# For Better or For Worse 6/12 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861 "2007-06-13T15:26:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/21 "2007-06-14T17:00:43Z")
[The Comics Curmudgeon](http://joshreads.com/) has started “Team Julia” in support of this new character. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/22 "2007-06-14T17:01:14Z")
I read this strip online about every couple of weeks. It’s sort of addictive. That said, unless Liz is getting gangbanged soon then I’m out. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/23 "2007-06-14T17:18:51Z")
[QUOTE=Lochdale] I read this strip online about every couple of weeks. It’s sort of addictive. That said, unless Liz is getting gangbanged soon then I’m out. [/QUOTE] That’s an, uh, interesting mental picture. Of course, given the nature of the Net, I’m pretty sure there’s an actual picture of it out there somewhere. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind Liz being such a man magnet if there would just be something shown that would make you believe it …looks, personality, _something_. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/24 "2007-06-14T19:13:36Z")
Today’s _Something Positive_ webcomic has an interesting take on _For Better or For Worse_: [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp06122007.shtml](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp06122007.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/25 "2007-06-14T21:46:47Z")
Hey, Thought-Balloon Boy in panel four! Have you noticed your date hasn’t got a fucking _drink_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/26 "2007-06-14T21:55:47Z")
If Liz treated men better, perhaps she wouldn’t be such a fuck-up. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/27 "2007-06-14T22:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] Hey, Thought-Balloon Boy in panel four! Have you noticed your date hasn’t got a fucking _drink_ yet? [/QUOTE] “The Squat Gauche One must get her own drink; I must buff the fair Elizabeth’s shoes with my hair!” ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/28 "2007-06-15T03:24:04Z")
Has anyone e-mailed Johnston and told her how blowful her work has become? ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/29 "2007-06-15T03:52:29Z")
Poor Julia. She has a sense of humor. Fatal. Totally fatal. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/30 "2007-06-15T05:42:25Z")
[QUOTE=Rhiannon8404] So he’s shaved his porn star mustache, gotton contact lenses [/QUOTE] Look again. He’s still got the glasses but they’re minimized to near-invisibility. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/31 "2007-06-15T19:06:09Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Look again. He’s still got the glasses but they’re minimized to near-invisibility. [/QUOTE] [From today’s strip](http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002494.php). > [@](#): > > Anthony looks so different! He’s shaved off his mustache and changed his glasses. > > He looks like the Anthony I remember. He looks like the boy I used to date; the one I’ve always cared for. What a surprise! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/32 "2007-06-15T19:14:31Z")
OTOH, Mason just swept her off her feet, literally. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/33 "2007-06-15T19:19:21Z")
[QUOTE=liberty3701] [The Comics Curmudgeon](http://joshreads.com/) has started “Team Julia” in support of this new character. [/QUOTE] I thought this was a pretty neat site, until I scrolled down and realized he’d never heard of hippity hops! (I used to LOVE mine! Was surprised to see they still make them.) ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/34 "2007-06-15T19:20:08Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] [From today’s strip](http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002494.php). [/QUOTE] Oh god, I forgot about the creepy blinking eyes. Makes me jump every time. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/35 "2007-06-15T19:25:49Z")
And sometime during the recpetion, the helicopter pilot (I’ve forgotten his name) is going to buzz by the party flying a banner behind his rig sporting some kind of message to Liz… ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b487fb/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef_1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/36 "2007-06-15T22:40:43Z")
The “For Better” years are behind us, and we are smack dab in the middle of “For Worse.” I think Elizabeth has become such a problematic character that Johnston doesn’t know how to write her honestly. Elizabeth is fickle, self-centered, with no direction. As far as I’m concerned she abandoned those poor kids in Mtigwaki. I give marriage to Anthony a year before Elizabeth has an affair. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/37 "2007-06-15T23:13:56Z")
I remember when “For Better of For Worse” was a funny comic strip that made jokes about family situations. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/38 "2007-06-15T23:16:49Z")
[QUOTE=Lochdale] … That said, unless Liz is getting gangbanged soon then I’m out. [/QUOTE] She certainly has enough men ready to help. I think if we ever get through this 9-day wedding, April will get laid pretty soon. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/39 "2007-06-16T01:30:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Anthony looks so different! He’s shaved off his mustache and changed his glasses. > > He looks like the Anthony I remember. He looks like the boy I used to date; the one I’ve always cared for. And thus we see the problem with Liz - The fact that he _grew a mustache_ is apparently what made her stop caring for him. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861/40 "2007-06-16T03:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Labdad] That strip was from '96. [Here’s](http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002425.php) Anthony with the schnozz he had _last month!_ [/QUOTE] Not really related to the question at hand. But I just opened the link above, and did a double take when Anthony and Liz started blinking in the strip. In real freakin’ time. Thought I was losing my mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-better-or-for-worse-6-12/407861.md?page=3)