For Better or for Worse: The Complete Library #8

Lynn Johnston's beloved newspaper strip gets the deluxe treatment in this eighth hardcover volume of For Better or for Worse: The Complete Library, collecting strips from 2003 to 2006. The cover spotlights the Patterson family in a wonderfully chaotic moment — a young child gleefully poking at a woman's face while a teen and a young adult look on in wide-eyed disbelief, with the family dog grinning happily below, all surrounded by a warm montage of sepia-toned strip art hinting at the years of family life packed inside. It's a fitting snapshot of Johnston's gift for finding humor and heart in everyday domestic life, making this an essential volume for fans of the strip.