FBoFW Leaving Current Hybrid Form?

I had written the following as an item in the random news story post:

one of the great perhaps not-to-be-stated true things about Signe Wilkinson's new Family Tree strip is that it will be positioned as a potential replacement for For Better or For Worse as that strip goes from a new/old hybrid status that continues story-lines to more full-on re-runs where whatever new material exists supports the older work. One paper has seemingly purchased the new feature with that in mind.

Alan Gardner read the same article more closely than I did, and notes that it seems to indicate an end sometime in the future to Lynn Johnston's hybrid experiment -- at least in a way that can be communicated to newspaper editors -- where Johnston's old strips were going to be followed by brief periods of new strips wrapping up dangling plotlines.

Where this gets more confusing is that Johnston is essentially talking about dropping the hybrid as originally announced, which were going to be re-runs with framing sequences where the Pattersons were at a set age, and going to more of a straight-up re-run system like Classic Peanuts. She then risks turning all of our brains to jelly by suggesting that new storylines still my be possible with a couple of the characters if the right cartoonist can be found.

So what we have basically is:

* an initial announcement that the strip would shift to classic sequences and framing sequences, but the framing sequences would have the Pattersons at a set age.
* the actual move made starting last Fall into a blend of classic sequences and current-day sequences wrapping up storylines like the Anthony/Elizabeth romance. This was announced really close to when it started happening, as I recall.
* a future where either a) those current-day sequences will end and the strip will become a "classic" strip all the time, b) For Better or For Worse stays a current-day, classic-run mix with someone else doing the current-day run, or c) something else that has yet to be decided on.

So I don't think the information in the Ventura paper is news except to suggest there may be another turning point in sight and that the exact future is a bit up in the air again.
 
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