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The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 12: 1973-1974 (Complete Peanuts #12)
The twelfth volume of Peanuts features a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences involving Peppermint Patty’s friend Marcie (including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcie’s costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), so it seems only right that this volume’s introduction should be served up by Schulz’s longt
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Published
September 8th 2009
by Fantagraphics Books
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My wife, the family Peanuts maven, has declared that this is the first volume of The Complete Peanuts that she will not be purchasing. In her opinion, Schulz's comic genius had lost its edge by this time in the life of the strip. It's also past the era when she would eagerly search the daily paper for her Peanuts fix, so unlike, say, the previous volume of the collection, this book has little nostalgic appeal. Such is her opinion. For myself, I've never been a major Peanuts fan. The strip is wor...more
The strips in this volume in The Complete Peanuts represent Schulz nearing the halfway mark of his amazingly long career. Nearly a quarter century in and Schulz shows no signs of weariness or any decline in imagination. The strip remains vital and funny. “I have a suggestion,” begins Charlie Brown to Snoopy. “Doesn’t everyone?” Snoopy replies wearily. Charlie Brown’s obsession with baseball results in all round objects appearing with baseball seams, not just the moon and scoops of ice cream but...more
Some of my favorite strips -- the Peppermint Patty skating strips are some of the all time best (watching the Winter Olympics, it was amazing how little skating coaches have changed; Snoopy dressed up as Peppermint Patty's coach might as well be Johnny Weir's Russian coach-in-fur). I think Peanuts never gets any better than these strips in the years to come -- and the best strips are within the previous five years. I can't let 1973-1974 go without at least mentioning Mr. Sack. I never realize...more
By now, it's been ages since I finished this, before the premiere of our last show actually, and it's been such a crazy busy month, so it's not really that fresh in my memory to be honest, but I think Amazon can help there, so here goes.
You'd think, after two decades of writing Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz would have been cleaned out of new ideas, but it's with remarkable ease that he conjures up new storylines and thinks outside the box, making new adventures even for Snoopy, who star...more
You'd think, after two decades of writing Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz would have been cleaned out of new ideas, but it's with remarkable ease that he conjures up new storylines and thinks outside the box, making new adventures even for Snoopy, who star...more
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This is the first book in the series that I've felt was a little stagnant. Nothing particularly ground-breaking here. No major character introductions (unless the character of "the school building" counts?). Snoopy and Woodstock have some adversarial times in this volume, which raised an eyebrow ever so slightly, but the fighting didn't last long before they hugged and made up.
Lots of mentions of bicycles in this volume, as America was hot into the bicycle craze that accomp...more
Lots of mentions of bicycles in this volume, as America was hot into the bicycle craze that accomp...more
I really enjoyed this particular volume of the Complete Peanuts. It was the first one that actually made me laugh out loud. I'm starting to realize my favorite Peanuts character is Peppermint Patty!! I liked the various storylines, including the one about Patty's Ice Skating competition, as well as the one in which the schoolhouse becomes sentient. Overall, a great read, esp when I needed some cheering upp!
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Again, mainly timeless with a few little trips down memory lane (no one gets white courtesy phones brought to them in restaurants any more--more likely to be asked to have the courtesy to take your cell phone outside). The intro by Billy Jean King gives interesting insights into Schulz's support of women's athletics--news to me but makes sense in light of his smart and athletic girl characters.
Rerun gets out of the house, Charlie Brown faces a baseball scandal, and Peppermint Patty enters a figure skating competition. Not the strongest Peanuts. The cast begins to get a little too focused and many peripheral characters disappear. Rerun never fully seems to develop and just seems like another Linus.
After 20 years, Schultz is still experimenting, now adding puns to his other approaches to humor. Many of the puns are very clever indeed. A further experiment is giving an inanimate object, the grammar school, thought balloons and a personality. It somehow all works.
hilarious! I recommend it. my only regret is it didn't have too much red baron in it.
This man was a genius. Cracked up so many times.
Smart of them to add an index at the back so you can easily go back and find your favourite strips.
It's also fun to find the tidbits of history/news from the 70's. A lot of them are still eerily relevant today.
Smart of them to add an index at the back so you can easily go back and find your favourite strips.
It's also fun to find the tidbits of history/news from the 70's. A lot of them are still eerily relevant today.
I very much liked the talking school building, which shows up in the middle of 1974.
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Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.
Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied...more
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Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied...more
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