Lynn Johnston May Extend Current FBOFW Incarnation for Liz/Anthony

This interview-driven feature by comics-savvy journalist and critic Chris Mautner with Lynn Johnston of mega-client boasting strip For Better or For Worse surprisingly deepens rather than lightens some of the recent confusion regarding the strip's move into a hybrid form rather than concluding. This can't have been her intention. Johnston recently wrote letters to key editors to remind her current client base that the strip was not retiring as some articles had phrased it, but was moving into a hybrid form where runs of classic strips would be mixed into current-day frameworks where the characters would stop aging and settle into a specific age.

Mautner's article, however, indicates Johnston may extend a perceived-to-exist (perhaps only for Johnston personally) but not yet announced deadline for ending new, continuing story-lines. This is to allow to breathe and develop a controversial plot thread whereby daughter Liz returns home and reunites with early boyfriend Anthony. So other than the facts that we know what the hybrid will look like, and how strongly Johnston feels that these not be perceived as retiring the strip, we're not sure when the current incarnation of her hit strip will end, or if there could even be carryover into the new form.
 
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