Tuesday, November 10, 2015

It's a Dog's Life, Snoopy


With the new Peanuts movie hitting theatres last Friday, I thought it would be fitting to read a collection of Snoopy cartoons. This full-color collection of Peanuts tales contains a full year of yuks. From the snows of January to the dog days of summer (pun intended) to the crisp nights waiting for the Great Pumpkin and back to snow with the holidays fast approaching, there’s lots of great jokes and gags. Is every joke a winner? No, but the vast majority of strips are perfect. A few jokes repeat, so be patient.

I love the snowy strips best.

Sadly, you can see the years wearing on creator Schulz as not every strip is drawn with crisp definitive lines found in Peanuts tales. Even some of his signatures are chicken scratches. It sometimes makes this collection a little sad as you know that in this later year treasury each entry is coming towards the end of the Peanuts strip’s run, which on it's very last day of publishing, Schulz passed.

Worth Consuming.
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.

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