"There Goes My Baby!": A For Better or For Worse Collection

by Lynn Johnston

Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

741.5971

Library's review

Canada, ca 1993
Vi følger familien Patterson bestående af Elly, John, Michael, Elizabeth og April, samt hunden Farley. Michael er lige fyldt 16 og har fået kørekort. I løbet af denne bog bliver han 17 og en af hans venner, Lawrence, springer ud som bøsse. April starter i børnehave og Elly og

John får bygget huset om. Tracey og Gordon brænder varme på hinanden, selv om de har været venner i årevis.

Sød tegneserie om en lille familie.

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Genres

Other comic art

Graphic Novels and Comics

Comics

Nonfiction

Publication

Andrews McMeel Publishing (1993), Paperback, 128 pages

Description

Cartoons offer a humorous look at family life, adolescence, grandparents, toddlers, and other subjects.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Hamburgerclan

I think this might be the best volume of the For Better or For Worse series. You've got some great gags, along with storylines about childhood, adulthood and, er, teenhood. It contains the story of Gordon and Tracy falling in love and the tale of Lawrence coming out to Michael, and then his family.

That last sequence, I think, is Ms. Johnston's best effort as a writer. On the other hand, the drama in this book also has an artificial feel to it. It's like the supporting cast are the ones to have something bad happen to them. Michael's not the teen to get flack for being gay, Elizabeth is not the one to succumb to peer pressure and shave the sides of her head. Sure, Elizabeth does try smoking with her friends, but she's not the one to pick up the habit. I suppose that's a problem that's inherent in a continuing saga. You can't get overly dramatic with the characters' lives without either destroying said characters or turning them into some sort of unrealistic, comic book character.... um, maybe that's the problem. These comic book characters are becoming so good that they're threatening to transcend the medium. Or maybe I'm just taking this strip way too seriously.
--J.

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LibraryThing member kpolhuis

This one is one of my most favorite. I'm glad I didn't read this until after it had come out as a book because waiting day after day for what happens next in the dailies would have been very distracting. I love how nothing stays the same and that everyone grows, I love that the supporting

characters are also getting attention, and that they have complicated personalities too. This is what put this comic strip above so many others.

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