Aided by his father-in-law, Mike’s made a major step forward in dealing with his mother-in-law.
Good for him!
Isn’t the author supposed to be wrapping up the series soon?
It’s about freakin’ time.
I’d buy his FIL a beer if he weren’t a fictional character.
According to this article (which appears to be a couple of years old, as it says Michael is “soon to be a parent” and implies “for the first time”), Lynn Johnston will wind up FBOFW “within the next five years.”
Did it ever strike you that the family in this strip is a little too perfect?
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy it, but I’ve never met a family without a black sheep or two.
Yes, I know it’s fiction.
It’s a cute series, and I’ll be sad to see it go. Very few comic strips manage to be touching and funny, and many of the newer ones (in my local paper, that is) leave me scratching my head trying to figure out what they’re getting at.
In this chat transcript, Lynn Johnston says she has three years left on her contract with Universal Press Syndicate, and she plans “to stop the storyline, like the way you would end a novel…”
Well, just so the novel ain’t North Dallas Forty.
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The author of this strip wants to end it before it stops being unfunny… :rolleyes:
The Schulz estate should take the hint.
Eh, I don’t think just being funny is really the point. It’s a soap opera with punchlines, not that that’s necessarily a bad thing.
Y’know, I know many families just like this. Parents stayed married, kids never got into drugs, dropped out of school, etc. I know many families with “issues” as well, but families like the Patterson’s are not fiction, nor even rare.
Besides, April is about hit high school, and is about to kick loose. She’ll wind up with multiple piercings, Goth attire, and pregnant by her sophmore year.
I’m not sure about April, but that friend of hers that she had to go to the special classes at high school with…I could see her pregnant she becomes a freshman.
I forgot the girl’s name. That shallow one that made fun of the special needs students for being too weird.
Becky. She reminds me of Candace when Candace was that age.
Yeesh…
I remember reading that strip LONG ago. My earliest recollection was Elizabeth at an age when she was learning to talk. She used to refer to herself as “Nizzie”.