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Title: Zombie FOOB rises from its icy Canadian grave; cannot be killed
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 15, 2008, 08:46:55 PM: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-forbetter15-2008aug15,0,3657555.story

'For Better or for Worse' creator Lynn Johnston not retiring after all

The creator of the popular comic strip “For Better or for Worse” has had a change of heart -- literally and figuratively -- and won't be retiring after all. Lynn Johnston announced Wednesday that, beginning Sept. 1, "For Better or for Worse" will be retold in a blending of repeat and new comic strips.

Not long ago, Johnston, 61, had planned to retire this year and offer mostly reruns of her 29-year-old comic strip. But her life changed when her husband fell in love with another woman and the couple divorced. "At this time in my life, I thought I would be on a cruise ship to Panama or the Mediterranean, retired with my Tilley hats, my sneakers. But I'm a single lady now, and I want to keep working," she said in a video posted on You Tube.

Come September, Johnston said, "For Better or for Worse" will be a 50-50 mix of old and new comics, but the new comics will be drawn in what she called a "retro" style.

"I want it to flow into the classic material seamlessly," she said.

For the last year, "For Better or for Worse" has switched back and forth between old and new stories, but Johnston said "that became very confusing. Some people really enjoyed it, and some just wanted us to get on with the story."

Johnston will select material from her collection of almost 10,000 archival strips to help retell the Patterson family's story, starting at the beginning. She said she will revert to her earlier drawing style: "Over the years, Elly's nose grew up to the size of a potato. Now I'm drawing it smaller again, the way it was when I first started to draw. There is a huge difference between the earlier and the later styles."

"For Better or for Worse" runs in The Times and more than 2,000 other papers around the world.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 08:49:08 PM: This is like the 3rd year in a row she has pulled this shit. What a whore.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 15, 2008, 08:49:40 PM: she's like the Jay-Z of maudlin Canadian soap strips
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 08:50:43 PM: I like how her whole life fell apart what with the divorce, so now she has to relive her glory days by redoing her whole comic strip.
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 15, 2008, 08:52:21 PM: Dammit.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 08:53:08 PM: I gotta see how the goons are taking this. They hate/love Lynn.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 08:53:41 PM: [youtube=425,350]iUzkOxgmmc4[/youtube].
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 15, 2008, 08:55:51 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 15, 2008, 08:50:43 PM
I like how her whole life fell apart what with the divorce, so now she has to relive her glory days by redoing her whole comic strip.

yeah, she's absolutely a mad god who is recreating in fiction her ideal life, and it is stifling and terrible
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 09:03:14 PM: I forgot how awesome the photoshops are

(http://i35.tinypic.com/qq7bkk.jpg)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on August 15, 2008, 09:09:34 PM: For Better or for Worse: Special Edition

April shoots first, and there's a new CGI Farley.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 09:11:58 PM: This one is awesome

(http://i34.tinypic.com/4vfdae.jpg)
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 15, 2008, 09:22:50 PM: :lol
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 09:25:31 PM: (http://i37.tinypic.com/35bxmw0.jpg)
Title: Re: Zombie FOOB rises from its icy Canadian grave; cannot be killed
Post by: Flannel Boy on August 15, 2008, 09:25:39 PM: Canadians inflict so much misery on the world. :cancry
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 15, 2008, 09:26:51 PM: elizabeth is so roadside (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roadside)
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 09:27:44 PM: (http://i38.tinypic.com/35d12br.jpg)
Title: Re: Zombie FOOB rises from its icy Canadian grave; cannot be killed
Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 09:45:14 PM: (http://i37.tinypic.com/330w5zd.jpg)
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Post by: TVC15 on August 15, 2008, 09:57:31 PM: Alright, last one since I only find them funny, but this is my favorite:

(http://i38.tinypic.com/wh1rfk.png)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 15, 2008, 10:16:30 PM: My favorite FOOB comic was where their house caught on fire and then it ended with the private thoughts of one of the firemen. Made for some great photoshops, as I recall.
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Post by: bork on August 15, 2008, 10:30:07 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 15, 2008, 09:57:31 PM
Alright, last one since I only find them funny, but this is my favorite:

(http://i38.tinypic.com/wh1rfk.png)

Sorry, is this unaltered? I can't tell. :lol
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 16, 2008, 01:06:48 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 15, 2008, 09:57:31 PM
Alright, last one since I only find them funny, but this is my favorite:

(http://i38.tinypic.com/wh1rfk.png)
:lol These are great.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 16, 2008, 01:30:18 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 15, 2008, 09:25:31 PM
(http://i37.tinypic.com/35bxmw0.jpg)

:lol :lol so awesome.
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Post by: Crushed on August 16, 2008, 11:20:23 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 15, 2008, 10:16:30 PM
My favorite FOOB comic was where their house caught on fire and then it ended with the private thoughts of one of the firemen. Made for some great photoshops, as I recall.

SOME THINGS JUST AREN'T WORTH DYING FOR
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Post by: Crushed on August 16, 2008, 11:43:40 AM: Grandpa Jim's war flashbacks (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2834761&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=130#post347813727)

PS: THE GRANDFATHER JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK RIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING :lol
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 16, 2008, 11:47:35 AM: Quote from: Crushed on August 16, 2008, 11:20:23 AM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 15, 2008, 10:16:30 PM
My favorite FOOB comic was where their house caught on fire and then it ended with the private thoughts of one of the firemen. Made for some great photoshops, as I recall.

SOME THINGS JUST AREN'T WORTH DYING FOR

That's the one!
Title: Re: Zombie FOOB rises from its icy Canadian grave; cannot be killed
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 16, 2008, 01:10:29 PM: edit: fuck sa imagehosting

also, why is lynn mad at michael?
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 16, 2008, 01:16:28 PM: these are great, but in reality i feel kinda sorry for the lady
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 16, 2008, 01:22:17 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on August 16, 2008, 01:16:28 PM
these are great, but in reality i feel kinda sorry for the lady

There's nothing wrong with feeling sorry for the mentally handicapped.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 16, 2008, 01:25:20 PM: these will ease your troubled heart, eel:

(http://i34.tinypic.com/2jac49j.jpg)

(http://i38.tinypic.com/166bord.jpg)
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 16, 2008, 01:28:39 PM: hahaha
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Post by: jiji on August 16, 2008, 05:00:20 PM: (http://i33.tinypic.com/se5dft.jpg)
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Post by: TVC15 on August 16, 2008, 05:08:22 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on August 16, 2008, 01:10:29 PM
edit: fuck sa imagehosting

also, why is lynn mad at michael?

Lynn is estranged from her son that Michael is based on. You can get some of the details in the thread. I guess the real life Michael was a photographer for a newspaper or something, and he took a picture of a car accident. Then he realized he knew the person in the crash, and the person ended up dying. Lynn borrowed the real life story for FOOB strips, instead making the woman in the crash survive and having her date Michael.

:bow Lio :bow2

Also, The Comic Strip Megathread is my favorite thing at SA.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 16, 2008, 05:33:32 PM: why did this piss off lynn?
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Post by: TVC15 on August 16, 2008, 05:39:23 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on August 16, 2008, 05:33:32 PM
why did this piss off lynn?

I don't think it pissed her off more than it just upset her. He stopped having a relationship with his mom, and she got bummed about it, and in the comic she turned him into a successful novelist and what not. She just idealized him.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 16, 2008, 05:58:34 PM: May as well put today's up. Grandpa Jim has had his like 3rd heart attack/stroke/whatever on the day of Liz and Blanthony's wedding, OH NO.

(http://i36.tinypic.com/10gefy1.gif)

WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN! We only have like 15 FOOBs left before what I am dubbing the FOOBIG BANG of the FOOBiverse.
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Post by: Yeti on August 17, 2008, 12:06:51 PM: Grandpa Jim might as well pack his bags and move to the Funky Winkerbean universe at this point.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on August 17, 2008, 06:56:15 PM: On that SA thread, it said that the rewritten comics are mostly to trash the male characters.

Is this true or speculation?
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Post by: TVC15 on August 17, 2008, 06:58:38 PM: Quote from: The Experiment on August 17, 2008, 06:56:15 PM
On that SA thread, it said that the rewritten comics are mostly to trash the male characters.

Is this true or speculation?

Well, they haven't started doing the Zombie FOOB yet. The past year it's been like 50% new strips (dealing with the Liz/Blanthony wedding) and classic strips selected by Lynn. She has shown something of a pattern of picking strips that make the husband look distinguished mentally-challenged, though.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on August 17, 2008, 09:39:28 PM: :rofl
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Post by: TVC15 on August 19, 2008, 02:22:08 AM: (http://i37.tinypic.com/s6u2ya.gif)

If that's not the kiss of death for Grandpa Jim, I dunno what is.
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Post by: Himu on August 19, 2008, 02:26:25 AM: she always does this shit
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Post by: TVC15 on August 19, 2008, 02:27:23 AM: Quote from: Himuro on August 19, 2008, 02:26:25 AM
she always does this shit

I'm sure you'd still have no issue filling up Lynn's dusty spider cranny, though.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/szcrbs.jpg)

"Put it in the hole, Himumu"
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 19, 2008, 02:38:52 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 19, 2008, 02:22:08 AM
(http://i37.tinypic.com/s6u2ya.gif)

If that's not the kiss of death for Grandpa Jim, I dunno what is.

she's gonna kill him mercy-angel style
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Post by: chronovore on August 19, 2008, 11:47:48 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 15, 2008, 08:49:40 PM
she's like the Jay-Z of maudlin Canadian soap strips

30 seconds of uninterrupted LOLzorz. I kid you not.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on August 19, 2008, 05:54:55 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 19, 2008, 02:27:23 AM
Quote from: Himuro on August 19, 2008, 02:26:25 AM
she always does this shit

I'm sure you'd still have no issue filling up Lynn's dusty spider cranny, though.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/szcrbs.jpg)

"Put it in the hole, Himumu"

Her lazy eye and asymmetrical face creeps me out.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 20, 2008, 03:10:07 AM: (http://i37.tinypic.com/nbsm5i.gif)

Jesus, I think Lynn had a stroke while writing this strip. When I saw this on SA earlier, I just assumed it was a 'shop.
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 20, 2008, 03:15:35 AM: What the fuuuuuck?
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Post by: Joe Molotov on August 20, 2008, 03:16:05 AM: :hurr
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on August 20, 2008, 03:17:04 AM: OOP!

ERP?
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 20, 2008, 03:01:48 PM: ???
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on August 20, 2008, 06:25:27 PM: She is really distraught from her divorce.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on August 20, 2008, 09:42:17 PM: (http://i34.tinypic.com/28wfu0.gif)
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 20, 2008, 10:02:55 PM: I put "stousins" into Google and there were only 4 sites that came up and all of them were sites talking about the FBOFW comic.

Nuke Canada from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
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Post by: Positive Touch on August 20, 2008, 10:07:43 PM: seems like it's on par with most of the FOOBs i've read
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on August 20, 2008, 10:55:11 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 20, 2008, 10:02:55 PM
I put "stousins" into Google and there were only 4 sites that came up and all of them were sites talking about the FBOFW comic.

Nuke Canada from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

I had to run a search and what the fuck is this shit:

http://aprilsrealblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/cliffhanger.html?showComment=1219241520000
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 20, 2008, 11:59:39 PM: Quote from: The Experiment on August 20, 2008, 10:55:11 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 20, 2008, 10:02:55 PM
I put "stousins" into Google and there were only 4 sites that came up and all of them were sites talking about the FBOFW comic.

Nuke Canada from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

I had to run a search and what the fuck is this shit:

http://aprilsrealblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/cliffhanger.html?showComment=1219241520000

Some things are best left unsolved.
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Post by: TVC15 on August 21, 2008, 04:53:30 AM: This strip is almost completely unremarkable except for. . .

(http://i33.tinypic.com/2n0jzlu.gif)

FOB! FOB! FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB! FOOB!
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Post by: Crushed on August 22, 2008, 01:33:08 AM: (http://i38.tinypic.com/nqeo75.gif)

ha ha, let's make jokes about the grandpa dying on his granddaughter's wedding day
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Post by: Himu on August 22, 2008, 01:41:01 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 15, 2008, 09:57:31 PM
Alright, last one since I only find them funny, but this is my favorite:

(http://i38.tinypic.com/wh1rfk.png)

:lol :lol
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Post by: Himu on August 22, 2008, 01:46:58 AM: Quote from: TVC 15 on August 19, 2008, 02:27:23 AM
Quote from: Himuro on August 19, 2008, 02:26:25 AM
she always does this shit

I'm sure you'd still have no issue filling up Lynn's dusty spider cranny, though.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/szcrbs.jpg)

"Put it in the hole, Himumu"

Look at those eyes.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on August 22, 2008, 08:04:11 AM: Quote from: Crushed on August 22, 2008, 01:33:08 AM
(http://i38.tinypic.com/nqeo75.gif)

ha ha, let's make jokes about the grandpa dying on his granddaughter's wedding day

"Today's a great day! ...for being sad."
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Post by: TVC15 on August 23, 2008, 03:56:32 AM: (http://i38.tinypic.com/eproqu.gif)

I guess Sunday is the wedding day, then. I figured she'd milk a week's worth of wedding day strips. If the wedding is tomorrow, that gives Grandpa Jim a whole like 7 strips to die off.
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Post by: Yeti on August 24, 2008, 12:02:09 AM: I hope for Sunday's strip the second to last panel is elizabeth saying "I do!" and then the last panel is Grandpa Jim, with his EKG flatlining.

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:'(
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