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manwithanagenda's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The third volume of Fantographics complete reprinting of 'Peanuts' is just as gorgeous, but because of the repetition of some gags and punchlines (both within this book and from the older volumes) I feel obligated to knock a star off. The strips are still funny, the beauty of it is that these gags were just as funny 40 years of repeats later, but they're also the reason the strip got a stale reputation in the first place. But I can't hold that against Schulz, he couldn't possibly have guessed how popular his strip was going to become (in 1955 the circulation was still small) and ever be collected even. If you're writing a new strip every day you're going to reuse a joke or three.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
[Awesome Comic Strip]
Snoopy still gets around for the most part on four paws, but he really begins to take off as something more than canine in this volume. His impressions of animals, famous personages, and neighborhood children take off, much to consternation of Charlie Brown. By this time Snoopy is definitely Charlie Brown's dog, too, whereas before he had been a true "neighborhood dog" or possibly even Shermy's.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
[Awesome Comic Strip]
The timelessness of 'Peanuts' is a part of its charm but every once and awhile Schulz couldn't resist commenting on the emerging pop culture of the kid's, whether it was devotion for Miss Frances from a tv show called "Ding Dong School" or Davey Crocket. Schulz is best when he walks that line between "adult" awareness and conventions, and the simple dimensions of childhood thinking.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
[Awesome Comic Strip]
This is the last volume I have on hand, and only because I bought it for my dad a few Christmases ago, his birth year, but I will be keeping an eye out for later volumes. There is some repetition, but plenty of genuine insight. Still, it's probably best I'm taking a break from them for awhile. GoComics has every 'Peanuts' strip, including reprints, up on their site but several aren't available by their original publication dates so some gems, like Charlie Brown's first tree'd kite, Linus' exposure to literary criticism from Lucy, and a great moral relativism lesson from Lucy and Linus, among others, can't appear today. But that left room for this:
[Awesome Comic Strip]
More than enough reason to continue on.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
Finally, I got a suprise treat in this volume. One of our "inherited" toys from older cousins was a Viewmaster and dozens of slide sets. You remember Viewmasters don't you? The paper disks you slid into the plastic goggles, the 3D images that changed with a satisfying click-shunk of a lever. One set we had was of <i>Peanuts</i> and this exact Sunday strip was one of them!
[Awesome Comic Strip]
Complete Peanuts
Next: 'Volume Four: 1957-1958'
Previous: 'Volume Two: 1953-1954'
[Awesome Comic Strip]
[Awesome Comic Strip]
Snoopy still gets around for the most part on four paws, but he really begins to take off as something more than canine in this volume. His impressions of animals, famous personages, and neighborhood children take off, much to consternation of Charlie Brown. By this time Snoopy is definitely Charlie Brown's dog, too, whereas before he had been a true "neighborhood dog" or possibly even Shermy's.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
[Awesome Comic Strip]
The timelessness of 'Peanuts' is a part of its charm but every once and awhile Schulz couldn't resist commenting on the emerging pop culture of the kid's, whether it was devotion for Miss Frances from a tv show called "Ding Dong School" or Davey Crocket. Schulz is best when he walks that line between "adult" awareness and conventions, and the simple dimensions of childhood thinking.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
[Awesome Comic Strip]
This is the last volume I have on hand, and only because I bought it for my dad a few Christmases ago, his birth year, but I will be keeping an eye out for later volumes. There is some repetition, but plenty of genuine insight. Still, it's probably best I'm taking a break from them for awhile. GoComics has every 'Peanuts' strip, including reprints, up on their site but several aren't available by their original publication dates so some gems, like Charlie Brown's first tree'd kite, Linus' exposure to literary criticism from Lucy, and a great moral relativism lesson from Lucy and Linus, among others, can't appear today. But that left room for this:
[Awesome Comic Strip]
More than enough reason to continue on.
[Awesome Comic Strip]
Finally, I got a suprise treat in this volume. One of our "inherited" toys from older cousins was a Viewmaster and dozens of slide sets. You remember Viewmasters don't you? The paper disks you slid into the plastic goggles, the 3D images that changed with a satisfying click-shunk of a lever. One set we had was of <i>Peanuts</i> and this exact Sunday strip was one of them!
[Awesome Comic Strip]
Complete Peanuts
Next: 'Volume Four: 1957-1958'
Previous: 'Volume Two: 1953-1954'
library_brandy's review against another edition
5.0
It really does come together here, and you're not seeing the "learning curve" that was so obvious in the first books. At this point, there's no more "beginning"--it is a great strip.
One quibble: Lucy's determination to get married, and her disappointment that her kindergarten doesn't offer classes in homemaking. Eeeeech.
One quibble: Lucy's determination to get married, and her disappointment that her kindergarten doesn't offer classes in homemaking. Eeeeech.
gerolencia's review against another edition
5.0
Charlie Brown: "What's that dotted line on your blanket for, Linus?"
Linus, tearing his blanket in two and giving one half to Charlie Brown: "Happines should be shared."
Linus, tearing his blanket in two and giving one half to Charlie Brown: "Happines should be shared."
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