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A review by dantastic
The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978 by Charles M. Schulz
4.0
Someone else won half the Peanuts books I bid on so here we are at 1978. I skipped a bunch of years but it's not like there's a tight continuity.
Anyway, Sally Brown is in full swing, defending her sweet babboo Linus from Eudora. Snoopy plays tennis with Molly Volley and sometimes Crybaby Boobie. Lucy continues for force unwanted advances on Schroeder. Marcie and Peppermint Pattie show they could easily have taken over the strip if Sparky needed them too.
There weren't a lot of negatives in this, although I missed Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin in 1978. Also, Snoopy's wedding story ended pretty abruptly. I wonder if Sparky had second thoughts about that. Charlie Brown actually isn't in these volumes all that much, which is fine with me. I wonder if Schulz decided to space out Chuck's misery.
I don't think these series would have lasted half as long if Schulz hadn't added a new character every couple years for the rest of the cast to bounce off of. I read Schulz developed a tremor in his hand sometime in his career and I have to think it was between this volume and the last 1960s volume I read. I notice a little bit of squiggle but I think it gives the art a little more character.
After reading a bunch of these, it's becoming apparent to me that Bill Watterson must have read these religiously as a kid. Calvin and Hobbes has a lot of Peanuts in it.
Four out of five stars. I forget how many more of these I have in the basement.
Anyway, Sally Brown is in full swing, defending her sweet babboo Linus from Eudora. Snoopy plays tennis with Molly Volley and sometimes Crybaby Boobie. Lucy continues for force unwanted advances on Schroeder. Marcie and Peppermint Pattie show they could easily have taken over the strip if Sparky needed them too.
There weren't a lot of negatives in this, although I missed Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin in 1978. Also, Snoopy's wedding story ended pretty abruptly. I wonder if Sparky had second thoughts about that. Charlie Brown actually isn't in these volumes all that much, which is fine with me. I wonder if Schulz decided to space out Chuck's misery.
I don't think these series would have lasted half as long if Schulz hadn't added a new character every couple years for the rest of the cast to bounce off of. I read Schulz developed a tremor in his hand sometime in his career and I have to think it was between this volume and the last 1960s volume I read. I notice a little bit of squiggle but I think it gives the art a little more character.
After reading a bunch of these, it's becoming apparent to me that Bill Watterson must have read these religiously as a kid. Calvin and Hobbes has a lot of Peanuts in it.
Four out of five stars. I forget how many more of these I have in the basement.