Showing posts with label rip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rip. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Sunday, August 22, 1954: The aliens have arrived

Read this strip at gocomics.com.

I think this strip is more effect without the lead-in panels, which means our first glimpse of the floating wading pool will be the same as Charlie Brown's. Lucy's final comment also works better in that case; it's unnecessary with the first two panels included.

This is a very funny strip (especially "He pointed his flame thrower right at me!"), but it's a kind of humor that seems out of place in Peanuts, heavily reliant on sight gags. At least it's Charlie Brown who's the silly one here.

That's gotta be a pretty strong wind.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Sunday, June 13, 1954: Charlie Brown and a Kite

Read this strip at gocomics.com.

Last Sunday Charlie Brown's kite contributed to a more general neighborhood chaos. This time a statement is definitely being made about his kite-flying skills. We don't yet know if it's an aspect of his character that sticks or if was just intended to be a one-off joke. Probably the latter.