnston operates the way she has been operating, then we can expect some more publicity statements just as confusing as this one, with more changes to the way things are going to end if, in fact, they are going to end at all.
posted by howard at 3:56 PM
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howard:
As is usual with For Better or For Worse publicity statements, the only way to know for sure what will happen on September 29th, is to see what happens. If Lynn Johnston operates the way she has been operating, then we can expect some more publicity statements just as confusing as this one, with more changes to the way things are going to end if, in fact, they are going to end at all.
That's for sure. We could well see this September be a repeat of last September with Lynn giving her fans yet another flimsy excuse as to why she has to keep the plot going. We'll just have to see what happens.
dreadedcandiru2
We could well see this September be a repeat of last September with Lynn giving her fans yet another flimsy excuse as to why she has to keep the plot going.
It will be real test for Lynn to see if she can let this thing go.
jiWell, once the wedding is done she really should give up. Essentially, that is the only thing that keeps the vast majority of readers still trudging through this mess.
Really, I don't find hardly any supporters of the old strips, even among her most mindless devotees. And she is really going to have to do lots of "tinkering" to try and get the old ones to hold up. Her themes of poor-down-trodden-dependent-housewife has been done to death and she hasn't been able to develop likeable characters in years.
debjyn,
And she is really going to have to do lots of "tinkering" to try and get the old ones to hold up. Her themes of poor-down-trodden-dependent-housewife have been done to death and she hasn't been able to develop likeable characters in years.
True enough. The reprints used so far have been bad enough. They would be difficult to take, if they were done all the time. Unlike her mentor, Charles Schulz’s work, For Better or For Worse has proved not to age well.
Lynn Johnston: "She wants to take her time."
:p
Why the hell would you hire a landscaper to do the flowers at a wedding? What are they going to have at the church, an arrangement of Alberta Spruce in some mulch with a brick border?
James,
Why the hell would you hire a landscaper to do the flowers at a wedding?
I think it has something to do with Lynn's apparent belief that gay men are naturally good with flowers.
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