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miraclemarg's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
mschlat's review against another edition
4.0
I'm struck in this volume by the variety and inventiveness of the strips. Schultz isn't just playing with panels (having abandoned the strict four panel construction). He's playing with plots and gags, weaving short and long sequences, and (during one week) alternating strips between two story lines. There's even a Sunday where the famous football kicking gag occurs off-panel (and still works).
rondasue27's review
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
panda_incognito's review against another edition
4.0
This book had a reference to Barney the Purple Dinosaur. After twenty-two volumes, I've gotten to cultural references I can understand, and it was a revelation.
But in all seriousness, this was a fantastic collection of comics, and I appreciated seeing how even though Schulz used many of the same classic ideas and "old jokes," he kept it fresh with new punchlines and entirely new comic sequences like nothing he had ever done before. I admire his amazing drawings, terrific humor, and flawless grasp of human nature, but perhaps what is most impressive about this legendary comic strip is the fact that it stayed fresh and interesting for fifty years.
But in all seriousness, this was a fantastic collection of comics, and I appreciated seeing how even though Schulz used many of the same classic ideas and "old jokes," he kept it fresh with new punchlines and entirely new comic sequences like nothing he had ever done before. I admire his amazing drawings, terrific humor, and flawless grasp of human nature, but perhaps what is most impressive about this legendary comic strip is the fact that it stayed fresh and interesting for fifty years.
bookishheather's review
3.0
Can you believe I had this book checked out at the library for nearly two months? These things take me about two days to read! But this one I started the day after I checked it out of the library, and then renewed because I hadn't picked it up again. Surely I'll read it by October 5th! I declared. And yet on October 4th, deadline looming, I sped through the other half of this volume.
Is there some deeper meaning behind this? Naw. Things have just been hectic this year and I've been reading this series since 2004 when the first volume came out and I vowed to keep reading through to the bitter end. The strips of the 60s and 70s amused me since I hadn't seen some of the quirkier content, but by the 90s I feel like Sparky Schulz may have just been coasting. Or maybe it's because I was alive and possibly more familiar with these strips since they'd be the ones I'd see when reading the newspaper myself? At any rate, while this volume was enjoyable as any other book would be that has Snoopy in it, I wouldn't say I got as much out of this one as I have gotten out of past volumes. And we're at T-minus six years, and that seemed to loom over my reading of parts of this book as well.
My favorite two strips in this volume:
• Linus reads Alice in Wonderland and Snoopy transforms into the Cheshire cat, becoming just eyes and a smile. He asks Linus to read something else.
• Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy are under a tree. Linus ponders what type of dog he would want, perhaps a border collie. Snoopy retorts, "If you don't mind someone staring at you all the time." O_O As an Aussie owner, I empathized. Rain is staring at me right now.
I've already got the next volume on hold at the library. Only three more volumes left and I'll have read every Peanuts strip printed in syndicate papers! Man, when I set my mind to something (as I did in 2004), I really stick to it! And THANK YOU to Fantagraphics in Seattle for taking this series on!
Is there some deeper meaning behind this? Naw. Things have just been hectic this year and I've been reading this series since 2004 when the first volume came out and I vowed to keep reading through to the bitter end. The strips of the 60s and 70s amused me since I hadn't seen some of the quirkier content, but by the 90s I feel like Sparky Schulz may have just been coasting. Or maybe it's because I was alive and possibly more familiar with these strips since they'd be the ones I'd see when reading the newspaper myself? At any rate, while this volume was enjoyable as any other book would be that has Snoopy in it, I wouldn't say I got as much out of this one as I have gotten out of past volumes. And we're at T-minus six years, and that seemed to loom over my reading of parts of this book as well.
My favorite two strips in this volume:
• Linus reads Alice in Wonderland and Snoopy transforms into the Cheshire cat, becoming just eyes and a smile. He asks Linus to read something else.
• Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy are under a tree. Linus ponders what type of dog he would want, perhaps a border collie. Snoopy retorts, "If you don't mind someone staring at you all the time." O_O As an Aussie owner, I empathized. Rain is staring at me right now.
I've already got the next volume on hold at the library. Only three more volumes left and I'll have read every Peanuts strip printed in syndicate papers! Man, when I set my mind to something (as I did in 2004), I really stick to it! And THANK YOU to Fantagraphics in Seattle for taking this series on!
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