Showing posts with label powers. Show all posts
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Friday, September 16, 2011

November 7, 1954: Linus Van Pelt: Master of Card Houses and the Slow Burn

Read this strip at gocomics.com.

Lucy is such a caring and supportive sister. Her laughter consists of the serif'd letters of malice.

I love how Linus carefully puts all the cards back in the pack before throwing it at Lucy.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sunday, September 12, 1954: Smart alecky kids

Read this strip at gocomics.com

Linus has strange and mysterious stacking powers. Charlie Brown has ordinary and understandable smart aleck perceiving powers.

It's not just that Charlie Brown is bad at making card houses, or that Linus is good at them. It's that the baby character is so much better at it than the older kid. This is kind of a repeat of Schroeder musical genius, and, to a lesser extent, Lucy's ability to beat Charlie Brown at checkers. This stops when Sally is introduced, who appears to have picked up the same gene of mediocrity Charlie Brown got.