Canadian Comic Strip For Better of For Worse to continue....
 

but with a twist....

The strip, which runs in over 2,000 papers in North America currently runs in real time. This means that April Patterson, who was born in 1991, is currently 15 years old. However, all will change later this year when everyone will be frozen in time. Do you think this is a good thing? I liked FBorFW because it was different, because everyone got old(er). Freezing them will make the strip just like any other comic strip. Besides, I'd like to see April graduate from high school

Toronto Star article about the strip.

The strip was originally going to end this fall.

THANK YOU! Now if they could just get Liz settled down (and not with Paul, please) I'd be happy.

Meh, it's worked for the Simpsons. Maggie has been a baby for 18 years, and it hasn't hurt that show any.

Bummer! I liked that they aged.

She should just retire. For Better of For Worse was unique in that the characters aged. Even though I haven't read it in years, I still like it for what it was.

I think that it would be difficult to continue aging the family. No one wants to see the parents die, or even grandpa. And how do you follow three families as well as you've followed one?

However I'm not sure that choosing freezing it over ending it is better. Sometimes you should just go out on top (even if I like reading the comics all the time) like Calvin did and Foxtrot has.

That's stupid. If she doesn't want to continue aging them, she should just quit as planned or turn it over to someone else. The whole point of FBOFW is that they DO age and don't just stay still.

I'm sure $$$ has to do with it. Please, Lynn, take a look at the final seasons of Friends, Seinfeld and Roseanne and rethink this decision.

Oh god why couldn't it just be cancelled...

I remember the final episodes of all three of those shows and not fondly!!!!

Big finales are lame. Have a big deal at the last minute Maried...With Children style. They betrayed that show, but it was nice seeing Al give Kelly away in the back yard.

FBoFW....should end with the death of the father, but it won't, because

A: No money and
B: fans don't want it.


Only reason A is acceptable [at least to me]

I also would like to see April graduate from HS, seeing how the parents deal with an empty next, and Michael's children grow. Seeing them age and grow is what made it different from other comics.

I just saw the E! True Hollywood Story about the Married...With Children finale. They made the last episode just in case it was because Fox had not decided whether they were going to cancel it. After they showed the final show is when it was announced that it wasn't coming back. And I agree MWC, Roseanne and Seinfeld should have when out better than that.

As long as Elizabeth gets this dating thing straightened out. No more of this Anthony pining for her, and the cop is looking more and more like a cheating scumbag (my mom and I called this when they kept emphasizing how she was going back EARLY and no one was expecting her so EARLY) Time for her to date mr. helicopter pilot man (Warren?)

I posted before I read this morning's strip, and I think you're right. I'm not necessarily against Anthony, but having Warren show up out of the blue is intriguing.

Anthony bugs me. I don't like who he's become even if I can't pinpoint why. Maybe he just reminds me of Christopher from Gilmore Girls! But he's been telling her how much he still cares for her since he got married practically (and even though/if he's divorced now, he wasn't then). I do think it's great that he was there for her when she was attacked (and she'll have to go back to the trial eventually) but I don't like him as more than a friend.

I'm strongly opinionated on my comics ;)

But Lizzy has had issues with Warren too, hasn't she?

I don't really like Anthony. He seems awkward to me.

She did, I think it was distance/work related at the time. It's just awfully convenient that he shows up to take her to Mtigwaki when he did. He and Paul don't know each other outside Elizabeth, do they?

I can see that, but I don't dislike Anthony. I'm guessing he thought Therese was what he wanted (or the best he could do) and she was the cold hearted bitch that walked out on them. He's been a loyal friend to Liz, and well, he was there for her through the whole trial mess and Paul was no where to be found.

Hurrah, I'm not the only one hooked on comic strips! The past week without my daily FoxTrot fix has been miserable.

I can't believe how many (fellow) nerds read this strip... :D

I thought that when Grandpa had his stroke, that would be the end of the strip. That the characters aged and she faithfully documented their lives was the selling point, and it's what kept me reading the strip all these years. Freezing them in time just seems like the wrong idea.

Why can't she do what Jeph Jacques does with Questionable Content, where single day can spread out over several months?

Wait - Foxtrot ended its run? When?

FoxTrot has not ended it's run per se, but it now runs in Sunday-only format. If you can get ahold of the 12/27/06-12/30/06 comic strips, they pay homage to the fact that Bill Amend has decided after all these years to cut back and do Sundays only. It's actually quite funny. Caught me by surprise (and saddened me) but I can understand where it gets to be a lot of work and redundant to do daily strips--as fun as they are to read, I can see where it just gets to be too much. Lots of creativity goes into a strip and when you have a daily it's really hard to do it without running out of ideas.
Try gocomics.com; they should have them still.

this makes me upset. life and death is what happens everyday. people fall in and out of love, houses burn down, guys cheat. My grandfather died unexpectedly, but I can't just stop where I am. I understand she's tired of new ideas, but revisiting the past doesn't seem like an easier alternative to me... I have grown up with Elizabeth and now I won't get to anymore! It's not fair. Perhpaps she could make another book with storylines that show the future for the Pattersons and then continue with the pause-time strip as planned?

My son was majorly bummed when he realized that FoxTrot was gone, at least as a daily. I found a FoxTrot calendar for him (discounted since the new year had started, even) so that he can keep reading it.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I never read any comics anymore, unless I pull out an old Calvin & Hobbes or Far Side Book. (My son's favorite comic is C&H -- his favorite stuffed animal, which he will sit down and play chess or a board game with, is a stuffed tiger he has had for 6+ years named Hobbes.) Did I grow up? I never meant to!

I totally agree. It's nice to think that Norm is still going in there today and saying funny things and having a beer. :)

Cathy has so jumped the shark since she got married.

We got Get Fuzzy as a replacement to Foxtrot. I've always liked the comic but it's not the same as Jason and Paige and Peter running around causing trouble.

I wish my paper would ditch Garfield, Blondie, One Big Happy, Family Circus, Cathy, and probably a few others and add Sherman's Lagoon and Frazz and Rose is Rose and Heart of the City. (And others)

We got Pearls Before Swine, and it's lousy.

I like Pearls sometimes, but I don't need it all the time.

That said the Crocs who keep trying to get the Zeeebra to come outside always make me giggle.

Get Fuzzy is between 3 and 5x better than Fox Trot - and Fox Trot was one of the better comics running.

-RC
--This is what I do when I poop at work

Get Fuzzy + FoxTrot < Rob's poop

I LOVE MUTTS!!

Not only because they regularly feature squirrels.;)

We have a comic in our small town paper called REAL LIFE..mostly about a man and wife, once in a while a kid will in in with a parent, but it is sooo true, lol.

Hmm, is it a large comic because I've seen a Real Life comic online that I like.

I LOVE Get Fuzzy, don't get me wrong. But Don't replace Foxtrot with it! (No idea if they're keeping Sunday Foxtrot or not around here)

Mutts is cute, but it falls into my "sappy and I like it once in a while" category. One Big Happy occasionally comes up with a classic moment, but it's usually just Ruthie misunderstanding a word. Even Family Circus has the rare laugh.

I <3 Get Fuzzy!

We've had Get Fuzzy for a while and I love it, but agreed it's no FoxTrot.

My regular reading schedule was FBoFW, Funky Winkerbean, FoxTrot, Jump Start and Get Fuzzy. Don't know if anything will replace FT or not yet. Weekend must-reads are Opus and now FoxTrot. Add in my shiny new 2007 Page a Day Far Side calendar and life is good.

Yay for you having Jump Start. I never see that in the Chicago/St. Louis papers and I'm so glad we have it. Zits is also a must read.

I'm jealous that you have Opus though.

They are going to recylce old strips/storylines too. According to the FBorFW site, they might have, say Michael, looking back at old family pics.

I *STILL* wish they'd continue new storylines until June 2009, when April is supposed to graduate from high school...(though I also thought a perfect 2007 ending would be April getting her driver's licence!)

Love it - our alternative paper used to be the only one that carried PBS, but now our horrible "we're to the left of liberal" newspaper has started carrying it too.

To hijack - we had a lunch room at work with several tables & the paper always stayed in there so we could read something on break or at lunch. There was a guy who ALWAYS came in at lunch, would pick up most of the paper, and take it to the bathroom with him. About 10 min later, he'd come back & drop the paper BACK on the table - regardless who was sitting there. EWWWW - I *know* where that paper has been, and I certainly DON'T want to read it now, much less have it dropped next to my plate of food!

Sorry - now back to your regularly scheduled thread...

Thanks for the reply, deadbear80.

BITE YOUR TONGUE, WOMAN!

I will not! :p

Then again, I still haven't quite recovered from the loss of Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, or Bloom County/Outland as a daily strip...