Editing For Better or For Worse (section)

==Reruns==
In the last panel of the strip's original run (August 31, 2008), along with a caricature of herself at the drawing table, Lynn Johnston thanked everyone for supporting her and concluded with, "If I could do it all over again... Would I do some things differently?... I've been given the chance to find out!! Please join me on Monday as the story begins again... With new insights and new smiles.  Looking back looks wonderful!"

The next day, September 1, ''For Better or For Worse'' ran as usual, but Michael was once again a small boy, asking his young mother, Elly, to get him a puppy.  This began what Johnston called "new-runs", restarting her storyline with a roughly 50/50 mixture of reruns of early strips, and re-workings of 1980s strips that featured the original artwork (sometimes slightly retouched) with new dialogue.  The time frame appeared to be 29 years before the present day; the family is correspondingly younger. Michael looks to be about five or six years old, Elizabeth is a small child learning to talk, and the family is also raising a puppy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fborfw.com/behind_the_scenes/hybrid/ |title=is The Official Website of Lynn Johnston's comic strip For Better or For Worse |publisher=Fborfw.com |date=2008-08-30 |access-date=2012-01-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207061041/http://www.fborfw.com/behind_the_scenes/hybrid/ |archive-date=2012-02-07 }}</ref>

For the next 22 months, the strip ran in this format.  On July 12, 2010, without fanfare, the strip quietly switched to straight reruns of material from the 1980s. However, these straight reruns have had slight alterations as well. The daily strips, which were originally inked, have been digitally colourized.  In the December 31, 2012, installment, dialogue that referred to the initial date of publication (1984) was altered, so that the strip was seen to be taking place in the present day. Another slight touch up to show a present-day timeline is where a child Michael invites his friends over to play on a video game console he recently got as a present and they are seen using a [[Wii]]; in the original strip a [[ColecoVision|second generation video game console]] was played.  Some strips have had altered panels, in particular those dealing with child discipline, because of the increased social and cultural opposition to [[corporal punishment]]. Occasionally in the original strips Michael or Elizabeth would be spanked. The new strips have modified the artwork to eliminate the device of stars coming out children's butts denoting the after-effect of a spanking, or in certain cases, have made a whole new panel to change the punishment to a "time out" (being made to sit in a corner or like isolation) instead of a spanking.

This format continues, with strips being republished approximately 29 years after their initial appearance.<ref>{{cite web |title=For Better or For Worse, January 28, 1996 |url=https://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/1996/01/28 |website=GoComics |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=For Better or For Worse, January 26, 2025 |url=https://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2025/01/26 |website=GoComics |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref>