Is this the Juno thread?

I saw this on Saturday. I don't want to hate on it too much because Diablo Cody posts on the same forum I do where we make fun of For Better or Worse. I will overlook clunky dialogue from anyone who hates Anthony Caine.

OMG yr on a FOOB-hater forum! Mad respect. (I'm not but the 'stache is still le crepe even post-shave.)

By hater I mean "one whose nostalgia and love of the once-quality Canuck comic is kind of being curdled & spoiled by the boring adult lives of Michael & especially Liz'a suitors," as well you know.

There is nothing Lynn Johnston could do to make that guy attractive physically or otherwise.

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What about he gets hit by a van and dies ala Brad Pitt in "Meet Joe Black"?

Even then...

Is Mr. Comics Curmudgeon still the premiere FOOB hater location?

It has been pretty intermittent, but I don't read the comments bcz they are a world of intimidation to me.

Abbott otm.

I get so confused by that strip on rare occasions when I look at it nowadays. With the exception of the original parents, I get confused as to who is family and who is not (e.g., there was a strip I saw around Xmas where I couldn't tell if the characters were siblings or significant others!) and I'm getting mixed-up with the whole generational thing in general.

That being said, despite any haters, I have mad respect for her for penning a strip for so long that actually tries to show character's life trajectories instead of freezing them in time...plus I am probably weird brand of Canadian-phile or something...

I just stopped paying any attention to the damn thing when Michael met...um...what's her name again. The one he got married to. (I vaguely remember that she had some crabby mom who wanted a snooty wedding, and I concluded that in retrospect it was probably all downhill when Farley died.)

"one whose nostalgia and love of the once-quality Canuck comic is kind of being curdled & spoiled by the boring adult lives of Michael & especially Liz'a suitors,"

Wow, this really nails it. Dell's right re: life trajectories but I tend to think Doonesbury did it better in the end, surely, even allowing for the relative glibness in comparison. In fact that might be the whole point! (Not to mention the sheer amusement in how Trudeau basically said 'Fuck it' with the title character and rebooted him fully in Seattle from New York in the blink of an eye.)

I concluded that in retrospect it was probably all downhill when Farley died

holy loooool

Seriously, I don't think I cared about anything after that! Forget the people, just give me a 'Farley chases rabbits in heaven and gets a goofy look on his face' strip!

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hmmm, yeah. I have never followed Doonesbury, so I can't comment on that, though, grand "fuck it" gestures in general by popular artists are usually pretty worthwhile on some level, I find, so, cool.

Also, I am not putting down the static time-frames of other comics; at best that is brilliant in its own (ironically, I guess it could be said) timeworn tradition, but, that was one of the things that I always appreciated about FBoW, esp. considering that it was not a political or soap-opera-ish strip. Well, okay, it was soap-opera-ish, but not in the sense that Apartment 3-G or Mary Worth were/are...

Well in that respect one of its forebears might be something like Gasoline Alley, which similarly charted life-courses and did so in a vein that (from what I know of it) is neither political as such nor soap-opera like. Isn't it still going?

Actually I think it is weird that the reincarnation of Gasoline Alley is static w/its characters' ages whereas the original really stood alone for its aging/developing characters.

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N., I'm sure you realize this, but that's heading dangerously into Bil Keane territory. "Who puked on the coffee table?" (cue to impish-looking ghost of Barfy)

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There is a redrawn Gasoline Alley and while it is awesomely bonkers, it is set in contemporary times and is as static as "Dennis the Menace"

I have never actually seen Barfy barf.

Hahaha. (Although now I'm envisioning a huge evil ghost of Farley coming back and wreaking havoc and killing people for some reason.)

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Intersting. I know jackall about Gasoline Alley, other than the fact that it was an "important" comic...

It could only be an improvement. xp

The Hound of the Pattersons

"They were the footsteps of a gigantic MUTT!"

Barfy vs Farley, played out among Okefenokee Swamp.

Gotta be better than that late eighties Pogo revive.

(Although that thing did have one moment of glory -- a spot on parody of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns in a Sunday strip around when the first Burton Batman surfaced. But that's it.)

So, it's something like old bands reforming in desperate bids to relive glory days, or...ILX thread revives. Time making a mockery of us all, etc.

gasoline alley was an amazing strip in its day. check out the huge beautiful sunday pages that drawn & quarterly reprinted a few years ago - a major influence on chris ware.

FBOW (or is it FBOFW?) has been as boring as dirt for as long as i've been reading it. "hi and lois" has more human interest.

OUCH!

JUNO Thread -> FOOB Thread? Classic.

FOOB has some things going for it tho. Like at least they don't do golf jokes.

Holy shit, For Better or for Worse is still running?

Yes, and the big storyline as of late involves Michael divorcing some woman/tart who tried to bust her way into the CFL.

Wait, what?

I brunched in the same restaurant with Lynn Johnston on the eve of Christmas Eve this past year. I tried not to stare.

For Better Or For Worse - C/D?

what the hell happened to this thread?! BOXCAR!

Juno soundtrack out next week.

In terms both of genuine quality and ridiculous soapopera lolz FBOFW <<<< Funky Winkerbean

It's like comparing father to son to holy ghost, really. I haven't read every single back copy of FW: was it always so fucking bleak?

I can't keep track of who's who in Funky now that they're all ten years older.

Funky looks like he's about 60 now, raising another man's kid, and I don't know if he even lives in Ohio anymore. Shit's fucked

I was gonna say I thought Funky was all marching band jokes and light hearted fun until they jumped ten years into the future for the first time but then I remembered the teenage pregnancy storyline was back then...nothing compared to the cancer/alcoholism/divorce/cancer/helicopter shootdown/land mine/cancer/car bomb/hostage situation/death clusterfuck of the past few years tho

come back, Juno, all is forgiven.

btw, Alex in SF; what about Dem Congress passing Bush's "abstinence only" educ funding with nary a peep?

i don't know how i feel abt this movie

playing on the radio right now is finland metal band norther's version of 'the final countdown'. maybe i will let that stand in for my opinions right now.

I'm seeing this tonight. I haven't read any posts (in case of spoilers, y'know), but when I do tonight, I hope they're all thought-provoking and shit.

i was glad to see a movie about a teenage girl who is interested in things and has a personality w/o being old guy jerkoff fantasy

Except she is, kind of.

um, except that this movie was written by a woman.

Just got back from watching this. Totally loved it, so I guess I'm some corny indie rock douchebag.