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<p>“Zits” (9/21) Panel 1: Walt (father) sitting at dinner table with wife says “I hereby declare this a child-free evening! We can talk about anything but the kids.” </p>

<p>Followed by two-panels of non-talking kids.</p>

<p>Panel 4: Walt: “If either of us remembers how.” Connie: “And criticism is out?”</p>

<p>(well, we don’t criticize each other much)</p>

<p>===</p>

<p>“For Better or For Worse” (9/26):</p>

<p>Last panel: Father to adult daughter: “If you’re allowed to grow up, I’m allowed to get mushy about it.”</p>

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<p>Son:,“You worry too much”.</p>

<p>Me,“It is our job. We are allowed to worry”.</p>

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<p>Thedad–love Zits, used to love For Better For Worse till they finally, inevitably, got Liz together with that pervert, Anthony.</p>

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<p>Have scads of daily “For Better or for Worse” panels taped to the insides of my kitchen cabinets. The really applicable ones were often taped to the refridge for a few weeks and then moved to the inside of the capinets when a better came along.</p>

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<p>Fifteen years ago, we were sure we were living with ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, Progressed through ‘Baby Blues’, and have been firmly identifying with Jeremy’s parents in ‘Zits’ for the past five years or so. Love it when we get to see what is going on at MIT with Alex Doonesbury. We were cracking up when she was going through the college application process…</p>

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<p>Zits IS my life.</p>

<p>Dilbert is my husband’s life. (Especially a couple of Sundays ago, when Dilbert was trying to get marketing to “spray paint this roadkill.”)</p>

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<p>I miss Calvin & Hobbes! Bloom County, too.</p>

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<p>Before kids, ‘the Far Side’ was my life. That writer really understood animal behavior.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.comicspage.com/bliss/bliss.html[/url]”>http://www.comicspage.com/bliss/bliss.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>sad but true now that I am having hotflashes every night</p>

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<p>or when Alex was trying upgrade her facebook to be more popular</p>

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<p>You mean Alexandra D’Unes-Beri?</p>

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<p>ah, yes. Sorry, I forgot that she is now more so-fist-ick-ay-tid.</p>

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<p>Anthony is a pervert? Is this comic strip heading in a different direction?</p>

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<p>No, not really. He’s just a slimeball in my opinion (constant whining about how awful Therese was to him, when he clearly mooned over Liz during his entire marriage, starting with–very obviously shown, his wedding.) I do think that awful mustache was pervert-y, though (my prejudice, but apparently shared by enough readers that he finally ditched it, and now, blames it on Therese, even though he’s had it for ages since the divorce.)</p>

<p>I have seen websites devoted to disgust over Liz ending up with Anthony, so it’s not just me. I really hated how the writer kept giving out-of-nowhere flaws to the other seemingly nice guys, so she could bring back Anthony. I just find him, frankly, repulsive (how’s that for over-involvement in a comic strip, for heaven’s sake?)</p>

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<p>Well, I thought Anthony made a mistake marrying Therese, married for the wrong reasons, and realized this from the wedding day…but I never thought of him as a pervert. Immature maybe. But a pervert? He “seems” like a better dad to his daughter than Therese…</p>

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<p>I had no idea people were so emotionally involved with the Canadians in “For Better Or For Worse”. I always assumed Lynn Johnston was just tracking her kids’ lives with some discreet time gap.</p>

<p>The cartoonist who has us nailed best is Roz Chast. The Big Book Of Parent-Child Fights, Bad Mother Trading Cards, Withdrawals From Your Memory Bank . . . we have several of them framed.</p>

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<p>Okay, like I said, I was exaggerating. But I still maintain, deciding on your WEDDING DAY that you’re married to the wrong person, then blaming that person for everything wrong with your marriage, is just scummy. (imagine realizng that your spouse was secretly in love with someone else your entire marriage–what would that do to you?)</p>

<p>JHS–I can get emotionally involved with a Maxwell House Coffee commercial, LOL!</p>

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<p>Or was that Taster’s Choice? I LOVED that commercial “soap opera”!</p>

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<p>I still read Gil Thorpe, but only because I have for 40+ years. I really have no idea what is going on with the story line these days. I just don’t carry it over from day to day.</p>

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<p>Agree with Sunnyflorida on Anthony. Married on the rebound. I would say he made a mistake; I would not call hima “pervert.”</p>

<p>Often I identify with the characters in Bizarro. Not too sure what to make of that.</p>

<p>Any one in the corporate and/or Information Technology world can easily relate to Dilbert.</p>