There’s been a lot of back and forth about what exactly For Better or For Worse cartoonist Lynn Johnston will be doing with her comic strip once it winds down and Elizabeth marries … brrrr … Anthony. With that, um, blessed event now gearing up, Johnston has finally come out and announced her intentions via a video, which can be seen here, and also in this interview in the LA Times:

Come September, Johnston said, “For Better or for Worse” will be a 50-50 mix of old and new comics, but the new comics will be drawn in what she called a “retro” style.

“I want it to flow into the classic material seamlessly,” she said.

For the last year, “For Better or for Worse” has switched back and forth between old and new stories, but Johnston said “that became very confusing. Some people really enjoyed it, and some just wanted us to get on with the story.”

Johnston will select material from her collection of almost 10,000 archival strips to help retell the Patterson family’s story, starting at the beginning. She said she will revert to her earlier drawing style: “Over the years, Elly’s nose grew up to the size of a potato. Now I’m drawing it smaller again, the way it was when I first started to draw. There is a huge difference between the earlier and the later styles.”

But … I like the potato noses.

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