Read For Better or For Worse in the Toronto Star yesterday, and I couldn’t help but wonder why Elizabeth was all of a sudden a toddler again. Turns out that they have restarted the whole thing, and Lynn Johnston is redrawing all of her strips.

I think the best storyline was the death of the Patterson’s first dog, Farley. The storyline is really sad. Charles Schulz (of Peanuts) actually said that if Lynn Johnston ever killed off Farley, he would make Snoopy get hit by a truck during the same week so that people wouldn’t be stricken by Farley’s death. She ended up publishing this strip without him finding out until it hit the press.

It is uploaded below for your reading pleasure.

The storyline is really sad. It is even more touching if you’ve read more of the previous strips that involve Farley and the family.

But mostly, it gets to me because it makes me think of Marley.

I miss having an animal companion. :(