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Family Business: For Better Or For Worse Collection

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To me for better or for worse is sort of the story of my life. And it kind of is the story of everybodys life. The Patterson family resembles the modern family. There are some good moments and bad moments. There are surprising moments and boring moments. And like life on the outside world people age and people die. People get married and sometimes people have hardships. Lynn Johnston is a brilliant cartoonist. She captures true family life and captures the relationships of the familys with eachother, their friends and their pets. Over the course of the strip the family pet has passed away and a friend announced something personal, and people have got married. I definetly woould reccomend this.

I am in the process of completing my For Better Or For Worse collection. Reading this comic strip is very much like watching a drama about family life, with comedy of course. ;) The characters age and experience things that most families would. And even though the series has it's serious moments throughout, I appreciate that Lynn Johnston created her characters to come out of those tough spots no worse for wear and to focus on the positive and even learn something along the way. I'd tell you about the individual book itself, but the collection of comic books is very much like a book series. You'll be out of the loop if you don't read them all. Five stars for the entire series.

Lynn fasinates me with her insites on every day living and her sense of humor that makes life worth living.

Another Great book to visit the Patterson's with. "For Better / For Worse" has to be one of the best comic strips of all time. It really makes you think, "They are just like my family", and if you do not have kids, read the books so you know what to prepare for.

This cloying book is designed to soothe and nurture away your every worries and insecuries as you go through each stage of life from being born to growing up to mating to having children to growing old to finally waiting for the Grim Reaper, only that this comic strip really has nothing to do with real life, WHATEVER.

In this book, the parents magically obtain a popular toy shop with a basement chock full of rare treasures that would make the family instantly rich and reunited with their own rugrat days. Then there's the heroic princes and princesses. Handsome young Michael and his doe-eyed blonde princess, Deanna decide to secretly elope to escape an overbearing old Queen who wants to throw her little girl a huge, glamorous wedding ceremony. And, Prince Michael's childhood pal has fled an odorious existence with his cruel stepfather to build a fabulous gas-service world with his sweet wifesy and two precious little cherubs. Princess Elizabeth has finally left her nubile "Lolita" phrase and blossomed into a pretty, perfect young woman who coyly avoids every male's desiring clutches and parties forever with her perfect, colorful roommate. And Little Princess April continues to look and act like a precocious kindergartner with innocence and spunkiness oozing out her ears at age 10 and even outsmarts a big bad bully before she SAVES his life.

And the irony is that this comic strip had orginally started out as a SATIRE on the dewy-eyed world of family that "Family Circus" and "Hi & Lois" had built up during the Baby Boomer days. Today, I wouldn't even be surprised if a fire-breathing dragon suddenly appears out of the blue to snatch away Princess Elizabeth or one of Gordon's apple-cheeked tots.