Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for February 15, 2022

no kidding

Especially after you get thru beating the snot out of it.

I had one of those as a tot about his age. Funny how it came back to mind after all the decades.

This was long before Batman premiered on TV.

That was a banned toy in my childhood home. My oldest brother had one years before I was born. He used the hammer and hit my napping father with it. My father had to explain to his co workers how he got 2 black eyes.

So true…not enough “bang” for the buck! :D

My wife’s cousin had one of those when he was a kid. One day his parents heard him outside the kitchen window playing with it. Then was a BAM, and then he’d go “Sonuvab***h!” Then BAM…“Sonuvab***h!” And this just kept happening over and over. Seems he had heard his dad hammering something in the garage, and he smacked his thumb. From then on, he thought that’s how you had to do it.

True. Back in the day, you’d never have forced a round peg into a square hole…

Linus can talk out loud now?

You can say that again, Linus.

Did Linus appear out of nowhere one day, or has GoComics skipped over the sequence of strips concerning his arrival and Lucy’s response?

Wait fifty years and say that again. Wait sixty years and call it IKEA junk.