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The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 12: 1973-1974 (2009)

by Charles M. Schulz(Favorite Author)

4.51 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1606992864 (ISBN13: 9781606992869)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Fantagraphics Books

series

Complete Peanuts

review 1: Tennis is a theme in the strip during this period so Billie Jean King takes her shot at the introduction.Peppermint Patty and Marcie try their hands at quite a few sport is these years and have a pretty funny run in with Charlie Brown's dad,he's a barber. Charlie Brown,in order to hide a baseball blemish wears a bag over his head and becomes well liked when no one knows how he is. Rerun takes a walk in a baseball game and drives in the winning run.(he's tiny so he has a small strike zone) Oh and he also starts those harrowing rides on the back of his mom's bike. The Great Pumpkin was back for one of the years and gone again in the next.Fantagraphics has released 20 of the 25 volumes that will make up the entire run of Peanuts in our local papers. As a fan of the series, I ... morecollected all the Fawcet paperback reprints too, I have loved rereading it in the original order. I'm not sure its for everyone tho. I think anyone might enjoy a single volume but most people wouldnt be into reading them all in a row like I'm doing now. Worth checking out tho, especially the early volumes where you can see the strip develop.
review 2: Another milestone passed on my quest to read all the Peanuts strips. In this volume Peppermint Patyy continues to get lots of airtime, along with her nerdy sidekick Marcie. PP becomes something of a counterpoint to Charlie Brown - his exact opposite on any sort of playing field since she's a natural athlete, but apparently just as clueless as he is in any other facet of life. Snoopy gets lots of airtime too, but that's a given - here, though, he's usually paired with Woodstock. But still finds time to indulge his fantasy life, and even serves briefly as Peppermint Patty's ice skating coach. Unfortunately the meet that she's training for turns out to be for roller skating.Violet still occasionally appears, but Shermie and Pigpen are still totally absent. As is the original Patty, another member of the original crowd who didn't make it this far - and presumably never will now that her name has been usurped by the much more interesting Peppermint Patty. Still, Patty was the only blonde in the early days, shouldn't that count for something? One thing we never hear about in Peanuts is the attrition rate, but there were definitely some who fell by the wayside over the years.So (non-Peppermint) Patty, this one's for you. less

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