Snoopy Come Home/Peanuts General

>Take it in the sludge from Snoop.

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Patty had a tough life

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>>95087913

Snoopy Come Home was pretty good. Though I often felt that the whole Sherman Brothers musical interludes were too cheesy and didn't fit Peanuts very well.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown, now that was a proper Peanuts movie as far as music and characters went.

>>95088022
is this part of a series of strips or just some randomly depressing one off?

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>>95088022

This strip gets posted a lot in Peanuts threads. It's an extraordinary strip indeed, and I'm surprised it hasn't been raised yet that an actual English professor one analysed this strip in a way that brought a tear to my eye. It's how I first learned about this strip.

https://youtu.be/qSM6bxpTONM?t=4m15s

>When I first read it, I started to cry, it really moved me
>Patty is very much in the role Charlie Brown usually is in the strips
>'It's getting dark', this is very late in Schulz life, I find that 'it's getting dark' quite resonant

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>>95088469
One off. It was the last strip to feature Patty before Schulz died less than a month later.

>>95088469

As mentioned in >>95088477 - it's not just some randomly depressing one off, but it's tellingly one of the last several strips Schulz did before he died.

>>95088617

This just happens to be another historically important strip. Stephan Pastis once noted that this was the first Peanuts strip that was plain pathos.

https://schulzmuseum.org/a-turning-point-in-the-peanuts-strip/

>When Charlie Brown starts out (from 1950 through 1953), he is a bit of a smart-aleck. More like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. He often provokes (particularly Schroeder), and likes to get the better of others.

>This particular strip changes that.

>For the first time, you see how sad and rather lonely Charlie Brown is, and moreover, how resigned he is to it.

>So for the first time in Peanuts, you see real pathos, something which would give the strip its depth.

>In terms of tone, it is also groundbreaking. In an era when every strip had to be either an adventure strip or a slapstick humor strip, here is a humor strip that is not funny. Boldly not funny. It’s just sad. And moreover, it’s a child being sad. That’s a real departure for both Peanuts and probably most other strips on the comics page.

peannuts is one of those weird enigmas were i really wish it had gotten some sort of ending for closure but i would have also hated it for having an ending.

>>95089123

Is this the girl (Peggy Jean?) that in then end friendzoned Charlie Brown?

>>95089174
>Friendzoned
More like she broke up with him after finding a new guy

>>95089207

Ah, I guess I incorrectly guessed what the whole arc was about or whatever. Haven't actually read a whole deal of 90s strips, mainly 50s and 60s (I've read every 50s strip at least three times).

>>95089276
The '90s strips are very low quality.

>>95088022
>you now realize Schulz drew a heavy rainstorm in an attempt to cover up the increasingly ragged artwork that came with him being near death.

God bless that man.

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>>95090986
I'll agree with you that the strips from the 80s and early-90s range from mediocre from terrible, but the strips from the late-90s, when Schulz started to make Rerun one of the main characters, are some of the best he ever wrote.