Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 19, 2023

The Bang is mightier than the Growl.

It’s the shock of receiving such a sudden and unexpected offer of decidedly unambiguous violence from a normally quiescent and peaceable being.

In the 60’s we always said 2 more words after bang, (you’re dead), Sparky being polite or they weren’t used in the 50’s?

Snoopy, bad dog! You got what was coming to you!

Nowadays a kid would get suspended from school, have a negative entry made in the permanent record, sent to counseling and the parents reported/investigated for allegations of child neglect…

I Shot the Snoopy, but I did not shoot Charlie Brown. Yet

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Linus chose fight over flight and Snoopy was hipshot – and if you think that was quick you should see Linus do it with his right hand.

How many fruitcakes are out there complaining about the violence in yesterday and today’s strips and want Peanuts banned? Asking for a friend.

Is this Linus’s evil twin? Shouldn’t he have a beard?

Linus practices the Tao of Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot—don’t growl.

Linus should have been taken away and locked in an asylum. That would have been funny too.