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While I am really happy to see Liz with Anthony, and want to see how the relationship develops, I feel like I won't have the chance. Knowing that the strip will go to "repeats" makes me wonder how much of the emerging relationship we will be able to see happen, or if it will be relegated to the background.

Andrea B, Medford NY

Please don't worry, Andrea - nothing will need to be cut short!

Warren Blackwood was a very important character in Liz's life for so long. He seemed to be her connection between Mtigwaki and home. He also worked to show her the truth about Paul Wright and his dubious and deviant ways.
When we last left Warren, Liz appeared to be setting a tentative date with this handsome young man with the leading suggestion that they could see a further advance in a relationship.
Now that Liz has abandoned Warren for that Anthony, what is Warren up to? Has Liz even mentioned she has moved on romantically or will Warren be surprised yet again that Liz has left him and his hopeful heart for another man?
I fear so many readers judge Therese for toying with Anthony's heart when Liz seems to have toyed with dear Warren's heart. Will we ever see Warren's storyline reseolved and will Liz invite him to her inevitable marriage to that Anthony?

Thank you so much for reading this Lynn!

Wilma B, AK

Lynn, I am a faithful reader of FBorFW. I have several favorite strips but as a dog lover one of my all time favorites(although very sad for me) is of Farley's untimely passing. It brings me to tears just thinking of it now. I myself have a 17 year old chocolate poodle. It will be a very difficult time when my Missy leaves me. Another favorite and my copy is worn and yellowed is the strip with Mike where a hummingbird comes inside and he is able to capture and release it then writes in his journal something like "It's not everyday you see a miracle - today I held a hummingbird in my hand." I think of this often. You do wonderful work.

Sincerely,

Ronette C, Johnson City, TN

Lynn~
When I was reading the Stone Soup comic a few weeks ago, I saw that they hosted a baby shower for the character of Joan and that Elly was one of the guests amongst a whole crew of Sunday comic mothers.

Did the creator of Stone Soup coordinate with you for Elly to be apart of this little celebration? Was this the first time that one of the FBoFW characters was featured in another comic? Have you featured other characters in your comic?

I find really interesting when this happens...It seems that they did somehting similar for the Blondie anniversary a year or so ago?

Tiffany F, Akron. Oh

Hi Tiffany - Lynn and Jan Eliot (Stone Soup) are friends, and Jan put Elly in as a nod and wink to Lynn. The FBorFW characters have turned up in Stone Soup before. They've also appeared in Pearls Before Swine and the Blondie anniversary party and a few other strips which we'd eventually like to collect on our website. Please keep an eye out for more!

Your creative efforts over the past decades have created an entirely new literary genre. The illustrated story, with fully developed characters, plot lines and serious dealing with real social and moral issues in a fictional context is more than mere entertainment, although it surely is that. For Better or for Worse has become something like the Charles Dickens or the Hemmingway of our times. You are to be congratulated on thus expanding and enriching the body of English Literature.

John, Canada

I'm normally drawn to comics like Opus, Calvin and Hobbs, Non-Sequiter...the crazy ones, but, I seem to have developed an emotional connection with FBOFW. I want to know what happens next. I don't like being caught up in a serial/soap opera. I can't help it. The twists and turns of real life.
I hear you may retire. I'll miss your humor. (And your art.) Thanks,

Leonard C, Canada