Old Comic Book Friends

I forgot that For Better or For Worse existed until a friend shared the comic of the day on Facebook. In September 2008, they started re-running the completed comic strip, occasionally adding new updates. But I didn’t even remember it existed until I saw the share and remembered how much I loved the strip when I was a kid.

Which is a little weird, right? Parents were clearly the target audience, but I remember diving for the newspaper to read it every day when I was in middle school. It reminded me of what I loved so much about Ramona Quimby, which depicted a normal (vs. idealized) family with their ups and downs.

But I wasn’t the target audience any more than I was the target audience for the television show Thirtysomething when I was twelve. But I loved that show, too. It’s not streaming anywhere, or I would rematch it to see if I still connect with the characters. Or now that I’m on the other side of thirty and once again not the target audience, will I be able to find whatever interested me when thirty was a number in my future vs. my past?

I went back to September 2008, and I’m slowly re-reading For Better or For Worse. I don’t remember most of the storylines, so it feels new. It’s nice to revisit old friends.