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The “For Better or for Worse” comic strip The Pilot has carried for years is changing. Author Lynn Johnston ended her 29-year narrative over Labor Day weekend, and is redrawing her strip from the beginning, when her characters were young. She’ll use a combination of new and old material.
Her semi-retirement has caused a stir across the country among fans and newspaper editors – Google her to check out the chatter.
During the next month or so, we’ll keep her strip on the comics page in The Daily Break section of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper so you can tell us if you like the new format or if it’s time for us to try something different. At the same time, we’ll show you a few other popular strips. You may recognize some of them from a comics poll we ran last year.
Check out the trial strips:
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what to drop
Need space on comic page? Drop 'Close to Home'; badly drawn and just plain stoopid. Need to drop a strip? Get rid of 'Garfield'; trite and over done; ran out of ideas years ago.
Frazz is good. Pleez use that.
cheerz
Mutts
I have long loved Mutts and read everyday before we moved to Hampton Roads. It would be great to see it added to the Pilot. Pearls Before Swine is funny too, but Mutts would be my first choice.
Pearls Before Swine
I like this much better than Pajama Diaries. There are enough "family" strips as it is. I like the more off-beat strips like Pearls, Over the Hedge, Get Fuzzy, Frank & Ernest & Pooch Cafe. I think there is room for more than one replacement, with lots of fresh choices.
strip replacement
Pearls Before Swine is awful. Stupid, cynical and just plain badly drawn.
Pajama Game not much better.
Here's a half dozen I'd like to see daily:
Over The Hedge
Frazz
Frank & Ernest
Shoe
Adam@Home
Cleats
FBOFW
I have followed fbofw since my own kids were born. It has always been funny and appropriate. No offensive content, family oriented, i have even bought the published books. This is one of the best drawn, showing great care for details, and is actually grammatically correct (more than i can say for the columnists and editors of the pilot, who cannot conjugate verbs). No slang, no unintelligble anagrams - alphabet soup (not all of us are military and love these). It is good to repeat these strips, because the younger fans can see what has gone before.
as to these other strips, they show lack of talent and a juvenile language. The newspaper is already written for six year olds, must we regress even further?
Pearls Before Swine
You can not be serious. We went through this crap last year. How about skipping all the trash you pushed on us last year and give us something worthwhile.
new comic strip please?
I think For Better or Worse is one of the most boring comic strips on the page. It had it's day, now it needs to move on. I'm delighted to see that Pearls Before Swine is featured today as it is one of my favorites! It was really disappointing when Pearls Before Swine wasn't added last time the comics were changed up.
Keep FBOFW!
I don't find "Pajama Diaries" the least bit humerous. I've been a faithful fan of "For Better Or For Worse" for many years, but didn't get to see the early years. So I'd love to see this excellent quality comic kept in our local paper. I also agree with another comment about the quantity of comics in our paper. I visited Houston recently, and they have 2 full pages plus 3 on another page of comics every day!
DITCH THE FAMILY STRIPS AND RUN "GET FUZZY"!
Oh dear God, not yet another "family" comic strip in the Va. Pilot. God, please no. FBOFW absolutely stinks now. Please get rid of it. And don't start running yet another insipid family-oriented strip. Blondie, Marvin, Denice the Menice, Family Circus, Baby Blues, Sally Forth, Curtis, Jump Start - LET THE MADNESS STOP! Please offer an intelligent, funny strip to your readers - the hysterical "Get Fuzzy". Bucky Katt is the anti-Garfield (yet another dumb comic this paper runs), and "Get Fuzzy" never fails to provide fresh, biting wit. Please, throw us comics-readers who have a modicum of intelligence a bone - dump FBOFW and start running "Get Fuzzy".
Comics pages needs lots of help
In almost every city I've been in, large or small, they have twice the comics that we do. My two favorites, Pearls before Swine and Sherman's Lagoon are in almost all of them too. I for one hope we can get one of those instead of the Pajama Diaries.