I Think I've Given Up On Ever Understanding What The Heck Is Going On With For Better or For Worse




Universal Press Syndicate has hit media sources with the full news on plans for For Better or For Worse. The great Dave Astor has E&P's version of events. The weird thing about this is that it comes two days after a version of the story was in retrospect leaked by an appearance of cartoonist Lynn Johnston at the Doug Wright Awards, an appearance they helped hype. And, again, there are pertinent details that didn't come across in that appearance. The news of those details now comes out about two weeks before the change, which will be from a new storylines/old storylines hybrid to a long sort-of do-over buttressed by the older material. It's weird for details about a feature of this size to come out so late in the game and come out in stutter-step fashion.

As for the decision itself, Lynn Johnston is a class professional from everything I've ever heard and a hugely successful creator and she should do whatever she wants. "New-runs" seems an idiosyncratic strategy, and not the one I would have guessed she'd pursue. The only thing I can compare it to is George Lucas noodling around with the first three Star Wars movies, except with a much more modest new storyline component than those three recent prequel movies. I have to admit, I hope this is the last time the subject comes up, as it's been over two years since the first in several potential futures for the feature was discussed.
 
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