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1. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   Cool, what’s the date on that one?

2. about 1 month ago on Peanuts

   This is actually something I find kind of maddening —-it’s hard to really find any concrete information anywhere regarding how involved Schulz actually was with any of the animated films and specials. He’s given a “written by” credit on all of them, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Here’s the thing, though. If he didn’t write them, who did? There simply doesn’t seem to be any information about that. Bill Melendez never seems to have brought up the subject directly, nor Lee Mendelson or Phil Roman. At least not that I know about. I know that as the specials went on, they relied more and more heavily on simply utilizing Schulz’s strips, which gave them an increasingly phoned-in feeling. But there was still plenty of original material mixed in there, and someone had to have written that. For instance, the plots of the four feature films. Who wrote those screenplays? Schulz? Someone else? Who? It’s kind of amazing to me that nobody seems to know.

3. about 2 months ago on Maria's Day

   Apropos of nothing, I love that three-afropuff design. It’s such a neat little visual.

4. about 2 months ago on Wallace the Brave

   I love how the dad is just standing there. Frozen with nonplussedness.

5. about 2 months ago on Outland

   ’94, actually. The strip ended in early 1995.

6. 2 months ago on Outland

   Ah, gotcha. It was a little unclear whether you were talking about the old white men or everybody else, which would have pretty much reversed your intent.

7. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   You guys don’t even really try anymore.

8. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   I really, even after all this time, do not GET Roland. Trudeau’s characterization of him has always been wildly inconsistent. Sometimes he’s portrayed as a clueless dunce, other times a rather neutral party, and on rare occasions, someone with genuine biting insight. It’s very weird.

9. 2 months ago on Doonesbury

   She finally left him sometime in the mid or late 2000s. I forget exactly when it was. It was kind of startling.

10. 2 months ago on Outland

    I was eleven years old in 1994 when this one ran. I always used to puzzle over Outland as a kid that age. I rarely understood what was being talked about, yet it compelled me anyway.

    Sometimes I kind of miss those days of “adult” things seeming so mysterious and elusive.