The 15th Anniversary collection of For Better or For Worse is not quite the extravaganza they had for the tenth. You still get some color Sunday strips--of relatively contemporary vintage--but the prose is limited to an occasional paragraph explaining some of the inspiration for a particular Sunday strip and a three page essay regarding the storyline where Lawrence comes out as being gay. Add all that to the year's worth of reprints and you get a nice book to put on your shelf.
--J. ( )

Actually two books in one, the first half of this oversize collection is a selection of Sunday strips, with occasional annotation by Lynn Johnston, telling the origin of one idea or another. Even though it was evident from the photos of her and her family on her other books, her annotation makes clear just how much of this strip is derived from her own family and experiences. The second half continues the regular collection of strips from where the last collection left off. Michael gets a job at Megafood, where he meets and starts dating Rhetta, his second-to-last relationship. Gord gets a job at the garage he will one day own. Lawrence has plans for gardening as a career, Michael in journalism. Anthony is introduced as Liz's first boyfriend. Elly's parents visit for Christmas. Gordon gets his own apartment, above the garage he works at. The kids are starting to make their way into the world. ( )