Open Posting to Lynn Johnston

[dewline]

I just read this piece on Johnston's apparent about-face on her plan to retire For Better Or For Worse this morning.

Mrs. Johnston, I trust that you'll forgive me for being more than slightly shocked at this. Both the cancellation of the retirement of the daily strip and the plans to retire character aging as a rule of the series. It doesn't make sense to me at all.

Comments

[newyorkerinuk.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. I am not happy about this news, at least the not the "stop the aging" aspect of things. I really had hoped that Lynn Johnston would change her mind and let the strip run until April graduates high school (which seemed a more natural place to end things). But I do not want it to keep running without seeing what happens to these characters as they age in real time and go through real time experiences. That's probably one of the best parts of this strip, and what has made it such a pleasure over the years. I have all the collections and it's a lot of fun every few years to go back to the beginning and see how much things have changed and developed with them.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

The more I think about it, the more I think that you're right about timing it for April's graduation. Not to mention the rest of it. I'd be interested to see how Johnston handles a graphic novel from scratch as opposed to a daily feature.